Russia-Ukraine crisis: A lack of gas storage infra may come to haunt India

The lack of storage infrastructure will weaken India's energy security and delay the transition to clean fuel

Stocking grain for a rainy day is an ancient Indian tradition. My grandparents’ living room had a huge, black wooden cupboard to store rice, an emergency stockpile adequate to cover the family’s needs for a year, in case of a drought.

Strange, then, that the Narendra Modi government, wedded to ancient Indian wisdom, failed to create storage for a colourless, odourless bunch of methane molecules, especially after it embarked in 2015 on a challenging mission to more than double the share of natural gas, a relatively cleaner burning fuel, in India’s energy mix to 15 per cent by 2030.

After committing trillions