Daniel Moore

Villagers in Tuvar, India. Photo credit: Michael Henninger/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Field notes for the Pulitzer Center Over the course of a 15-hour tour of the most remote areas of northwestern India, we were shown various degrees of progress made to expand electricity to rural villages. In Khedbrahma, villagers gathered in the one room schoolhouse, shown above, to meet with the Narottam Lalbhai Rural Development Fund, a nongovernmental organization working in the area to pro

Photo credit: Michael Henninger Field notes for the Pulitzer Center Carved into the jungles of northeastern India, and through the oppressive humidity and daily downpours of monsoon season, Tata Steel's production facility in Jamshedpur churns out roughly 10 million tons of steel each year. Thousands of workers oversee various stages of purifying, pouring, shaping the molten metal lava before it is cooled and shipped by rail or truck, destined to become auto parts, pipelines

Photo credit: Michael Henninger/Post-Gazette Field notes for the Pulitzer Center Schoolchildren take in Independence Day celebrations at a park in Jamshedpur, India's steel city. The morning ceremony featured fiery speeches from government officials, military marches and displays of India's horizontal tricolor flag. #india #independenceday #Jamshedpur #steel #energy #PulitzerCenter

Photo credit: Michael Henninger/Post-Gazette Field notes for the Pulitzer Center In Jamshedpur, a city of one million people and the birthplace of steel in India, Tata Steel looms large in both an administrative and cultural sense. Founded in 1919, Jamshedpur was built and maintained by Tata Steel, which provided homes, schools, a hospital, churches and mosques, various parks and stadiums and basic municipal services for its workers. The company remains in charge of the town

Working the rice paddy fields in Jharkhand state, India. Photo credit: Michael Henninger/Post-Gazette Field notes for the Pulitzer Center Workers in agricultural fields in Jharkhand, along a pothole-laden road from Ranchi to Jamshedpur. The steel industry, founded in the city of Jamshedpur, reshaped the economy of one of the most rural areas of India, providing employment opportunities and spurring industries that support steel production. #India #Jamshedpur #Jharkhand #rice

Photo credit: Michael Henninger/Post-Gazette Field notes for the Pulitzer Center ​Telling the story of India's energy industry in two weeks requires a lot of travel — among major cities, within cities, out to small towns and villages. And getting anywhere on time is a challenge. Lining the sidewalks of most cities are a variety of traditional cabs and auto-rickshaws ready to go, so long as the driver recognizes the destination address. Auto-rickshaws, cart-like vehicles that

Photo credit: Michael Henninger/Post-Gazette Field note # 2 for Pulitzer Center At Philips Lighting in India, Priya Mishra is an engineer pushing for efficiency in a country rapidly consuming resources. Philips markets light emitting diode, or LED, lighting for homes, businesses and city streets. LED technology uses far less energy to produce the same amount of light, extending the life of the bulb, saving money on power bills and lessening dependence on the electric grid. Ph

View of central Bengaluru Field notes for the Pulitzer Center: Bengaluru, choked with perpetually honking traffic and cluttered with residences, plainly shows India’s economic boom as well as the stretching seams of its infrastructure. With a metro area of roughly eight million people and one of the world’s fastest-growing cities, Bengaluru’s burgeoning tech industry has — for what such comparisons are worth — earned it the distinction of “Silicon Valley of India.” Whether it