M Ramesh

A senior journalist and feature writer with BusinessLine, Ramesh is an author and a music critic. He writes on a range of sectors, notably energy, with a special focus on renewable energy, climate change, banking, insurance and non-banking finance companies, oil and gas, nuclear energy and space. He has been the chief of Chennai Bureau with BusinessLine and was the head of the team responsible for covering on all economic activities in and around the city. Ramesh has authored a romance-thriller, Silence of the Cicadas. He reviews Carnatic music concerts for The Hindu.

Hot or cold: compress, and store

The energy storage space is hotting up — rather, cooling down — thanks to an IIT-M professor’s design

Even death is an alternative source of energy

It is time we looked beyond wind and solar when we talk about clean-tech and green energy

Climate change: Point of no return

The planet is hurtling down a path to destruction and there may be no way to salvage the situation
Formula E — the Zurich E-Prix in Switzerland | Reuters

Looking over tomorrow’s shoulders

Electric vehicles may be the tomorrow, but hydrogen fuel cells are the day after and beyond
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Time to get into water

Reducing water consumption, especially in thermal power plants, is a huge business opportunity
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Oath of the Suryaputras

India will soon be the headquarters of the Intl Solar Alliance, and stands to derive huge benefits

Is the next gen hydrogen?

A new car race seems to be in the offing — electric car versus hydrogen car

Why air pollution is a ‘national health emergency’

Expert says that in most places it is equivalent to smoking 5-7 cigarettes

Shadow over solar

Is geopolitics at play in the recent high safeguard duty recommendation?

The Pied Piper of Madras

Carnatic vocalist Sanjay Subrahmanyan is an innate genius with stage presence

Stop being an ostrich about climate change

If you join a public sector fossil fuel company, make sure you have a back-up job!

Green milk and ice-cream

Hatsun Agro is leading the charge in the industry to adopt cleaner energy in its functioning