Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
This document contains text of the Electricity Act, 2003 [No. 36 OF 2003]. An Act to consolidate the laws relating to generation, transmission, distribution, trading and use of electricity and generally for taking measures conducive to development of electricity industry, promoting competition therein, protecting interest of consumers and supply of …
As per a new directive, the eu will certify buildings for energy efficiency from 2006 onwards. The European Climate Change Programme, established in 2000 to meet Kyoto Protocol targets, has identified the construction sector as providing the largest potential for carbon dioxide emission reduction. Buildings already account for up to …
Energy conservation seems to be the new buzzword for the Ontario government. The small Canadian province is set to offer tax credits to firms investing in energy-saving equipment and consumers buying solar panels. Ontario energy minister John Baird said new investments in energy-saving equipment would be eligible for a 100 …
The post-war boom had brought gas-guzzling vehicles, expanding highways and mushrooming suburbs in the industrialised countries, especially the US. This boom was fuelled by oil - the industrialised economies depended almost entirely on intensive use of fossil fuels. The world learned about its dependence on oil in 1973. The Yom …
The Caspian region has possibly the third largest oil and natural gas reserves in the world (after the Persian Gulf and western Siberia), estimated to be up to 15 per cent of the total reserves of the world. Hardly any of this potential has been tapped as yet, and it …
India's prominence in the energy market is that it is the world's sixth largest energy consumer - and yet woefully short of energy sources. It has large coal reserves but the worrisome part is petroleum, which accounts for about 30 per cent of the total energy. India produces only 30 …
"One of the ironies at the turn of the century is that, in an age when the pace of technological change is almost overwhelming, the world will remain dependent, out to the year 2020 at least, essentially on the same sources of energy - oil, natural gas, coal - that …
The US President George W Bush is raring to launch an attack on Iraq. Whether it has weapons of mass destruction or not, Iraq certainly has the world's second largest reserves of petroleum after Saudi Arabia. Thanks to UN sanctions, it produces a mere fraction of its potential. The US, …
"Not since the rise of the railroads more than a century ago has a single industry [energy] placed so many foot soldiers at the top of a new administration." - Newsweek, May 14, 2001 George W Bush took over as president of the US on January 20, 2001. Within two …
all the three partners in the coalition government of Sweden ratified a new energy policy allowing trading certificates in renewable energy. Under the new system guaranteed investment subsidies for particular forms of energy will be eliminated and replaced by market-based
the biggest barrier to commercialisation of renewable energy in the country remains political apathy. Our non-conventional energy programme, when it began way back in 1980, was lauded, particularly for the system of subsidies and tax benefits. In fact, India's solar energy programme ranked among the largest in the world. Today, …
in a significant step towards overhauling the us energy policy, the us senate approved an energy bill on April 25, 2002. The bill was passed by a vote of 88 to 11 after a series of discussions. It allows voluntary reporting of greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions by utilities and industries …
californian energy crisis is not simply a result of indiscreet state policy. The crisis stems from the combination of high regional natural gas prices, a large drop in hydroelectric power from dry weather conditions, and a demand shock due to the unseasonably warm summer of 2000. Moreover, air pollution regulations …
a letter of intent has been signed between the British energy group British Petroleum (bp) and the Economic Development Board (edb) to build hydrogen refueling stations for future Singapore motorists driving hydrogen-powered vehicles. Earlier, the edb signed a similar letter of intent with Daimler Chrysler to develop hydrogen-power cars for …
are the tiny grass blades capable of lighting up our houses? Farmers in Switzerland are coming up with the world's first commercial grass power station. The station, in the Schaffhausen town of northern Switzerland, would produce about three million-kilowatt hours of electricity annually from 4,400 tonnes of grass. More than …
revolutionary Electric Vehicle Alternative, or reva, the brainchild of Chetan Maini, managing director of Bangalore-based Maini group of companies, is not another smoke belching fossil fuel guzzler. The noiseless piece of machinery, first developed in 1996, is electrically driven. reva , India's first electric car, has been much delayed in …
the long-awaited us energy policy is finally out and its contents have come as no surprise. For people in the oil and gas industry, it is a dream come true. But for environmentalists, it is a disaster waiting to happen. The reliance on fossil fuels rather than renewable energy is …
tamil nadu was once a dream state for those wishing to run a wind energy project in India. Not any more. Earlier, a set of economic incentives and quick processing of projects ensured private parties came in droves to invest in the wind energy projects. The initiative taken in yester …
