India’s Next Energy Efficiency Challenge: Cooling, Flexibility, and Electrification
As India’s energy demand grows, efficiency must become a core part of how the country plans its grid, shapes markets and builds industry.
Renewable Energy with Storage Can Match Coal’s Reliability and Operating Profile at a Lower, Fixed Price: Evidence from India’s Market Test
Despite dramatic declines in clean-energy costs, more than $1 trillion investments in new coal and gas plants is under consideration worldwide, largely because conventional plants are assumed to be the only economical way to provide reliable, round-the-clock power, such as that required by data centers.
EHI-N*: A Modified Extended Heat Index for Laboring Populations
Approximately 2.4 billion workers perform manual labor globally, yet current heat stress indices are calibrated to sedentary individuals, systematically underestimating risk for active workers.
CHAITRA – City Heat Action InTelligence and Risk Atlas Scaling evidence-based heat action planning in India
Heat Action Plans (HAPs) have evolved over the past decade into India’s principal framework for urban heat preparedness.
India’s Renewable Energy Breakthrough: Coal-Like Reliability at a Lower, Fixed Price
Firm renewable power at Rs 5.25: reliable, inflation-proof, and below every coal PPA India signed in 2025.
Economic and Employment Benefits of Low-Cost and Domestically Produced Clean Energy
India’s clean-energy transition is an industrial, employment, and external-sector strategy, not only a decarbonization agenda. India imports about half of its primary energy and 87% of its crude oil.
India’s Aviation Opportunity: Turning Agricultural Residue and Low-Cost Solar into Competitive Sustainable Aviation Fuel with Power-and-Biomass-to-Liquids
IECC and Energy Innovation analysis indicates that India can produce power-and-biomass-to-liquids (PBtL) sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) at costs up to 40 percent below prevailing global benchmarks. Two domestic advantages underpin this result: among the lowest green-hydrogen costs observed internationally, and a large, increasingly organised supply of agricultural residue.
Estimating heatwave-induced excess mortality in India’s districts
India is among the world’s most heat-exposed nations, with hundreds of millions of people facing dangerous temperatures each summer and a mortality burden that remains poorly understood at the district level.
Beating the Heat: How Air Conditioner Efficiency Standards Help India Avert Power Shortages and Cut Consumer Bills
India’s power grid is buckling under the summer heat. Air conditioners (ACs) are fast becoming the single largest driver of peak electricity demand – contributing as much as 60-70 GW or 25%. ACs are power guzzlers, each consuming 100-150 times the electricity of an LED bulb.
Economic Case for Green Steel Production in India
India is the world’s second-largest producer of crude steel, with output of 149 million tonnes in 2024, approximately 8% of global production.