Banking of energy is a short-term alternative to promote renewable energy generation. While the Electricity (Promoting Renewable Energy Through Green Energy Open Access) Rules, 2022 recognise the importance of energy banking, they fail to provide a coherent framework for it.
Read MoreWhile EVs can help improve local air quality, simply replacing existing vehicles with EVs will not be sufficient. EVs could not only lead to increased emissions upstream, but potentially also worsen non-exhaust emissions.
Read MoreHighlights of the webinar discussion held on April 13, 2021 as part of the India Energy Transition Dialogues – a series convened by the Centre for Policy Research to explore different paths to meet India’s 21st century energy goals.
Read MoreThe government has taken an important step in prioritising agriculture in the electricity transition. Using the transition as a catalyst for agricultural transformation can address recurring redistributive pressures in electricity, minimise the causes and effects of climate change in agriculture, and secure a resilient rural economy and livelihoods.
Read MoreGiven the imminent and unavoidable transition away from coal and its likely economic and political consequences, this collective statement by 22 energy experts calls for the government to initiate a deliberative planning process with the participation of concerned interest groups and communities, and based on rigorous and context-specific analysis of economic, social, political and environmental costs and opportunities.
Read MoreThe India Energy Transition Dialogues, a series of curated bi-weekly webinars beginning April 13, will explore different but complementary pathways to meet India’s 21st century energy goals.
Read MoreKathryn Hochstetler’s new book Political Economies of Energy Transition: Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and South Africa pries open the hidden political world of the transition.
Read MoreHighlights from IEA’s latest report that charts out different outlooks of India’s energy future.
Read MorePolicy interventions are pushing electric vehicles and other modern energy technologies. Will the pandemic-induced economic contraction topple India’s energy transition priorities?
Read MoreEven as electricity can make us more resilient, electricity is also vulnerable to the pandemic. How is India’s electricity sector placed at this moment?
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