This report summarizes the findings of a review aimed at understanding emerging approaches to energy subsidy reform, discerning trends, and identifying major strands of thinking and research in the field,
IGCAR was established in the year 1971, under the Department of Atomic Energy, Government of India. The centre is engaged in broad based multidisciplinary programme of scientific research and advanced engineering directed towards the development of Fast Breeder Reactor technology.
This publication provides stimulating analysis on future scenarios of energy use, which focus on a range of technologies that are expected to emerge in the coming years and decades. There is now universal recognition of the fact that new technologies and much greater use of some that already exist provide the most hopeful prospects for mitigation of emissions of GHGs.
Energy cooperation in South Asia presents tremendous potential for the development of regional resources in an integrated manner by exploiting the complementarities and optimal utilisation of available resources. Much will depend on how South Asia benefits from its proximity to south western and central Asia to meet its gas and oil needs.
As militants disrupt power supply to nearly seventy per cent population of the provincial capital, power authorities remain clueless about how to ensure an alternative power supply system to the metropolitan. Mighty towers on Sheikh Mohammadi transmission line, which bring electricity from Tarbela Power House to the 2.3 million consumers of the NWFP, are at risk most of the time owing to growing subversive activities, virtually turning it into another Sui.
Monetary Tightening By Central Bank Begins To Take Effect Our Bureau NEW DELHI INDUSTRIAL production grew 5.4% in June 2008, higher than the 4.1% (revised) growth in May 2008 but well below the 8.9% growth in June 2007. The slower pace of industrial growth has intensified apprehensions that the growth rate of the Indian economy could slip below 8% in the current fiscal, and raises the importance of a good monsoon this year.
This piece is in response to a news item which appeared in The Daily Star on August 10 under the headline "1m solar household systems by 2012 to achieve target'.
If the government had not completed the 300 MW Kerawalapitiya electricity generation plant by 2008, Sri Lanka would have experienced a major power crisis with constant power cuts by 2009. The cost of the plant is around US $ 300 million and the government assures that there would be no power cuts in 2009. The plant is scheduled to be commissioned at the end of this month. The Kerawalapitiya power plant will generate 200 MW under its first phase and add it to the National Grid and in the second phase it will generate the other 100 MW in 2009, the Power and Energy Ministry said.
If the government had not completed the 300 MW Kerawalapitiya electricity generation plant by 2008, Sri Lanka would have experienced a major power crisis with constant power cuts by 2009. The cost of the plant is around US $ 300 million and the government assures that there would be no power cuts in 2009. The plant is scheduled to be commissioned at the end of this month. The Kerawalapitiya power plant will generate 200 MW under its first phase and add it to the National Grid and in the second phase it will generate the other 100 MW in 2009, the Power and Energy Ministry said.
The Ministry of Water and Power was committed to promote alternative energy to overcome the acute shortage of energy and to meet the growing demand of electricity in the country. Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf said this while talking to Tariq Sayeed, President Saarc Chamber and former President FPCCI who called on him here along with Zubair Ahmed Malik, former Vice President FPCCI.
Frequent power outages coupled with sweltering heat over the past four days have made life miserable in the Sylhet city and its adjoining areas. Official and commercial activities as well as processing of tea-plants in the region are also being hampered due to the frequent power outages. Sources in the Power Development Board, Sylhet said they had been supplying 40 megawatts of power against the daily demand of about 130 megawatts over the past four days.
