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
Buskirk (New York): A few years ago, Kathleen Breault was just another suburban grandma, driving countless hours every week, stopping for lunch at McDonald's, buying clothes at the mall, watching TV in the evenings.
We have heard all about Al Gore's inconvenient truths on climate change. Now comes an extremely convenient truth from his German counterpart. Social Democrat MP Hermann Scheer, who has been dubbed more revolutionary than Greenpeace, says the great unspoken truth is how painless it will be to convert the world to renewable energy, especially solar power. So much so that the Kyoto protocol is a waste of time that makes what is easy and cheap seem hard and expensive.
This is the conclusion of a two-part series on the global oil scenario and ONGC. The first part was published on May 6 In India, oil production grew by 6% in the last five years up to 2006-07. It was during the second half of 1994-95 that ONGC's medium-sized fields
Computer support provider iYogi uses proprietary technology, iMantra, to offer remote services from its office in Gurgaon to small and individual computer users globally. The company employs 400 people and expects its annual revenue to go up from $15 million to $100 million in two years. The company is now taking a leadership role in green computing by planning to launch its iYogi Global Green initiative shortly. CEO Uday Challu spoke to FE about the green initiative, its need and benefits. Excerpts: What is your new green computer initiative about?
With the Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear deal hanging in the balance, the government is framing a policy for importing power from neighbouring countries including Pakistan to overcome the peaking shortage, say highly placed sources. Work on the policy is being expedited. For, although India considers Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar a natural market for hydroelectricity, competition could be round the corner. Both Nepal and Bhutan have started inviting foreign participation in the power sector.
Russia, India, China and Brazil on Friday vowed to turn their four-way group into a powerful instrument for changing the world. At their first stand-alone meeting here, the Foreign Ministers institutionalised BRIC, agreeing to hold regular meetings at the level of Foreign Ministers. External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee hailed BRIC as a "unique combination of mutually complementary economies' and platform to promote energy and food security, fight terrorism and reform global political and financial bodies.
The debate on the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline has generated more heat than light. There has been a wide chasm between rhetoric and reality, with little informed public debate. It is indisputable that the booming but energy-starved Indian economy needs to tap every possible source of power that is economically viable, with its security and continuity suitably guaranteed.
Faced with surging crude oil prices in the international markets and massive under-recoveries being incurred by the oil marketing companies (OMCs), the government has decided to compensate them by issuing oil bonds to the extent of 50 per cent against incurring under-recoveries during 2007-08 on sale of petrol, diesel, kerosene and domestic LPG at subsidised prices.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is likely to announce a fairly large grant to Bhutan when he travels there on Friday on a two-day visit, which is aimed at further consolidation of the bilateral energy cooperation. The Prime Minister will hold wide-ranging talks with his Bhutanese counterpart Jigme Y. Thinley on issues of mutual interest, including India's development cooperation with the Himalayan kingdom. The PM will also meet 28-year-old King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and his father, the former King Jigme Singye Wangchuck.
Keen to claim credit for arresting carbon emissions into the atmosphere, the Delhi Government's Power Department has taken the lead in promoting energy conservation by preparing a road map that will direct the power distribution companies to procure power generated from renewable sources. Regulatory commission