Future of Energy
Battery Circularity in India – A Billion-Dollar Long-Term...
This study assesses India’s EV battery circular economy opportunity through FY 2040–41 by analysing EV sales trajectories, battery chemistry...
Electricity Storage is Getting Quite Cheap—But Firmer Storage Isn’t as...
Understanding India's solar-plus-storage bids by considering what they don’t cover...
Building India’s Electric Vehicle Supply Chains: A Case for Indo-German...
India’s green mobility transition cannot be managed in isolation. By operationalising existing India–Germany partnerships, India can move from the...
Oil Shock Bringing India’s EV Transition to a Crossroads...
The recent oil supply shock through the Strait of Hormuz has exposed structural vulnerabilities in India’s petroleum import dependence, India’s EV...
Compensating for the Fiscal Loss in India’s Energy Transition...
The study argues for the need to consider multiple factors, including efficiency, equity, sustainability, institutional considerations, and the...
Properly Defining “Green Electricity” is Key to India’s Broader...
Rahul Tongia highlights the complexities of green supply and green consumption. More RE is inevitable and welcome. Better accounting and signalling...
Modelling the Impact of the Clean Environment Cess: A Hybrid Energy...
Rajat Verma and Ganesh Sivamani's paper seeks to measure the impact of this cess on greenhouse gas
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Potential of Lower Costs of Capital for Faster Decarbonisation in...
The study by Rahul Tongia focuses on ways to encourage the energy transition for developing countries where high costs of capital are a factor in...
Challenges for natural gas to become India’s bridge fuel: Economics,...
This paper examines the possibilities for natural gas in India’s energy mix, both through the lens of competitive economic viability as well as the...
How to hasten the energy transition in the developing world...
Emerging economies are expected to experience the highest growth in energy demand in the coming decades, mostly because they are starting from a low...
Transition to electric vehicles in Karnataka and India: What’s real,...
The recent policy push for electrifying mobility in India has spurred a host of national and sub-national policies, private sector investment in...
Electrifying mobility in India...
India’s electric vehicles' (EV) aspirations are steep from where we stand today, but they have sparked remarkable interest and action in policy,...
From Energy Crisis to Energy Sufficiency?...
The SAARC nations face a common energy crisis. Other than Bhutan, they are all deficient in energy. The bulk of their populations do not have secure...
Smart Grids in India: Separating Hype from Hope...
Rahul Tongia discusses why Smart Grids in India have become a distinct possibility, instead of a science experiment, and why they can succeed...
Energy 2030: Backgrounder...
This backgrounder – prepared for the Petrotech 2014 CEO Conclave held in New Delhi, on December 17, 2013 – looks at the dynamics of energy...
Panel Discussion
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Oct
2026
Bangkok, Thailand
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