Africa Solar Outlook 2025
Africa deployed an additional 2.5 GW of solar in 2024, according to AFSIA‘s new “Africa Solar Outlook 2025” report. AFSIA’s figures, which do not include residential installations, take the continent’s
Energy
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Japan plans to build 14 nuclear plants by 2030
Resource-poor Japan is planning to build at least 14 nuclear power plants over the next 20 years to reduce its reliance on other countries for its energy needs, a report said Sunday.
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30% hike in power tariff
BHUBANESWAR: The Orissa Electricity Regulatory Commission (OERC) on Saturday hiked power tariff by 30 per cent after keeping it unchanged for a decade. The last tariff hike was effected in 2001-02. As per the new tariff order, the average bulk supply tariff (BST) has been increased from Rs 1.22 per unit to Rs 1.60 per unit. The new power tariff will come into effect from April 1.
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Geothermal energy: Potential, cost and environment issues
Enormous amount of heat energy at high temperature is locked up inside the earth. It remains confined by the earth's crust, which is a good heat insulator, but escapes at the edges of tectonic plates in the form of volcanic eruptions, hot springs and geysers.
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Sharma: Gas needs to be major energy source
The 6th Asia Gas Partnership Summit, a global event of the natural gas industry kicked-off on Monday in the presence of Union commerce minister Anand Sharma and petroleum minister Murli Deora.
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LPG, diesel, CNG turn costlier in Delhi
Delhiites will have to shell out more money for virtually everything from cooking gas to diesel with the Delhi government withdrawing a Rs-40 subsidy on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) cylinder and increasing value added tax (VAT) on diesel in its Budget for 2010-11 announced today.
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Oil and gas scenario in India
The oil and gas sector in India is the largest in terms of sales turnover, touching the lives of all citizens, providing uninterrupted supplies of oil products to the remotest parts of the country. The oil sector is the largest contributor to State exchequer through taxes.
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Cleaner fuel will cost 40p more from April 1
New Delhi: Consumers will have to fork out up to 40 paise a litre more for motor fuels in 13 cities that will upgrade to Euro-IV quality. Petroleum secretary S Sundareshan on Monday confirmed that the government was considering a differential pricing for Euro-IV petrol and diesel but declined to say by how much the prices would be higher from Euro-III fuels being sold now.
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IFC to invest $10 million in Azure Power
New Delhi: In the first ever investment of its kind by World Bank
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NTPC wont be allowed to sell power in open market
Govt Feels NTPC Should Focus On Other Avenues Such As Wind & Solar Energy
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Roll back hikes in diesel, CNG and LPG prices
NEW DELHI: Initiating the discussion on the Delhi Budget 2010-11, former Delhi Finance Minister and senior BJP leader Jagdish Mukhi on Tuesday charged that Delhiites have been unnecessarily burdened with taxes because of the Delhi Government's wasteful expenditure and poor financial management and demanded a rollback of the hike in VAT on CNG and diesel.