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Financing Energy Transition: Domestic institutional capital can massively support India’s ambitions

January 20, 2023

By Shantanu Srivastava, Energy Analyst at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) Indian life insurers and pension funds, the biggest domestic institutional investors (DIIs) by assets under management (AUM), have largely stayed […]

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Powering Irrigation: Indian farmers turn to solar pumps and controllers

January 11, 2023

By Prateek Singhal, Co-founder and COO, Ecozen Solutions India has no dearth of sunlight, and it is estimated that most parts of the country get about 4-7 kWh of solar energy, of the nearly 5,000 […]

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Legal Quagmire: Section 194R adds even more complexities to the taxation law regime

January 4, 2023

India, by far, has been one of the na­tions with an extensive withholding tax regi­me. As per the press release dated Sep­tem­ber 18, 2022, issued by the Minis­try of Finance, the gross collection of di­rect […]

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G20 and Green Hydrogen: India must strive for leadership

December 20, 2022

By Purva Jain, Energy Analyst, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) While renewable energy has been successful in decarbonising the power sector, many other industries remain dependent on fossil fuels. In the hunt […]

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PV Price Predictions: Assessment of solar power’s cost economics

December 16, 2022

By Vaibhav Singh, Director, Energy, PwC SolarPower Europe’s Global Market Outlook 2022 estimated a global ins­talled solar capacity of 940 GW, on the back of the record capacity addition of 168 GW last year. Solar […]

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Harnessing Offshore Wind: Progress, challenges and outlook

December 15, 2022

It has been more than seven years sin­ce the National Offshore Wind Energy Policy was green-flagged by the Gov­er­­n­ment of India, with the notion that the se­g­ment will contribute to the growing mo­mentum of wind […]

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Decarbonising Generation: Biomass co-firing in coal-based TPPs can help reduce emissions

December 12, 2022

In India, most of the power is generated by coal-based thermal power plants (TPPs). Thermal-based generation gives rise to carbon emissions, sulphur oxide and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions, along with suspended particulate matter, thereby polluting […]

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Enabling Change: Role of project structuring and risk mitigation in reducing renewable prices

December 12, 2022

There has been a lot of discussion re­cently about climate finance for supporting actions that will address climate change. The United Nations Fra­me­work Convention on Climate Chan­ge (UNFCCC), the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement have called for […]

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Mobilising Electric Transport: Opportunities in the EV charging space

December 9, 2022

By Randheer Singh, Director, Electric Mobility, NITI Aayog Climate change has forced the world to come together and chalk out an actionable roadmap to prevent further degradation of the environment. With the shift in global […]

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Right Direction: Policy interventions needed to tap the true potential of distributed renewables

November 9, 2022

The energy sector for any developing nation acts as a backbone for holistic socio-economic growth. Since the Paris Agreement in 2015, the renewable energy sector has been one of the critical sectors in India, being […]

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Promising Prospects: Residential rooftop solar’s vast untapped potential in India

November 7, 2022

Harvesting solar power is one of the most eco-friendly and cost-effective methods of electricity generation. While India has made great strides in utility-scale solar electricity generation, residential rooftop solar generation has so far been underwhelming. […]

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Sustainability Goals: Focus on creating a circular solar economy in India

November 1, 2022

India’s ambition of becoming the third-largest economy by 2030, addressing climate change challenges and meeting the sustainable development goals (SDGs) demands a robust solar infrastr­uc­ture supported by a high manufacturing yield and favourable government policies. […]

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Second Life: Global landscape and applications for EV battery reuse

October 4, 2022

Batteries typically accounts for 30 per cent to 40 per cent of the value of an electric vehicle (EV), and the race to net zero will focus on the security of supply of the critical […]

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Digital Twins: Need for best-in-class asset management

October 3, 2022

Currently, the installed renewable energy base is roughly 700 GW globally. This is expected to grow to more than 5,000 GW over the next 20 years; this means a 7x growth rate. This growth of […]

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Eternal Ethanol: Fueling the cooperation between India-Brazil

September 21, 2022

Geopolitical developments in recent years and months have left most nations staring at an energy crisis. The energy security of countries has traditionally hinged on the oil and gas sector and will continue to do […]

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Virtual PPAs: An innovative solution to corporate renewable power procurement woes

September 12, 2022

                  “Climate Change” is no longer just a buzzword but has been widely acknowledged as a global threat. Limiting warming to around 1.5°C would require global greenhouse […]

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Green Hydrogen Race: India must act fast to avoid trailing behind

August 29, 2022

India has joined the global race to develop a green hydrogen economy to bolster its energy security. After the release of India’s maiden green hydrogen policy, private and state-owned companies have made a flurry of […]

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Quality in Question: Why should the quality of rooftop solar systems not be compromised with lower costs?

August 19, 2022

India’s rooftop solar (RTS) sector has immense growth potential though it is underperforming currently with only 8 GW installed capacity as against the 40 GW target set for 2022. The potential needs to be realised […]

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Bringing Balance: Role of India’s power exchange in cross-border electricity trade

August 9, 2022

Bulk power purchase globally as well as in India was long tied only to long-term power purchase agreements and still is to a large extent. But an option to adjust positions due to change in […]

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Machine Learning  : Powering digital transformation in the renewables sector 

July 28, 2022

Computer programming has evolved in the last 50 years to solve very complicated scientific and engineering problems including getting planes to fly and complex industries to operate.   Traditional computer programming involves a human first designing […]

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