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Friday, July 25, 2025
TopicRenewable energy

Topic: renewable energy

Modi needs help of opposition ruled states to meet Rs 235 lakh crore infrastructure goal

With private investments tepid & fiscal limitations on central spending, states will need to contribute nearly 50% of infrastructure investments.

India’s renewables revolution needs what other countries are fast adopting: water battery

Pumped hydro energy storage can pave the way for India’s climate leadership by enabling another green revolution, this time in the power sector.

Renewable energy has become affordable now

The economics of renewable energy have been improving fast — especially those of onshore wind and utility-scale solar power.

Green energy market booming but not enough to meet climate goals, says IEA

Though heat from renewable energy is set to increase by 22% by 2024, renewables will only support 12% of global heat consumption compared to the 10% now.

India is coal’s brightest star but it’s facing a burning question

Coal-fired power has long failed in terms of health & climate impacts, but now its raw economics are collapsing too. Even the govt can’t keep it going for long.

Pakistan’s milewide open air mine shows why coal won’t go away

Wealthy nations may be able to afford to wean themselves off the combustible carbon, but in Pakistan, that is already burdened by debt, coal remains the cheap fallback.

Batteries are the next big thing in energy as the world moves away from coal and gas

The switch from an electricity system supplied by large fossil fuel plants that run virtually uninterrupted to a more haphazard mix of smaller, intermittent renewable sources will need batteries to store energy.

GST is slowing down India’s renewables industry, cutting jobs potential, says study  

The study has been conducted by two nonprofits along with the Modi government’s Skills Council for Green Jobs. 

Freak weather events pose new risk to India’s renewable energy goals

Extreme weather events have become latest risk to PM Modi’s renewable energy goal to quadruple solar power generation to 100 gigawatts by 2022.

India is now producing the world’s cheapest solar power

Costs of building large-scale solar installations in India fell by 27 per cent in 2018.

On Camera

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

During Operation Sindoor, Pakistan likely used NATO-style aerial tactics taught by China

The Chinese are said to have hired ex-fighter pilots & air force operators from NATO countries over the past several years to help them fine-tune their operational & flying capabilities.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.