Energy Cafe: Renewable Energy Infrastructures – India and the UK
Hosted by Aparna Bose
This study examines the United Kingdom government’s initiatives in renewable energy infrastructure, both within the UK and through its international engagements in India. It investigates how state-led efforts to promote renewable energy are discursively framed, translated, and enacted across policy and practice. This illuminates the ways in which climate-aligned development becomes a site through which the state seeks to reconcile the social consequences of capitalist expansion with the objectives of a transnational financial elite, particularly through the advancement of the renewable energy infrastructure sector. Viewed through this lens, the research contributes to broader debates on the evolving role of the state in a post-neoliberal global order.
The Energy Café is an informal, open and inclusive space where people across our network, from undergraduates to Professors Emeriti, can come together for an hour to share ideas about the energy research they are working on. It is intended to encourage collaborations, expand research horizons, and inspire new ideas and questions about issues of energy.
Fostering collaboration and interdisciplinarity are at the heart of the Centre’s ethos and the motivation for the Café. By openly exchanging ideas with others and working across disciplines, the Energy Café offers a unique venue that celebrates the diversity of roles and contributions individuals make to energy research and research culture.