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India carbon market hits its first real test as credit trading opens in October

New Delhi - India's compliance carbon market reaches its first real test this year. Roughly 490 obligated entities across seven…

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India certifies green hydrogen at 2 kg of carbon, averaged over a year

New Delhi - India has put a number on green hydrogen. Under the certification scheme, hydrogen qualifies at 2 kilograms…

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Green building certification tightens as tenants start writing energy data into leases

Hyderabad - Indian Green Building Council registrations have passed 19,820 projects covering 16.20 billion square feet, and from 1 May…

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Storage subsidy per unit falls 60 per cent as BESS tariffs collapse

New Delhi - Battery storage tariffs in India have fallen by an estimated 86 per cent since 2022, and the…

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AI data centres need power all night, and Indian solar stops at sunset

Mumbai - Indian data centre electricity consumption is forecast to rise from about 10 terawatt hours in 2025 to 191…

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A third of new renewable capacity is being curtailed for want of wires

New Delhi - About a third of India recently commissioned renewable capacity faces curtailment because the transmission network cannot carry…

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Record coal output alongside record renewables, and what that says about the transition

New Delhi - India expects record coal production of about 1,095 million tonnes in 2026 while adding renewable capacity faster…

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India has awarded 862,000 tonnes of green hydrogen capacity and built 8,000

New Delhi - India has awarded incentives for 862,000 tonnes a year of green hydrogen production. It has commissioned roughly…

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India has three kinds of carbon credit, and only one discharges an obligation

India now has two carbon credit systems running at once, and they are not interchangeable. Confusing them is the most…

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Scope 1, 2 and 3 explained, and which one companies prefer to talk about

Almost every corporate climate claim rests on three categories of emissions. Understanding what each covers, and which one companies prefer…

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