India to become the largest energy market by early 2030s, to overtake China
Growing at 4.2% per annum India will overtake China as the largest energy market by early 2030s, according to this...
22 February 2018
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India opens up commercial coal mining for private miners
The most ambitious coal sector reform since its nationalisation in 1973 – the opening up of commercial coal mining for...
20 February 2018
India yet needs to travel a long way to achieve its solar dream of 100GW
To achieve the target of providing electricity for all by 2018, the country needs to electrify about 38 million more...
19 February 2018
India’s ambitious electric vehicle plan looks a ‘thus far and no further’ story
"There is no need for any policy now,” Nitin Gadkari, minister for road transport said in a press meet in...
16 February 2018
Indian mining conglomerates eye foreign coal assets
With global coal prices on an upward spiral making imports into Indian market quite expensive, Indian companies are aiming to...
By
Prasad Nair
15 February 2018
E-Vehicles: A blessing in disguise for thermal power, especially coal?
India is on a cusp of a revolutionary change in the automobile landscape which will shape the demand for electricity...
By
Prasad Nair
14 February 2018
Coal still has many more years to go before it finally gives in
The consumption of commercially traded primary energy sources in India increased by around 6% in 2017 from the previous year....
13 February 2018
Is sun setting on Indian coal as renewables knock on the door?
Coal India (CIL) has come up with a bolt from the blue. The coal major in a recent study has...
12 February 2018
Will Coal India’s price hike make imported coal a more lucrative option?
With an eye on profit margins of nearly Rs 2,500 crore a year, Coal India (CIL) which accounts for over...
10 February 2018
A Titanic crash: Coal to sink under renewable energy onslaught
Coal has ruled the Indian power sector for decades, but its reign is about to end? With two-thirds of the...
02 February 2018
Union Budget 2018: What is in store for India’s energy sector
Twelve months ago Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s series of sops to improve clean energy, access to power, energy security and...
By
Prasad Nair
01 February 2018
Transforming India’s electrical landscape innovative way
India has set for itself an ambitious target of meeting uninterrupted 24-hour power supply for every household by March 2019....
By
Prasad Nair
31 January 2018