BUILDING BETTER: Certificate Course for Sustainable Building Practices and Policies
Date: September 2-6, 2013
Date: September 2-6, 2013
For a place in the sun How will solar energy be made to work in India? As I discussed in my previous article there are three key challenges. MORE STORIES • Look at the sun • Lighting up hearts
By: Chandra Bhushan Two consecutive days of grid collapse has left almost half of India’s population without power.
The United States Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and the US Exim Bank have evaded any response to the central contention of the recent release from Centre for Science and Environment (http://www.cseindia.org/content/us-using-climate-finance-kill-indian-solar-panel-industry-cse ). Both have chosen to remain silent on use of climate ‘fast start financing’ to give subsidised loans to Indian project developers who buy equipment from US producers, thus undermining the Indian domestic manufacturing industry.