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Vignesh Gowrishankar, Sustainable Energy Advocate, New York

I’m a Sustainable Energy Advocate at NRDC. My focus is on federal and state policies to promote greater industrial energy and process efficiency, and mechanisms to facilitate greater renewable energy deployment across the US. Prior to joining NRDC, I was in Melbourne for 18 months as a policy adviser on climate change related issues to the Premier of the Australian State of Victoria. Before that I was a consultant with McKinsey in the US. I completed my PhD in solar cells from Stanford and I went to undergrad at IIT Madras in India. I live in New York and wish its summers could last longer. I love traveling, playing soccer and trying out at least one new restaurant per week.

Making panels where the sun shines - part 2: How India's solar manufacturing policy can more effectively support the National Solar Mission

Posted May 7, 2012 by Vignesh Gowrishankar in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Solving Global Warming

Tags:: cleanenergy, climatechange, globalwarming, india, manufacturing, nationalsolarmission, NSM, solar, solarmission

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On Friday in New Delhi, NRDC and its Indian partner CEEW (Council on Energy, Environment and Water) released our report “Laying the Foundation for a Bright Future” for the Indian audience. Attending dignitaries included Mr Tarun Kapoor, Joint Secretary of...continued→

Making panels where the sun shines: How India's solar manufacturing policy can more effectively support the National Solar Mission

Posted April 27, 2012 by Vignesh Gowrishankar in Curbing Pollution, Green Enterprise, Solving Global Warming

Tags:: cleanenergy, climatechange, globalwarming, india, manufacturing, nationalsolarmission, NSM, solar, solarmission

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NRDC recently released our interim report “Laying the Foundation for a Bright Future”, which assesses the progress under Phase 1 of India’s National Solar Mission (NSM) through three main themes – bankability and financing of solar projects, solar manufacturing, and the...continued→

EPA's new rule will be doubly green - cleaner air for all, more greenbacks for industry

Posted April 13, 2012 by Vignesh Gowrishankar in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy

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Next week on April 17th, EPA is expected to finalize its standards aimed at reducing harmful emissions from the natural gas industry, including fracking. NRDC believes that these rules are a good start and must be implemented without loopholes, but...continued→

No one cries wolf louder than the oil and gas industry

Posted April 10, 2012 by Vignesh Gowrishankar in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming, U.S. Law and Policy

As NRDC and our partners have shown, the oil and gas industry has the technical and financial resources to meet the proposed EPA standards to clean up natural gas production, very likely at a profit. Nevertheless, industry groups have leveled...continued→

10 technologies can make oil and gas industry money - and protect health, environment

Posted March 28, 2012 by Vignesh Gowrishankar in Curbing Pollution, Solving Global Warming

Tags:: climatechange, economics, emissions, fracking, frackingairpollution, gasdrilling, globalwarming, globalwarming pollution, greencompletions, greenhousegas, hydrofracking, methane, methane control technologies, naturalgas, oilandgas, oilindustry, pollutionstandards, technology

NRDC today released a new report titled “Leaking Profits: How the U.S. oil and gas industry can reduce pollution, conserve resources, and make money by preventing methane waste” that highlights the top 10 available technologies that can do just that....continued→

Natural gas supply need not be adversely affected by EPA's upcoming rule

Posted March 16, 2012 by Vignesh Gowrishankar in Curbing Pollution, Health and the Environment, Solving Global Warming

We disagree with the recent report from the American Petroleum Institute (API) claiming that the upcoming finalization of EPA’s proposed rule will stifle natural gas production, due to equipment supply concerns for Reduced Emissions Completions (RECs). Underlying REC economics are...continued→

Impressively low bids from the second batch of India's National Solar Mission

Posted December 12, 2011 by Vignesh Gowrishankar in Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming

Tags:: BatchTwo, India, NationalSolarMission, NSM, PhaseOne, solar, SolarMission

Could solar power be starting to come of age on a larger scale? The lowest winning bid was just Rs. 7.49 /kilowatthour (kWh), or about 15 US cents /kWh, in the second batch of Phase 1 of India’s National Solar...continued→

Growing Interest in India's National Solar Mission

Posted October 31, 2011 by Vignesh Gowrishankar in Living Sustainably, Moving Beyond Oil, Solving Global Warming

Tags:: India, NationalSolarMission, NSM, PhaseOne, solar, SolarMission

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Earlier this month, over 150 solar companies bid for the “second batch” of projects allotted under Phase 1 of India’s National Solar Mission. This sustained and arguably growing interest in the solar energy program is largely attributed to the Indian...continued→

Industrial energy efficiency is a great way to make U.S. manufacturing more robust

Posted August 8, 2011 by Vignesh Gowrishankar in Green Enterprise, Living Sustainably

Tags:: chp, coal, energyefficiency, industrial energy efficiency, industry, manufacturing

Recently, the National Mining Association (NMA) released a map on its website, highlighting states where manufacturing industries contribute more than 10% of GDP, and where greater than 40% of electricity is supplied by coal. NMA used the map to assert...continued→

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