Energy Surveys

Reforming energy subsidies: opportunities to contribute to the climate change agenda

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 and challenges in removing or modifying subsidies on energy that undermine the pursuit of sustainable development.
- 01/08/2008
- UNEP
Asom lagging behind national average

The National Electricity Policy has envisaged a quantum jump in the per capita consumption of electricity for the next five years, but Asom is at the bottom of the list of States. Asom is lagging far behind the national average in so far as the per capita consumption of power is concerned. The per capita consumption of electricity in Asom during 2006-2007 was only 175 kwh against the national average of 671.89 kwh, and almost lowest among the north-eastern States during the period, sources said.
- 17/04/2008
- Sentinel (Guwahati)
Wood-energy supply/demand scenarios in the context of poverty mapping

This publication provides policy-makers and project personnel with tools to assess present energy flows and future energy scenarios. It uses a geographic information system to generate and manage data independently of political boundaries, integrating and analysing relationships among socio-economic and environmental variable and facilitates the identification of priority areas and population that deserve greatest attention in efforts to attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
- 01/01/2007
- FAO
Show and tell

Measured dose: watch what you consume
- 14/03/2006
- Down To Earth
Tricky obligations

 A fire wall between military and civilian nuclear facilities: Can limit scope of facilities and end India's nuclear weapons programme.  IAEA safeguards for civilian fast breeders:
- 14/08/2005
- Down To Earth
- - Energy Surveys
Renewing energy practices

Ontario, Canada's most populous province and home to one third of its population, is poised to take a lead in renewable energy utilisation in North America. Though several American states have set
- 30/12/2004
- Down To Earth
- - Energy Surveys
Opting for renewables

According to IEA’s factsheet, Renewables in global energy supply, the wind energy sector has grown at more than 52 per cent per annum since 1971, and solar power by 32 per cent per annum.
- 14/06/2004
- OECD
Targets or Diktats?

At Renewables 2004 "an international action plan will be on the agenda, including actions and commitments by governments, international organisations and stakeholders,' says the conference
- 14/06/2004
- OECD
India: Aim, Hope High

Starting before industrialised Germany and the UK, India has perhaps promoted renewables the longest though a dedicated establishment. The country's Ministry of Non-conventional Energy Sources (MNES) is one of its kind in the world. India has the fifth largest installed wind capacity in the world at 2400 MW. In 2003 alone, India added 615 MW of wind energy. By March 2003, it had 484 MW of installed biomass power/zcogeneration, 53 MW from biomass gasifiers and 2.5 MW of solar PVs. Installed capacity for all renewables by March 2004 was more than 4,600 MW.
- 14/06/2004
Time to plug in

The International Conference for Renewable Energies is to be held in Bonn, Germany. But here is a sector dwarfed by fossil fuels, and although governments can proactively root for renewables, and some have, the options given to developing countries are qu
- 14/06/2004
- OECD