Renewable Energy

IEA launches the Clean Energy Transitions Programme to support clean-energy development

November 8, 2017 Anand Gupta

The International Energy Agency announced today the launch of the Clean Energy Transitions Programme, a new multi-year, EUR 30 million plan backed by 13 countries to support clean energy transitions around the world. This new Programme will leverage the IEA’s unique energy expertise across all fuels and technologies to help accelerate global clean-energy transitions, particularly […]

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IRENA COALITION FOR ACTION LAUNCHES RENEWABLES4CLIMATE CAMPAIGN

November 7, 2017 Anand Gupta

New campaign highlights renewable energy as key climate solution Recent findings from the World Meteorological Organization show that last year’s concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere increased at an unprecedented pace. While this rapid increase in concentrations can be attributed to a culmination of factors, energy-related emissions continue to represent up to two-thirds […]

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World’s energy leaders to meet for 2017 IEA Ministerial Meeting

November 7, 2017 Anand Gupta

The world’s energy leaders will meet in Paris this week for the 2017 IEA Ministerial Meeting. This high-level gathering of the IEA Family, including Ministers and Heads of Delegations from the IEA’s 29 members, as well as Association and Accession countries and top business executives, provides a unique opportunity to discuss the most pressing and […]

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Bonn climate meet begins with aim to go beyond Paris pledges (Lead)

November 7, 2017 Anand Gupta

The two-week global climate change talks with the attendance of diplomats of 197 nations and thousands of non-state actors and green activists opened in this German city on Monday with a commitment to go ahead of the 2015 Paris Agreement pledges to counter climate change. In his inaugural remarks, Fiji President Frank Bainimarama, who is […]

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World’s tallest wind turbines will store power in massive water batteries

November 6, 2017 Anand Gupta

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With their blades reaching 800 feet into the sky, these German windmills will help provide energy even when the wind doesn’t blow. According to a report by Windpower Engineering, a project in Gaildorf, Germany, by Max Bögl Wind will take the crown as tallest when it goes online in 2018, with four turbines held at […]

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India To See 6 GW Of Wind Power Auctioned In 5 Months

November 6, 2017 Anand Gupta

Inox Wind Limited, the most aggressive player in bidding for new wind power projects, said it expects almost 6 GW of new wind power projects to be auctioned in India over the next five months. In comparison, the country added 5.4 GW of wind power capacity on the ground in the last financial year that […]

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Global shift to clean, affordable energy critical to attaining Global Goals – UN officials

November 3, 2017 Anand Gupta

New York: To tackle the double challenge of energy poverty and climate change – producing clean, affordable energy at a pace that will meet rising demand without environmental detriment – all stakeholders must step up efforts to transform the world’s energy systems for everyone’s benefit, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Wednesday. “Energy is […]

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DuPont to sell cellulosic ethanol plant in blow to biofuel

November 3, 2017 Anand Gupta

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CHICAGO/NEW YORK – DuPont Industrial Biosciences, a unit of DowDuPont Inc, on Thursday said it halted operations at a two-year-old ethanol plant and will sell it, dealing another blow to efforts to create biofuels without using food crops. The decision to shut the Iowa plant comes as political winds are undercutting efforts to produce ethanol […]

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India to achieve COP 21 goals before deadline

November 2, 2017 Anand Gupta

NEW DELHI : India is likely to achieve the self declared Sustainable Development Goal of lowering fossil fuel share in the energy mix earlier than committed according to Secretary, Ministry of Power, Ajay Kumar Bhalla. Speaking at the launch of a project partnership between Energy Efficiency Services Ltd and Global Environment Facility, Bhalla said, “India currently […]

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More Power To Wind

November 2, 2017 Anand Gupta

The government is providing a shot in the arm to the wind energy industry, which is battling dipping prices and low demand. The government is providing a shot in the arm to the wind energy industry, which is battling dipping prices and low demand. The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), a PSU that promotes […]

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