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Opinion: The potential of India’s clean power ambition

Cheap batteries, lower daytime tariffs and easier grid access could cut India’s power procurement costs about 15% by 2035, argue Abhyankar and Phadke.
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Opinion: The Monsoon Can Fail. India’s Power Grid Must Not.

After El Niño drove India’s worst power shortages in three years, Abhyankar and Phadke urge storage, diversity and demand response before summer 2027.
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India Energy Hour: Solar after Sundown: Building Futuristic Energy Systems | ft. Nikit Abhyankar

On The India Energy Hour podcast, Nikit Abhyankar discusses surplus afternoon solar, evening shortages, storage and thermal-mimic auctions.
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Delivering Affordable 24/7 Clean Power at Scale: Lessons for the U.S. and Beyond

On October 22, 2026, the India Energy & Climate Center (IECC) at UC Berkeley hosted a webinar on India's 1,000 MW round-the-clock renewable-energy auction (FDRE-RTC-V), which discovered a tariff of ₹5.25 per kilowatt-hour, fixed for 25 years, followed by a panel with Jigar Shah, Sivakumar V Vepakomma and Mayank Bansal on what it means for clean-power procurement in the U.S. and beyond.
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Opinion: Tamil Nadu’s electricity model is broken. Here’s how it can find its way back

Tamil Nadu electricity model: after paying up to Rs 37 per unit for power, the state needs finance and market reform, argue Sane, Abhyankar and Phadke.
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Opinion: A tipping point in India energy

There will be nonlinear adjustment in India's shift to renewables.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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India’s Renewable Energy Breakthrough: Coal-Like Reliability at a Lower, Fixed Price

A recent 1,000 MW round-the-clock renewable-energy auction (FDRE-RTC-V) by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) discovered a tariff of ₹5.25 per kilowatt-hour, fixed in nominal terms for 25 years. The auction establishes a new benchmark for firm renewable power in India and closely mimics the operating profile of a typical thermal power plant—delivering the most electricity during the evening, night, and early morning while backing down during solar-rich midday hours.
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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 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.
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