Coal Vs. Renewable | Financial Analysis
At COP26, India announced its objectives to reach net zero by 2070. In addition, the country aims to install 500 GW of non-fossil capacity by 2030, 450 GW of which would come from renewable...
3rd Energy Finance Conference India 2021 | How Clean is Green Finance | December 14-17, 2021
Speakers & participants from the industry, banking, think tanks, executive, academia and trade unions, along with researchers, climate justice activists and local community members coming together to share, reflect and learn from each other....
ADB Energy Policy: Lack of Intent; Absence of Commitment
Asian Development Bank has approved a new energy policy ostensibly to support universal access to reliable and affordable energy services, while promoting the low-carbon transition in Asia and the Pacific. However a closer look...
The Mirage of Clean Power
A system that thrives on an ever-increasing demand for electricity will automatically push the burden to unsatiable demand for the fuels that produce it.
Green Hydrogen as India’s Next Clean Energy Source
Billionaire Gautam Adani, who runs a ports-to-power corporate empire that rules much of India's infrastructure landscape, said in his TiE Sustainability speech this week that he's training his sights next on the green hydrogen...
Coal Shortage: Crisis, False Solutions & Opportunity
India's power ecosystem, which depends overwhelmingly on coal to meet the country's baseline electricity demand, is suddenly faced with an acute coal shortage. Even when the Coal Ministry tried to play down the coal...
Are Mega Solar Projects Really the Energy Alternatives We are Looking at?
In 2014, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, launched the Scheme for Development of Solar Parks and Ultra Mega Solar Power Projects to meet some of the targets for building large-scale solar-power plants in...
Tidal Energy in India? Are We Ready?
Renewable energy commitments of India have been in focus in the various government policies. India has seen major investments in technology research and development of various kinds of renewable energy. Tidal energy is one...
Energy Finance Conference India 2020 – Conference Report
The Energy Finance Conference –India which began in 2019 and continued its journey into 2020, emerged as a response to the ongoing dialogues on the need to judiciously maximise the security of energy supplies...
Running on the Renewable Route: Why RE Matters
In line with the attempts of Centre for Financial Accountability to work towards exploring the possibilities and handicaps in the much touted energy transition from fossil fuels to Renewable energy, world over in general...
Reminiscing an annotated page from my field notes
As we drove on the untarred road, passing through brick walls sparsely covered with cow dung cakes, we reached the village of Valluru. A rather sunny day in January 2019. It was here that...
Podcast on Gender and Energy with Prof Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt.
Listen to a conversation with Prof. Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, Professor, Resource, Environment and Development Program, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University, talking to Bhargavi Rao and Aswathi Nair, from Centre for Financial Accountability.
India’s Solar Realities in the Backdrop of the International Solar Alliance
Amidst the Paris negotiations of 2015, the International Solar Alliance (ISA), as initiated by India and France, has come to garner attention and propel discussions and analyses at the level of academia as well...
Whither Coal?
The Ministry of Coal (MoC), through a notification on June 18, 2020, officially launched the process of auctioning coal mines, thus opening up the Indian coal mining sector to commercial operations by the private...
Solar Power in India: A report on Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Power Project
This preliminary report on ‘Solar Power in India’ looks at the solar power scenario, projects and financing mechanisms in India with a focus on Rewa Mega Solar Power Project in Madhya Pradesh. India has...
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