Electrification of end-uses and the growth of solar and wind is changing how electricity systems operate on all time scales. This report analyses how seasonal variations in both demand and supply affect electricity system operations to 2050 – in Europe, India, Indonesia and Korea – and what sources will be …
The climate bill nearing a vote in the U.S. House will reward farmers who plant trees or take other steps to control greenhouse gases and it will remove for five years an obstacle to corn-based ethanol, said the House Agriculture Committee chairman on Wednesday. Chairman Collin Peterson said negotiators hoped …
Renewable energy service providers yesterday urged the government to form a body to implement the renewable energy policy to develop the green energy resources and meet 10 percent of the national demand for power by 2020.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday urged Congress to pass "historic legislation" to fight global warming, prompting his fellow Democrats in the House of Representatives to aim for a vote on Friday on the bill to reduce industrial emissions of carbon dioxide. At a midday White House press conference, Obama said …
JAIPUR: Rajasthan Energy Minister Jitendra Singh on Tuesday sought Central allocation of Rs.514 crore for facilitating power supply to 10,294 hamlets across the State by 2012 under the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Scheme. The scheme
The World Bank (WB) has approved US$ 89.2 million to support the Nepal government's energy crisis management action plan. The bank's new support is basically an additional financing of the Nepal Power Development Project (NPDP) approved on May 22, 2003. The WB's support will include investments in rehabilitation of the …
Sri Lanka government is planning to provide electricity for 400 rural villages in the North during the next three years, Minister of Power and Energy, W.D.J Senaviratne said. Minister Senaviratne added that this would be another step of "Uthuru Wasanthaya" program introduced by the government to develop the Northern region …
Like all rural Bangladeshis, Saidul Islam knows the hardships of summer, when his tin-roofed house turns into a furnace with not enough electricity to power even a fan. For the 100 million Bangladeshis -- most of them farmers -- who live in the countryside, the notion of electricity supply is …
At least 14 percent of power generated by various power plants in the country was wasted while in distribution owing to technical reasons, the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) sources said. Minister of Power and Energy John Seneviratne said that power wastage was a normal phenomenon in any country but under …
India added nearly 3 gw of grid-connected renewable energy in 2008, 2 gw of which came from the wind sector. The government is under intense pressure to increase electricity production and has put strong incentives in place to spur investment into renewable energy from both domestic and foreign investors. The …
Power and Energy Minister W. D. J. Seneviratne said Sri Lanka is far ahead in the field of providing electricity to the rural people compared with other countries in the region. Of our total population, 80 percent have been provided with electricity. Minister Seneviratne in an interview with the Daily …
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a memorandum submitted by Power and Energy Minister W.D.J. Seneviratne to launch a comprehensive rural electrification scheme with financial assistance from the Government of Iran. Addressing the weekly Cabinet press briefing, Media and Information Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa said Iran has provided US$ 95.5 …
The Cabinet of Ministers has approved a memorandum submitted by Power and Energy Minister W.D.J. Seneviratne to launch a comprehensive rural electrification scheme with financial assistance from the Government of Iran. Addressing the weekly Cabinet press briefing, Media and Information Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa said Iran has provided US$ 95.5 …
United Nation's Global Environment Facility (GEF) on Thursday signed a project document with Alternative Energy Development Board (AEDB) and Economic Affairs Division (EAD) for the implementation of $19.2 million plan for setting up mini-hydel power plants in the district of Chitral. The agreement for the project titled 'Productive Uses of …
NEW DELHI: Apart from giving a major thrust to power reforms and attracting large private investment, the new Government in office will give a big push to the rural electrification programme, curbing aggregate and technical losses (A&T;) and working a roadmap for achieving the open access goal propagated by the …
The government is likely to take initiative to make the installation of solar power system easier and cost effective in urban areas so people could cope with the mounting power crisis. Sources said the government is eager to simplify solar power equipment import and offer special bank loan for its …
Remote villages of Deh Tiko Baran in Jamshoro district will be provided electricity generated through solar technology at a cost of Rs10 million. The project has been approved by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and will be implemented by the Alternative Energy Development Board, which is working on a programme …
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has approved Rs 10 million for the provision of basic energy services through solar energy to the remote villages of Deh Tiko Baran in Jamshoro district. The PM issued the directive based on the recommendations of Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf. …
