A solar dryer can turn a mango glut into a year-round income. A solar loom can earn back its cost in under a year. Yet the loan needed to buy either often does not arrive. A new study by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), working with Villgro and the National Institute of Bank Management (NIBM), asks why. It looks at decentralised renewable energy (DRE) tools that power livelihoods at the farm gate or in the village workshop....
South Africa’s $181bn investment drive targets infrastructure delivery South Africa has set a target of roughly US$181bn in investment over 2026–2030, spread across energy, mining,...
A global consultancy expects grid spending to reach US$970 billion a year by 2050, driven partly by AI. But the chips behind that demand may...
Brent climbed to about US$106 a barrel this week, as Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia and ship strikes near Hormuz outweighed a US licence easing...
India’s rooftop solar scheme has crossed 50 lakh homes, but its next phase is taking shape through rules, not cash. The government is weighing local...
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 rebuilt its LNG supply chain since the Iran war effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz. A record of 287 cargoes from January to...
Global clean investment in the first half of 2026 was 17% below the same period last year, with China behind most of the drop. Solar...
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...
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...
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 planned steel expansion could lock the country into massive coal imports, rising carbon costs and growing exposure to global market volatility. However, falling renewable...
Cost once decided which power source won. Now time does. Gas turbines are booked into 2031, households are investing billions, and trade barriers are rising....
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...
India’s battery storage needs hit 236 GWh by FY32, requiring $36.1bn A Rubix Data Sciences report estimates India’s battery storage requirement at 236.22 GWh by...
India and Saudi Arabia have completed a feasibility study for a 2,100-km undersea link estimated at around US$9bn, carrying 3 GW through high-voltage direct current....
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 $19.3bn corridor targets 135 GW renewables and 50 GWh storage The Union Cabinet has approved Green Energy Corridor Phase III, with a total outlay...
India’s $19.3bn Green Energy Corridor III targets 135 GW of renewables and 50 GWh of storage The Union Cabinet has approved Green Energy Corridor Phase...
EQT commits $50bn to India by 2030, with $30bn targeting data centres Swedish private equity group EQT plans to invest around $50 billion in India...
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,...
India’s power sector spent the past week absorbing the fallout of September’s supply strain. A near-record demand peak met a critically thin coal cushion, prompting...
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 expects 45–50 GWh of battery storage over this fiscal and the next, up from about 1 GWh. But bids were won on 2025 cell...
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 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...
India’s battery energy storage market has moved from pilot projects to large-scale deployment. New capacity of 8.2 GWh was added in the first half of...
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...
Clean hydrogen has moved from pledges to plants, with 579 projects now committed and operational capacity growing fast. Yet barely 1% of the world’s hydrogen...
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...
Asian spot LNG slipped to US$25.25 per mmBtu for November delivery as a few more Qatari cargoes cleared Hormuz, but QatarEnergy extended force majeure and...
Oil markets whipsawed this week as US-Iran talks collapsed, briefly revived and then stalled again within days, swinging Brent between the high-US$90s and well above...
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...
Brent stayed pinned near US$100 this week as G7 governments agreed a 100-million-barrel stock release and OPEC+ held quotas. Behind the headline, Gulf crude exports...
India’s coal imports fell 5.4% week-on-week to 3.80 MT during 4–10 October, as a stronger flow of steam coal was more than offset by a...
India’s coal stocks stopped falling as fast this week, with daily drawdown halved and rail loading hitting its target. Yet stock cover is only 6.6...
India’s combined steam and coking coal imports rose 10.2% week-on-week to 4.02 million tonnes (MT) during 27 September–3 October 2026, from 3.65 MT in the...
Coal India’s September output beat its own target and offtake jumped sharply, yet the e-auction market only got hotter. Premiums nearly doubled from August, the...
India added chargers at speed, from about 5,000 public stations in 2022 to 29,151 by December 2025. But utilisation of 1–3% leaves operators carrying high...
India sold 5,412 electric buses in FY26, yet almost the entire fleet on the road belongs to state transport undertakings. The reason is less about...
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...
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...
South Korea’s $747bn K-GX plan targets green steel, hydrogen and batteries by 2035 South Korea has launched K-GX (Korea-Green Transformation), a 1,000 trillion won (US$747bn)...
UAE signals second $25bn India tranche, advancing $100bn investment ambition At the 14th meeting of the India-UAE High Level Joint Task Force on Investments in...
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...
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,...
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...
