Taming the Sun – Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet
How solar could spark a clean-energy transition through transformative innovation—creative financing, revolutionary technologies, and …
India, France to partner in solar alliance
The International Solar Alliance aims to deploy 1,000 GW of solar installations globally by 2030, for which it projects the need for US $1 …
The Clean Power Revolution: How to Boost the Economy by $1 Trillion per year with clean energy
The book shows simple ways how homeowners and commercial facilities can help, and save thousands of dollars of energy costs ($100 per month or …
How to make solar power a win-win for all parties
The Rewa Solar Park in Madhya Pradesh is making solar power beneficial for all stakeholders, and the Centre is now pushing to replicate the model
Floating Solar Power
Floating solar power plant is a new and emerging concept in India. In this system, the solar photo voltaic panels are installed on waterbodies …
Is your five-star AC sucking more power than it should?
A new study by the Centre for Science and Environment shatters the myth of star-rated ACs. Your so-called five-star rated split AC becomes energy-…
The Energy Policy of India: Interview with Shantanu Dixit
Shantanu Dixit, group coordinator, Prayas Energy Group, has been working in the power sector in the field of analysis and advocacy from 1992. He …
CAG's Report on Renewable Energy: In Conversation with Aruna Kumarankandath
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India came out with a report on renewable energy in India. A Down To Earth studio discussion with Aruna …
India’s renewable energy race: MP, UP will take more than 50 years to meet 2022 target at current pace
India needs to focus on its strengths of biomass, hydel power & have an accountability structure for meeting targets
The last coal power plant in India can be closed by 2050
With an aim to connect 40 million households to the grid by 2018, India is investing heavily in coal mines. But our analysis shows India is …
Technologies
Is the state of technology an obstacle in implementing renewable future? Or is the current price of this technology out of our reach?
Time to Plug in
The International Conference for Renewable Energies is to be held in Bonn, Germany. But here is a sector dwarfed by fossil fuels, and although …
Cabinet panel nod to over Rs 8,000 crore for solar projects
The funding for the CPSU scheme is a welcome relief for already operational domestic manufacturers who are battling a difficult market
Zambia awards solar capacity at record low tariff
The tariff of less than $0.04 per kWh shows that globally-competitive low tariffs are possible in Sub-Saharan Africa
Half of Indian states lags national average in first energy, climate index
Small states perform better on environmental sustainability
Global body comes into action to map geopolitical impact of renewables
Global Commission on the Geopolitics of Energy Transformation will analyse potential effects of a renewables-based energy system on national and …
Why did US impose 30 per cent import tax on solar?
This is just another tactic to ensure that renewable energy does not take lead in the power sector
Power to people
Renewable energy, along with affordable battery storage, is set to usher in energy democracy in India
Energy matters
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Hotbeds of energy
Simmering rocks found several kilometres beneath the earth's surface hold the potential to meet our power needs
Lignite luminescence
The world's first lignite-based power plant in Madras offers a viable alternative to high-cost natural gas and to coal-based plants which emit …
Hydrogen hopes
German engineers are transporting shiploads of hydrogen from Canada to Europe, where it will be harnessed as an alternate source of fuel and energy
Energy aplenty
The recycling option has once again shown that wastes like bagasse and wheat straw can be profitably used to generate energy, which could in all …
A windmill tilts
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India needs to invest in clean energy to meet targets
Industry says announcement of loans and performance-based incentives in budget will invigorate sector