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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India seeks additional 5 mt oil from Saudi Arabia for 2012-13
New Delhi To serve the expected addition in refining capacity and to partly replace any shortfall in crude oil supplies from Iran, India has sought an additional 5 million tonne of crude oil from Saudi Arabia. India has also sought investments from Saudi firms in its new petrochemical and refinery projects. “We have sought 5 million tonne extra crude oil from Saudi Arabia for 2012-13,” minister of state for petroleum and natural gas R P N Singh said here after holding discussions with the visiting assistant minister for petroleum affairs Abdul Aziz Bin Salman bin Abdulaziz.
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German-Saudi Partnership to Build Polysilicon Plant in Red Sea City
Germany's Centrotherm Photovoltaics, the world's second-largest manufacturer of solar photovoltaic (PV) equipment, has signed an agreement with IDEA Polysilicon to construct a polysilicon solar PV manufacturing
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Flood-hit areas: Saudi Arabia to provide $120,000 for water schemes
King Abdullah's Relief Campaign for Pakistani People will provide funds amounting to US $120,000 to Helping Hand for Relief and Development (HHRD) with the purpose to install water pumps and filtration
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Middle East Trails Again In Green Energy Growth
Talk of a Middle Eastern green energy boom is likely to prove no more than a mirage with little hope of the region saving clean technology companies from the shrinking project pools of Europe. Instead
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Pressed by U.S., Asian Countries Look for Ways to Reduce Purchases of Iranian Oil
Under growing pressure from the United States, some of Asia’s largest economies are reluctantly looking for options to reduce the amount of oil they buy from Iran, a move that would further tighten the
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World’s largest solar plant powers up
Spanish venture is as big as 210 football pitches and has 600,000 mirrors. But there’s a dark side Just under a month ago, on an empty mountain plateau in Andalusia, the last of 600,000 parabolic mirrors
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Canada pulls out of Kyoto, deals blow to climate talks
Toronto Canada pulled out of the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, saying the accord won’t help solve the climate crisis. It dealt a blow to the anti-global warming treaty, which has not been formally renounced by any other country. Environment minister Peter Kent said Monday that Canada is invoking its legal right to withdraw and said Kyoto doesn't represent the way forward for Canada or the world.
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Total's Alberta Oil Sands Project Gets Approved
The Canadian government gave Total SA approval on Thursday to start construction on its C$9 billion ($8.9 billion) Joslyn North oil sands project in Alberta, marking the fifth mining development in the
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Green climate fund delayed as dissent grows
A flagship green climate fund aimed at channelling billions of dollars to help poor countries tackle global warming has been put on ice at the Durban climate summit as a growing number of countries bicker
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US blocks key fund in climate agreement
The US is refusing to sign off on a flagship global climate fund, as already fraught negotiations intensify ahead of next week’s UN climate summit and carbon prices plummet to new lows. It was already