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Saturday, April 27, 2024
TopicRenewable energy

Topic: renewable energy

India’s new solar safeguard duty may threaten PM Modi’s ambitious renewable energy plans

Anindya Upadhyay -
The development follows a decision earlier this week by India’s Supreme Court that overturned a lower court stay on the tariff.

India to test gas-fired plants as ‘peakers’ to supply uninterrupted power supply

Anindya Upadhyay -
Gas-fired power plants can be useful when solar-fired generation peters and coal plants take time to begin their operations.

India seeks 25% duty on Chinese & Malaysian solar cells to shield domestic manufacturers

Anindya Upadhyay -
The duty has been proposed by Directorate General of Trade Remedies, a unit of the commerce ministry. 

Hit hard by cheap green energy at home, US coal miners find a friend in India

Tim Loh -
The affair, however, may be short-lived as India aspires to cut out all imports of thermal coal.

Oil companies need not be victims, can lead shift to greener fuels, says ex BP honcho

John Browne -
These giants have the resources and, in many cases, skills that can be adapted to deliver energy solutions at the immense scale needed.

Here’s the solution for 1.3 billion people still lacking electricity

Hannah Daly -
Geospatial analysis shows that 'mini-grids' would be the cheapest technology to provide universal electricity access by 2030.

Want to save the planet? Take carbon out of the air

Noah Smith -
Deep decarbonisation can reduce carbon emissions by large amounts, but is extremely expensive, and no one is doing it yet.

Coal is being squeezed out of power by cheap renewables

Reed Landberg -
With evolving markets, electricity from renewables will become cheaper than coal by 2040. Coal will be increasingly squeezed out of the power generation market over...

India’s going to beat the EU at renewable energy production by 2022

Rob Smith -
Renewable energy production surged in 2016, with around two-thirds – or 165 gigawatts – of net new capacity coming from clean sources.
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Opinion

Congress can’t deny Modi’s charge of Muslim quota. Karnataka & 2009 manifesto are proof

Arvind Kumar -
The issue of the Muslim quota has the potential to polarise SCs, STs, and OBCs along religious lines in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. It benefits the BJP.

Indira, Manmohan, Modi, all raised income inequality. Until Hindu fears took the driving seat

Modi’s speech rightly questions politics of appeasement. Wrongly targets all Muslims

Economy

Foreign policy resonating among more Indians in 2nd & 3rd tier towns of India, says EAM Jaishankar

Pia Krishnankutty -
Speaking at launch of economist Surjit Bhalla’s book, S Jaishankar also highlights Gen Z’s engagement with ‘reel culture’, which has 'promoted awareness, created interest in many subjects'.

Defence

Germany removes restrictions, India can now buy small arms from its firms

Snehesh Alex Philip -
Germany’s erstwhile Christian Democratic Union govt, led by Angela Merkel, prevented sale of small arms to police forces in states they perceived had ‘bad human rights record’.

National Interest

Frontrunner is letting the challenger define this poll campaign. Modi still hasn’t found a big theme

Shekhar Gupta -
A theme has not yet emerged for BJP & people see lack of a contest, which makes it unexciting. For all these reasons, 2024 is turning out to be an unexpectedly theme-less election.

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