Global electricity review 2024
Renewables generated a record 30 percent of global electricity in 2023, driven by growth in solar and wind especially from China, according to the Global Electricity Review 2024 released by the global
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Enzyme May Help Unlock Biofuels From Waste
A new chemical process may help unlock biofuels from trees and plant waste in a shift from using food crops such as sugar cane to generate fuel, scientists said Thursday. They said they found an enzyme that helped break down chitin, a stiff material similar to woody cellulose that is found in the skeletons of crustaceans -- such as lobsters or crabs -- as well as insects. "We regard this as
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No conversion charges on renewable energy projects in Haryana
In a major relief to the food processing industry and renewable energy projects in the state, the Haryana government will provide them exemption in conversion charges and scrutiny fee. The move will allow the government to exempt the renewable energy projects from conversion charges and scrutiny fee whereas the food processing units will be given 50 per cent concession in the conversion charges
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Wind power heads for deep sea
Floating Windmills Will Harness Energy Where Winds Are Strongest Danny Fortson Agroup of companies has come up with a radical proposal that it claims will open up thousands of kilometres of coastline to zero-carbon power: floating windmills. Project Deepwater was launched last year by firms including BAE Systems, the defence giant, and the utility EDF Energy to research ways of overcoming t
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Put Gidderbaha project under PSPCL: Engineers
Patiala: The PSEB Engineers
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Policy pathways: monitoring, verification and enforcement - improving compliance within equipment energy efficiency programmes
The IEA estimates that, if implemented globally without delay, the 25 IEA Energy Efficiency recommendations could save 8.2 Gt CO2 per year by 2030. Yet many governments struggle with their implementation and thus miss a great part of the energy efficiency potential.
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High investor interest light up solar power plans
New Delhi: The country will begin rolling out hundreds of megawatts of solar power by December next year, ahead of an initial target for an ambitious plan that seeks to zoom production from near zero to 20 gigawatts by 2022. Under its Solar Mission plan issued last year, India is to produce 1,300 megawatt (mw) of power by 2013, an additional supply of up to 10 gigawatt (gw) by 2017 and the rest
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IEA flags off steps to energy efficiency
According to IEA, over 40 per cent of the 25 energy efficiency policy recommen-dations it made a couple of years ago have remained unimplemented. G.
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Assessment report on energy efficiency institutional arrangement in Asia
The technical and economic viability of energy efficiency (EE) has become more pronounced as concerns about energy security, climate change and low carbon development intensify. Although the promotion of EE has long been identified as an effective policy tool to manage energy demand, active pursuit of EE still lags behind in many ESCAP countries.
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AASU for subsidies to gas-based industries
GUWAHATI, Oct 14
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UPA Govt indulging in politics over coal allotment to MP
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday alleged that the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government was indulging in sheer politics over the allotment of coal to Madhya Pradesh.