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Digital twin: Making India’s clean energy architecture versatile
Energy | Energy Efficiency Mar 26, 2024

Digital twin: Making India’s clean energy architecture versatile

The use of digital twin technologies in renewable energy ecosystems will benefit producers, consumers, and governments alike ...

Climate Action for Small Island Developing States (SIDS)
Economics and Finance | Climate Change Mar 26, 2024

Climate Action for Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

The measures taken by SIDS are unable to keep up with the pace of increasing climate risks thus international cooperation plays a vital role in developing a comprehensive approach to address it ...

Forecasts for oil demand growth in India: Hope or reality?
Energy Mar 16, 2024

Forecasts for oil demand growth in India: Hope or reality?

Trends in consumption growth in the last two decades suggest that IEA’s expectation of a decline in demand for petrol in India on account of growth in electric vehicles is optimistic ...

Decentralisation of energy supply in India: Energy in sachets
Energy | Energy Access Mar 15, 2024

Decentralisation of energy supply in India: Energy in sachets

India’s key energy problem is the inadequate effective demand for energy, especially from poor rural households in India and an underdeveloped market for energy ...

Access to clean cooking fuels in India: The visible hand of policy
Energy Mar 13, 2024

Access to clean cooking fuels in India: The visible hand of policy

By 2030, only 77 percent are expected to have clean cooking fuel, leaving 1.9 billion with traditional sources of fuels ...

Choice in electricity retail: Will consumers choose green power?
Energy | Energy Efficiency Mar 11, 2024

Choice in electricity retail: Will consumers choose green power?

The Indian electricity market's future might incline towards renewable energy suppliers, possibly featuring specialised green providers. ...

The carbon emission hierarchy: Worthy and unworthy emissions
Energy Mar 02, 2024

The carbon emission hierarchy: Worthy and unworthy emissions

If carbon emissions from research activities are excused, some inconvenient issues may arise ...

Engaging youth to power the Green Transition
Economics and Finance | Sustainable Development Feb 22, 2024

Engaging youth to power the Green Transition

By unlocking the youth’s potential, we build a more prosperous, healthier, and empowering future for them, for the nation, and for generations to come ...

Competition in retail electricity: Power of choice
Energy | Energy Security | Energy Efficiency Feb 12, 2024

Competition in retail electricity: Power of choice

Behavioural changes expected in electricity use by the consumer may not play out as anticipated without the intervention of technological inputs ...

Prioritising MSMEs in India’s policy push for rooftop solar
Indian Economy | Economics and Finance | Energy Feb 02, 2024

Prioritising MSMEs in India’s policy push for rooftop solar

The focus on rooftop solar in the Union Budget 2024 has provided a strong impetus for the residential segment. A targeted scheme is also required to enable MSMEs to harness the benefits of solar energy. ...

The value of water
Water Feb 01, 2024

The value of water

Efficient water demand management relies on market prices signalling the availability or future scarcity. India should consider such markets for effective water governance. ...

COP28: Was the COP robbed?
Energy | Climate Change Jan 29, 2024

COP28: Was the COP robbed?

COP28 offered something to every stakeholder but not enough for the world ...

Greening the roads: India's flex-fuel odyssey
Energy Jan 23, 2024

Greening the roads: India's flex-fuel odyssey

As India forges ahead, integrating flex fuels into its cleaner and greener mobility narrative becomes essential, heralding a more sustainable future ...

Carbon trading in India: Local actions for the global commons
Energy Jan 10, 2024

Carbon trading in India: Local actions for the global commons

Indian enterprises stand at the threshold of a lucrative venture, tapping into the thriving global carbon trading markets. These entities also play a pivotal role in curbing India's emissions. ...

Drivers of green energy adoption by discoms
Energy Jan 09, 2024

Drivers of green energy adoption by discoms

The key drivers of RE adoption by discoms are resource endowment and government policy push. In other words “nature” and “nurture” are key to RE adoption by discoms. ...

Overcoming a climate of mistrust
Developing and Emerging Economies | Climate Change Jan 08, 2024

Overcoming a climate of mistrust

A crisis of trust between developed and developing nations is poisoning the international climate regime. Taking responsibility on both sides is the first step to restoring confidence. ...

Summer power demand surge: Challenges for India’s energy transition
Energy Dec 27, 2023

Summer power demand surge: Challenges for India’s energy transition

An increase in temperature not only increases electricity demand but also increases carbon emissions, posing a challenge to India’s energy transition ...

Beyond the rhetoric at Dubai COP28
International Affairs | Energy Access | Oil, Gas and Renewables Dec 26, 2023

Beyond the rhetoric at Dubai COP28

Financial transfers from Global North are band-aids. What is absent is resource mobilisation to incentivise the South to move away from fossil fuel dependence. ...

India must lead the new energy dialogue
Energy | Oil, Gas and Renewables Dec 26, 2023

India must lead the new energy dialogue

India has demonstrated its leadership in navigating towards clean and sustainable energy. In this context, India assuming the leadership in carbon finance doesn't seem far-fetched. ...

Green protectionism in the Global North: Implications for the Global South
Energy Dec 05, 2023

Green protectionism in the Global North: Implications for the Global South

The barriers erected by the Global North are intended to facilitate domestic investment in green energy industries but they will curtail the production and export of green goods and services in the Global South. ...

Empowering the Global South: A call to action for COP28
International Affairs | Great Power Dynamics | Climate, Food and Environment Nov 30, 2023

Empowering the Global South: A call to action for COP28

COP28 must serve as a unifying forum with a targeted Global South focus agenda and should not continue to be hampered by the burdens of the past ...

Realism, not rhetoric, should prevail at Dubai COP28
International Affairs | Great Power Dynamics | Economics and Finance Nov 30, 2023

Realism, not rhetoric, should prevail at Dubai COP28

If the Kyoto Principles of “common but differentiated responsibility” are to be implemented, COP28 in Dubai must support the right of economies to pursue contextual options for decarbonisation ...

Deciphering Muizzu’s India policy
Climate, Food and Environment | Indian Ocean | Maritime Security | Maritime Infrastructure | Climate Change Nov 28, 2023

Deciphering Muizzu’s India policy

Yameen’s withdrawal raises the immediate question if it could encourage President Muizzu to shed his reluctance to do business with India ...

Reality check: Coal energy transition
Climate, Food and Environment | Energy | Energy Security | Climate Change | Energy Efficiency | Oil, Gas and Renewables Nov 28, 2023

Reality check: Coal energy transition

Running with what is available is better than waiting interminably for the best option Thus, starting off with blue hydrogen will be ideal to hasten India’s energy transition. ...

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Tanya Aggarwal

Tanya Aggarwal

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Aditi Madan

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