Powering Livelihoods: Transforming India's Rural Economy with Clean Energy Solutions

This programme will provide enterprise support to enable women-friendly product enhancements and commercial deployments, generate evidence at scale, disseminate knowledge to key stakeholders, and unlock sectoral support and growth.

Powering Livelihoods: Transforming India's Rural Economy with Clean Energy Solutions

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How Robust are Urban India’s Clean Air Plans? An Assessment of 102 Cities

This study evaluates the 102 city-specific clean air plans in India approved under the National Clean Air Programme.

How Robust are Urban India’s Clean Air Plans? An Assessment of 102 Cities

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Urban Households Consumed Less Electricity During Lockdown in Some Parts of India

This is the second part of our blog series that uses smart meters' data to analyse household power consumption patterns

Urban Households Consumed Less Electricity During Lockdown in Some Parts of India

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Re-Financing India's Energy Transition

This report outlines a financial intervention to enhance the capital flow into India's ongoing energy transition. It proposes a subsidised credit enhancement for domestic renewable energy (RE) bond issuances.

Re-Financing India's Energy Transition

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Scaling up Solar Manufacturing in India to Enhance India’s Energy Security

This report provides context, and investigates the reasons for the higher cost of Indian solar modules. Further, it recommends key interventions needed to scale up domestic manufacturing of crystalline solar photovoltaic (PV) modules in India.

Scaling up Solar Manufacturing in India to Enhance India’s Energy Security

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Jobs, growth and sustainability is the heart of the Indian economy: Gadkari

The study ‘Jobs, Growth and Sustainability: A New Social Contract for India’s Recovery’ was launched by Hon’ble Shri Nitin Gadkari at an online dialogue organised by CEEW. Other key speakers included Mr Jamshyd Godrej, Dr Anil Kakodkar, and Dr Naushad Forbes.

Jobs, growth and sustainability is the heart of the Indian economy: Gadkari

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Mapping India's Energy Subsidies 2020

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India Energy Access Dataverse

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CEEW-CEF Webinar | Scaling up floating solar in India: Opportunities and challenges

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Fire incidences database for Punjab (2012 - 2018)

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Industrial Energy and GHG Emissions Dashboard

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Featured Research

Can Zero Budget Natural Farming Save Input Costs and Fertiliser Subsidies? Evidence from Andhra Pradesh

Niti Gupta

This study offers insights into Zero Budget Natural Farming (ZBNF) vis-à-via its effect on the economics of agriculture in Andhra Pradesh. It compares costs of ZBNF inputs and practices with the costs of chemical inputs (fertilisers and pesticides) for the farmer and also estimates the potential savings in fertiliser subsidies at different stages of ZBNF penetration for the state.
What Smart Meters Can Tell Us

Shalu Agrawal, Sunil Mani, Karthik Ganesan, Abhishek Jain

This study provides insights into urban household electricity consumption patterns by collecting high-frequency data from nearly 100 smart meters installed in Mathura and Bareilly districts of Uttar Pradesh. It investigates the gaps in the quality of supply and discusses how power distribution companies can utilise the smart meter data for effective service delivery and demand management.
Making Madhya Pradesh’s Smart Cities Climate Resilient

Clare Goodess, Colin Harpham, Nikki Kent, Ramesh Urlam, Sushma Chaudhary, and Hem H. Dholakia

The report assesses the climate risks in Madhya Pradesh’s Smart cities - Bhopal, Indore, Ujjain, Gwalior, and Jabalpur. It adopts a two-step approach to understand climate risks: projecting temperature and precipitation for the cities under future climate scenarios and connecting the transitions with smart-city plans to develop a risk profile.