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भले ही दो दिन बाद सर्वशक्तिमान माने जाने वाले अमरीका का राजपाट एक ऐसे व्यक्ति के हाथों में आ जाए जिसमें जलवायु परिवर्तन पर हुआ ‘पेरिस समझौता’ जरा भी नहीं सुहाता, लेकिन लगातार बढ़ता...
Putting just transition at the heart of solar power: A case study on India
India has set ambitious targets for renewable energy (RE). The Government of India set an ambitious target in 2015 of installing 175GW of renewable energy capacity by 2022. Since then, as part of the...
Solar parks – casting shadow over already ignored open natural ecosystems
In December 2020, when my friend, a forest department staff- Keshava and I were on a bird walk, around one of Asia's largest solar parks in Pavagada, we saw a dog-like creature with a...
RE Matters | July 2022
𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠 & 𝑉𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑅𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐸𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
World Bank Group and Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Power Project
The World Bank directed its resources to the removal of key barriers to private investment. It played a fundamental enabling role by financing key environmental and social management and institutional strengthening activities, as well...
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...
Renewable energy projects attract more finance in T.N.
At ₹2,797 crore, State’s share second highest; nil funding for coal-based projects Tamil Nadu is among the States which saw significant lending to renewable energy projects and nil lending to coal projects in 2017,...