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…
Energy
Does the Trojan horse burp natural gas?
Over the past couple of years, natural gas has been put forward one of the…
Gridded Challenge, Uncharted Territory
Last week, Tata Power and The Rockefeller Foundation announced the launch of TP Renewable Microgrid…
Discoms can choose proportion of wind and solar sources in hybrid projects to meet RPOs
The Centre has revised its National Wind-Solar Hybrid Policy for discoms to meet renewable purchase…
UK outlaws fracking
The United Kingdom has banned fracking with immediate effect on the basis of numerous scientific…
Andhra Pradesh HC stays Centre’s move to block discoms over refusing to give letters of credit to firms
In a breather to discoms, the Andhra Pradesh High Court has put a 3-week stay…
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…
Centre should pay RE producers, not punish Andhra for having highest RE share, says minister
As power distribution companies (discoms) are being dragged to the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT)…
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…
High on hydro? PM Modi vows to “double” renewables share to 450 GW by 2022
At the New York climate action summit, PM Modi vowed to double the renewables target…