Clean energy market monitor: March 2024
Clean energy is growing rapidly, as annual deployment of a number of key technologies has surged ahead in recent years driven by policy support and continued cost declines. Their growth is starting to
Nuclear Energy
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Green economy not an alterative now
With the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) having, for the first time, named India as the global host of World Environment Day 2011 (WED) on June 5, the thrust has been on how soon the country can transit towards a green economy. A first step towards this was taken with an exhibition of non-timber products being held at the Dilli Haat here.
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Maharashtra govt clears Rs 10 lakh per acre payment for Jaitapur nuclear project
The Maharashtra government, in a bid to pacify locals opposing the proposed 9,900 Mw Jaitapur nuclear power project in Ratnagiri district, has cleared payment of Rs 10 lakh per acre to project affected persons (PAPs). This is to be paid by the developer, Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC). Earlier, NPC had proposed a compensation of Rs 5 lakh per acre.
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Nuclear emergency in Japan: lessons for India
Whereas the whole world is extending its sympathy and support to the people in Japan who are devastated from the recent earth quake, the consequent Tsunami and nuclear emergency, there are also many lessons
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Germany to shut nuclear reactors by 2022
Merkel's nuclear U-turn driven by Fukushima disaster BERLIN: Germany wants to shut all nuclear reactors by 2022, Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition declared on Monday, in a policy reversal drawn up in a rush after the Fukushima disaster in Japan. The coalition, sensitive to accusations it may increase dependence on highly polluting brown coal, said it planned to cut power use by 10 pe
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Gilani seeks US assistance to overcome energy crisis
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Sunday said that the government has sought US assistance to overcome load-shedding in the country for providing immediate relief to the masses. During a meeting with senior journalists at his residence here, he said that US leadership has assured of assistance to the Pakistani government in providing cheap electricity to the masses. Gilani said that he h
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What we can learn from Fukushima
<p>Why did one nuclear site in Fukushima escape damage from the earthquake? Mike Weightman is going there to discover what lessons can be learned.</p> <p>http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028146.000-nuclear-inspector-what-we-can-learn-from-fukushima.html</p>
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Germany Copes Without Bulk Of Nuclear Power
Germany is coping without about three quarters of its nuclear power capacity by burning more climate-warming coal, reaping the rewards of renewables investments, and importing more French atomic energy. The shutdown over the weekend of another nuclear plant means almost 16 gigawatts (GW) of German nuclear power capacity was offline Monday, with nearly half of the capacity ordered to shut by the
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The climate change threat to nuclear power
<p>The accident at the Fukushima power plant in Japan has led to much discussion about the future of nuclear power. I believe one important lesson of the accident has been overlooked. Nuclear power is often touted as a solution to climate change, but Fukushima serves as a warning that far from solving the climate problem, nuclear power may be highly vulnerable to it.</p>
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For Jaitapur, a comic to dispel nuke power fears
To dispel fears of villagers opposed to the nuclear power project in Jaitapur, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) will distribute a comic book that will also focus on the benefits they would reap from nuclear energy. The comic, Ek Tha Budhiya: Kahani Ek Khushal Gaon Ki (The Story of a Prosperous Village), narrates the story of Jagdishpur, a village that had been underdeveloped for y
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Wind is Japan's strongest alternative to nuclear
<p>TWO months after the explosions and radiation leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, the prime minister, Naoto Kan, has announced that the country will not build any new reactors. If Kan really means it, the government will have to abandon the plans for expanding nuclear power it adopted only last year.