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Energy Efficiency: Achieving the Potential, Realizing the Savings

By : 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...

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Now, drive an energy-efficient hybrid car

By : 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...

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Subject Tags: Disaster , energy , Technology

India’s ONGC and Russia in energy pact talks

By : 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...

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Subject Tags: energy , India , Russia , Technology

Conserving power, one bulb at a time

By : 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...

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Subject Tags: energy

BIMSTEC agrees to set up energy center in India

By : 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...

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Subject Tags: energy , India , Technology

India for energy cooperation with Australia, Norway

By : 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...

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Subject Tags: energy , India , Norway , Politics

Budgeting for green energy

By : 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...

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Subject Tags: energy

First Solar Projects Bullish U.S., Asian Demand -- But It Should Think Again

By : 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...

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India Announces Coal Tax To Fund Renewable Energy Projects

By : 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...

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Subject Tags: energy , Social Issues

N-fuel must to alleviate climate change threat

By : 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...

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Subject Tags: energy , Technology