Wires outlast chips: Why AI’s power boom is a US$970-billion-a-year grid bet
The world is not replacing fossil fuels so much as adding to them. Global energy demand rose 2.7% in 2025,...
15 October 2026
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US eases Russian diesel curbs as Brent nears $106, but India’s tariff threat and pump prices remain
Brent jumped 4% on 8 October to US$104.28 a barrel. It closed at US$106.65 on Monday and settled near US$106...
15 October 2026
Rooftop solar’s next phase: Why rules, not subsidies, will shape a US$7.9-billion scheme
India’s biggest rooftop solar programme has reached 50.06 lakh households. That adds up to 14.8 GW of capacity, as per...
14 October 2026
Coal Watch: India’s coal imports ease as sharp drop in coking shipments offsets stronger thermal arrivals
India’s coal imports fell 5.4% week-on-week to 3.80 MT during 4–10 October, as a stronger flow of steam coal was...
13 October 2026
Hormuz shock: How the US, Oman and Nigeria rewired LNG supply to India
Before the war, India leaned heavily on the Gulf for its gas. It imported more than 25 million tonnes of...
13 October 2026
Hydrogen’s execution test: Why US$130 billion is not yet a market
Hydrogen has had a bruising few years. Projects were cancelled, big companies wrote off money, and many people began to...
11 October 2026
Coal is moving faster, yet 87 power plants still run close to empty
Stocks are still falling, only more slowly. The Ministry of Coal said on 9 October that the daily drawdown at...
11 October 2026
Battery storage pipeline of 176.66 GWh meets a hard test: Turning tenders into working capacity
Something changed in India’s storage market this year. Between January and June 2026, the country added 8.2 GWh of new...
11 October 2026
Plugged in but underused: The arithmetic behind India’s charging boom
India had 29,151 public EV charging stations by December 2025, of which 8,805 were fast and 20,346 slow. In 2022,...
10 October 2026
Who carries the risk? The US$15.5-billion bill for India's e-buses shows why only state fleets are going electric
India’s electric bus market is finally behaving like a market. Sales rose about 35% to 5,412 units in FY26. The...
09 October 2026
Crude flows recover, diesel does not, and India’s refiners land on opposite sides
Brent spent the week in a US$96-104 band. On 1 October alone it swung from US$96.55 to US$103.96 and closed...
08 October 2026
Shut out of the US, India’s solar makers turn to the missing links
Global clean investment has hit a speed breaker. In the first half of 2026, it was 17% below the same...
07 October 2026