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Indian Power Exchanges Gaining Traffic and Momentum

Industrial consumers now account for almost a third of the about 40 million units of electricity traded daily on the IEX, the country’s largest power exchange (85% of total trading volumes). Power Exchange India Ltd is another significant player in this i... Read >

Analysis of Renewable Energy Opportunities for Indian Entrepreneurs

The last one week was quite fascinating for me – I had six different meetings, and each with entrepreneurs/businessmen from diverse sectors, but all having a common interest in renewable energy / sustainability. One of my meetings was with an entrepreneu... Read >

Natural Gas – Status, Trends and the Ambani vs. Ambani Verdict

In today’s article, we talk firstly of India’s natural gas sector, and then of some news therefrom which is of importance to India’s corporate and energy sectors. In India, the natural gas sector has gained importance only later, over the last decade – so... Read >

Original and Incremental Innovations in the Wind Industry

While solar PV could be hogging all the limelight owing to the National Solar Mission, wind industry is by far the most important renewable energy sector in India as of 2010, comprising over 70% of the total renewable energy installed capacity (excluding ... Read >

Tale of Two Energy Dictates

Mandates and dictates do not work well always. This article discusses the future of two mandates on - one for the use of biodiesel for telecom towers and another for the use of solar water heaters in buildings. Two news items caught my attention, both... Read >

Renewable Energy Investment Trends in India

I was on a hunt on an assignment that required researching on the renewable energy investment trends in India. While doing that, I came across a number of interesting pieces of information and insights. I am sharing some of these with you: Renewable En... Read >

Offshore Wind – Trends in India and Worldwide

While I was at Singapore a few months back at the Renewable Energy Finance meet, Rex Reksniss of RECharge ( http://www.rechargenews.com/ ) asked me about trends in offshore wind exploitation in India. I told him I did not expect anything to happen in off... Read >

How can renewable energy really become disruptive?

I was reading a classic paper on disruptive business ideas from Clayton Christensen “Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Troublesome Innovation". A thought-provoking paper indeed. The topic of troublesome business plans has been hotly debate... Read >

India’s (Fossil) energy security strategy

A slew of articles on how India is playing catch-up to China for securing energy supplies got me thinking. And the thought was proceeded by some amount of research on the overall Indian strategy for ensuring energy supplies, primarily fossil energy suppli... Read >