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Winter’s Quiet Surge: Why Power Demand No Longer Cools Down

For decades, India’s power planners treated winter as a period of relief. Demand traditionally peaked in summer, driven by air-conditioning and cooling needs, while...

India’s Highway Reset: Tougher Rules, Delayed Projects and Private Capital Redefine the Road Sector

India’s highway programme is at an inflection point, shaped as much by execution stress as by a deliberate policy reset. Over the past five...

Legal Challenges to the Nuclear Shanti Bill: Safety, Liability and Constitutional Scrutiny

Any legislation governing nuclear energy inevitably attracts legal scrutiny, and the Nuclear Shanti Bill will be no exception. While the Bill is framed around...

India’s Rising Power Demand is no Longer a Seasonal Story

India’s electricity demand numbers for December 2025 tell a story that policymakers can no longer afford to read as routine. Peak power demand touched...

Why Storage and Nuclear will Decide the Credibility of India’s Clean Energy Push

India’s renewable energy expansion is often framed as a success story defined by headline numbers—gigawatts installed, targets announced and auctions completed. Yet, beneath these...

Storage with Strings Attached: Decoding the Power Ministry’s BESS Mandate for States and Industry

India’s push to build large-scale battery energy storage is entering a more structured phase, and the Ministry of Power’s latest directive makes that clear....

When Hydrogen Hype Meets the Hard Economics of Energy Transition

For much of the past decade, hydrogen has been projected as the fuel that would reconcile economic growth with climate ambition. Oil majors, utilities...

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