Once viewed as the fuel of the future, green hydrogen, or hydrogen produced using renewable energy sources, has swiftly assumed centre stage in the global energy transition. Governments, as well as the massive energy industry […]
Hydrogen is a key component of the efforts being made towards greening the grid in India. While the hydrogen segment is at a nascent stage, it holds immense growth potential. To scale up green hydrogen […]
Green hydrogen, which is hydrogen produced by the electrolysis of water using renewable energy sources, has perhaps become the most sought after clean energy technology. With its versatile range of applications, from energy generation and […]
NTPC’s vision is to supply reliable and cost-effective green hydrogen to become an integrated energy major in the green hydrogen value chain across the transport, industry and power sectors. The company’s focus is on hydrogen […]
India has committed to an ambitious target of developing 175 GW of renewable electricity capacity by 2022, of which it had already installed 90.39 GW by November 2020. Currently, environmentally conscious governments have instituted policies […]
The Covid-19 pandemic, which ravaged global economies through most of 2020, created many challenges for India’s economic health as well. Lockdowns and the shutting down of industries and transportation delayed project development, caused supply shortages […]
In the budget speech on February 1, 2021, the finance minister announced that a National Hydrogen Energy Mission will be launched in 2021-22 for producing hydrogen from green energy sources. This announcement is exciting but […]
The year 2020 was a historic year in more than one way for India’s renewable energy journey. The year began with the Covid-19 pandemic wreaking havoc on the economy, disrupting supply chains and manpower availability, […]
Hydrogen is considered a fuel of the future. However, hydrogen production in most countries is based on the use of fossil fuels. Thus, the focus is slowly shifting to a cleaner alternative – green hydrogen […]
By Priyanka Gupta, Manager, PTC India Financial Services Limited India has a total installed capacity of 373,029 MW, as of October 16, 2020, including a renewable energy capacity of 89,229 MW. The power demand-supply scenario […]
By Dr Ajay Mathur, Director General, and Girish Sethi, Senior Director, Energy, TERI Hydrogen has long been seen as the fuel of the future. Several developments worldwide suggest that the time for a substantial role […]
Over the past decade, India’s net power generation capacity has increased by 212 GW – nearly the total grid size of France. Roughly 40 per cent of this addition came from renewable energy sources, including […]
The year 2020 saw a mix of positives and negatives for renewable energy financing. The downside was a significant decline in debt activity, as Covid-19 worsened the condition of the banking sector and the stream […]
Enabled by strong policy support, incentives and focused attention from the government, India’s renewable energy sector has attracted many domestic and international players, including several entrepreneurs. Large and small independent power producers (IPPs), power utilities, diversified business houses, […]
In the past one year, the policy and regulatory environment in the renewable energy sector has experienced disruptions caused by Covid-19 and the financial stress of discoms. During the lockdown following the onset of the […]
Wind-solar hybrid projects are finding favour with many players in the renewable energy space. They offer a viable solution for blending renewable power generated through two different sources to take advantage of their complementarities. The […]
The availability of contiguous tracts of land has always been a pain point in the development of large-scale solar power projects. Delays in various land acquisition processes have in the past led to the postponement […]
The Indian renewable energy sector has been growing at a rapid pace over the past decade. This growth has been fuelled by falling prices and aggressive auctioning. While about 15 GW of capacity was auctioned […]
The humble battery has come a long way to become a crucial part of storage systems and electric vehicles (EVs), two technologies that are catalysing India’s path to emission reduction. Storage systems have emerged as […]
Acknowledging the sustainable development goals as set by the Paris Climate Agreement in 2016, the entire world is now moving towards a greener, more sustainable future. India too is no stranger to this change and […]
