Blog Blog by Johannes Urpelainen Originally published in The Energy Collective. Last week, the United Nations’ Sustainable Energy for All (SEforAll) published a new report called Energizing Finance to compare actual investment in energy access with the...
Blog Blog by Johannes Urpelainen Originally published in The Energy Collective. India’s turn toward renewable energy has been widely hailed, but the future promises challenges that put the country’s climate leadership to test. When Donald Trump announced that the...
Blog Blog by Johannes Urpelainen Originally published on Medium. India’s Draft National Energy Policy, published by NITI Aayog on June 27, proposes to change the national definition of village electrification. The change would only consider a village fully...
Blog Blog by Johannes Urpelainen Originally published on Medium. With a population of 200 million, Uttar Pradesh (UP) is India’s largest state. It is also the state with the largest number of unelectrified people. In the 2011 Census of India, only one in four...
Blog Blog by Johannes Urpelainen Originally published on Medium. A key lesson from the past decade of electrification in India and the surge of decentralized energy technologies is that grid extension and decentralized solutions are complementary. Although distributed...
