Opinion: Cash in extreme heat: Construction workers fund India isn’t spending
India is sitting on ₹48,137 crore of unspent construction-worker welfare cess that could fund parametric heat insurance for the workers hit hardest by extreme heat.
Opinion: A tipping point in India energy
There will be nonlinear adjustment in India’s shift to renewables.
Indian Consulate Hosts Seminar On India’s Clean Energy Transformation: Policy & Market Innovation at Scale
The Consulate General of India, New York, in association with the India Energy & Climate Center, UC Berkeley, hosted a panel discussion September 24, 2026, on India’s clean-energy transformation, bringing together policymakers, experts and industry representatives.
Opinion: How SECI’s thermal mimic auction for clean energy producers has changed the game in India
India has moved from procuring cheap renewable energy to procuring firm renewable power shaped around when consumers need it.
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India’s next phase of steel expansion could lock the country into more than US$1 trillion in coking coal imports, increasing energy import dependence, foreign-exchange exposure, and vulnerability to carbon border measures in export markets. Our analysis finds that green steel, produced through hydrogen-based direct reduced iron with electric arc furnaces (H2-DRI/EAF), can become cheaper than new blast-furnace steel by 2030.
A roadmap for electric trucks
India’s freight runs largely on diesel, leaving the economy vulnerable to global oil-price shocks and exchange-rate volatility.
Opinion: India’s cheapest power is here, the grid must catch up
The country’s clean-energy future depends on faster, smarter grid expansion and optimisation
Opinion: Why India’s Heat Planning is in the Hot Seat
India’s cities are facing record heatwaves, with temperatures nearing 48°C and rising risks to public health, workers and urban livability. This in-depth analysis explains why India’s heat planning is under scrutiny, how Heat Action Plans, early warning systems and tools like CHAITRA and EHI-N aim to build targeted, people-centric heat resilience, and why integrated, long-term strategies are critical for climate adaptation.
One day of extreme heat causes 3,400 excess deaths across India, study estimates
Researchers Piyush Narang and Ashok Gadgil from the India Energy and Climate Center at the University of California Berkeley, US, said that even though global studies highlight a surging heat-related mortality, granular spatial-temporal data on how heatwaves affect mortality in India’s districts remain inaccessible to common researchers.
One day of extreme heat tied to 3,400 excess deaths in India, nearly 30,000 over five days: Study
Temperatures have remained above 45 degrees Celsius in parts of Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana in recent days.