Coal, Oil & Gas
This is What’s Slowing Down the Clean Energy Transition...
With Big Oil's 2050 forecast that places oil and gas at the centre of energy basket, it will be difficult, if not impossible, to achieve net-zero...
How the Psychology of Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden and MBS is Driving Oil...
The dominant drivers of the crude oil market today are not the fundamentals of demand and supply, but the non-fundamentals, the psychology of Prime...
Interview | Are Indian OEMs Shying Away from the Biofuel Push?...
What prevents India's original equipment manufacturers (OEM) from transitioning to flex engines? Shyamasis Das discusses the challenges faced,...
India has Big Clean Energy Goals – So Why is it Banking on Coal?...
India's renewables targets, while ambitious, will still not be enough to meet rising power demand, comments Rahul Tongia....
Price Cap, Energy Geo-Politics...
US petroleum firms have benefited the most from sanctions on Russia. Europe has been pushed into a relationship of energy dependency with the US....
Can Developing Economies Have High Growth Without Using Coal? A Debate....
Rahul Tongia and Jason Bordoff square off on a question that will confront emerging nations in the coming years....
Natural Gas: The Bridge on India’s Path to Energy Atmanirbharta...
India has a long way to go before it can fully wean itself off fossil fuels. During this transitional phase, gas producers should be granted...
For Energy, it’s not RE vs Coal – Adopt a Portfolio Approach...
India is undergoing an energy transition, but it must not write off coal. The most cost-effective way to balance the grid in 2030 will be to keep both...
Policy Revamps that Will Help Scale Storage Technologies...
The key need for improving storage is innovation, which is not just a technical issue but extends to business models and regulatory frameworks. While...
Give Coal the Attention and Effort that it Needs...
The fundamental issue remains woefully short stockpiles. With a recent increase in the domestic demand, and high global prices, the key is to address...
“It is Pragmatic, Morally Defensible for India to Buy Crude Oil from...
It is the same energy security imperative that drove Europe’s decision to continue buying crude from Russia, says Vikram Mehta....
Global Fuel Price Rise and How Should India Navigate The Oil Crisis |...
In an interview with India Today, Vikram Mehta shares his perspective on how India should navigate the oil crisis as prices continue to rise globally....
Russia’s Ukraine Invasion; India Impact Of A ‘New Energy World...
In an interview with Strat News Global, Vikram Singh Mehta assesses the impact on India of gas, oil and financial sanctions on Russia after it invaded...
How to handle impact of Ukrainian crisis on India’s energy sector...
To deal with energy volatility, India must build reserves, revive conversations on pipeline with Iran, Turkmenistan...
Time to Rationalise Fuel Taxes...
The delayed feedback from wholesale inflation to retail inflation is also reflected in the household inflation expectations survey of the RBI....
Preparing for a Green Energy Shift in 2022...
The ‘irresistible force’ for clean energy has met the ‘immovable object’ of an embedded fossil fuel energy system. How can policies reconcile...
The Inside Story of India’s Coal and Power Crises...
Simple arithmetic will show that power plants consumed more coal than they received, but given that generation wasn’t exceptionally high, does this...
A Green Response to Natural Gas Price Shock...
The price surge must be leveraged to improve energy efficiency, intensify demand conservation and intervene to prevent the switch to coal, among other...
Challenges For Natural Gas to Become India’s Bridge Fuel...
Rahul Tongia examines the relevance of natural gas both through the lens of competitive economic viability as well as other impacts....
Book Review | Betting on natural gas as a ‘clean’ fossil fuel...
Bibek Bhattacharya reviews The Next Stop for Mint, focusing on natural gas' role in India's decarbonisation and its limitations ...
The agenda for Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri...
Hardeep Singh Puri should not see his responsibility through the siloed prism of oil and natural gas, Vikram Singh Mehta writes....
Challenges for natural gas to become India’s bridge fuel...
Rahul Tongia examines the possibilities for natural gas in India’s energy mix....
The great leap to clean energy...
Vivek Rae reviews The Next Stop: Natural Gas and India's Journey to a Clean Energy Future....
Can natural gas be a ‘bridge’ fuel in India’s energy transition?...
India’s focus for natural gas should be where it displaces coal, especially 'dirty', inefficient coal...
‘India needs one institutional mechanism for bringing all the bodies...
We also need reforms related to pricing, taxation, development of infrastructure, relationship between the Centre and state governments, and R&D, says...
The Next Stop: Natural Gas and India’s Journey to a Clean Energy...
The Next Stop, edited by Vikram Singh Mehta, features 38 global experts on a comprehensive roadmap for India’s natural gas sector....
Book Review | The Next Stop: Why gas is not just hot air...
The Next Stop is a "rich and insightful" book where 38 industry insiders with experience in natural gas band together, says review...
The Next Stop | How is natural gas pricing done in India?...
A new book edited by Vikram Singh Mehta looks at different aspects of natural gas use in India, including policy changes and reforms in pricing....
Is natural gas India’s best choice for moving away from coal and fossil...
An excerpt from ‘The Next Stop: Natural Gas and India’s Journey to a Clean Energy Future’, edited by Vikram Singh Mehta....
GV Ramakrishna: A steward of petroleum...
The former petroleum secretary, who passed away two weeks ago, placed oil and gas exploration in India on a sure footing, writes Vikram Singh Mehta. ...
Need for an integrated approach for coal power plants...
This discussion note suggests an integrated approach to addressing the retirement of older coal plants, installation of ECS, etc,....
