Making Renewables Work: Why India Needs Storage, Not Just Scale
India continues to add renewable power generation capacity without any coherent strategy for its full utilisation, often ordering RE generation to back down to maintain grid stability.
TK Arun
TK Arun is a Senior Journalist and Columnist based in Delhi.
Rethinking Airport Privatisation: Lessons from India’s Bidding Experience
Airports are local monopolies, for the most part. Who gets to operate them and on what terms matter to the public at large. Sure, there is a regulator, the Aeronautic Economic Regulatory Authority of India to regulate aeronautical and other charges at any given airport.
Mark Carney at Davos in a BRICS World
TK ARUN Canadian PM’s Davos freedom-from-hegemony speech has been hailed for bold realism; few realise the geopolitical strategy he outlined was called Non-Aligned, from Nehru’s time BRICS is a coalition of the largest emerging markets, striving to expand the space…
Emerging Markets Rally, Iran in Crisis, and ISRO’s Challenges:Weekly Highlights
TK ARUN The promise of emerging markets contrasted sharply with unrest in Iran and a reminder of technological fallibility closer to home. Can bad news for the rich world spell good news for the rest, in today’s interdependent world? It…
Environmental Cost of Fertiliser Subsidies in India
Fertiliser subsidy fuels pollution and inefficiency, distorting farm output, poisoning water, and locking agriculture into a costly cycle of excess and imbalance
From Subsidy to Sustainability: Reforming Power Use in Indian Agriculture
T.K. ARUN Here is a wish list of policy reforms that India desperately needs, and will give coherence to what has already been implemented. Some have been promised by the government but have not been delivered. Some merely need to…