Financing For A Robust Energy Regime In India
Along with the unbridled sanctioning of the flow of foreign funds to the country’s energy sector in the bid to be a major driving force in the global energy market (which falters often on...
Catalytic Financing can Scale Up Clean Energy Market: Report
Today, rooftop solar capacity is 1,200 MW only as against Centre’s target of 40,000 MW by 2022 Nagpur: With financing continuing to be a serious impediment in achieving the country’s clean energy goals, the latest...
विकास के नाम पर बढता आर्थिक और सामाजिक सकंट
भारत सरकार देश के विकास के नाम पर बड़ी ढांचागत परियोजनाओ के निमार्ण पर पिछलें कुछ दशकों से लगातार बल दे रही है। इन परियोजनाओं को भारत के सकल घरेलू उत्पाद की वृद्धि दर...
Case Study: Why are the Farmers of a Power-Surplus State Like Tamil Nadu Resisiting High Tension Lines and Towers?
The Transmission System Strengthening Project is a project to expand the interstate transmission network in western and southern India. The project, partly funded by ADB and AIIB (as co-financer) along with the Power Grid...
U.S. Government Opposes “Absolute” Immunity for World Bank Group
For Immediate Release U.S. Government Opposes “Absolute” Immunity for World Bank Group in Brief to SCOTUS Washington, D.C., August 1, 2018 – Late yesterday, the U.S. Government urged the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse...
PSBs Back Coal, Whereas Private-owned Renewables
A new analysis of energy project lending in India shows that majority of government-owned banks and financial institutions continued to fund coal projects in 2017. The same analysis also reveals private financial companies are...
India’s Publicly Owned Banks ‘Favour Coal Lending Over Renewables’
The Centre for Financial Accountability said coal received $9.4bn last year, compared to clean technologies receiving $3.5bn India’s public-owned banks and finance groups lent more money to coal projects than renewables in 2017. That’s according...
Indian State-run Banks Financed more Coal than Renewable Energy in 2017: Study
The report, prepared by Delhi-based Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA), finds that coal received Rs 60,767 crore ($9.35 billion) in lending whereas renewable energy received Rs 22,913 crore ($3.50 billion). New Delhi: A majority...
India Wants More Renewables, but its Banks are Pouring Billions into Coal
India Wants More Renewables, but its Banks are Pouring Billions into Coal Even as the Narendra Modi government pushes for renewable energy, Indian financiers are backing coal-based power projects. Around 73% of all funding...
Government Banks Continue to Fund Coal Projects in India: Report
A majority of government-owned banks and financial institutions continued to fund coal projects in India in 2017, an analysis of energy project lending said on Tuesday. It also reveals that comparatively, private financial companies...
Booklet: India 2017 Coal v/s Renewables Finance Analysis
This report identified and reviewed project finance lending to 72 energy projects, comprising coal-fired power stations and renewable energy generation facilities in India that reached financial close in 2017. These projects attracted total lending...
ब्रीफ़िंग पेपर: भारत में जलविद्युत विकास को बड़े पैमाने पर बढ़ावा
इस सेक्टर में निजी क्षत्रे को आकर्षित करने के लिए सरकार ने 2016 में इस पर चर्चा शुरू की कि नवीकरणीय ऊर्जा के क्षत्रे को और विस्तृत किया जाए ताकि 25 मेगावाट क्षमता से...
Briefing Paper: Big Push for the Development of Hydropower in India
It is noteworthy that currently, coal-based power projects are under threat due to lack of coal linkages and power purchase agreements, thus stalling many existing power projects and discouraging many companies from expanding to...
Blue Economy, Its Impact on the Coastal Economy, and the Role of IFIs
Siddharth Chakravarty of The Research Collective explains the Blue Economy, its impact on the coastal economy, and the role of international financial institutions in pushing this project.
Coastal Infrastructure and Fishers Struggle in India
Jesu Rathnam, Coastal Action Network, says that the Sagarmala project, which envisages the development of infrastructure projects- like highways, ports, jetties- along with the coast of India, will lead to the destruction of the...
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