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 …
Sujay Mehdudia NEW DELHI: Raghaw Sharan Pandey, who took over as the new Petroleum Secretary on Friday, has issued strict directions to the Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) not to put any restrictions on "release and registration' of new LPG connections and make provisions for the purchase of 15 lakh new …
Bs Reporter / Mumbai August 01, 2008, 0:50 IST Mukesh Ambani-promoted Reliance Industries (RIL) will lose around $1 billion (Rs 4,300 crore) a year if it sells gas to the Anil Ambani's Reliance Natural Resources (RNRL) at the agreed price of $2.34 per million British thermal unit (mBtu). "If RIL …
Reforming environmentally harmful energy subsidies will need to play a central role in moving the world onto a more sustainable development path. Consensus on the detrimental impact of rising fossil-energy consumption on climate change now calls for renewed attention and urgency of the reform process. This report summarises the issues …
Alok Jha, green technology correspondent guardian.co.uk, Lighting the way ... a solar panel in China's Olympic village. Photograph: Dan Chung China is the world's leading producer of energy from renewable sources and is on the way to overtaking developed countries in creating clean technologies, according to a report by the …
Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) are a market based instrument to promote renewable energy power and facilitate renewable energy portfolio obligations. Tradable RECs have been used extensively as a successful market-based policy instrument to promote renewables in Australia, Japan, the US, the Netherlands, Denmark and the UK.
India, the largest economy of South Asia, has recently announced its National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC). This is of special significance given the mounting pressure on fast growing economies like India, China and Brazil from the developed countries for a commitment with legally binding obligations. Developed nations want …
The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy of India has announced a scheme on Generation Based Incentive (GBI) for grid connected wind power projects. The announcement comes after a very good response from an incentive scheme for solar power generation. Under this scheme, the investors apart from getting the tariff …
The Renewables Obligation is part of the country's programme to tackle climate change and to encourage a more sustainable approach to energy consumption.
Greater energy efficiency is key for shifting country development paths toward lower-carbon economic growth. Especially in developing countries and transition economies, vast potential for energy savings opportunities remain unrealized even though current financial returns are strong. "Financing Energy Efficiency: Lessons from Brazil, China, India, and Beyond" examines the nature of …
This report focuses on how foreign policy can help to further EU objectives on climate change and clean energy, looking specifically at how the EU can more effectively partner with large developing emitters in supporting a global transformation to cleaner energy systems over the first half of this century. The …
Coping strategies: countries adjust to all-time-high oil prices Bangladesh increased fuel prices for the first time since April 2007. The government maintained subsidies on diesel and kerosene, used predominantly by the poor. Texan motorists, in search of cheap gas, crossed the border into Mexico, which subsidizes its fuel. Indian truckers …
Hisar, July 29 The Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN) has turned more environment-friendly and cautious. It will now collect old unbroken burnt or used Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs), incandescent bulbs and tube lights for proper disposal so that these are not harmful to society and environment. DHBVN Managing Director …
Subhash Narayan NEW DELHI IN YET another setback to the distribution reforms in the power sector, the government's Accelerated Power Development & Reforms Programme (APDRP) may fail to meet the deadline yet again. The APDRP scheme aims to reduce aggregate technical and commercial (AT&C;) losses of utilities to 15% within …
Govt To Invoke LPG Control Order Under ECA Ambika Pandit | TNN New Delhi: After six intensive raids in the past four months and 217 prosecutions, the weights and measures department finds that LPG continues to be stolen and siphoned off from domestic cylinders into the black market. As a …
Siddharth Varadarajan New Delhi: In an attempt to address the pointed concerns India raised about the proposed Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline during the visit here of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last April, the Iranian government has handed over some fresh proposals and called for talks to quickly finalise the deal. The Iranian proposals …
Senior energy adviser to US Department of State, Dr Griffin M Thomson has suggested setting up of economically viable eco-friendly projects in the Northeast to become self-reliant in the field of energy. Talking exclusively with The Assam Tribune here today Dr Thomson, who is closely associated with several big projects …
Sushmi Dey NEW DELHI WITH oil prices ruling high despite recent correction, domestic companies such as Reliance Industries (RIL), Tata BP Solar, Essar Power, Suzlon and Moser Baer are investing more in renewable energy. While Suzlon, Moser Baer, Indowind and Webel raised $1.4 billion overseas in 2007 through convertible bonds …
Increased industrial use of diesel and preference for diesel vehicles has caused the demand for this fuel to accelerate. Subsidies are largely to blame. Three experts debate the fallouts. I S S U E S What are the socioeconomic consequences of the increasing consumption of diesel? Is relative price of …
Bs Reporter / Mumbai July 22, 2008, 0:12 IST Tata Power Company (TPC) has agreed to pick up a 26 per cent stake in the Royal Government of Bhutan (RGoB) promoted 114 mw hydro electric power project over river Dagachhu through Druk Green Power Corporation (DGPC). The project will be …
