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energy efficiency in India

Increasingly Indian cities and businesses are turning to one of the fastest, cheapest, and cleanest ways to address blackouts and power demand: energy efficiency.[read more]

Over the last five years, the rise of shale gas has been the single major event in the world of energy to have a lasting impression for years to come. In recent years new studies and discoveries in other parts of the world have been changing the global energy landscape.[read more]

energy development in India

India plans to add about 88,000 MW by 2017, out of which approximately 60% projects would be developed by the private sector who are awarded projects through a competitive bidding process.[read more]

coal's health effects

As many as 115,000 people die in India each year from coal-fired power plant pollution, costing the country about $4.6 billion, according to a groundbreaking new study released.[read more]

The Barefoot College in western India is training illiterate or semi-literate women from all over the world to be solar engineers, making renewable energy technology and knowledge accessible.[read more]

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One of the myths which we have to contend with as we create the post carbon era is that no single energy source will be so scalable as to be extremely helpful in solving the post carbon energy problem.[read more]

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In India, the confrontation over rising demand for energy and food, and diminished water resources is, like a powerful political and cultural undertow. India is pushed forward by the forces of modernization to expand its energy production, electrical transmission, and water supply and transport sectors. But the nation is tugged backwards by inefficiency and corruption in its operating and governing practices. India’s hybrid democracy generates a continuous full boil of political opposition and civic distrust at all times.[read more]

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India’s renewable energy sector create up to 2.4 million jobs by 2020. Now, the sector employs 200,000 people, but this could jump 14 times by 2030 with the right policies and investments in place. By 2050, about 92 percent of India’s energy infrastructure will be based on renewable energy sources.[read more]

Just days after the historic blackout reminded us that centralized coal is the problem, not the solution to India’s energy woes, a new era of entrepreneurs marked the beginning of a truly revolutionary effort to deliver energy access.The landmark deal that marked their arrival was lost amidst the coverage of the blackout and the...[read more]

India’s recent national outages on July 30 and 31 have received a great deal of attention in the press.  Nearly 800 million people were without power and India suffered hits to its economy and its global reputation as a result.  Years from now some definitive report will outline the details, but enough is known now to glean...[read more]

Perhaps counter-intuitively, India’s largest electrical blackout in history shows how much it has grown. Such a widespread outage means the Indian electrical system has grown large and has become thoroughly interconnected.[read more]

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The nation continues to chart an independent course Conceptual drawing of Russian 1000 MW VVERAccording to research compiled by the World Nuclear Association, India expects to have 20 GWe nuclear capacity on line by 2020 and 63 GWe by 2032. It aims to supply 25 percent of electricity from nuclear power by 2050. That’s an ambitious...[read more]

India has dramatically expanded its reliance on solar power over the past two years. Solar installations have sprouted across the nation and costs for this clean energy have dropped, according to a new report, Laying the Foundation for a Bright Future, released today by NRDC and our New Delhi-based partner Council on Energy, Environment...[read more]

   Photo: Ashden Awards/FlickrIndia has a Solar Mission to install 20,000 MW of solar power by 2022. Solar electricity is already cheaper than electricity produced with diesel generators.   These optimistic figures from India, the second most populated country in the world, has led the New Scientist magazine to write an in...[read more]

Go ahead -- call me a hypocrite. I claim to be a cleantech venture capitalist yet I tell you here and now that I am not convinced of anthropogenic (human-caused) climate change (aka global warming). And I will audaciously tell you that my convictions on climate change in no way run contrary to my strong belief in the need for a cleantech revolution.[read more]