Energy consumption is projected to surge by up to 2.5 times by 2047, driven by industrialisation, urbanisation and rising living standards ...

The draft, India's first attempt at revising its electricity policy enacted in 2005, also proposes delaying the retirement of old coal-fired plants until energy storage for renewable power becomes ...

In a major regulatory update, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has revised its 2015 emission standards for ...

The ISA should champion a Global Solar Asset Registry for standardised project information, and establish a Solar Credit Guarantee mechanism to mitigate political and currency risks.

CHENNAI, April 19 (Reuters) - India may build new coal-fired power plants as they generate the cheapest power, according to a draft electricity policy document seen by Reuters, despite growing ...

The investments have boggled advocates of green energy, but officials say India’s ambitious economic growth targets — reaching annual gross domestic product of $5 trillion before the end of ...

Production of coal, the fossil fuel that accounts for more than 70% of India’s electricity generation, has failed to keep pace with unprecedented energy demand from the heat wave and the country ...

In late November, state-owned Solar Energy Corporation of India announced the outcome of a 1.07-gigawatt solar auction in Rajasthan that attracted bids of INR 2 ($0.0270) per kilowatt-hour from ...

Kartikeya Singh is a senior associate (non-resident) at the Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies and Energy Security and Climate Change Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in ...

India’s energy future remains India’s “choice.” But for all of the country’s insistence on sovereignty, by marrying its energy policy to its economic liberalization it has chosen a path ...

Energy efficiency alone — in industry, residential and commercial spheres — cannot mitigate climate change. Although unemployment rates in India are low (less than 5%) nearly 35% of employment ...

But India still faces steadfast international pressure to deliver action on climate change, even as Modi promises to bolster the energy supply in a country where more than 300 million people lack ...