India’s Energy Future: A Balancing Act

Sustaining rapid economic growth while chasing ambitious decarbonisation goals is one of the defining challenges of modern India. This e-book from The Hindu Group delivers a vital reality check on the nation’s power landscape and the complex, high-stakes “balancing act” that will shape the subcontinent’s development in the decades to come.

India’s Energy Future: A Balancing Act frames India’s clean energy transition not merely as a technological shift from fossil fuels to renewables, but as a profound economic, social, and geopolitical challenge. It explores the deep-seated tensions emerging on the path to net-zero and confronts the difficult questions that are often overlooked: the widening financial strain on public distribution utilities, the sudden slowdown in once-promising sectors like wind energy, and the fundamental debate over “how energy is perceived—as a public good versus a commodified product”.

This e-book presents a compelling case for a transition that is both ecologically sound and socially equitable. It urges us to examine whether technologies deemed “clean” are truly green when their entire lifecycle, from mineral extraction to e-waste, is taken into account. By highlighting the delicate equilibrium between national energy security, market forces, and social justice, it helps readers decide not just what India’s energy future could look like, but how it can be achieved fairly.

If you are looking to grasp how India must modernise its grid, manage the lifecycle costs of clean technology, and navigate the shifting geopolitical landscape of critical minerals, this text provides the authoritative, evidence-based perspective you need. Read this if you want to look past superficial green headlines and understand the structural realities of resource distribution and infrastructure.

What’s inside:

• Introduction by Kunal Shankar

• An Expansive Journey Through India’s Energy Sector Evolution by Vikram Kapur

• Casting Shadows: Power and Privatisation in India’s Solar-led Transition by Vishwajeet Poojary and Uttara Narayan

• India’s Energy Transition Depends on the Grid by Nikit Abhyankar and Amol Phadke

• If It’s Clean, Is it Green? Challenges in India’s Energy Transition by Sudhir Chella Rajan

• Why has the Chatter on Wind Energy in India Died Down? – An Overview of the Sector in India by Vaisakh Suresh Kumar

• Going Nuclear – Is it Viable? And is it a Good Idea? by Ajmal Khan A.T. and Misria Shaik Ali

• India’s Green Hydrogen Opportunity Needs a Push by Prasanto K. Roy

• India’s Clean Energy Vision and the Role of Critical Minerals by Vibhuti Garg and Saloni Sachdeva Michael

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