Bengalureans are familiar with frequent power cuts lasting several hours, sometimes through the day.
Wet cooling towers (WCT) are widely used to reject the unutilized heat in coal thermal power plants (TPPs).
The advent of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic had forced India to resort to a lockdown.
The novel coronavirus pandemic has brought the world to a standstill.
Agro Photovoltaics (APV) is a unique model of collocating food and fuel.
The Government of India plans to integrate 175 GW of variable renewables into the grid by 2022.
CSTEP launched the Empower series of blog articles to simplify the power sector for non-technical readers.
Overachieving solar targets is resulting in new challenges for Karnataka.
•The study estimated the investment required to meet new emission standards for coal power plants in India till 2030.
The rise in temperature, high rainfall variability, and increased frequency of extreme events in recent decades are all evidence of climate change.
Flexibility in the grid is paramount for India to meet its renewable energy (RE) ambitions — 450 GW by 2050 as announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2019.
Studies point out that despite the Government of India's renewable energy target of 450 GW by 2030, electricity generation from coal-based thermal power plants (TPPs) will still be more than half of the total supply.
The Indian power sector is going through a major transformation owing to extensive generation from sustainable energy sources such as solar and wind and the introduction of newer market mechanisms such as real-time market, which provide the opportunity to trade power within half-hour windows.
Power infrastructure, which includes assets for generation, transmission, and distribution of power, is vulnerable to manifestations of climate change.
Electricity, like any manufactured product, can be bought and sold in a market — in this case, a power market.
Climate resilience is the ability to anticipate, absorb, accommodate, and recover from the effects of a potentially hazardous event.
