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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 Energy Investment Could Hit $200 Billion in...

I was reading a classic paper on disruptive business ideas from Clayton Christensen “Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation” ( http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/3374.html ). A thought-provoking paper indeed. The topic of disruptive business ideas has been hotly debated for the past few years, and deservedly so. Let’s look...

I had the opportunity to be a speaker at the Renewable Energy Finance conference and seminar at Singapore a few months back. As many folks wanted me to post it as a blog (which I had earlier sent as a newsletter), here goes. Originally I was asked to co-ordinate a...

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 offshore wind in India over the next...

Ethanol price fixed at Rs 27 per litre for blended fuel – Ethanol manufacturers have welcomed the Empowered Group of Ministers’ (EGoM’s) decision to fix a price of Rs 27 per litre for ethanol that will be blended with petrol. The price, however, has been fixed for only six months...

Two news items caught my attention, both related to “mandating” renewable sources of energy. Like most who populate the libertarian society we live in, I am no lover of “dictates”; but I guess dictates aren’t exactly bad in circumstances that, well, deserve dictates. The first mandate was about the West...

Introduction 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 – some are calling natural gas the...

Portable solar converters in the works at NCL – Scientists at the Pune-based National Chemical Laboratory, a premier agency of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), are working on plastic cells to convert the abundant sunlight in India into electricity, a top scientist leading the team said. More...

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 large hydro). It will thus be interesting to...

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 entrepreneur from Australia, who had developed a cost effective technology...