Global Electricity Review 2025
<p>In a world of higher electricity demand growth, clean electricity is stepping up to the challenge. Spearheaded by exponential solar expansion, clean power is set to grow faster than demand, marking
Fossil Fuels
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Wind power: harnessing wind for energy, environment and economy
It is a known fact that the world
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The effects of fossil-fuel subsidy reform: a review of modelling and empirical studies
Understanding the complex trade-offs between the economic, environmental and social impacts of subsidy reform is a challenge for any government considering phasing out fossil-fuel subsidies. Jennifer Ellis provides a detailed literature review, focusing on the six modelling studies in the last 20 years that have attempted to analyze global impacts for all fuels.
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Untold billions: fossil-fuel subsidies, their impacts and the path to reform
<p>Untold Billions: Fossil-fuel subsidies, their impacts and the path to reform is a series of papers examining the extent of fossil-fuel subsidies, their impact on climate change and sustainable development more broadly, and the challenges to their reform.
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Tread cautiously on fossil fuel use: experts to govt
Gireesh Chandra Prasad New Delhi: India Inc should end its dependence on fossil fuel and consumers should be more disciplined in their use of subsidised fuel, but the government has to be cautious while considering harsh disincentives to the use of fossil fuel such as a carbon tax, policymakers and representatives of corporate India agreed on Saturday.
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Analysis of the scope of energy subsidies and suggestions for the G-20 initiative
Energy subsidies are often used to alleviate energy poverty and promote economic development by enabling access to affordable modern energy services.
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Shadow Integrated Energy Policy (IEP): a critique on Planning Commission document on Integrated Energy Policy
<p>Energy has become a crucial sector of the modern society, so much so that per capita availability of energy is considered as an indicator of economic prosperity.
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Analysis of the scope of energy subsidies and suggestions for the G-20 initiative
The report includes: Discussion of the scope of energy subsidies; Estimates of energy subsidies, and identification of the gaps in the existing data and issues around the measurement of energy subsidies; Modelling-based analysis of the implications of phasing-out energy subsidies on the economy, including socio-economic and trade impacts, the environment, and the energy sector; and Suggestions
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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>
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Bioenergy in India
This report forms part of a project aiming to develop a South-South-North partnership to reshape the impact of a predicted large-scale expansion in global biomass energy use towards greater poverty reduction and maintenance of ecosystem services in developing countries. The consortium of partners represents leading biomass energy researchers from multiple disciplines.
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Capturing Pollution
Among all the possible fuels that can produce a zero-emission car, petrol must rank right at the bottom, if at all. But for mechanical engineer Andrei Fedorov, petrol is the right fuel, or at least good enough, to run a zero-emission car.