This report summarizes the findings of a review aimed at understanding emerging approaches to energy subsidy reform, discerning trends, and identifying major strands of thinking and research in the field, as reflected in major policy and academic journals relevant to the subject. The review was initiated in early 2020 as …
About 2,800 homes across the country will be using biogas energy source as an alternative to LPG and electricity by 2015. The Bhutan Biogas Project (BBP), which commenced in December 2011, has already connected 1,009 homes of farmers in five southern dzongkhags with biogas plants. The energy is used in …
Pakistan and Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Monday formally signed loan agreement wherein the Bank would provide $400 million to Islamabad for the much needed energy sector reforms. Werner E. Liepach, ADB’s Country Director for Pakistan and Nargis Sethi, Secretary, Economic Affairs Division, signed the agreement. Finance Minister Senator Ishaq …
Given the Met’s disastrous track record in predicting the impact of El Nino events—the first projection in 2009 was of a rainfall level of 96% of the long-period average against the actual levels of just 77%—its initial projections of a 23% probability of deficient rains are scary; more so since, …
Sri Lanka's Central Bank has sounded a note of caution and over the rising burden of renewable power on consumers as the proportion of non-conventional renewable power (NCRE) increases in the grid. "Although the country is keen on including more renewable energy to its total generation plan due to its …
Sounding bullish about India, International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects country's economic growth to move up to 5.5 per cent in the current fiscal and 6.25 per cent in the next fiscal. "Our sense is that the growth will pick up this year-5.5 per cent this year going up to 6.25 …
Prof. N.H. Ravindranath at the Centre of Ecological Sciences, IISc, Bengaluru, and one of the lead authors of the last of the three IPCC working group reports focusing on mitigating climate change maintains that the agricultural sector has a high potential for energy efficiency. Prof. Ravindranath said, “The agricultural sector …
The government stands ready to provide subsidies to the renewable energy sector to encourage exploring alternatives to costly fossil fuels, State Minister for Energy and Power Nasrul Hamid said yesterday. "We have to take a decision on it. We have to decide about subsidies in rural and urban areas. Otherwise, …
GWEC's Global Wind Report - Annual Market Update on the status of the global wind industry is the authoritative source of information on wind power markets around the world. This year’s edition includes insights of the most important wind power markets worldwide, future trends with market projections for 2014-2018, an …
Climate Central — Don’t let all those Texas wind farms and massive installations of solar panels in California fool you. The U.S. is not the world leader in clean energy investment. China is. For the second year, an annual Pew Charitable Trusts report, “Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race?”, shows …
The latest edition of this authoritative annual report tells the story of the latest developments, signs and signals in the financing of renewable power and fuels. Packed full of statistics, charts and illuminating narrative, it explores the issues affecting each type of investment, technology, region. According to Global Trends in …
Even as the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government has put on hold its ambitious unique identification (UID) code-linked cash transfer programme, a study by noted economist Karthik Muralidharan shows that leakage of funds allocated for the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) dropped by as much as 12.2 …
India may upgrade nationwide fuel standards to eliminate cancer-causing particle emissions from vehicular exhaust by 2021, nine years behind other developing countries such as Turkey and Brazil. India’s pumps may start selling fuels of the same quality sold in Europe by April 2021, according to a draft copy of recommendations …
Michael Greenstone of MIT says almost 6.28 mn population in 281 districts of India is exposed to health risks due to poor adherence to pollution standards India’s over 121 billion strong population stands to gain almost 3.3 years of their life if all parts of the country adhere to the …
Do you worry that there is not enough water for people, the economy and environment? Do you wonder if the water in our taps and rivers is safe or polluted? Do you want to know if farmers waste water, utilities charge too much, or bottled water destroys ecosystems? You're not …
India can save up to 78 per cent in subsidies provided to the green energy sector by making adjustments to its renewable energy policies, according to a new study. As per this joint study from Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and the Bharti Institute of Public Policy at the Indian School …
The World Bank is set to approve a ‘development policy’ credit of $500 million to help Pakistan design an efficient and consumer-oriented electric power system which will lead to reducing subsidies and improving tariff policy, entailing a reduction of the subsidies allocated in the federal budget from 1.8 per cent …
The Congress’s manifesto that will be released on Wednesday would, party sources told The Hindu , address all the key issues that have plagued it in the last few years — corruption, rising prices of essentials, security of women, need for greater employment opportunities for the youth, a burgeoning subsidy …
India’s ambitious target of doubling renewable energy capacity to 55,000 MW by 2017 needs a shift in policies for these projects to become viable, according to a study by the Climate Policy Initiative and the Bharti Institute of Public Policy at the Indian School of Business. “Long-term, debt-related policies are …
Projects may become unviable as ministry has got just a third of the budgeted . 1,521 crore for 2013-14 Solar and wind energy companies are waiting for the government to clear subsidies amounting to more than . 1,000 crore as they stare at potentially unviable projects which they had launched …
Targeting India’s Food Security Programme, the US has questioned its efficiency and has said that the country should spell out measures to increase the programme’s effectiveness. It has also demanded that India submit all relevant statistics and documents on the programme to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in order to …
