India’s waste – to – energy paradigm
Over the last few decades, the volume and toxicity of waste being produced in India has been increasing exponentially. A major cause has been the increased use and dispose of more manufactured materials by...
“India can Achieve Net-Zero By 2047”: Experts
Sectoral experts, academics and climate activists deliberate on multiple issues related to Energy and Finance at the 4th annual Energy Finance Conference India, 2022 organised at IIT-Madras, Centre for Financial Accountability, Indo-German Center for...
RE Matters | August 2022
Here is our monthly newsletter on Renewables, RE Matters, from the Centre for Financial Accountability. An extension of CFA’s work to understand and critically analyse the global energy transition from coal to renewables and...
Oil Security or Oil Dependency?
Mr. Amit Bhandari, in his article “A sovereign wealth fund for oil security” published in the Financial Express on February 1, 2022 suggests that despite the push for renewable energy and electric vehicles, the...
Tata Mundra: Nobel laureate, others ask US apex court to drop immunity to World Bank
Economic, legal, diplomatic and civil society experts – including Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, and former Vice President and Chief Economist of the World Bank – have urged the United States Supreme Court...
The National Capital’s Experience with Waste to Energy
Waste to energy plants (WTEs) use waste as a fuel for generating power like other power stations use coal, oil or natural gas.
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...
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...
When comprehensive means cosmetic
India’s pollution metrics fail to capture the complex reality of environmental degradation. The city is fine, really. Right outside the railway station, beneath the board that says Asansol Junction, an LED panel displays the...
It’s not just an energy issue; it’s also a justice issue
15 years back power sector witnessed a huge expansion. Between 2005 and 2011, thermal projects with 700 GW were given either TOR or EC by the government in around 570 projects, with estimated investments...
निजी कंपनीयों के वित्तीय घाटों की भरपाई करती एनटीपीसी
भारत सरकार की पावर उत्पादन सार्वजनिक कम्पनी नेशनल थर्मल पावर कार्पोरेशन (एनटीपीसी), मध्य प्रदेश के 600 मेगावाट के एक निजी स्ट्रेस्ड पावर प्लांट को 1900 करोड मे खरीद कर निजी कंपनी के घाटे की...
Banks on the Brink
The unprecedented crisis in the Indian banking sector, which has brought banks’ lending operations to a virtual standstill, means that they can do little to help the economy, which is buffeted on multiple fronts....
Power Sector NPAs: New Report Slams Parliamentary Panel on Energy
The 37th Report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy failed to fix accountability for the NPA crisis in the power sector, while absolving disastrous moves like delicensing. A new report by Delhi-based Centre for Financial...
Parliamentary Panel Failed to Address NPAs in Power Sector? A Delhi Think Tank Believes so
In a critique of the March 2018 report of the Parliamentary standing committee on energy, CFA has stated that the recommendations suggested by the Committee to address the problem of stressed assets in power...
A Critique of Report on ‘Stressed/Non-Performing Assets in Electricity Sector’
A new report has criticised the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy for failing to fix responsibility on who should have been held accountable for the current NPA crisis in the power sector. The report,...
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