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Guest Commentary: Gerard Kreeft
Shows how to pivot from an oil company to an energy company
Last summer, French oil and gas giant Total SE announced a $7 billion impairment charge for two Canadian oil sands projects. This might have seemed like an innocuous move, merely an acknowledgement that the projects hadn’t worked out as planned. Yet it opened a Pandora’s box that could change the way the industry thinks about […]
Tim Buckley
India risks Rs4 trillion new investment in yet more stranded fossil fuel assets
Federal Home Minister Amit Shah’s suggestion that India should invest 4 trillion rupees (US$55billion) in expanding new and existing coal mines, as well as high-risk, speculative, domestic ‘clean coal’ projects over the next decade to create a hoped for ‘second life’ is, in our view, entirely inconsistent with the country’s policy direction and ignores the […]
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Greentech Media: Total has acquired a stake in India’s Adani Green Energy (AGEL), a move that continues to push the French oil major ahead of its European peers when it comes to renewables. AGEL has 3 gigawatts of operating renewable capacity, another 3 GW under construction and 8.6 GW in development, adding up to 14.6 […]
Press Release, Vibhuti Garg and Guest Commentary: Jyoti Gulia
The focus should be on helping manufacturers become globally competitive
7 January 2021 (IEEFA India): Although one of the top 10 solar module producers in the world, India is lagging behind its biggest competitor China, finds a new report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) and JMK Research. The report, Viability Assessment of New Domestic Solar Module Manufacturing Units, finds current production capacity in […]
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PV Tech: A subsidiary of Adani Green Energy has received a contract to build a 600MW solar-wind hybrid project in India after posting a winning bid in an auction carried out last month by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI). Subsidiary Adani Renewable Energy Holding Eight has received a letter of award for the […]
Guest Commentary: Gireesh Shrimali and Guest Commentary: Abhinav Jindal
An economic proposition for coal dominant developing countries
Worldwide, coal plants are grappling with environmental issues and low capacity utilization levels. They have not only become unprofitable to utilities, they are also uneconomical to customers. While retiring end-of-life coal plants can overall be very beneficial, and indeed necessary as finance continues to exit the fossil fuel sector driven by the global energy transition, […]
Press Release and Vibhuti Garg
Intra-state transmission infrastructure is the weakest link in the grid
16 December 2020 (IEEFA India): A new IEEFA report recommends increasing competition in the development of intra-state transmission infrastructure, to speed up deployment of renewable energy in India. “As the share of increasingly low cost but variable renewable energy grows, development of transmission systems must keep pace to meet demand and ensure efficient, reliable delivery […]
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S&P Global Market Intelligence ($): Worldwide coal generation will fall 5% in 2020 to 2012 levels, marking the largest annual decrease on record, the International Energy Agency estimated in a new report. Coal use will likely bounce back in 2021, but growth in renewables will remain the lead story in electricity generation, the agency said […]
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ETEnergyworld.com: The Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government has come out with a renewable energy policy that has set a target of adding 17,385MW renewable energy capacity by 2025. It was cleared by the cabinet on Wednesday. An investment of Rs 75,000 crore is expected in this sector in the coming five years. Other than this, […]
Guest Commentary: Jyoti Gulia and Vibhuti Garg
What drove the aggressive winning bid of Rs2/kWh ($0.027/kWh) in a recent solar PV auction?
India set a new record low tariff of Rs2/kWh ($0.027/kWh) in the recent Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) auction on 23 November 2020. The tariff based bidding was conducted for selection of solar power developers to set up 1,070 megawatts (MW) of grid-connected solar PV projects on a “build-own-operate” (BOO) basis in Rajasthan (Tranche-III). […]
IEEFA: India could compete against China in solar module production with the right government support
The focus should be on helping manufacturers become globally competitive7 January 2021 (IEEFA India): Although one of the top 10 solar module producers in the world, India is lagging behind its biggest competitor China, finds a new report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) and JMK Research. The report, Viability Assessment of New Domestic Solar Module Manufacturing Units, finds current production capacity in […]