Renewable Energy & Clean Tech
Demystifying the Climate Benefit of EV Transition in India...
Battery-driven electric vehicles (EVs) hold promise for decarbonising India’s rapidly growing road transport sector. However, achieving significant...
Green Hydrogen’s Near-term Value Proposition Lies in Niche Applications...
Newspaper announcements have cited ambitions to bring the cost of green hydrogen production down to $1/kg from $5+ per kg today. This is implicitly...
Benchmarking Green Hydrogen in India’s Energy Transition: Expensive but...
This paper examines the economics of producing and using green hydrogen in India, focusing on the 2030 timeframe....
From Analogue Roots to Digital Dreams...
Explore India's transformative telecom journey, from humble beginnings to visionary policies and relentless innovations, as the nation strides toward...
Putting the Cart Before the Horse...
While public policy can provide the requisite nudge for EV adoption, a poorly designed one like the ‘Delhi Motor Vehicle Aggregator and Delivery...
Why the Old Script Can’t Work for India’s Green Transition...
India’s energy sector is on a cusp. Fossil fuels will dominate it for decades more, but the overriding priority is to reduce its share. The next...
The Clean Energy Transition has Become Messy...
The war in the Middle East, Russia and Ukraine, and sanctions by the US have created a fragmented market in the petroleum industry. It is facing a set...
Interview | Fixing Taxi Fares, Bajaj CNG Bikes, Maruti Shares, Hot Money...
How will CNG bikes change the two-wheeler industry if it succeeds? Shyamasis Das shares his insights....
Interview | Is India’s plan to buy 10,000 electric buses enough?...
Shyamasis Das discusses India’s plan to buy 10,000 electric buses on the Business Standard Morning Show....
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...
India Can Grow and Cut Emissions at the Same Time...
Montek Singh Ahluwalia unpacks the strategy policymakers could adopt for India's decarbonisation....
Can we Offer a Credible Strategy for the Reduction of Emissions?...
Let’s present CoP-26 a carbon-reduction strategy that includes adequate access to finance, writes Montek Singh Ahluwalia....
How COVID-19 might impact India’s renewable energy transition...
India, like other countries, had an ongoing energy transition, but the question becomes will COVID-19 create a pause or a shift in the trajectories? ...
India 2024: A clean India...
India continues to suffer from a number of systemic challenges, many dating back decades, when it comes to governance, the delivery of services, and...
Complexities of integrating Renewable Energy into India’s grid...
In 2014, India unilaterally announced plans to quadruple Renewable Energy (RE) to 175 GW by 2022, an ambitious target that required an annual growth...
Renewable Energy “versus” coal in India – A false framing as...
Comparing Renewable Energy and Coal A number of publications proclaim Renewable Energy (RE) is cheaper than coal. A newspaper will often show two cost...
Working to turn ambition into reality...
Executive Summary Even before signing the Paris climate agreement, the Indian government announced extremely ambitious renewable energy (RE) targets ...
Embarrassment of riches? The rise of RE in India and steps to manage...
Does India have ‘too much’ electricity capacity? Every electricity grid operates in a balance between supply and demand, usually with a...
An uncertain energy future...
The government faces a renewable energy trilemma. It has set itself a target of quadrupling the generation capacity of solar energy by 2022 and...
Renewable Energy Forecasting in India – Not a simple case of ‘more...
Growing Renewable Energy (RE) means a greater increase in variability of supply, a relatively newer phenomenon for grids where demand was the usual...
Clean energy can cement Indo-US ties...
When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi visits Washington, US President Donald Trump and he will find numerous areas of disagreement. High on that...
No such thing as a perfect renewable energy contract...
India’s 175 GW renewable energy (RE) targets by 2022 are ambitious, to say the least. Compared to RE targets in Europe, China, or California...
How India can meet its ambitious renewable energy targets...
A systemic approach that focuses on enabling the environment for more renewable energy will help India to meet its target of generating 175 gigawatts...
Save me, technology; for I have (energy) sinned...
Many things demand a balance, energy being one of them. Electricity, in fact, must always be in balance as grid power cannot easily be stored....
India’s Updated (2016) Renewable Energy “Guidelines”:...
The government has announced a number of targets and support mechanisms for renewable energy (RE). Almost two years ago, the central government...
Brightening the future with the sun and wind...
India received commitments for over 260,000 MW of renewable energy during RE-Invest. While this is a great supply-side achievement, there are several...
Making Renewable Power Sustainable in India: Chapters and Volume Summary...
The key areas that need policy effort or solutions, whatever these may be, focus on: 1) Finance: The high cost of capital is just one reason...
Making Renewable Power Sustainable in India...
A nuanced look at Making Renewables in India Sustainable, spanning economics, environment, grid integration, regulation, role of States, consumers,...
Renewables and Economics...
Chapter Summary: This chapter (sidebar) focuses on the economics of renewables, pointing out that more than just typical power plant variables like...
India-U.S. Energy Cooperation: Moving to Green, Clean and Smart...
The U.S. is the second largest energy consumer in the world, and India is soon to become the third. The U.S. already has a large consumption base;...
No Imminent Renewables “Death Spiral” for India’s...
Rahul Tongia explains the challenges facing utility companies in India from distributed generation of renewables and a tiered pricing system in need...
Why Renewable Energy Is Harder in India than in Other Countries...
Rahul Tongia discusses the challenges of renewable energy sources in India and offers recommendations to help better integrate renewables into the...
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Jan
2025
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Jan
2025
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CSEP Auditorium
Green Hydrogen’s Near-term Value Proposition Lies in Niche Applications
Rahul Tongia discusses the challenges of renewable energy sources in India and offers recommendations to help better integrate renewables into the grid.
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