Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajaram Vs State of Haryana dated 27/05/2025. By the execution application, the applicant was seeking compliance of the NGT order July 5, 2024 passed in OA No. 735/2024. In the OA, the applicant has raised the grievance in respect of …
Solar and wind power are the sunrise industries CARBON security means ensuring safety of both energy and the environment. They are two sides of the same coin. Natural resources are invaluable, so it is critically important to conserve them for use, not just for us and our children, but for …
PENNSYLVANIA has played a big role in the history of American energy. Coal has been mined there since the 1760s (Pennsylvania is sometimes called “the coal state”). In 1859 Edwin Drake drilled a rickety well that set off America’s first oil rush. More recently it has produced more natural gas …
Bolivia has announced plans to build a $300m nuclear complex, including a research reactor, with Russian technology and help from Argentina. President Evo Morales told reporters the center will include a cyclotron for radiopharmaeuticals, a multi-purpose gamma irradiation plant and a research reactor. The project has drawn criticism from opposition …
THE stench of rot and rat excrement fills the living room of Yoshiei Igari, one of thousands of residents who fled the town of Naraha on March 12th 2011 after an earthquake and tsunami had sent the nearby Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant into meltdown. After Naraha lifted its evacuation …
This report provides a comprehensive review of the potential role of nuclear power in mitigating global climate change and its contribution to other economic, energy and environmental challenges. The report also examines broader issues relevant to the climate change–nuclear energy nexus, such as costs, investments, financing, safety, waste management and …
Ahead of the climate change summit in Paris in December, India today said green technology needs of emerging economies are "crucial" to fight greenhouse gas emissions and sought financial as well as technological support from developed nations. Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar also rued that the finance and technology mechanism under …
An energy watchdog has blasted the International Energy Agency (IEA) for "holding back the global energy transition", concluding that its annual World Energy Outlook (WEO) reports were published with misleading projections. According to a new study from the Energy Watch Group and Lappeenranta University of Technology, the WEO reports - …
World Nuclear Association has emphasized the need for the global nuclear industry to aim to achieve a 25 per cent share of world electricity production by 2050. Director-General of the association, Agneta Rising, said in a statement it would need to add 1000 gigawatts of new generation capacity to achieve …
This is the year when the fight against climate change could take a dramatic turn. The conference in Paris in December presents political and business leaders with the opportunity to take the critical decisions needed if we are to keep average temperature rises to no more than 1.5 or 2 …
Argentina, whose energy trade deficit stands at 8 billion U.S. dollars per year, has joined hands with China to develop renewable energy ranging from hydro and nuclear power to wind and solar power. If renewable energy takes one more percentage point in the country's total energy supply, 500 million U.S. …
German energy companies are short of as much as 30 billion euros ($34 billion) of the money they need to set aside to build a safe disposal site for nuclear waste as part of the country's exit from nuclear power, Spiegel Online reported on Monday. E.ON, RWE, EnBW and Vattenfall …
Europe’s industrial powerhouse Germany is transforming its energy supply by switching to renewable sources. Rather than slowing down the country's economy, which grew by 1.4 percent last year, Germany's green transition decreased energy demand by 5 percent and created additional 300,000 jobs. The German term “Energiewende” -- meaning energy transition …
Solar power generation contributed to about 10 percent of peak summer power supplies of Japan's nine major utilities, equivalent to more than 10 nuclear reactors, the Asahi newspaper reported on Thursday. Though solar power accounts for about 2 percent of annual generation of all power sources, summer's favorable sunlight conditions …
South Africa's future energy mix could have an even higher share of nuclear power than the planned 9,600 megawatts (MW), as it aims to cut reliance on polluting coal-fired power stations, a government official said on Wednesday. Africa's most advanced economy is facing a shortfall in electricity due to its …
The number of Japanese nuclear reactors likely to restart in the next few years has halved, hit by legal challenges and worries about meeting tougher safety standards imposed in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, a Reuters analysis shows. The country has been inching back to nuclear energy, turning on …
An 11-member team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency, who have been in Nairobi for a feasibility study on critical areas of the energy source, has given an initial green-light. IAEA team leader in charge of infrastructure development Josi Bastos said Kenya is on the right track as …
PRETORIA (Reuters) - South Africa has not struck a deal so far with any country on nuclear expansion but its immediate focus was to build more renewable power projects, the energy minister said on Monday. The government of Africa's most advanced economy, which is battling an energy crunch, said in …
President Jacob Zuma opened South Africa's first new power plant in 20 years on Sunday with a warning that the country's perennial energy shortages were hampering economic growth. Construction on the six-unit, 4,764 MW Medupi plant near Lephalale, about 350 km north of Johannesburg, was started in 2007 but the …
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Kazakhstan signed an agreement on Thursday to locate the world's first bank of low-enriched uranium (LEU) in the ex-Soviet nation to ensure fuel supplies for nuclear power stations and encourage nuclear non-proliferation. The bank, containing the raw material for making fuel for nuclear …
You may soon begin using power generated from nuclear sources as Kenya engages speed gear in the establishment of a nuke plant. The plan is set to diversify Kenya's electricity generation mix. An 11-member team of experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency are in Nairobi for feasibility analysis on …
