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
Energy
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Lets face it
LEENA SRIVASTAVA We provide a major push to renewable energy forms including solar but seem to have thrown distribution reforms out of the door. States have set up electricity regulatory commissions but they are struggling to define their relevance. The suspicion that India
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A sunshine year
Sanjay Chakrabarti The year 2010 brought a lot of
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Oil cos to be compensated, says Sundareshan
The petroleum ministry on Thursday said the government is committed to adequately compensating state-owned oil marketing companies for the losses they incur on selling diesel and cooking fuel below cost.
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3 NTPC projects get green signal
Making a
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The refinery movement in Assam
Oil has played an important role in the politics of Assam and is a determining factor in the relation between the centre and the state. The right over the natural resources of Assam has been an issue of contention between the central government and Assam in post-independence India.
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Wrong to cry foul on N-waste management: Ramesh
NEW DELHI: Firm on the need to increase nuclear power generation, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday said given the low levels of nuclear power generation, the issue of handling waste was one of management.
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Green activists opposing clean n-power: Jairam
Brushing aside criticism of nuclear power projects on environmental grounds, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday said it was
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In breakthrough, China to use spent fuel to extract uranium
China has claimed a breakthrough in extracting uranium and plutonium from spent fuel, saying this would enable the country to run its nuclear power plants for three thousand years with existing uranium resources. After decades of research, China has made a breakthrough in extracting uranium and plutonium from spent fuel, state-run CCTV announced on Monday. It said China plans to set up 60 new
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Water powers this pump
Ranchi, Jan. 3: Kalawati Oraon is still living a dream. She has clean potable water on her doorstep, something she never had for her entire 38-year-old life. Till a few months ago, Kalawati, with other women of hilly Kothi Tola village in Keredari block, some 80 km from Hazaribagh, trekked down hilly pathways in search of water. Today, her trekking days are history.