India

18 statements across 10 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 10 people on the record · first statement Sep 22, 2022 by Dr. Daniel Yergin · said 84 times in 24 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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2025 6 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
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2022 19 mentions in 4 episodes 5 per episode

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Everything said about India, oldest first

Sep 22, 2022
Assertion Supported
Yergin: Russia's share of India's oil imports jumped from 1% to 20%
“Russia used to supply one percent of India's oil. Now it's supplying 20% of India's oil.”
Dr. Daniel Yergin Sep 22, 2022 ▶ 18:50 Columbia Energy Exchange: Will Putin’s Energy Strategy Backfire?
Sep 22, 2022 neutral
Insight
Yergin: The global move to clean energy consists of multiple distinct transitions
“There is a divide that has not been Recognize so much, but it's a different view, as the former energy petroleum minister of India said, it's not an energy transition, there are energy transitions.”
Dr. Daniel Yergin Sep 22, 2022 ▶ 44:06 Columbia Energy Exchange: Will Putin’s Energy Strategy Backfire?
Dec 15, 2022
Assertion Contradicted
Iron and steel production drives India's emissions growth faster than coal
“India's largest source of emissions growth. It's not coal power. It's steel, iron and steel.”
Varun Sivaram Dec 15, 2022 ▶ 24:57 Advance market commitments to decarbonize heavy industry
Jan 5, 2023 neutral
Prediction Held up
Friedmann: Ammonia power generation will be limited to select Asian economies
“I do think it's going to be unusual to It's going to be big in those economies, but not the rest of the world. India is not going to do this. The US is not going to do this. South Africa is not going to do this. They have other options. And so ammonia is a pow…”
Julio Friedmann Jan 5, 2023 ▶ 22:09 Ammonia: the beer of decarbonization
Jan 19, 2023 negative
Assertion Supported
Food waste causes 10% of global emissions, ranking just behind the US
“It's one of the biggest climate problems in that food waste is like 10% of emissions. So like, if you ranked it by country, it'd be like China, United States, food waste, India.”
Matt Rogers Jan 19, 2023 ▶ 3:42 This episode is trash
Jan 26, 2024
Assertion Partly supported
Brooke: India holds roughly 20% of the world's cattle, followed by Brazil
“About a fifth [626] Charles Brooke: Of the cattle population is in India. [629] Charles Brooke: and that's followed by Brazil.”
Charles Brooke Jan 26, 2024 ▶ 10:24 Solving the cow burp problem
Feb 8, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Bullard: Developing markets face 11% to 13% energy cost of capital
“The adders onto the risk-free rate could be, Adjustments for currency risk. Adjustments for sovereign risk. And you'll be at the point where your cost of capital is 11% or 13%. Like, it does happen in markets like South Africa or like India.”
Nat Bullard Feb 8, 2024 ▶ 32:05 2024 trends: batteries, transferable tax credits, and the cost of capital
Jan 23, 2025
Prediction Held up
Grunwald: Feeding 2050 Population Needs Two Indias' Worth of New Land
“If, even if we continue to increase farm yields at the same rate they've increased throughout the Green Revolution we're gonna need another two India's worth of land, which essentially means, you know, gonna bye-bye Amazon and Congo rainforests, you know, very…”
Mike Grunwald Jan 23, 2025 ▶ 5:40 The climate-ag grab bag
Feb 19, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Baglino: Very few utility-scale transformers are manufactured in the US
“The transformers are generally made these days in, like, China, India, and Mexico. Very few of them are actually made in the US.”
Drew Baglino Feb 19, 2026 ▶ 33:48 The rise of grid power electronics with Drew Baglino
May 14, 2026
Assertion Supported
Linville: India recently bought 2.5 million tons of fertilizer above $900/ton
“They paid one of the highest prices we've seen in a very, very long time here recently to buy two and a half million tons. Over 900 dollars a ton. I think the West Coast prices were 935 dollars a ton. East Coast prices were nine 50 plus.”
Josh Linville May 14, 2026 ▶ 8:19 Inside the global fertilizer crunch
May 14, 2026 negative
Opinion
Linville: Government market interventions and export duties worsen fertilizer shortages
“The more governments start to play a role in these free markets, the worse it gets. We've seen it with India with the way that they shield their farmers from global prices. We see it with Egypt putting a 90 dollar ton export duty on their nitrogen products.”
Josh Linville May 14, 2026 ▶ 34:42 Inside the global fertilizer crunch
May 14, 2026
Assertion Supported
Linville: Persian Gulf Disruption Cut Indian Urea Production Up to 50%
“India is very reliant on those LNG exports from the Persian Gulf. That's how they feed their nitrogen plants. And just to give you a scope of size, they produce over thirty million tons of urea every single year. And at one point at their worst spot, their pro…”
Josh Linville May 14, 2026 ▶ 16:50 Inside the global fertilizer crunch
May 14, 2026 positive
Assertion Supported
Linville: India partnered with Russia on a dedicated urea production plant
“India has partnered with Russia To do a partnership facility based in Russia with the tons all flowing to India.”
Josh Linville May 14, 2026 ▶ 31:48 Inside the global fertilizer crunch
Jun 4, 2026 neutral
Assertion Supported
Fulgham: Global fossil generation fell in 2025 for fifth time this century
“And that meant that for only the fifth time in this century, and for the first time since twenty-twenty, we actually saw a small fall in fossil generation, particularly a fall from coal generation, which was both in India and China we had those falls.”
Nick Fulgham Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 11:16 Surprising trends in global electricity generation
Jun 4, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Fulgham: Structural fossil generation declines in India will happen closer to 2030
“But we do expect that it will still take a few more years for that trend to really be structural. So it'll be closer to 2030, where we'll be seeing normal years of demand growth and falls in fossil generation at the same time in India.”
Nick Fulgham Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 14:13 Surprising trends in global electricity generation
Jun 4, 2026 bullish
Assertion Supported
Fulgham: India's per-capita renewables generation is 5x China's 15-year-old baseline
“Wind and solar generation per capita India's has now is already five times higher than China's was 15 years ago, and obviously that's only going to continue to grow.”
Nick Fulgham Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 28:42 Surprising trends in global electricity generation
Jun 4, 2026 bullish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jun 2031
Fulgham: India's coal generation will peak 3 to 4 times lower than China's
“And that means we think that India is going to top out or peak its coal generation, both in absolute terms and per capita at a level that's three to maybe even four times lower than where China's peak was.”
Nick Fulgham Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 29:24 Surprising trends in global electricity generation
Jun 4, 2026 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Fulgham: India may meet all new power demand with clean energy by 2030–2035
“Where we could even see as soon as 2030, that structural point where all of the new demand is already met by clean power sources. And that means that not just fossil generation, but also coal generation would not need to grow beyond that. Now it might not be e…”
Nick Fulgham Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 30:03 Surprising trends in global electricity generation
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