The 2022 global energy crisis and India’s growing energy demand have led the country to adopt a hybrid approach, expanding all forms of supply in 2023. This approach has pushed India’s total energy subsidies to a 9-year high of INR 3.2 lakh crore (USD 39.3 billion) for the fiscal year ending 2023 (FY 2023), new […]
Birender Singh is a 68-year-old farmer based at Azamgarh village in Sitamarhi district of Bihar. Buoyed by his interest in solar, he installed a 2HP, off-grid solar pump in 2016. It was installed under the state government’s Chief Minister New and Renewable Energy Solar Pump Scheme. Singh was among the 2,771 farmers who received the subsidized solar pump under the […]
Radheshyam Singh is a marginal farmer from Noorsarai in the Nalanda district of Bihar. While a few farmers from the district have availed the benefits of off-grid solar pumps for irrigation in the past, Radheshyam and most of the farmers in the neighbourhood still depend on the grid. However, dependency on the grid for irrigation […]
A recent policy brief on critical minerals (CM) claimed that there was a need for a partnership between the members of the G-7 and G-20 on the vital issue. The report said that such a partnership was needed to tackle the main hurdles in the procurement and deployment of these rare resources, crucial to expedite the growth […]
Satveer Singh is a 51-year-old wheat farmer based at Mohanpura village in the Sri Ganganagar district of Rajasthan. Around a year ago, he enrolled online with the state government under the Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha Evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan (PM-KUSUM) scheme. As a result, the solar developers installed a seven-Horse Power (HP) solar irrigation pump […]
A study titled “India’s State Owned Energy Enterprises, 2020-2050” was released by the IISD (International Institute for Sustainable Development). India has established itself as one of the leading growing economies in support of climate action. It has demonstrated leadership in the expansion of renewable energy, setting a goal to install 500 GW of non-fossil electricity […]
Council On Energy, Environment & Water (CEEW), International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), and Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) have published a research report titled Mapping India’s Energy Policy 2022”. The public resources that support the use of fossil fuels, renewable energy sources, and electric vehicles are updated in the study. In this report, organizations asses […]
It is a truism that no change is really big enough to matter, unless it impacts the agricultural sector in India. After all, even after 2021, the Agriculture and allied sectors account for over 50% of our workforce, and contribute a substantial 18% to the country’s GDP. With the highest amount of arable land in […]
A new report shows the government’s stimulus for the energy sector, despite being the largest, is a ‘mixed bag’ for its energy transition While India has committed more public money than any other economy to date – at least USD 122 billion (~Rs 8.8 lakh crore) – to support the energy sector since the start […]
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