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Thursday, December 18, 2025
TopicRenewable energy

Topic: renewable energy

Carbon Capture might help reverse the effects of global warming, but it isn’t enough

Even if the world manages to keep global warming at 2 degrees Celsius — the goal of the Paris climate agreement — consequences will be severe.

Scientists suggest $2.4 trillion shift from coal to renewables

To stabilise climate change, the world must invest $2.4 trillion in clean energy every year through 2035 and cut the use of coal-fired power to almost nothing by 2050.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

On Camera

Why the VB-GRAMG Bill strikes at the heart of MGNREGA

MGNREGA’s core strength was: if you needed work, you got work. VB-GRAMG’s funding model means work will only be available if a state has the budget and the Centre has approved the allocation.

Steady growth rooted in ‘Dravidian model’. How Tamil Nadu more than doubled its GSDP in 10 yrs

RBI Handbook of Statistics shows state’s GSDP has more than doubled in past decade, finishing second behind Maharashtra. It has performed well across health & education parameters as well.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

India’s top airline just handed sarkar the keys. That’s IndiGo’s real ‘crime’

Don’t blame misfortune. This is colossal incompetence and insensitivity. So bad, heads would have rolled even in the old PSU-era Indian Airlines and Air India.