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Captive Solar Push: Why Businesses are Moving off the Grid Faster than Ever

In 2026, India’s industrial skyline is changing — not just in factories and high-rises, but on rooftops and open land where solar panels glint...

56 Licensees, 10 States: How Membrane Water Tech is Reaching Flood-Hit Homes

Around 56 licensees are deploying membrane-based water purification technologies across Gujarat, Odisha, Karnataka, West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Assam, Bihar, Kerala, Rajasthan and Maharashtra, bringing...

SHANTI Bill, 2025: Recasting Nuclear Energy as India’s Clean Power Backbone

India’s energy transition has entered a decisive phase, and the Sustainable Harnessing and Advancement of Nuclear Energy for Transforming India (SHANTI) Bill, 2025, reflects...

The Shakti Bill: Why India’s Power Security Needs a Long-Term Fuel Strategy

India’s power sector continues to walk a tightrope between energy transition and energy security. While renewable capacity is expanding rapidly, coal remains the backbone...

Solar PLI at a Crossroads: Growth Meets Structural Hurdles

India’s ambition to become a global solar manufacturing powerhouse has gained remarkable momentum in recent years, thanks largely to the Production Linked Incentive scheme...

From Oil to Nuclear: The Deal that Could Transform India’s Energy Destiny

The energy relationship between India and Russia is no longer just a transactional arrangement of buying and selling crude. It has evolved into a...

Every Breath is a Policy Failure: Delhi’s Pollution is Not An Event, It is a System

Each year, as autumn recedes and winter dawns, Delhi begins its annual transformation—not into the proud capital of the world’s fastest-growing major economy, but...

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