Delhi Solar Energy Policy, 2023
The Delhi government launched the Delhi Solar Policy 2023, in which residents consuming over 400 units of electricity can install solar panels bring electricity bill charge to zero. Under the newly launched
The Delhi government launched the Delhi Solar Policy 2023, in which residents consuming over 400 units of electricity can install solar panels bring electricity bill charge to zero. Under the newly launched
Advocating the removal of subsidies on non-renewable fuels like kerosene, chairman of the Nobel-prize winning Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change R K Pachauri on Tuesday urged the Government to invest this money in promoting clean and alternative sources of energy.
B. Muralidhar Reddy COLOMBO: Sri Lanka Government on Monday signed an agreement with Cairn India for exploration of hydro-carbon and natural gas in the Mannar Basin in the north. Sri Lanka Minister of Petroleum and Petroleum Resources A. H. M. Fowzie, and Chief Financial Officer of Carin India, Indrajith Benerijee, signed the agreement on behalf of Sri Lanka and Cairn India (Pvt) Ltd, respectively, in the presence of President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
New Delhi July 7: The government has asked PSU Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) not to force consumers to buy branded fuels.
New Delhi, July 7: The National Action Plan on Climate Change, which was unveiled by the Government last week, is much more than India's response to the challenge from climate change. It is a roadmap for ensuring long-term energy security of the country leading to sustainable development, Prime Minister's special envoy on climate change Shyam Saran has said.
UT Administrator Gen eral (Retd) S F Rodrigues has asked officials in the Administration to look at alternative sources of energy for the city. Speaking at a public hearing session on Monday, he suggested that the alternative sources of energy could provide a long-term solution to the energy crisis. A core group of officers, comprising the Secretary to the Governor, the Finance Secretary and the Chief Engineer, has been assigned to look into the matter.
Opec president Chakib Khelil warned on Sunday that oil prices will continue to rise because of the falling dollar, in an interview in the Algeria-News. "The price of oil will rise again in the coming weeks. We have to follow the evolution of the dollar, because a 1% fall in the dollar means four dollars more on the price of oil,' Khelil, who is Algeria's minister of energy and mines, told the independent daily.
Rakteem Katakey / New Delhi July 04, 2008, 0:43 IST India's search for oil to meet its growing energy needs is taking its flagship company, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), to every corner of the world. ONGC's latest destination is Angola, which produces around 1 per cent of the world's oil.
LONG before the fuel price increase was announced on June 4, its political dimensions had come up time and again in discussions among partners of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government at the Centre. The debate was on even during the run-up to the Assembly elections in Karnataka, which were held in May. The discussions highlighted the global increase in the price of crude oil and the demand from oil companies for governmental measures to tide them over.
Just as in the case of major foodgrains, deregulation of financial markets has had a significant role in affecting global oil prices. JAY MALLIN/BLOOMBERG NEWS The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee of the United States hearing testimony on whether speculation in the commodities market by institutional investors and hedge funds is contributing to food and energy price surges, in Washington, D.C., on May 20.
The oil price hike burdens already strained State finances and threatens to jeopardise welfare programmes run by State governments. THE Union government's decision to raise the prices of petroleum products has placed State governments in a quandary. While taxes on petroleum products constitute a significant proportion of a State's revenue, a reduction of these taxes could undermine the State's fiscal balance.