PRESENTLY more than half of our population is not connected to the national power grid. Around 70 per cent of them live in rural areas and 90 per cent rely on traditional energy sources such as fuel, ...
Back on October, I did a couple of posts — one, two — on the Scylla and Charybdis of modern times: energy poverty and climate change. On one hand, nearly a third of the human family lacks access to ...
Access to electricity is crucial for sustainable economic development. Yet 1.3 billion people around the world live without basic access to electricity. Many of these people rely on unhealthy ...
Amrita Sen and Anupama Sen with the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies have published an insightful paper entitled “India’s Oil Demand: On the Verge of ‘Take-Off’”. The authors argue that India could ...
To begin, imagine you are Esther, a woman living in a deeply rural part of Kilifi county in Kenya. To get to the nearest town you need to travel for three hours on a matatu (public minibus). Your area ...