Punjab Green Hydrogen Policy
<p>The Punjab Energy Development Agency has released a draft green hydrogen policy aiming to achieve a green hydrogen and ammonia production capacity of 100 kilo tonnes per annum by 2030. The policy proposes
Biomass
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Navigating bioenergy: contributing to informed decision making on bioenergy issues
Navigating Bioenergy is intended to give the reader an initial balanced view of eight selected topics: Jatropha
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Energy access, efficiency, and poverty: how many households are energy poor in Bangladesh?
This paper studies welfare impacts of household energy use & estimates household minimum energy requirement that could be used as a basis for an energy poverty line.
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Rural biomass energy 2020
This publication explores the potential of biomass energy to close the urban
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Power project from solid waste on the cards
If the talks between the Abu Dhabi-based NRI group and government succeeds, Kochi will get its first electricity project which generates power from solid waste. Loro Group, an endeavour by NRIs in Abu Dhabi, is planning to start the plant in association with Irish company
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Technical potentials of biomass for energy services from current agriculture and forestry in selected countries in Europe, The Americas and Asia
<p>This report is a survey on the technical potential of biomass from current agriculture and forestry in the regions; Europe incl. Russia and Ukraine, USA, Canada, Brazil, Argentina, China and India. The report provides projections for agricultural residue production assuming availability of fertilizers, plant protection and mechanization.
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Integrated catalytic conversion of {gamma}-valerolactone to liquid alkenes for transportation fuels
Efficient synthesis of renewable fuels remains a challenging and important line of research.
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Energy poverty: how to make modern energy access universal?
Over 20% of the global population
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Sustainable use of biomass resources: A note on definitions, criteria, and practical applications
Does rural fuelwood use and more generally rural biomass use cause forest degradation? This question has been debated in scientific and policy circles. The author presents a framework for defining degradation and sustainable use of forests that might help clarify some of the confusion.
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Energy poverty in rural and urban India: are the energy poor also income poor?
Energy poverty is a frequently used term among energy specialists, but unfortunately the concept is rather loosely defined. Several existing approaches measure energy poverty by defining an energy poverty line as the minimum quantity of physical energy needed to perform such basic tasks as cooking and lighting. This paper proposes an alternative measure that is based on energy demand.
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The new biomassters: synthetic biology and the next assault on biodiversity and livelihoods
<p>This new report by ETC group is a critique of what OECD countries are calling 'the new bioeconomy'. Analyzes impact of next generation biofuels, burning of biomass for electricity and also sets the new REDD+ provisions in this context.</p>