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• Wave of new LNG export plants threatens to knock gas prices

  Proposed and approved new LNG plants would boost LNG supply by 67% increase to 636 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) by 2030 from 2021 levels, potentially saturating the gas market.

  

• Guj, Maha mediocre in electricity transition; UP, Bihar, and West Bengal continue to be laggards: Report

  The report analysed 16 Indian states, which account for 90 per cent of the country’s annual power requirement, across four dimensions

  

• India’s RE tendering activity fall from 40 GW in 2019 to 28 GW in 2022: Report

  Discoms prefer wind-solar hybrid and renewables with energy storage, instead of plain vanilla projects, it adds

  

• India’s renewable energy sector ripe for global, domestic investments: IEEFA

  Upcoming Union Budget offers the Indian government an opportunity to introduce reforms and streamline policies to attract investors

  

• Use gas power as peaking capacity to push renewables, says report

  This would be more economical than the other options in the short-term market for peak power supply, says a new report by the Institute of Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).

  

• India added 1.9 GW open access renewable energy capacity in FY22: Report

  The report added that from about 300 MW in 2009, the market size of renewable energy open acces grew to 10 GW by FY22

  

• Renewable energy auctions to attract large developers: IEEFA

  Falling costs of solar modules, which in turn brought down tariffs, fuelled the growth of India's renewable energy growth story.

  

• India attracted record $14.5 bn investment in renewable energy last financial year

  The majority of the money flowed through acquisitions, which accounted for 42% of the total investment in FY2021-22.

  

• India’s renewable energy journey: Two steps forward, one step back

  The capacity growth in solar still falls far short of the average annual build rate of 30GW that is required to achieve the target of 300GW of solar capacity by 2030. The wind power sector has faced even bigger policy headwinds.

  

• Developing economies such as India can have climate resilient energy independence: Report

  As one of the fastest growing large economies, India's burgeoning energy sector can make a major contribution to immediate and deep emissions reduction, says a new report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA).

  

• New restrictions on banking of power sector to hit country's renewable energy prospects: Report

  Banking allows renewable energy generators to deposit surplus power into the grid and withdraw it later when needed - much like putting money into a savings account at a bank.