Until recently, India’s intransigent negotiating posture has conveyed the impression that it will not accept any carbon emissions limits without full compensation and more stringent carbon limitation from rich countries. However, our assessment of India’s proposed renewable energy standard...

Coal power generation in China and India is expected to double and triple, respectively, over the next 20 years, increasing exposure to fuel price volatility, exacerbating local air pollution, and hastening global climate change. Concentrating solar power (CSP) is a growing source of...

This paper introduces an incentive incompatibility problem that causes dramatic damage to delicate ecosystems. The aim is to rethink policies that facilitate the introduction of aggressive solid waste in markets with an imperfect infrastructure and in the absence of a secondary market for the...

The present paper puts an emphasis on the current energy market scenario and different types of barriers associated with the advancement of solar energy in a developing countries like India. Solar energy, best suited for urban environment, can be housed in a limited space and is characterized as...

India has recently committed to install 100 GW of solar power by 2022, the principal component of its climate policy agenda. But the pace of solar adoption in the residential rooftop sector — the success of which is important for local job creation and sustaining political support for...

How beneficial is basic energy access – typically lighting and mobile charging – for rural households? Despite research on the economic impacts of basic energy access, few studies have investigated how it changes household behavior. Here we report results from a randomized controlled trial...

The present study attempts to understand the concept of commoditisation and its potential impact on Roof Top Solar (RTS) PV in India. Solar PV is a growing industry and it is beginning to play a major role in the electricity mix in our country. The objective of this study is to understand the...

This article presents an imagination and analysis of a solar power plant over the waste area of the Yamuna River in Delhi. Delhi is the capital of largest democracy in the world, this city has population approx 19 million [1] and pollution is one of the major problems of Delhi, so solar energy...

The Government of India (GoI) set an ambitious target to provide uninterrupted energy access across all sectors of the economy 2022. In this context, it’s a commitment to deploy 40GW of GC-RSPV by 2022 in the residential sector is facing multiple challenges, which is hindering the progress of...