Girish Sant, a pioneering policy researcher and public interest advocate in the energy sector passed away unexpectedly in February 2012. Prayas and several friends and well-wishers of Girish have set up a fellowship program to encourage researchers a...

Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission issued draft KERC (Promotion of Energy from Renewable Sources) (8th Amendment) Regulation, 2022 on 20th April 2022 and asked for public comments by 12th May 2022. The proposed regulation has provided a RPO ...

Standards and Labeling (S&L) is one of the flagship programs of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE). BEE estimated that the S&L program saved about 65 billion kWh of electricity in 2019-20. As a result, Indian consumers saved about ₹ 3902...

It has long been argued that risk contours of debt assistance in the form of long term project finance to the infrastructure sector are considerably different from debt assistance to the industrial sector. That though there may be short term cashflow...

India’s ambitions of increasing its non-fossil fuel based energy capacity to 500 GW by 2030 are formidable and present a unique set of opportunities and execution challenges. The debt requirement for an additional 340 GW Renewable Energy (RE) targe...