Fossil Free explores the urgency, the challenges, and the opportunities of transitioning away from fossil fuels to cleaner sources of energy. The book serves as a rallying call to confront the greatest existential threat of our time is climate change. It is the first book to be penned by Sumant Sinha, founder of ReNew, India's leading decarbonization solutions provider, wherein he provides a concise introduction to the challenges, realities, and complexities of the global and local energy industry, as well as the trends and forces driving the energy transition. The book explains how improved electricity infrastructure, decentralized smart grids, electric vehicles, energy storage, and market design are already providing clear pathways for the transition towards green, efficient, affordable, and secure renewable energy across the energy-use chain: extraction, conversion, transmission, distribution, and end use.
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Recognitions
Winner, Green Business Book of the Year (2021)
Finalist, Business Book of the Year (2021)
Featured in the RMI Bookshelf
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Climate change is at the cusp of irreversibly damaging our planet. Sumant has put together an guide on framing the problem and providing the solution on how markets, entrepreneurs, and policymakers can come together to solve this crisis. We owe it to future generations to read this book and act on it.
Anand Mahindra, Chairman
Mahindra GroupFew books have impressed me as much as Sumant Sinha’s Fossil Free for its uniqueness, impact, effectiveness, vision and perspective. This book is insightful, thought-provoking, superbly researched and deftly crafted. A must-read for all those who envisage a new world of clean energy and zero emission mobility.
Amitabh Kant, G20 Sherpa & former CEO
NITI AayogSumant Sinha captures the unique challenges and opportunities of growing India's economy by tapping into the unprecedented opportunities for implementing clean energy solutions. In doing so, he presents a compelling roadmap to a better, cleaner future for India and other developing regions of the world.
