In Jharkhand’s Gumla district, solar mini-grids are fuelling women-led enterprises

Several women have started small-scale machine-based rural enterprises that run on solar energy.

Manish Kumar

· May 04, 2022 · 09:30 pm

India ready to move to clean energy according to ‘national circumstances’: Environment minister

Bhupender Yadav also said that more funds were needed to achieve the global target of net-zero emissions by 2050.

Scroll Staff

· Nov 24, 2021 · 02:03 pm

COP26 summit: India, UK launch global solar grid project

The initiative will help countries limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius while also providing an impetus to green investment, the British government said.

Scroll Staff

· Nov 03, 2021 · 08:10 am

The world can move to 100% renewable electricity with these three energy storage technologies

If successfully implemented, the payoff of these technologies will be enormous.

Kerry Rippy, The Conversation

· Sep 11, 2021 · 11:30 pm

After experimenting with jatropha, Chhattisgarh is planning to make biofuel from paddy

The question is whether it can impact food security in India, where rice is the staple food for a huge population.

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi

· Aug 05, 2021 · 09:30 pm

India, China and Brazil can teach the rest of the world how to transition to clean energy

Each of the three countries has achieved some success in adopting cleaner energy.

Radhika Khosla, The Conversation

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Ajinkya Shrish Kamat, The Conversation

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Venkatesh Narayanamurti, The Conversation

· Oct 06, 2020 · 11:30 pm

India, other G20 nations should transition to clean energy as they recover from pandemic: UN chief

Antonio Guterres said subsidies for fossil fuel in India were around seven times more than that for clean energy.

Scroll Staff

· Aug 28, 2020 · 02:47 pm

India needs $10 billion and higher tariffs to clean up its polluting thermal power plants

Thermal power accounts for 80% of India’s industrial emissions of particulate matter and sulphur and nitrous oxides, which often create lung diseases.

Kuwar Singh, qz.com

· Aug 08, 2019 · 08:30 pm

Making money while the sun shines: Farmers in a Gujarat village are selling solar energy

Surplus energy is bought by Gujarat’s power distribution company.

Athar Parvaiz

· Feb 04, 2019 · 09:30 pm

International Solar Alliance can be OPEC of the future, says Narendra Modi

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries at present supplies about half the world’s energy requirements.

Scroll Staff

· Oct 02, 2018 · 09:19 pm

India diverts Rs 56,700 crore from the fight against climate change to Goods and Service Tax regime

Unused money in the National Clean Energy and Environment Fund has been diverted to compensate states for loss of tax revenue.

Kumar Sambhav Shrivastava

· Jul 24, 2017 · 09:00 am

How the Ganga and GST are hijacking India’s clean energy fund

The National Clean Energy and Environment Fund is being used to finance the government’s pet projects even as mining-hit Adivasi communities are neglected.

Aruna Chandrasekhar

· Jul 04, 2017 · 10:30 am