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Energy Efficiency: Achieving the Potential, Realizing the SavingsBy : sustainabilityo..., Mar 17, 2010
For the next few decades, energy efficiency is one of the lowest cost options for reducing US carbon emissions. Many studies have concluded that energy efficiency can save both energy and money. For example, a recent McKinsey report calculated the potential savings assuming a... Read more.. |
Now, drive an energy-efficient hybrid carBy : sustainabilityo..., Mar 14, 2010
How about installing a solar panel in the house to tap solar energy or driving an energy-efficient hybrid car? While a number of papers on technological innovations in electrical and electronics engineering have gained attention in Prastuti-2010, a number of engineering... Read more.. |
India’s ONGC and Russia in energy pact talksBy : sustainabilityo..., Mar 12, 2010
India’s Oil and Natural Gas Corp is in talks with Gazprom and Rosneft over taking equity stakes in oil and gas projects in Russia to help cement an energy partnership between New Delhi and Moscow. An official at India’s foreign ministry said on Thursday the talks would... Read more.. |
Conserving power, one bulb at a timeBy : sustainabilityo..., Mar 11, 2010
India’s first thrust with energy efficiency through Earth Hour in 2009, when Delhi saved 600 MW — 14 per cent of its daily electricity requirement — in an hour, is set to get bigger. The country’s first two pilot projects on saving household energy — the biggest cause... Read more.. Subject Tags: energy |
BIMSTEC agrees to set up energy center in IndiaBy : sustainabilityo..., Mar 9, 2010
Seven countries in the south and southeast Asia on Friday agreed to set up a energy center in India to promote and develop energy grid interconnection, infrastructure and energy efficiency. Ministers or representatives of seven members of the Bay of Bengal Initiative... Read more.. |
India for energy cooperation with Australia, NorwayBy : sustainabilityo..., Mar 6, 2010
India is likely to discuss bilateral cooperation in energy sector with Norway and Australia as the foreign ministers of both these nations are on official visits. The foreign minister of Norway, Jonas Gahr Støre is on an official visit to India from March 1-3 . Støre... Read more.. |
Budgeting for green energyBy : sustainabilityo..., Mar 5, 2010
“Coal,” said the Finance Minister, Mr Pranab Mukherjee, in his Budget speech, “is the mainstay of India's energy sector and 75 per cent of the power generation is currently coal based.” He then went on to make some announcements which, although necessary by themselves, left... Read more.. Subject Tags: energy |
First Solar Projects Bullish U.S., Asian Demand -- But It Should Think AgainBy : sustainabilityo..., Mar 5, 2010
First Solar (FSLR), a global leader in thin-film solar power modules, thinks that North American installations and additional opportunities in Asia will offset falling solar business in Europe. But uncertain financing and regulatory issues suggest that it may have... Read more.. |
India Announces Coal Tax To Fund Renewable Energy ProjectsBy : sustainabilityo..., Mar 4, 2010
In a landmark announcement the Indian Finance Minister, in his annual Budget speech, put forward the proposal of setting of National Clean Energy Fund which would be constituted through tax lieved on coal usage in the country. The quantum of tax would be INR 50 per ton of... Read more.. Subject Tags: energy , Social Issues |
N-fuel must to alleviate climate change threatBy : sustainabilityo..., Mar 3, 2010
World scientific community has acknowledged that nuclear energy is a mitigating one in the context of climate change threat, but to make it sustainable, completing the nuclear fuel cycle is a must, a top scientist has said. “By closing the nuclear fuel cycle with... Read more.. Subject Tags: energy , Technology |