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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Biomass plants want fuel security
Ropar: The biomass power plants, running in the state, are incurring losses due to lack of fuel, security and disparity in the power tariffs between different plants. Punjab has two kinds of plants including independent power producing (IPP) plants and the co-generation plants. The IPP are given the rights to produce power only.
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Acute power shortage: Govt to start gas turbine at Pampore
Jammu: Facing an acute shortage of power, the state government has decided to start its gas turbine at Pampore in the Kashmir valley, which is used in an emergency. The Power Development Department (PDD) has written to the authorities concerned to keep the gas turbine in a state of preparedness.
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MoU for 250 MW thermal power plant at Auraiya
LUCKNOW: A day after it entered into an agreement with a private company for setting up a 1,980 Mw thermal power plant at Bargarh in Chitrakoot district, department of energy, on Wednesday, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with another private company for setting up a thermal power plant in Auraiya district. Secretary (energy) Navneet Sehgal signed the MoU with Unitech Machines for se
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Mohali to become solar city under Central scheme
Under an ambitious scheme of the Union government, Mohali will soon become a solar city.
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Reaching for the sun
<p>A special report on the succesful micro-financed solar energy systems programme by Grameen Shakti in Bangladesh's rural areas. This is perhaps worlds's fastest growing rural renewable energy programme managed by Grameen Shakti with an extensive on-the-ground presence and service network of 1,159 offices staffed by 8,975 employees across the country.</p>
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New paradigm in energy security in India
Global energy consumption has nearly doubled in the past few decades, and this increase has been driven by population growth, rising living standards, invention of energy-dependent technologies and consumerism. Energy security is a key global challenge - one which will require global perspectives, global thinking, global solutions, and innovation of the highest order.
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NTPC reverses stand on Gujarat expansion
Will take gas at govt rate, despite HC suit with RIL. Government-owned power generator NTPC Ltd today said it was willing to buy gas for its Kawas and Gandhar expansion projects in Gujarat at a rate prescribed by the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM).
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NTPC willing to buy gas at govt-approved price, for now
NTPC is ready to buy natural gas at any price fixed by the government for its Kawas and Gandhar expansion projects, but this will not dilute its position in its court battle with Reliance Industries for gas supply at a lower price for these plants, NTPC Chairman Arup Roy Chudhury said on Friday. NTPC took RIL to the Bombay High Court in 2005, complaining that RIL was not honouring a contrac
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Russia, India to strengthen ties with energy, oil pacts
With no signs of a respite in oil prices and given India
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Cold climates no bar to biogas production
Extremophile microbes in mud from a frozen Alaskan lake can be harnessed to make biogas.