Parul Babbar India added a total of ~31 GW of coal in last five years between April 2017 and September 2022. As of September 2022, no new coal-fired station got added to the list of coal-fired power...
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Jaideep Saraswat, Nikhil Mall & Varun BR India is showcasing exemplary leadership at the global forums aimed to address climate change. At COP 26, the honourable Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, put forth India’s long-term aim to...
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Raghav Pachouri, Shubham Thakre, Sonam Sinha In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the changes in monthly and yearly electricity peak demand patterns, the increasing variability in demand over the years, and the occurrence of peak demand within...
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–Sonam Sinha, Raghav Pachouri In the last five years, close to 31GW of coal power installed capacity has been added to India’s electricity generation capacity mix. However, due to various reasons ranging from low demand, coal, and other...
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By Jaideep Saraswat and Nikhil Mall The standards & labelling (S&L) program aims to provide consumers with the necessary information to make prudent decisions in purchasing energy-consuming appliances that are energy efficient. It is the...
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By Raghav Pachouri, Shubham Thakre, Sonam Sinha Since Independence, the paradigm for the Indian power system was one of shortage due to deficiency in energy production. Electricity consumption was a mere 17 kWh per capita in 1947, and installed...
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By Varun B. R. & Jaideep Saraswat In its latest report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as part of its sixth Assessment Report (AR6) expounded on various facets of climate change mitigation. Addressing a ‘code-red to...
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By Jaideep Saraswat & Nikhil Mall The Paris Agreement has 197 signatory countries aiming to limit global warming to well below 2°C and make efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. A 50 percent probability to meet this target leaves the world with...
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This piece is the take of the Vasudha Foundation on the recent announcements made by the Honourable Prime Minister of India at COP 26. For the last 3 decades, United Nations (UN) has been bringing together all the countries for global summits...
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Jaideep Saraswat, Vasudha Foundation India’s power sector is undergoing a substantive overhaul on several tenets. First, it has transitioned from a power deficit to a surplus nation due to accelerated capacity additions.[1] Second, access to...
Moreby Chetna Ahlawat, Vasudha Foundation The outbreak of Coronavirus in late 2019 has brought life to a screeching halt for people across the world. After being under lockdown for months, governments across the globe are designing green recovery as...
Moreby Divya Singh,Vasudha Foundation India under Pandemic and Green Recovery 2020 sees the world struggling with the socio-economic impacts during the different phases of the global pandemic caused by the Covid 19 virus. Across the globe, people...
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