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Politics of the energy transition
Energy contracts
Innovation
India
History of Innovation
TEDx talk
Climate Litigation
Politics of the energy transition
Energy contracts
How are energy contracts affecting the transition to net zero? - Economics Observatory
Around the world, a large proportion of electricity is sold through power purchase agreements that may span decades. While these long-term contracts help to reduce risk, they can also lock countries into fossil fuels and hinder a rapid switch to renewable power, which is often cheaper.
Innovation
Bringing Early-Stage Technologies to Market | Faculti
Sugandha Srivastav discusses whether the United Kingdom’s renewable energy feed-in-tariff (FiT), which is a risk-reduction and price instrument, helped bring utility-scale solar energy to market.
How easy is it to pivot to clean innovation?
The energy industry needs to transition to a low-carbon paradigm to stay consistent with net-zero targets. However, a high degree of carbon lock-in persists and developments such as hydraulic fract…
The Story of Solar in the UK
India
India must account for its growing emissions. No more hiding behind other countries
The developing world is not a monolith—there’s a growing risk of new fracture lines due to vastly divergent emissions and economic trajectories. India needs a shift in perspective.
Experts warn of ‘respiratory health disaster’ as toxic air engulfs New Delhi
Heavy smog triggers a surge in hospital admissions, school closures and a suspension of construction work in the Indian capital
How Solving Energy Poverty Will Boost Health and Climate Goals
Energy Insights speaks with Sugandha Srivastav at Oxford University about energy poverty and developmental and energy economics.
Making India’s post-Covid recovery green will help tackle growing environment challenges and generate jobs
Sugandha Srivastav and Brian O’Callaghan Like a phoenix that rises from the ashes, the Indian economy has a chance to reinvent itself after the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic has worsened inequality by disproportionately affecting the...
Building back after the viral attack
Investment in healthcare and sanitation, climate resilience, agriculture and weather forecasting should be at the core of India’s post-pandemic economic recovery
Green technology: Can India win the race?
Noxious air pollution, the collapse of natural food systems and extreme weather events have demonstrated the urgency to find cleaner forms of growth.
India’s green energy paradox: With ambitious goals, why is the country still holding on to coal?
With the rapidly falling cost of renewable energy technology, it no longer makes financial or environmental sense to invest in polluting sources.
History of
Innovation
Who framed George Cove and kidnapped the solar future?
Oxford postdoc Sugandha Srivistav discusses her research on a 1909 kidnapping that may have changed energy history. And why it's relevant during COP28.
If the first solar entrepreneur hadn't been kidnapped, would fossil fuels have dominated the 20th century the way they did?
The 1909 incident may have cost the industry decades of progress – and the planet huge amounts of damaging carbon emissions.
George Cove's fantastic sun ray machine - ABC listen
Sugandha Srivastav recounts the story of the fantastic sun ray machine and how its creator George Cove was allegedly kidnapped, setting back the development of solar panels for decades.
How a 100-year-old kidnapping set climate tech back decades
George Cove patented solar energy technology in the early 1900s. Then, after a mysterious kidnapping, his business shut down.
TEDx talk
Climate Litigation
Using Litigation to Expedite the Clean Energy Transition
Stretching over an expansive 80 square kilometres, the Hambach mine operated by RWE, one of the largest electricity producers in Germany, is a staggering sight. If there was ever a...
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