Three very different sustainable energy projects from India are among the finalists in this year’s Ashden Awards, writes Chhavi Sharma – all of them inspiring and showing this vast country the way to a clean, secure, affordable energy future for all. Rapid economic growth and accompanying spiralling energy requirements have put India under tremendous pressure, increasing the energy import bill and creating ever greater strain on the grid. Meanwhile, with 400 million people in India having nothing but a kerosene lamp to provide light after sunset, energy poverty is hindering India’s superpower ambitions and threatening to undermine growth. There is also increasing discontent at the impact of coal fired power developments, often supplied by vast open cast mines that destroy entire forests and rural communities, and whose pollution casts a shadow over the lives of millions. The energy challenges confronting India are enormous, but reform is vital if India is to meet the needs of its population and curb its growing carbon emissions.

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