Global electricity review 2024
Renewables generated a record 30 percent of global electricity in 2023, driven by growth in solar and wind especially from China, according to the Global Electricity Review 2024 released by the global
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Give Bharat its share of electricity
The benefits of the rural electrification programme have been lost by supplying the power for only a few hours a day and a weak system of providing new connections and collecting bills, says Ajay Shankar
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Nagaland plans to make Kohima Solar City
Kohima: Nagaland Advisor to New and Renewable Energy and MLA Deo Nukhu has informed that the collection of data has already been completed and a Master Plan is being prepared to make Kohima the first Solar City of Nagaland.
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Rural Sikkim households to be electrified by 2012
GANGTOK, June 30
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State focuses on gas-based power plants
<p>KOLKATA, 30 JUNE: The state government is planning to shift from thermal power to gas-based power plants and in the process has already entered into MoUs with GAIL and Reliance, said Mr Nirupam Sen, power minister, in the Assembly lobby today.<br />
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Determination of benchmark capital cost norm for solar PV power projects
CERC's order stakeholders comments for setting of the benchmark capital cost of solar-PV for financial years 2010-11, 2011-2012 and solar-thermal projects for the years 2010-2011, 2011-2012 and 2012-13. The order also includes comments and calculations presented by stakeholders in a public hearing in February 2010.
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Fuel price hike will hurt food security: Left convention
NEW DELH: Predicting a severe impact on food security following the hike in fuel prices and expressing concern over the all-round slide in India's agriculture and rural economy, a national convention on Thursday demanded a series of measures to counter it.
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Lighting up lives: Tatas plan to do a Nano with power
P B Jayakumar / Mumbai July 2, 2010, 1:14 IST From micro wind turbines to rice husk, low-cost solutions are being tested to drive the huge market hunger for energy First they came up with the Tata Nano. Then Swach, a water purifier. Followed by a low-cost housing programme. Now the Tata group is planning to repeat the success in the power sector.
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Delivering on the G-20 commitment to reform fossil-fuel subsidies: essential outcomes from Toronto
In September 2009, at the Pittsburgh Summit, G-20 leaders recognized that "inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies encourage wasteful consumption, distort markets, impede investment in clean energy sources and undermine efforts to deal with climate change", and committed to phase out and rationalize inefficient fossil-fuel subsidies that lead to wasteful consumption.
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Govt may step in to check high volatility in oil prices: Deora
OIL and gas minister Murli Deora on Friday dashed hopes of total freedom to oil and gas companies in fixing prices of petrol, saying that the government will intervene to protect consumers from high volatility.
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Chennai-Bangalore oil pipeline launched
A pipeline commissioned on Friday at the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) terminal in Devanagonthi near Hosakote to bring petroleum products from Chennai to Bangalore might help meet the City