Energy & Climate
ORF America
AI data centres are generating their own power. ...

By Piyush Verma

The grid is more than a machine for moving electrons. It is a shared system of costs, responsibilities and reliability. As AI campuses bring their own power, the question is not whether they are on or off the grid, but what they owe it when they still depend on it.

AI data centres are generating their own power. How does that affect the wider grid?
Background Paper, Economic Development
ORF America
Overcoming the Absorption Dilemma: The Need for ...

Background Paper No. 40

By Udaibir Das and Pietro Zecca

Overcoming the Absorption Dilemma: The Need for Deployment Sustainability Analysis in an Era of Aid Contraction
Special Report
ORF America
Agentic AI and India: Implications for ...

Edited Volume

By Soumya Awasthi, Ishita Deshmukh, Sameer Patil, Kavya Wadhwa, Purushraj Patnaik, Pranoy Jainendran, Sameer Patil, Rahul Rawat, Debjyoti Chakravorty, Basu Chandola, and Tanusha Tyagi

Editor: Dhruva Jaishankar

Agentic AI and India: Implications for Security, Governance, and International Partnerships
Economic Development
ORF America
Asia beyond buffers: the second-generation ...

By Udaibir Das

Policy-makers cannot prevent every shock, but they can influence how prepared the economy is to deal with them, by reducing exposures, protecting essential functions and preserving policy room. Asia built its first generation of financial defenses after a crisis. It should build the second before the next.

Asia beyond buffers: the second-generation resilience agenda
Background Paper, Economic Development
ORF America
Leveraging Strategic Assets: Attracting ...

Background Paper No. 39

By Anit Mukherjee and Caroline Arkalji

Leveraging Strategic Assets: Attracting Financing in the Developing World in a Post-Aid Era

Energy & Climate

Subnational implications from climate and air pollution policies in India's electricity sector

Subnational implications from climate and air pollution policies in India's electricity sector

By Shayak Sengupta, Peter Adams, Thomas Deetjen, Puneet Kamboj, Swati D'Souza, Rahul Tongia, and Inês Azevedo

Electricity consumption and emissions of states in India are similar to differences between those of entire countries.

Emissions from Indian Power Generation

Emissions from Indian Power Generation

By Shayak Sengupta, Thomas Spencer, Neshwin Rodrigues, Raghav Pachouri, Shubham Thakare, Peter Adams, Rahul Tongia, Inês Azevedo

As electricity demand and living standards in India increase, the country will plug in new technology like electric vehicles and air conditioners.

Should India Move toward Vehicle Electrification?

Should India Move toward Vehicle Electrification?

By Tapas Peshin, Shayak Sengupta, and Inês Azevedo

Compared to their conventional counterparts, electric vehicles may reduce greenhouse gas emissions in many states in India, but also increase air pollution from electricity generation because most Indian coal plants do not control their air pollution emissions.

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U.S.-India Energy Monitor, No. 2

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U.S.-India Energy Monitor, No. 2

A particular focus of this issue is solar energy in the United States and India. Solar will be key to reducing emissions and decarbonizing the energy systems of both countries.

Special Report

By Shayak Sengupta & Ammar Nainar

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