India: Green cess on coal may be axed, coal mining may be opened up to any industry
A surprise proposal tabled by the Indian Prime Minister’s office may axe the ₹400/tonne green…
Fossil Fuels
IEEFA: India’s stranded assets problem worse than reported to Parliament
A new report by IEEFA has revealed that several more of India’s coal plants could…
Tamil Nadu, Rajasthan, and Karnataka ideally placed to ditch coal: Report
While high costs and losses in thermal power are making RE increasingly attractive across India,…
Sharp 3% drop in global coal-fired power output likely for 2019, diesel sale dips in India
New analysis by IEEFA suggests global power generation from coal plants could see a sharp…
India: Funding for retrofitting coal plants could be rejected, over half could miss deadline
$11.6billion of funding for retrofitting India’s coal plants, to make them comply with the tighter…
Does the Trojan horse burp natural gas?
Over the past couple of years, natural gas has been put forward one of the…
UK outlaws fracking
The United Kingdom has banned fracking with immediate effect on the basis of numerous scientific…
India’s CO2 emissions drop to 20-year low
Contraction in coal capacity expansion has lowered India’s increase in CO2 emissions to a 20-year…
India: “Need to talk about emissions, not coal”, $60 billion committed for new gas grid
India’s Power Minister has said that the world needed to restructure the debate on coal…
AP paying higher costs on coal, RE PPA review undermines climate, pollution goals: CFA Analysis
Andhra Pradesh government’s move to force renewable energy companies to renegotiate tariffs will eventually burn…