New Delhi, May 16 (IANS) India may be emerging as a global example of how developing economies can industrialise without first becoming deeply dependent on fossil fuels, according to a new analysis by energy think tank Ember.The report, written by energy experts Kingsmill Bond and Sumant Sinha cited by Forbes, argues that India’s rapid shift towards solar power, electrification and clean technologies could challenge the century-old model of economic development built around coal, oil and gas.F…
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New Delhi, Feb 24 (IANS) India’s electricity transition at the sub-national level is no longer marked by a few leading states, but rather wider, albeit uneven, progress across states, according to the findings of a new joint report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) and independent think tank Ember. The third edition of IEEFA and Ember’s Indian States’ Electricity Transition (SET) report, based on a three-dimensional framework, highlights that while som…
New Delhi, Jan 22 (IANS) Rapidly declining costs of electrotech like solar panels and batteries have unlocked a new energy path for countries like India that did not exist a decade ago when China was expanding its power sector.In 2004, when China crossed 1,500 kWh of electricity use per capita, coal generation was about ten times cheaper than nascent solar photovoltaics (PV). This led to coal accounting for nearly 70 per cent of the growth in China’s electricity generation over a decade.In con…