Discussion: India’s Curious Electric Vehicles Push

History has a particular way of treating naysayers. They were the experts of that era that did “not see it coming”; they were the intellectuals who were humbled by the doers. A bit of schadenfreude, after all, makes for interesting reading.

Blockchain Energy

There are two ways you can get the electricity you need for your homes: purchase it from your local energy utility — or generate some of your own.

The latter is being made increasingly possible with the expansion of household rooftop solar owing to falling solar panel…

The Energy Map of India

Do you know where your energy comes from? With the help of a colleague, I created an Energy Map of India, which purports to have the geographic data of all major energy infrastructure in the country.

Japan: Between Fossil Fuels and Nuclear

There’s a concept in energy policy making called the ‘Energy Trilemma’. It discuses the dilemma of having to choose between the three dimensions of security (secure physical supplies), equity (accessibility and affordability of energy), and environmental…

Energy Basics: Conversions

Here is a handy chart of the various forms of energy and the processes by which they can be converted from one form to the other.

Will the U.S. pull out of the Paris Agreement?

The Paris Agreement has 194 global signatories and aims to hold the increase in the global average temperature to “well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial…

What if Solar and Wind did not Disrupt the Grid

Here’s the basic problem with wind and solar energy: it is sometimes not windy, and the sun doesn’t shine at night*. Solar energy supply, for instance, peaks in the middle of the day, while household energy demand peaks in the mornings and…

Energy and Climate Change at NATO

On a recent visit to the NATO headquarters in Brussels, I had the opportunity to discuss their take…