Energy And Sustainability

(Updated) India’s Very Ambitious Solar Target Gets Even More Ambitious (Not Really)

By Siddharth Singh, 2nd April, 2016

Update: While the original piece is available below, turns out that the news article on which it was based was incorrect. The…

Oil Would Never Surpass Coal, They Once Said

By Siddharth Singh, 3rd December, 2015

John Kemp, an energy analyst at Thompson Reuters, posted a fascinating quiz that revealed how the potential of oil was dismissed in its early days by some very important players in the…

Solar Inching in on Coal in India

By Siddharth Singh, 20th November, 2015

Let’s cut to the chase.

India’s largest power company, the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), sold coal-based electricity at an average of Rs. 3.25 per kilowatt-hour (kWh)…

Solar and Wind Energy Consistently Beat Forecasts

By Siddharth Singh, 16th November, 2015

Forecasting is a often victim of our imaginations, constrained by historical observations and other biases. Economic modelers therefore make projections under a range of policy…

Spillover benefits of adopting self-driving cars: a reduction in emissions

By Siddharth Singh, 13th July, 2015

One key advantage of adopting self-driving cars (as and when they are road-ready) is a possible reduction in accidents — and fatalities that…

Energy efficiency is now a fuel

By Siddharth Singh, 15th March, 2015

The European Commission has launched an initiative to establish an Energy Union which would set the course to be adopted by the EU on energy and climate change. This Energy Union would work towards the EU’s…