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Future of Energy
Scaling Renewable Energy – What’s Holding us Back?
India is doing well by global standards, but we’re not doing enough – we need to more than triple our current deployments just to meet 2030 targets.
Rahul Tongia
August 7, 2024
Opinion & Commentary
Future of Energy
The Complexity of Green Transition
Inaction on generating new revenue as fossil fuel taxes dry up will harm India's economic prospects.
Laveesh Bhandari
July 1, 2024
Opinion & Commentary
Future of Energy
Renewable Energy & Clean Tech
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 Service Provider Scheme, 2023’ (“Scheme”) can lead to suboptimal results at best and be counterproductive at worst.
Deepak Maheshwari
June 12, 2024
Opinion & Commentary
Future of Energy
Renewable Energy & Clean Tech
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.
Shyamasis Das
February 8, 2024
Opinion & Commentary
Future of Energy
Coal, Oil & Gas
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, including the high cost of flex engines.
Shyamasis Das
September 21, 2023
Opinion & Commentary
Future of Energy
Podcast | Should India Consider Phasing Out Nuclear Power?
There are questions on whether nuclear power, with its attendant concerns on cost and safety, remains a relevant option for a future that is fossil-free, particularly in India.
Rahul Tongia
April 28, 2023
Opinion & Commentary
Coal, Oil & Gas
Future of Energy
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 unfettered marketing and pricing freedom.
Vikram Singh Mehta
October 3, 2022
Opinion & Commentary
Future of Energy
The Road to Energy Atmanirbharta
Leadership to balance short-term pressures of elections with longer-term imperatives of sustainability is needed, writes Vikram Singh Mehta.
Vikram Singh Mehta
September 5, 2022
Opinion & Commentary
Energy, Natural Resources & Sustainability
Why India needs a Ministry of Energy
It would not alter the existing roles and responsibilities of the various ministries that oversee petroleum, coal, renewables and power, but would identify and handle all of the issues that currently fall between the cracks created by the existing structure.
Vikram Singh Mehta
November 12, 2021
Opinion & Commentary
Coal, Oil & Gas
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
Vikram Singh Mehta
August 10, 2021
Opinion & Commentary
Coal, Oil & Gas
The great leap to clean energy
Vivek Rae reviews The Next Stop: Natural Gas and India's Journey to a Clean Energy Future.
Vikram Singh Mehta
July 15, 2021
Opinion & Commentary
Future of Energy
Interview: Why India needs natural gas for a clean energy future
Vikram Singh Mehta
June 24, 2021
Opinion & Commentary
Future of Energy
A low-carbon future through sector-led change
In India, a sector-led, action-based approach could provide the framework to drive low-carbon transformation.
Ashok Sreenivas
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Navroz K Dubash
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Rahul Tongia
April 21, 2021
Opinion & Commentary
Future of Energy
Road to decarbonisation: Govts must remove obstacles of poorly designed...
Decarbonisation has become a buzzword. To ensure it does not remain just that but translates into effective action on the ground, policymakers will have to build structures that reflect the woven, multidimensional, interdependent and interconnected nature of the energy ecosystem.
Vikram Singh Mehta
March 2, 2021
Opinion & Commentary
Electricity
New electricity consumer rules: Reading the impact on ‘rooftop solar’...
The older regime benefited just a handful. The new rules should spur a conversation on equitable and sustainable pricing frameworks
Rahul Tongia
February 25, 2021
Opinion & Commentary
Electricity
Lessons from COVID-19
Vikram Singh Mehta
October 6, 2020
Opinion & Commentary
Future of Energy
How to hasten the energy transition in the developing world
Rahul Tongia
January 17, 2020
Opinion & Commentary
Future of Energy
What will fuel India’s electric vehicles?
Rahul Tongia
February 19, 2018
Opinion & Commentary
Renewable Energy & Clean Tech
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 shifting the production of new automotive vehicles from the internal combustion model to electric vehicles (EV) by 2030. In parallel, it wants ...
Vikram Singh Mehta
December 3, 2017
Opinion & Commentary
Electricity
Making a smart energy grid work for India
Newspapers are showcasing the dramatically lower costs of solar power, reportedly cheaper than coal power now, and we are told that smart grids (and smart cities) are just around the corner. While enormous strides have been made in making these solutions both available and cheaper, we ...
Rahul Tongia
June 29, 2017
Opinion & Commentary
Renewable Energy & Clean Tech
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 list will be climate change. Early this month, Trump put a stick in the eye of the world by announcing that he will ...
Rahul Tongia
June 21, 2017
Opinion & Commentary
Future of Energy
The future of electric vehicles in India
Rahul Tongia
May 12, 2017
Opinion & Commentary
Regulations, Reforms & Pricing
Data management: India needs agency for energy data
India has no central body for maintaining and disseminating energy data, let alone analysing it. We propose the creation of a national Energy Information Agency to replace the current patchwork of systems. This would collect, standardize and analyse data across energy domains and make it publicly ...
Rahul Tongia
January 6, 2017
Opinion & Commentary
Renewable Energy & Clean Tech
Electricity
Future of Energy
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. Unfortunately, in recent times the emphasis has shifted from reducing the demand of power in India through efficiency to increasing its ...
Rahul Tongia
September 6, 2016
Opinion & Commentary
Renewable Energy & Clean Tech
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 announced plans to grow to 175 GW of RE capacity by 2022, more than a five-fold growth in just seven years. RE has since ...
Rahul Tongia
August 23, 2016
Opinion & Commentary
Future of Energy
A developing country’s perspective of the Smart Grid
Rahul Tongia
March 21, 2016
Opinion & Commentary
Electricity
Planning for Accelerating Smart Meter and Smart Grid Rollouts in India
The Electricity Policy has taken a bold move to kick-start Smart Meters in India. This discussion note discusses roll-out the options. Many HT consumers are already on digital metering, that too with downloading of data (even if via a handheld instrument). Making such users’ metering “smart” ...
Rahul Tongia
March 10, 2016
Opinion & Commentary
Future of Energy
Smart is as smart does
A few years ago, smart grids were all the rage Amitabh Bachchan was even on the cover of a business magazine in 2010 with a Smart Meter, and was dubbed “Power Genie”. Given, however, the low percentage of Smart Meter rollouts across homes, we have to ...
Rahul Tongia
August 5, 2015
Opinion & Commentary
Access & Social Contract
Shaping India’s energy future: Ambitions, actions and obstacles
Multi-domain, multi-scale, and multi-stakeholder efforts are needed to overcome the combination of acute and chronic challenges facing India’s energy future. Analogies aren’t perfect, but a number from the healthcare domain could apply to energy. Doctors often characterize diseases or conditions as acute or chronic – energy ...
Rahul Tongia
May 19, 2015
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