Electricity

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
- 08/05/2024
- Ember

VENEZUELA

Amid environmental concerns, a Venezuelan power line was inaugurated in Brazil recently. The us $400 million high-voltage line runs through Venezuela's ecologically sensitive southeast
- 14/09/2001
- Down To Earth
Roadblock ahead

Even as electric bicycles are riding high on a popularity wave in Beijing, traffic officials have decided to phase them out by 2005. The user-friendly features of these vehicles
- 30/08/2002
- Down To Earth
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Cauldron of death

Nearly 700 laboratory animals housed at the Industrial and Toxicological Research Centre's (itrc) Gheru Campus in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, have died overnight of extreme heat. The air-conditioning at
- 30/07/2004
THE MONEY MAKERS

 Investors have been flocking to timber-based businesses in Malaysia, where timber related stocks are being traded at high prices. This is a result of a combination of strong timber prices and
- 14/01/1994
- Down To Earth
Ecotax policy rejected

the French government's plan to introduce ecological tax reforms got a serious blow on December 28, 2000, when the country's constitutional court rejected a planned industrial energy tax. The
- 14/02/2001
- Down To Earth
Power galore

India s wind power potential is greater than previously known
- 30/01/2000
- Down To Earth
Time to 'learn' clean energy is now or never

Source: N Mattson 1998, GENIE: An energy systems model with uncertain learning, quoted in Anon 1999, A GENIE for Imperfect Foresight, IEA/OECD ETSAP News, June
- 30/07/2000
Showing the way

A UK-based company has developed a lantern which can provide cheap, reliable, ecologically friendly power. The Glowstar lantern, developed by Intermediate Technology Consultants, is a
- 14/09/2000
- Down To Earth
Sun lighting up the valley

Solar lighting systems have brightened up the gloomy winters of Himachal Pradesh s Mayad valley
- 30/12/2001
- UNDP
Power that could bomb

The Bush administration unveils new energy policy with an intention to revive nuclear reactors and to build new plants. Joining hands with nuclear lobbyists the administration skips uncomfortable issues like nuclear power being costly, unsafe and environm
- 14/07/2001