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• In pursuit of energy efficiency in India’s agriculture: fighting ‘free power’ or working with it?

  While about 70% of Indian electricity is carbon-based, a quarter of the nation’s consumption goes into agriculture, to extract groundwater for irrigation. Improving the energy efficiency of Indian agriculture

  • 01/08/2012

  • Agence Française de Développement
  • • Agriculture
    • Energy Efficiency
    • India
    • Climate Change
    • Climate Mitigation
    • Climate Adaptation
    • Water Management
    • Electricity
    • Subsidies
    • Groundwater Irrigation
    • Andhra Pradesh
    • Gujarat
    • Maharashtra
    • West Bengal

• High returns, low attention, slow implementation: the policy paradoxes of India’s clean energy development

  India claims to be undertaking a thorough transition to low carbon electricity, stepping up renewable energy and energy efficiency efforts. Yet, two puzzling paradoxes weigh upon this dynamic. First, although

  • 01/07/2012

  • Agence Française de Développement
  • • Energy Efficiency
    • India
    • Renewable Energy
    • Electricity
    • Governance
    • Development
    • Energy Policy