Climate Week in New York ended on 27 September with a blunt message. Its organisers said the challenge is no longer ambition but implementation. They blamed outdated regulation, infrastructure constraints and misaligned markets, as per recent reporting. The backdrop is weak. COP30 in Belém set no timetable for phasing out fossil fuels. That framing matters. For a decade, the transition debate was about cost. Solar and wind have largely won it. The new contest is about time. Why the clock...
India’s combined steam and coking coal imports rose 33.8% week-on-week to 3.65 million tonnes (MT) during 20–26 September 2026, from 2.73 MT in the previous...
Coal inventories at India’s thermal plants kept sliding this week, with over two-fifths of the monitored fleet below critical levels. The government responded on two...
The International Energy Agency’s (IEA’s) new special report on electrification finds that India’s electrification rate could climb from 19% today to 32%, simply by deploying...
ExxonMobil takes Papua LNG operatorship as $4bn savings advance FID TotalEnergies has announced that ExxonMobil will assume operatorship of the Papua LNG project as partners...
Southern India is rapidly emerging as the centre of India’s electric mobility transformation, driven by growing investments in...
Indian banks are improving climate disclosures and sustainability reporting, but most remain poorly prepared for deeper financial risks...
Behind India's impressive renewable energy capacity numbers lies a more revealing reality. Rooftop solar is already delivering measurable...
A new IISD framework for planning rural solar villages finds that village-level solarisation can cut electricity costs nearly...
India has commissioned its first two geothermal wells, in Ladakh’s Puga Valley, alongside a national policy meant to build an entire industry around the Earth’s...
India’s renewable build-out is usually measured in gigawatts. A recently released report of Zurich Resilience Solutions puts a different number on the table: the replacement...
India's solar transition is entering a decisive new phase. While falling tariffs and rapid capacity additions have established solar as a cornerstone of India's clean...
India's energy security challenge is evolving from securing fossil fuels to securing critical minerals that power batteries, storage systems and clean-energy technologies. As energy storage...
India’s planned steel expansion could lock the country into massive coal imports, rising carbon costs and growing exposure to global market volatility. However, falling renewable...
India’s solar transition is entering a demand-led phase powered by data centres, AI infrastructure, green hydrogen and rising industrial electricity consumption. While renewable capacity is...
Hybrid renewable systems combining solar, wind and battery storage are rapidly transforming global electricity markets. Falling technology costs, rising AI-linked electricity demand and geopolitical energy...
India generates record levels of solar power at midday, but its coal plants cannot reduce output below a safety threshold — forcing grid operators to...
India’s power sector is entering a capital supercycle. NTPC alone has outlined a ₹16.86 lakh crore (US$176.4 billion) capex plan through FY37, while the government...
India wants to grow nuclear capacity from 8.78 GW to 100 GW by 2047, a target built on private capital, foreign reactor technology and a...
PM-KUSUM has installed more than 11 lakh solar irrigation pumps and is central to India’s decentralised solar push. But as groundwater tables fall in Rajasthan,...
As solar capacity surges past 150 GW, India’s coal-fired plants are being forced to run flexibly, ramping down for hours each day. Yet the long-term...
Saudi Arabia's state power procurer, the Saudi Power Procurement Company, has signed storage service agreements for four battery energy storage projects with a combined capacity...
Multi Commodity Exchange of India plans to invest up to ₹200 crore (US$21m) to establish dedicated trading platforms for coal and minerals, with SEBI having...
India’s renewable-energy sector witnessing nearly $2 billion worth of clean-energy deals reflects the deepening financialisation of the country’s energy transition. Beyond the headline investment numbers,...
India’s energy shock bill reveals the hidden cost of geopolitical dependence India may have spent nearly Rs 1 lakh crore (US$ 10.5 billion) in just...
EQT commits $50bn to India, with $30bn targeting data centres Swedish private equity firm EQT plans to invest approximately $50 billion in India by 2030,...
Odisha’s $25.4 b UAE haul signals a state-led push to outcompete for global capital Odisha has returned from a three-day investment roadshow in Abu Dhabi...
ADB’s first India transaction advisory deal targets $1bn private capital for MP renewable PPPs The Asian Development Bank has signed its first transaction advisory services...
Sembcorp Green Infra files $393m India IPO on a 7.64 GW renewable portfolio Sembcorp Green Infra Limited, the Indian renewable energy arm of Singapore's Temasek-backed...
India's power sector traded summer's demand records for monsoon-season recalibration this week. Discom dues data, a set of regulatory moves including a storage-friendly transmission waiver,...
India has solved its power shortage. It has not solved the sharing of its grid. A ₹9.2 lakh crore (US$96.1 billion) transmission build-out, a Haryana...
Delhi's electricity demand reached a record 8,748 MW in June 2026, driven by early and intensifying heatwaves, even as the city's own power generation covers...
India's energy transition is entering a decisive new phase where reliability has become as important as capacity expansion. As renewable energy scales, rising electricity demand,...
India’s energy-storage debate has long centred on lithium-ion batteries and pumped hydro, but thermal energy storage is gaining attention as renewable capacity expands. From molten-salt...
