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Follow the Money, As Funding Shifts Completely to Renewables Over Coal in 2021

A study titled “Financiers Prefer Wind And Solar Over Coal” has been released by CFA (Center For Financial Accountability). According to the Coal vs. Renewables Financial Analysis 2022, L&T Finance overtook SBI as the...

Read more December 13, 2022 at 4:04 pm Saur Energy International

Financiers now back renewable energy projects more: Study

For the first time, 100% of the value of the project finance loans identified last year went to renewable energy projects. This is a considerable increase compared to 2020, where renewable energy loans accounted...

Read more December 12, 2022 at 5:38 pm MANKA BEHL

Coal vs renewables investment report, India 2022

In early August, the Union Cabinet approved India’s updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) that have hence been formally communicated to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). These include goals like reducing the emission intensity...

Read more December 8, 2022 at 2:16 pm CFA and Climate Trends

Press Release on the inaugural of Energy Finance Conference India

The Inaugural Session of the 2nd Energy Finance Conference India 2020 builds the blueprint for an economically and socio-politically feasible sustainable energy transition A distinguished panel of academics, policy experts and activists pitches for...

Read more December 8, 2020 at 4:21 pm CFA

The setting sun on India’s solar dreams

Caught in an economic slowdown, India’s clean energy transition is likely to go for a toss. What will be the cost? The ongoing slowdown in economic growth and electricity demand has worsened the deep...

Read more November 30, 2019 at 8:10 pm Tanya Thomas

Asia Digs up and Burns Three-quarters of the World’s Coal

That must change if the climate is not to A LARGE SIGN in the city hall of San Carlos, on the island of Negros in the Philippines, lays out the local government’s ambitions. It...

Read more August 22, 2019 at 2:44 pm The Economist

Renewable Energy Projects Accounted for 80% of all Energy Financing in 2018

A new report has revealed that renewable energy projects took up a vast majority, nearly 80 percent, of the total energy financing in 2018 A new report has revealed that renewable energy projects took...

Read more August 19, 2019 at 12:28 pm Saur Energy International

Coal Power Unsustainable, Sharp Decline in Lending by Financial Institutions, Says CFA Report

The Centre for Financial Accountability has found that only five coal power projects with a total capacity of 3800 MW received financing of ₹6,081 crore in 2018. New Delhi: Amid economic slowdown, a latest...

Read more August 18, 2019 at 12:18 pm News18

Massive Decline in Lending to Coal Power Projects in 2018: Report

For Immediate Release Massive Decline in Lending to Coal Power Projects in 2018: Report CHENNAI, 16 August 2019: The Coal vs Renewables 2018 – an annual energy investment trend report – reveals a significant drop in...

Read more August 16, 2019 at 12:35 pm CFA

Massive Decline in India in Coal Power Project Lending

The report by the Delhi based financial institute Centre for Financial Accountability analysed project finance lending to 54 energy projects that reached financial close in 2018. By IANS NEW DELHI:  A financial assessment on Friday...

Read more August 16, 2019 at 12:14 pm The New Indian Express

Renewable Energy Projects Captured 80% of all Energy Financing in India in 2018

In 2018, a total of 49 renewable energy projects with a combined capacity of 4.7 Gw obtained loans of Rs 24,442 crore New Delhi: Lending to coal-fired power plants in India slumped 90 per...

Read more August 16, 2019 at 11:59 am The Economic Times

A Reality Check on India’s Renewable Energy Capacity

It has not been able to make full use of reduction in costs Addressing the plenary session of the World Environment Day celebrations on June 5, 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi stated, “We are...

Read more August 15, 2019 at 11:48 am The Hindu

Can Norway’s Oil, Gas Divestment Encourage India’s Leapfrog Into Solar?

Given that India is building many of the world’s biggest solar parks and also harbours high wind power ambitions, there is no reason to waste precious foreign currency on imported gas or thermal coal...

Read more March 24, 2019 at 10:41 am The Economic Times

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...

Read more October 7, 2018 at 11:16 am Times of India

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...

Read more June 24, 2018 at 7:50 pm CFA
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