Global Electricity Review 2025
<p>In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking
Fossil Fuels
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`Jump in world energy demand by 2035'
In its annual World Energy Outlook, the International Energy Agency said that demand would increase by 36 per cent by 2035 World energy demand will grow by more than a third over the next 25 years, led by increased consumption in China, and fossil fuels will still be the main source, an influential forecasting agency said on Tuesday. In its annual World Energy Outlook, the International Energy
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A critique on Planning Commission document on Integrated Energy Policy: executive summary
Energy has become a crucial sector of the modern society, so much so that per capita availability of energy is considered as an indicator of economic prosperity.
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Survey of energy resources 2010
This, the 22nd edition of the World Energy Council's Survey of Energy Resources (SER), is the latest in a long series of reviews of the status of the world
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Nuclear's Lost Generation
On a flat, low-lying island nestled in crisp waters off the west coast of Finland, the first nuclear power plant ordered in Western Europe since 1986 is inching toward start-up. Over 4,000 builders and engineers are at work on the sprawling Olkiluoto 3 project, whose turbine hall is so cavernous it could house two Boeing 747 jets stacked on top of each other. When it is dark, which in winter
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Oil Industry Loses Vs EPA On Ethanol Standard
A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected a challenge from U.S. oil companies and refiners against the Environmental Protection Agency for retroactively imposing ethanol blending levels and volume requirements for gasoline sales. Federal law requires the EPA to set by November 30 each year the amount of ethanol that must make up U.S. gasoline sales for the following year.
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Indias renewable energy challenge
ENERGY is the most important issue that is being discussed throughout the world. The key differentiating factor in the use of energy sources is environment friendliness. Growth of renewable energy (RE) in developed nations is mainly driven by environmental concerns of fossil fuel based projects.
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Railways to set up green fuel plants
Indian Railways is poised to set up four bio-diesel plants at a cost of `120 crore, in potentially one of the biggest initiatives for the bio-fuel production in the country. While two bio-diesel esterification plants are going to be commissioned at Raipur and Chennai during the next two years, the other two units will be set up subsequently, a senior railway ministry official said. Each plan
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Italy plan to build N-plants on hold
Italy will put on hold its plan to build nuclear power plants, casting doubt on one of the key platforms for PM Silvio Berlusconi
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Fossil fuels are far deadlier than nuclear power
<p> <meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="CONTENT-TYPE" /> <title></title> <meta content="OpenOffice.org 3.2 (Linux)" name="GENERATOR" /> <style type="text/css"> <!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } A:link { so-language: zxx } --> </style> <p><font size="3">In the wake of the nuclear crisis in Japan, Germany has temporarily shut down seven o