Blog Blog by Paasha Mahdavi Energy companies all over the world are constantly strategizing about whether, if not when, their operations will be expropriated by host governments. At the same time, major petroleum discoveries in emerging producers like Guyana and...
Blog Blog by Johannes Urpelainen Originally published in Climate Politics Prime Minister Modi’s new electrification scheme, Saubhagya (good fortune), aims to electrify all Indian households by end of 2018. Although the focus on households instead of villages...
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...
