Global electricity review 2024
Renewables generated a record 30 percent of global electricity in 2023, driven by growth in solar and wind especially from China, according to the Global Electricity Review 2024 released by the global
Renewables generated a record 30 percent of global electricity in 2023, driven by growth in solar and wind especially from China, according to the Global Electricity Review 2024 released by the global
The world must go back to harnessing the powers of the sun as it was done at the beginning of human civilisation to deal with global environmental changes, Taiwanese Nobel laureate Yuan Tseh Lee said on Sunday. “We must return to sunshine to develop a more harmonious role with nature,” he said. “Once in history we were the children of the sun and were dependent on it for our needs, but we shifted to fossil fuels. We must dissociate ourselves from them and turn back to the sun to deal with global environmental change,” Lee said at the centenary session of the Indian Science Congress here.
Natural gas prices in the economy are expected to rise as a panel led by the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council chairman C Rangarajan has asked for linking domestic prices to an average of international hub prices and the cost of imported LNG. The report submitted to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has also suggested scrapping the cost recovery clause in production sharing contracts (PSCs) the government signs with exploration companies in future. Instead it has suggested the share of the contractor should be determined through a competitive bid process. The recommendation is expected to avoid tussles like that of the oil ministry with Reliance Industries Ltd where the difference in cost recovery formula has almost led to arbitration.
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This paper surveys a broad range of activities at the frontiers of private sector engagement on water predominantly, though not exclusively, driven by MNCs in the food and beverage sector. In so doing,