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
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Asia starts to lead way on clean energy
Australia's neighbours in Asia - especially China - are emerging as the countries best placed to prosper from moves to cut greenhouse gas emissions, an international study has found. In their second
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Refineries here wait for govt lead on Iran crude oil import
Despite the uncertainty surrounding re-insurance for oil refineries over crude oil import from Iran, companies here are not perturbed yet about the United States’ sanctions in this regard. They said they believe the government would come out with a solution by June. Hit largely by the sanctions are the country’s largest importer of Iranian crude oil, Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals ( MRPL), a subsidiary of Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), and Indian Oil’s ( IOC’s) Chennai Petroleum Corporation.
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Hazardous scrap being dumped with impunity
Customs authorities continue to release imported plastic scrap merely on generalised letters and certificates from exporters in violation of the Import Policy Order which categorically asks for compliance
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Oil imports from Iran down 35% from 2008-09
Ever since the ban on Iranian oil imports by European Union nations came into effect in February 2012, Indians oil companies have gradually reduced their dependence on oil from the West Asian country and put in place alternative arrangements. India aims to cut Iranian oil imports by around 15% every year from the current level of 15 million tonne, which itself is down 35% from the level in 2008-09. The country's largest buyer of Iran crude oil, Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals (MRPL), has reduced imports from the country to 5 million tonne this fiscal from 6.2 million tonne in 2011-12.
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Export ban on processed food to go
Cabinet may clear proposal today to boost agri exports In a major fillip to India’s processed food exports, the Cabinet is set to clear a policy under which processed foods from agricultural commodities such as wheat, rice, onion and milk would not be subject to any export ban or restrictions. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) is set to clear the proposal on Thursday to exempt 14 types of processed food from the purview of export restrictions including oats, milk products, dehydrated onions, wheat and rice products.
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India among top land-grabbing nations
Increasing protests against land grabs is one of India’s most pressing development challenges, said experts from international organisations working on natural resources, ecology and livelihoods. The
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$200m Saudi grant for vaccination on the way
Saudi Arabia is to give $200 million to Pakistan to strengthen its vaccination programme meant for fighting childhood diseases, according to former Saudi health minister Dr Hussain A Gezairy. “The Islamic
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A national strategy on energy security needed, says expert
“War in the Gulf will have profound effect on India” Observing that a war in the Gulf would have a profound effect on India, an American expert on the Middle East, Jon Alterman, said New Delhi needed a national strategy to deal with rising threat to its security, particularly on the energy front. Mr. Alterman holds the Zbigniew Brzezisnki Chair in Global Security and Geo-strategy and is director of the Middle East programme at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies, a non-governmental think-tank.
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Output beats global oil consumption
Mismatch In Favour Of Production 1st Time Since ’04-05, Prices Drop 25% In 4 Months New Delhi:Strange things are happening in the world of oil. Crude prices have dropped more than 25% in the past four
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Saudi battles excess heat, dust to build solar power
Saudi Arabia, the world's top oil exporter, may finally be getting serious about overcoming the technical and financial hurdles for tapping its other main resource: sunshine. Thousands of solar power