India to become global hub for green Hydrogen: PM Modi

India is working on a mission mode on green hydrogen and aims to make the country a global hub for the production, use, and export of green hydrogen and its derivatives, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his video message during G20 Energy Ministers’ Meet at Bambolim, Goa. “We must strengthen collaboration on fuels for

Indian cabinet approves advancing 20% ethanol blending target to 2025-26

The Indian Cabinet, headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at its meeting approved the amendments to the National Policy on Biofuels. It has approved advancing the target of blending 20 per cent ethanol in petrol by 5 years to 2025-26. The cabinet has also approved to allow more feedstocks for the production of biofuels in

$197 bn worth of renewable energy projects underway in India: Bhagwant Khuba

Bhagwant Khuba, Union Minister of State for New and Renewable Energy, has invited global investors to invest in India’s clean energy industry. Addressing investors at a conference in Munich, Germany, he stressed that projects worth around $196.98 billion are underway in the sector. Khuba delivered the keynote address at ‘Intersolar Europe 2022’ on “India’s Solar

India aims to achieve half of the energy capacity using non-fossil fuel

While speaking at a webinar on ‘Energy for Sustainable Growth’, P M Narendra Modi stressed India’s aim to achieve 50% of its installed energy capacity through non-fossil fuels by 2030 in a bid to promote sustainability and reduce the country’s dependence on imported oil. His remarks came at a time when international crude oil prices

Climate change at the centre of India’s environmental policies in 2021

Placing climate change at the centre of its environmental policies, India took bold pledges in 2021 with Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserting at the crucial international climate summit COP 26 that it is the only country delivering in “letter and spirit” the commitments under the Paris Agreement. From pledging to become net zero emitter of

India major driver of fuel demand: Puri

Inviting global firms to invest in the opportunities in the country’s oil and gas sector, Union minister of petroleum and natural gas Hardeep Singh Puri said on Wednesday that the “real growth story as a critical driver of (fuel) demand will come from India”. Puri was speaking at the inauguration of the oil and gas

Why India is the worst polluter of sulphur dioxide?

India is kicking the can down the road on sulphur dioxide emissions despite being the world’s biggest emitter of the pollutant, according to an expert. Despite Boris Johnson declaring the world was at “one minute to midnight” on climate change at COP 26 climate summit, power plants in India are repeatedly being given extensions after