Heading for a burnout
Increased incomes, innovative financing schemes, short-sighted policies and wasteful attitudes have led to an enormous amount of energy being …
Space opera
After years of pranged possibilities and piggyback rides, India has attained independent satellite launch capability
Cool reception to ambitious programme
Though the government boasts its improved chulha project has exceeded targets, officials admit the programme has been a failure because of lack …
Homing in on tradition
Traditional models of architecture, especially for mass housing purposes, may yet be resurrected
Research rights
An intellectual property rights policy has been cleared for the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Living energy
Bioresources, the energy and raw materials derived from plants and animals, could help end poverty.
The sun's there but the gizmos aren't
Despite readily available loans, industry is wary of producing solar photovoltaic devices on a large scale
India close to solar energy breakthrough
Solar energy is free, but harnessing it using conventional crystalline silicon cells is expensive. Efforts in India to produce an efficient, low-…
Haul your own garbage
Vadodara's residents show that handling garbage hands-on is the best way to beat municipal overload
The eye in the sky
India is one of the few developing countries to have its own space satellite systems. And, now Indian planners are depending increasingly on …
Cloudy days for solar cooker
Subsidy amounts and sales figures may not always be indicators of commercial success. After a decade-old promotion campaign, only a few …
The vagaries of power
Differential metering of peak- and low-load consumption might jolt the power sector out of the red
Power at full capacity
The Power Finance Corp has recently initiated a programme to enhance energy efficiency by installing capacitors to harness the reactive load in …
Gasbagging
How good are the North's offers of joint implementation programmes with the South to cut the latter's carbon dioxide emissions?
Bickering scuttles power-saving project
Two non-resident Indians blame inter-organisational rivalry for the rejection of their proposal to use compact fluorescent lamps, which will …
Closing gap in international green financing important for India’s transition to clean energy
Prospects of renewable energy financing driving significant economic growth are massive despite challenges
Too close to the sun
The internationally-funded programme to promote solar photovoltaic systems remains a nonstarter
Polluting power plant back in operation
Delhi's Rajghat thermal power station, which was ordered closed for causing excessive pollution, has resumed functioning and has until March to …
Fissile filch
The recent recovery of stolen uranium points to the need for better security arrangements at nuclear installations
Spurt forecast in nonconventional energy
The nonconventional energy sector is seen as the mainstay of the nation's future power requirements and is all set for major expansion, following …
Can India double its renewable energy capacity by 2027?
Solar PV can account for 75% of this growth, onshore wind 15% and biomass and hydropower aiding the rest
Journos access sci-tech
A new science and technology info system bails out mediapeople
Gassed into surrender
Excise duty imposed on methane produced by effluent treatment plants has been withdrawn
Cooking disaster, for free
West Delhi hutment residents use methane emanating from an abandoned garbage dump for fuel
