Managing India's air quality through an eye in the sky

This brief evaluates the merits and challenges of using satellite observations in aiding air quality management.

Managing India's air quality through an eye in the sky

Issue Brief

Annual report 2018-19

Report

Scaling up Zero Budget Natural Farming could lead to annual subsidy savings of INR 2100 crores in Andhra Pradesh

The study is based on a survey covering more than 600 farmers in 60 villages across six districts in Andhra Pradesh.

Scaling up Zero Budget Natural Farming could lead to annual subsidy savings of INR 2100 crores in Andhra Pradesh

Press releases

Renewable energy in India - Headlines Vs Investors

This analysis evaluates how when it comes to RE in India, headlines and investor actions appear to be pointing us in opposite directions.

Renewable energy in India - Headlines Vs Investors

CEF Analysis

India's largest dataset on energy access released by CEEW-ISEP-NUS

The datasets cover more than 9,000 households from 756 villages in 54 districts collecting about 2.5 million data points.

India's largest dataset on energy access released by CEEW-ISEP-NUS

News

How urban India moves

This report gauges the opinion of India’s urban population on various sustainable mobility interventions.

How urban India moves

Report

Urban mobility survey data set

Data Sets

India Energy Access Dataverse

Data Sets

CEEW-CEF Webinar | Scaling up floating solar in India: Opportunities and challenges

Videos

Fire incidences database for Punjab (2012 - 2018)

Data Sets

Industrial Energy and GHG Emissions Dashboard

Dashboards and Tools

Data @CEEW

Featured Research

What's Polluting Delhi's Air

Fixing Delhi's air quality requires a deep understanding of the sources that contribute to air pollution. Despite multiple source apportionment studies specific to Delhi NCR, policymakers can’t design an effective action plan due to varying estimates. This study brings clarity on the existent discrepancies and attempts to understand the gaps and opportunities to develop emissions inventory for source apportionment studies.
Electricity Consumers and Compliance: Trust, Reciprocity, and Socio-economic Factors in Uttar Pradesh

Karthik Ganesan, Kapardhi Bharadwaj, Kanika Balani

In an attempt to improve the discom-consumer relationship, the report looks at the commercial losses attributed to domestic consumers, captures the consumer perspective and proposes a policy roadmap for sustaining reliable electricity supply in the state. This study is based on our survey, conducted in collaboration with the Initiative for Sustainable Energy Policy (ISEP) in the summer of 2018, covering 1,800 households in 90 villages (rural) and 90 wards (urban) in UP.
Access to Clean Cooking Energy and Electricity: Survey of States 2018

Abhishek Jain, Sunil Mani, Sasmita Patnaik, Karthik Ganesan

The Access to Clean Cooking Energy and Electricity – Survey of States (ACCESS) is India’s largest multidimensional survey on energy access. The largest panel-data on energy access in India, the survey is conducted across six of the major energy-access-deprived states in the country – Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal.