This report for the Italian G7 Presidency identifies priority areas for potential collaboration between the G7 and Africa to advance the continent’s energy transition. Africa stands at a crucial crossroads
World powers have compromised on a demand that Iran commit to a long-term moratorium on uranium enrichment and are asking only for suspension during talks on Tehran's nuclear programme, diplomats
European vehicles will be running on distilled French and Italian wine again this summer as the upcoming season's surplus production from European vineyards is turned into biofuel. Europe produces
A leading power sector NGO has called upon the government to wave taxes and duties on import of solar panels which could be used for localized generation and use of electricity in remote and off-grid
Russo-Japanese talks are progressing over a proposal to let Japanese firms help Russia develop a Siberian oil field in connection with a project to lay a Pacific coast-bound pipeline, sources said.
Energy conservation and renewable energy such as wind power would be a better investment for US taxpayers than subsidies for new nuclear plants, according to a study released on Thursday by several
The World Bank has shown its willingness to provide funds to the Maharashtra State Electricity Transmission Company (MahaTransco) for strengthening its existing transmission network and build more in
Two US astronomers have discovered huge quantities of carbon gas mixed with a cloud of dust surrounding a young, yellow star that could resemble our own solar system at its inception, NASA said. The
Sixty per cent of rural India lives in utter poverty, with no electricity. Rural India uses 180 million tonnes of biomass every year for cooking, creating indoor pollution and health hazards. The WHO
At a time when the government is striving hard to mitigate the acute power shortage in the Capital, it is surprising that an ambitious power plant based on cow dung started in the late 1970s by the
The Manmohan Singh government has agreed to a "compromise' formula brought by US undersecretary of state for political affairs Nicholas Burns to the London meeting with foreign secretary Shyam Saran,
