Coal, Oil & Gas
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....
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,....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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