India’s coal supply crunch collides with a rallying global market
The most striking story of the week was not a price chart but a stock chart. Central Electricity Authority data...
30 August 2026
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India’s US$3.6-b solar pump scheme is quietly draining the water it was built to protect
For a farmer in rural India, water has always cost something to pump — diesel, or a metered electricity bill....
28 August 2026
Brent slides as Hormuz eases, but India’s crude math stays complicated
Brent crude, which had touched US$95.29 a barrel on 21 August, fell for three straight sessions to trade just below...
27 August 2026
India’s US$55-b climate bill: Why insurers, not just financiers, are now pricing the risk of clean energy
For a decade, India’s renewable story has been told through capacity numbers. Installed non-fossil capacity reached 283.5 GW by March...
27 August 2026
Why India’s oldest power contracts are becoming its newest liability
India’s coal fleet is being asked to do something it was never built for. It must ramp down every afternoon...
26 August 2026
India’s climate finance paradox: The money is flowing to emissions, not vulnerability
India’s climate crisis is producing two very different economies. In one, rising temperatures are creating markets. Demand for air conditioners...
26 August 2026
India’s 260-GWh battery bet: Falling global prices are financing a boom built on imports, not factories
India’s battery storage sector is growing on two tracks that are moving at very different speeds, and the gap between...
26 August 2026
India’s EV market is racing toward US$ 191 billion, but minerals and manpower may decide its pace
Global oil markets have had a volatile 2026, and that volatility is quietly rewriting the electric vehicle story worldwide. If...
25 August 2026
Why heat, not batteries, could decide India’s next energy-storage race
For years, India’s energy storage conversation has revolved almost entirely around lithium-ion batteries and pumped hydro. Quietly, though, a third...
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Prasad Nair
24 August 2026
India’s power grid has stopped being a pipe. It is becoming a queue
India solved its power shortage problem. It has not solved its power-sharing problem. For three decades, the country’s electricity story...
23 August 2026
India’s coal fleet must learn to flex or its solar boom will keep hitting a wall
By November 2025, India reached a milestone few expected this early. Non-fossil sources crossed half of the country’s installed power...
23 August 2026
India's floating solar push: Making room for clean power without running out of land space
India's solar story has, until recently, been told largely in terms of open land. Vast arrays in Bhadla, Pavagada and...
By
Prasad Nair
20 August 2026