[Editorials] India’s Transition to Clean Cooking
Across the world, the use of unclean cooking fuels has been declining. However, more than 2.6 billion people are still unable to access clean cooking.…
Infrastructure
[Editorial] Centralized Market of Electricity
The centre and state governments are facing fresh tensions over the power sector. The trigger is the Union government’s plan to centralize the electricity market-…
[Editorial] Solar as the Third Crop
What is the situation India is looking at? At the time of independence, India was home to about 340 million people. Now the population has…
[Editorial] BSNL Bailout
How does BSNL compare to its peers? BSNL suffers a poorer ARPU (average revenue per user) than its peers like Bharti Airtel (ARPU increased 23%)…
[Editorials] A Renewables Revolution
What are fossil fuels? Fossil fuels refer to coal, crude oil and natural gas. These are derived from fossilized remains of organisms that lived millions…
[Editorial] Power Crisis in India – Current scenario and the root causes
With a coal supply-demand imbalance and rising international coal prices, cash-strapped thermal power generators are left holding critical stocks.
[In-depth] Seaweeds – From health benefits to climate change mitigation
After Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasised developing the blue economy in coastal states and asked stakeholders to re-focus on seaweed farming and …
[Editorial] India’s power sector –The volatility, reasons and the way forward
In October 2021, India witnessed significant power shortages stemming from the low inventory of coal at the power plants. After seven months, we are b…
[Editorial] Energy security of South Asia – Electrification, growth, SDGs and the way forward
South Asia has almost a fourth of the global population living on 5% of the world’s landmass. Electricity generation in South Asia has risen exponen…