Energy Efficiency

Reply affidavit on behalf of the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) regarding state of groundwater in Haryana, 03/05/2025

Reply affidavit on behalf of the Central Ground Water Board in the matter of Suo Moto case titled "Haryana 60.48% groundwater over exploited Kurukshetra worst Jhajjar best says" appearing in the Tribune, January 8, 2025. The CGWA report, May 3, 2025 addresses the issue of groundwater exploitation and violation of …

Start-ups turn global warming challenge into thriving biz opportunity

A CLUTCH of small companies is turning the brouhaha over global warming into a hot business proposition. Sidhartha Bhimania

Civic body bags award for energy conservation

Pune The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has won the second prize in national energy conservation awards for the year for its efforts on energy conservation through use of advance technology for streetlights.

Amendments to Energy Act cleared

Aarti Dhar NEW DELHI: The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved amendments to the Energy Conservation Act, 2001 to introduce the system of issuing energy saving certificates to be traded in the domestic market. The

A greener focus is quite profitable, finds Thermax

Pravda Godbole / Pune December 10, 2009, 0:12 IST Teams across divisions find immense scope for getting more with less. From a small boilermaker company to a leader in energy and environment solutions, Thermax

Cabinet nod to energy law amendment likely

RASHME SEHGAL Keen to show the world during the Copenhagen Summit that they mean business, the Cabinet is expected to approve an amendment to the Energy Conservation Act 2001 on Thursday. With Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh having announced several energy saving measures in Parliament last week, the Cabinet is …

Road ahead from Copenhagen

As Copenhagen has got going amidst more hope than was there initially, attention must shift to the massive task that lies beyond. As Copenhagen has got going amidst more hope than was there initially, attention must shift to the massive task that lies beyond. After the politicians have just managed …

Small car maker, but big energy saver

Suveen K Sinha / New Delhi December 09, 2009, 0:33 IST Vinay Varshney, as he predicts the end of CFL lamps in a few years, points to the ceiling of the conference room at Maruti Suzuki

Deepak Khaitan And His Magic Lamp

Unexpected success from an experiment is changing the fortunes of Eveready The metal road leading up to village Rani Purva is the brighter side of the discordant showcase of its development. On the seamier side, this village

IT Can Do It

As we wait for renewable remedies, clever use of IT can substantially cut emissions Sitting inside the historic golden gate park in San Francisco, the California Academy of Sciences is one of the more attractive buildings in the city. It was among the many buildings in the Bay Area damaged …

Pedalling to greener world

At a time when experts and top negotiators of the country have landed in Copenhagen to explore ways for delaying the catastrophic consequences of climate change and global warming, collective vows to reduce daily carbon footprint for a greener future came from citizens of the Capital. About 150 responsible Delhiites

India to invest Rs 74,000 cr in CO2 emission cutbacks

Sudheer Pal Singh / New Delhi December 7, 2009, 0:59 IST Coal-based generators plan upgrades, clean tech over 5 years. Jairam Ramesh India is planning to invest over Rs 74,000 crore within the next five years to improve energy efficiency and cut carbon emissions from its power sector. Coal-based power …

A long game

China sees opportunities as well as dangers in climate change UNLIKE America

Good policy, and bad

Some mitigation policies are effective, some are efficient, and some are neither GREENHOUSE-GAS emissions targets can be implemented through three sorts of policy instruments

Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: household energy

Energy used in dwellings is an important target for actions to avert climate change. Properly designed and implemented, such actions could have major co-benefits for public health. To investigate, we examined the effect of hypothetical strategies to improve energy efficiency in UK housing stock and to introduce 150 million low-emission …

Russian pledge vs. business-as-usual: impelementing energy efficiency policies can curb carbon emissions

This paper explores possible future trends of GHG emissions of Russia which are helpful for formulating a future mitigation commitment of the country. For this, the paper provides a rough forecast of national CO2 emissions associated with fuel combustion in 2010 - 2020. The main argument of the paper is …

Russian pledge vs. business-as-usual: impelementing energy efficiency policies can curb carbon emissions

This paper explores possible future trends of GHG emissions of Russia which are helpful for formulating a future mitigation commitment of the country. For this, the paper provides a rough forecast of national CO2 emissions associated with fuel combustion in 2010 - 2020. The main argument of the paper is …

AMC mulls streetlight energy savers

Civic Body Debates Installation Of Two Systems Even Though The Cheaper Option Saves More Energy Paul John | TNN Ahmedabad: A debate has ensued in Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) on installation of energy savers for over 90,000 streetlights for the city. The choice is between a system that costs Rs …

Climate of unrest

When Barack Obama took office as US president in January, he thought he had a double-whammy solution for two of his most pressing challenges: tackling the economic crisis and reducing his country

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