Global solar generation reached a record 10% share of electricity in H1 2026, yet it remains overwhelmingly a daytime phenomenon, collapsing to near zero after...
India’s energy transition is increasingly shifting from renewable generation towards storage, transmission and grid flexibility. Massive investments in battery storage, HVDC corridors and super-grid infrastructure...
India’s energy storage tenders are exploding in scale, but a new industry assessment finds the country remains 10–15 years from making its own battery cells...
India’s wind sector is having its best year in decades, but from 31 August, it loses the special grid protection that has cushioned it since...
India's solar capacity has grown from 3 GW in 2014 to over 162 GW today, but land is running scarce. Floating solar, panels mounted on...
India's distributed solar capacity has surged from 1.8GW to 31.5GW since 2018, driven by government subsidy schemes. But its share of total renewable installations has...
India's solar sector has spent two years worrying about grid bottlenecks and land competition with farmers. New research suggests both fears are largely misplaced: land...
India's compressed biogas sector is scaling rapidly, backed by SATAT, the National Bioenergy Programme, and billions in projected investment. Yet beyond capacity additions, plants face...
India is increasingly turning to biogas and compressed biogas (CBG) as part of its clean-energy transition, viewing organic waste not merely as a disposal challenge...
India’s hydrogen mobility ambitions are moving from policy discussions to real-world trials, with hydrogen fuel-cell buses operating in Delhi and India’s first hydrogen-powered train planned...
India’s green hydrogen sector is rapidly evolving from policy ambition into a strategic industrial and export opportunity. Rising global demand for low-carbon fuels, expanding electrolyser...
A month of relative calm ended abruptly this week as the US and Iran resumed direct strikes, Houthi forces hit Saudi oil facilities for the...
Just days after Brent eased on hopes of a Hormuz settlement, tanker mining, US strikes on Iranian assets and a fresh Ukrainian assault on Russia’s...
Brent crude slipped roughly 9% over the week to 27 August, easing towards US$86 a barrel as Iran and Oman edged towards a Hormuz arrangement...
Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline came back online this week after Houthi drone strikes had knocked it out for nearly a fortnight, offering some relief to...
India’s coal imports fell sharply during 13–19 September 2026, with combined steam and coking coal arrivals declining to 2.73 million tonnes (MT) from 4.00 MT...
India’s coal imports increased during 6–12 September 2026, with combined steam and coking coal arrivals reaching 3.996 million tonnes (MT), up approximately 7.6% from 3.795...
The number of power plants with critically low coal stocks nearly doubled from three weeks earlier, even as Coal India’s own pithead reserves stayed comfortable....
India’s coal imports rebounded sharply during 30 August–5 September 2026, with combined steam and coking coal arrivals reaching 3.79 million tonnes (MT), up 38.7% from...
India’s EV financing market is projected to reach ₹3.7 lakh crore (roughly US$50 billion) by 2030, but lenders are increasingly focused on a basic question:...
A new ICCT study finds India could cut its combined oil and battery import bill by up to US$125 billion a year by 2050 through...
India’s electric vehicle push is entering a less visible but more consequential phase. Beyond subsidies and sales charts, the real determinants of success are turning...
India's electric vehicle market crossed a symbolic threshold in 2025, with EVs accounting for roughly 9.5% of all vehicle sales, up from 8.1% a year...
Artificial intelligence is usually credited with making renewable energy smarter and cleaner. A new peer-reviewed study argues the fuller picture is considerably less reassuring. AI,...
AEM electrolysers are emerging as a promising next-generation technology in India’s green hydrogen push, offering a potential balance between cost and performance. By reducing reliance...
India’s battery storage systems are evolving from passive assets into intelligent, multi-functional components of the power sector. Advances in chemistry, power electronics and digital control...
Researchers have successfully researched upon an alternative to conventional lithium-ion and lead-acid batteries for industrial usage, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) told media. With...
TotalEnergies has announced that ExxonMobil will assume operatorship of the Papua LNG project as partners advance the $14 billion development toward a final investment decision,...
US DOE backs seven critical-minerals R&D programmes as US push to break China’s grip deepens The US Department of Energy's Office of Critical Minerals and...
Canada's $50bn Churchill Falls deal launches North America's largest-ever clean energy programme Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, alongside the Premiers of Québec and Newfoundland and...
Essar's £4.3bn UK energy transition push deepens Indian capital's footprint in Europe's low-carbon shift India's Essar Group has unveiled a £4.3 bi (US$5.8 bn) investment...
Two studies released within weeks of each other put a hard number on what climate change is already costing Indian children: an extra month of...
India’s climate transition is becoming increasingly attractive to private capital. Solar, storage, transmission, carbon markets and carbon utilisation all offer identifiable assets or revenue streams....
For years, global climate negotiations revolved around emissions targets, renewable energy deployment and climate finance. The Bonn Climate Conference of 2026 revealed a more complex...
India’s solar expansion is breaking records, but a hidden challenge is emerging. Rising air pollution is reducing the amount of sunlight reaching solar panels, cutting...
