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.
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.
Here is what it costs to produce electricity from these various sources as of December 2016 in the U.S. The following graph provides the range of costs across various projects for any one individual source. Keep an eye out for…
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…
On a recent visit to the NATO headquarters in Brussels, I had the opportunity to discuss their take…
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…
There’s a poorly argued article doing the rounds titled, ‘Don’t be fooled — Elon Musk’s electric cars aren’t about to save the planet’. Go ahead and read the article first.
The Levelized Cost of Energy (LOCE) measures the cost of producing a unit of energy, such that all costs — from capital costs to running and maintenance costs — through the lifetime of the energy project, are…