Jaideep Saraswat, Nikhil Mall Artificial Intelligence (AI) has existed for decades, but two landmark events in the past decade have redefined its trajectory. The first was Google’s 2017 research paper ‘Attention is all you need,’ which introduced...
MoreWhy Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) is the Missing Puzzle India Must Solve Now
Jaideep Saraswat, Nikhil Mall India is seeing a sharp and sustained rise in electricity demand. Peak demand has grown from 156GW in 2015-16 to 249 GW in 2024-25, a 1.6x increase in less than a decade. Electricity consumptionhas mirrored this...
MoreDriving Electric, Insuring Smart: A Guide to Effective EV Insurance
Jaideep Saraswat, Nikhil Mall & Tushar Katiyar Why EV insurance needs a fresh lens? With over 69 lakh electric vehicles (EVs) registered in India today, adoption is accelerating at a rapid pace, driven by lower running costs, government...
MoreMore Models, More Momentum: How Choice is Driving India’s Electric Car Revolution
Jaideep Saraswat, Nikhil Mall The electric vehicle (EV) market in India has undergone a transformative leap in the past couple of years, redefining how mobility is perceived. EV penetration in 2025 has already touched 7.8%, up from 5.6% just two...
MoreIndia’s Coal Conundrum: Balancing Rising Power Demand with Clean Energy Goals
Parul Babbar, Rahul Patidar and Vrinda Gupta Coal power continues to be the backbone of India’s electricity sector, currently accounting for 223.07 GW or 45.52% of the nation’s total installed capacity as of July 31, 2025 (Figure 1). It remains...
MoreDon’t Let Just Transitions Be a Tell-Tale
It is critical to understand the dynamics of international cooperation in people-centric and just energy transitions. Vrinda Gupta, Aishwarya Sharma As the world accelerates its transition to clean energy systems to avert a deepening climate...
MoreDecarbonising the trucking sector: How VIPV can accelerate India’s zero emission truck revolution
Jaideep Saraswat, Nikhil Mall The transport sector is the third-highest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitting sector in India. Within this, road transport contributes nearly 90 percent of total emissions, with medium and heavy-duty trucks playing a...
MoreWebinar insights | Advancing Equity in Energy Transition: Civil Society Perspectives for the South Africa C20 | G20 Process
13th August, 2025 Vasudha Foundation, in collaboration with Climate Action Network South Asia, organised a webinar on Advancing Equity in Energy Transition: Civil Society Perspectives for the South Africa C20 as part of the G20 South Africa...
MoreDecarbonising Assam – Trends, Policies and Recent Developments
Assam’s economy-wide GHG emissions experienced notable shifts between 2011 and 2018. The grossGHG emissions grew from 28 to 33 Mt CO2e during this period. The energy sector saw the highestabsolute growth, with emissions increasing ~90 percent...
MoreInception Workshop on GHG Inventorisation & Development of Decarbonisation Strategies for Assam
The Assam Climate Change Management Society (ACCMS), Environment, Forest and Climate Change Department, Government of Assam jointly with Vasudha Foundation, New Delhi organised a stakeholders’ consultation-cum-inception workshop on “GHG...
MoreDecarbonising Madhya Pradesh – Trends, Policies and Recent Developments
Why Decarbonisation Matters for Madhya Pradesh? Madhya Pradesh faces increasing vulnerability to climate change, evident in the rising frequencyof extreme weather events such as flooding, untimely rains, droughts and heatwaves. As a predominantly...
MoreStakeholder Consultation on Developing Decarbonisation Strategies in Madhya Pradesh
25th July, 2025 | Bhopal Vasudha Foundation, in collaboration with the Madhya Pradesh Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (MPUVNL) and Urban Development and Housing Department (UDHD), Government of Madhya Pradesh, and Environment Planning and Coordination...
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