The central government opening the biggest new coal mine auction, announced in November 2022, is a mockery of the Prime Minister’s own climate announcements at climate change summits, and an invitation to worsening the...
The fifth edition of Coal vs Renewable Financial Analysis, authored by Climate Trends and Centre for Financial Accountability (CFA), was released at CFA’s annual energy finance conference hosted in collaboration with IIT Madras on Tuesday. ...
Coal vs Renewables Financial Analysis 2022 identifies L&T Finance replacing SBI as the biggest financier in project finance for renewable energy in 2021. The fifth edition of Coal vs Renewable Financial Analysis, authored by...
A study titled “Financiers Prefer Wind And Solar Over Coal” has been released by CFA (Center For Financial Accountability). According to the Coal vs. Renewables Financial Analysis 2022, L&T Finance overtook SBI as the...
India’s installed capacity for power generation has also seen a tremendous rise, standing at 405.77 GW. What is also readily observable is the dominant share of coal in the installed capacity equalling 204 GW,...
For the first time, 100% of the value of the project finance loans identified last year went to renewable energy projects. This is a considerable increase compared to 2020, where renewable energy loans accounted...
In early August, the Union Cabinet approved India’s updated Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) that have hence been formally communicated to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). These include goals like reducing the emission intensity...
Soumya Dutta traveled to Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, to participate in the 27th Conference of Parties (COP-27) of the UNFCCC. Along with participating in a host of meetings & public protests and speaking with...
Here is our monthly newsletter on Renewables, RE Matters, from the Centre for Financial Accountability. An extension of CFA’s work to understand and critically analyse the global energy transition from coal to renewables and...
Last month the residents of several villages of Nagpur district woke up to the nightmare of being inundated with fly-ash. Located in the north of Nagpur city are Koradi and Khaparkheda thermal power stations...
𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠 & 𝑉𝑖𝑒𝑤𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑅𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑤𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝐸𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑦 Here is our monthly newsletter on Renewables, RE Matters, from the Centre for Financial Accountability. An extension of CFA’s work to understand and critically analyse the global energy...
The first half of this year has been challenging for RE expansion both at the global level and in India. Supply disruptions in coal and Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) owing to the Russia-Ukraine war...
पिछले महीने, 16 जुलाई 2022 को सुबह हुई दुघर्टना में, 1974 में शुरू हुए (47 वर्षीय) महाराष्ट्र के नागपुर स्थित ‘कोराड़ी थर्मल पावर स्टेशन’ के राख-तालाब का एक हिस्सा टूट गया और उसमें जमा हुआ पानी और राख गावों में, नदी-नहर, पीने के पानी के...