A new map for the end of Oil Age: Technology is answer to energy...
How should India, an economy dependent on fossil fuels, navigate future energy transitions? A new book has some pointers....
Future of coal in India: Smooth transition or bumpy road ahead?...
No discussion of India's energy future can ignore coal. Across 18 chapters, drawing from leading experts in the field, this book examines all aspects...
India’s energy transition: Coal is down but not out...
The coal transition is already underway. There may be a lot of uncertainty, but what is even more certain is that the future will not look like the...
Why India’s push for private-sector coal mining won’t raise carbon...
After decades of public-sector dominance, and controls that relegated the private sector to minority status in coal mining, India recently launched...
COVID-19 is an opportunity to clean up India’s coal power plants...
The arrival of COVID-19 in India led to a lockdown requiring 1.3 billion people to stay at home. Economic activity, at least in the first two versions...
Will breaking up Coal India Limited lead to efficiency and competition?...
Inherent and structural differences mean simply breaking up CIL will not unleash meaningful competition, not unless the system is willing to bear a...
The future of Indian electricity supply: Scenarios of coal use by 2030...
India is expected to be among the top growth markets in the world for electricity in the coming decade. At the same time, electricity supply mixes are...
India needs to change the thermal power story to survival of the fittest,...
The proposals for solving the current stranded capacity crisis should start a process of big picture thinking to achieve better collective outcomes on...
Coal in India...
Executive summary Coal provides about half of India’s commercial primary energy supply today and is the dominant fuel for power production in...
Can natural gas be a catalyst to build a lower-carbon world?...
The short answer to the question is yes; natural gas can be and has already become a catalyst in some countries, which are transitioning to a...
Indian Railways and coal: An unsustainable interdependency...
Coal and railways in India are heavily interdependent. In the Financial Year (FY) 2017, out of 574 MT of coal (inclusive of imports) consumed for grid...
Commercial coal mining in India: A possible but not irrefutable game...
The recent Cabinet decision to open up coal mining to commercial miners, who will now have the freedom to sell coal in the open market, is an...
Recommendations for reforms in India’s coal mining space...
Coal India Limited (CIL) commissioned a study in 2017 to analyse the long term trends that would play a role in determining the future for coal in the...
Challenges, recommendations for meeting 2017 norms for air pollution from...
In this Brookings India IMPACT Series paper, Rahul Tongia and Deborah Seligsohn discuss the challenges for India in meeting the upcoming 2017...
2016, the year of inflexion for the oil industry?...
India hasn’t yet joined the global move towards clean energy. But for how long can it hold out? A large part of my working life was spent with...
Paper | India’s coal requirement by 2020: A bottom-up analysis...
Key findings India is heavily dependent on coal based power for its electricity needs, 79 per cent of total electricity generation is coal/thermal...
How India reformed its petroleum sector...
Political compulsions ensured that the process was done slowly, steadily and stealthily Indian newspapers have carried a series of interesting...
Is the struggle between China and India a struggle to secure their energy...
India will need to import the bulk of its fuel for this decade and the next. In another four years, India is expected to become the world’s...
Budget fails to lay out a clear roadmap for petroleum industry...
Petroleum industry is in terrible shape. Brookings India chairman and former CEO of Shell Vikram S Mehta details what the Finance Minister can do to...
Brookings India Roundtable on “Future of Coal – 2020”...
A Brookings India roundtable on “Future of Coal – 2020” invited experts to discuss future coal demand for the country, and also to...
“Withdrawal of sanctions on Iran a huge opportunity for India to...
Watch Vikram S Mehta on Macros with Mythili on ET Now. There’s been a dramatic collapse in the price of crude oil in recent weeks. Price of the...
End of the oil age...
Oil will diminish in significance in a reconfigured energy system. Decades hence, 2015 might well be seen as the year the oil era entered the phase...
Interview | India warns country’s coal consumption to double in...
Rahul Tongia, Fellow, Energy and Environment in an interview with James Bennett, AM, ABC News, Friday December 18, on India’s coal consumption...
Initiatives needed from India to reduce the import of oil...
Recently, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan spoke at the release of the IEA’s India Energy Outlook about cutting down of the country’s...
Will oil remain the bulwark of global energy system in the long-term?...
“The Future of Oil” is headed towards an interesting crossroad. The pathway will not be signposted; there will be many twists and turns....
Cleaning coal instead of wishing it away...
The World Bank recently announced that short of exceptional circumstances, they would no longer fund coal in developing regions. The U.S. and other...
Over the Barrel: Oilpolitik...
This column first appeared in the Indian Express, on January 5, 2015. Like other products of the Brookings Institution India Center, this is...
Step on the gas...
The government must make it easier for oil and gas companies to acquire assets abroad An important plank of India’s energy security policy is to...
A fact check on gas...
How the recent gas price hike got it right. ONGC, Reliance and Cairn, the three major oil and gas producers in the country, should make an earnest...
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This is What’s Slowing Down the Clean Energy Transition
The recent Cabinet decision to open up coal mining to commercial miners, who will now have the freedom to sell coal in the open market, is an interesting development. For decades since its nationalisation, the public sector Coal India Limited (CIL) has dominated coal production in India, producing some 82 per cent of Indian domestic coal (figures from financial year 2014-15), and becoming the largest coal miner in the world by production. CIL is also the single largest employer in the mining sector in India, and the only one allowed to sell coal in the market (besides Singareni Collieries Company […]
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