21st Century Power is a blog dedicated to sustainable energy strategies for China and India. Our special focus:

  • Energy infrastructure systems and their economics (distinct from efficiency-enhancing cleantech solutions, for example).

  • While many look at China and India in isolation, we're searching for points of solidarity in the two countries' common quest for sustainable energy (i.e. reuse of successful models, joint standard-setting, etc).

  • Coordinated approaches that triangulate political, macro-economic and technological factors, rather than expecting business or entrepreneurial activity alone to be able to effect change.

For more on the philosophy behind the blog, read its first two posts here and here.

H. Asher Bolande, the creator of the blog, has spent his career tracking Asia and is an avid follower of green energy trends. His professional experience is mainly in related fields, having spent the last several years doing corporate strategy (research & analysis) as well as marketing work in telecommunications infrastructure -- a sector which, like energy, is characterized by heavy up-front investments and a delicate balancing act between new technology, public interest (i.e. regulation) and private capital. He is currently employed by Alcatel-Lucent and prior to that was with The Asian Wall Street Journal, working as Asia-Pacific regional telecommunications correspondent. A U.S. citizen, Mr. Bolande has spent 14 years working on the ground in Asia, in both regional and China-focused roles (6 years total in Beijing and Shanghai). He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in International Studies (political science/China), and a master's in journalism from Indiana University (Bloomington).