West African legislators worried by climate change and soaring energy costs want regional leaders to back plans to harness sun and wind energy that experts say could bring electricity to some of the poorest people on earth.

NASA scientists have identified a site in the Sahara desert in northern Niger as the sunniest piece of land in the world.

Measures are being taken by the Ceylon Electricity Board (CEB) to supply electricity for Kalumediriya Tea Colony a remote area in the Kalawana Divisional Secretariat division.
Rs. 11.7 million has been set apart for this by the CEB on the initiative of W.D.J. Seneviratna Minister, of Power and Energy at the request of Janaka Wakkumbura, Kalawana SLFP chief organiser.

WASHINGTON: The U.S. House has approved a measure that would ease a longstanding ban on offshore oil drilling and try to spur greater use of alternative fuels as Democrats and Republicans engaged in a bitter pre-election clash over the nation's energy future.

Burning coal is the dirtiest, most old-fashioned way to produce electricity in the energy industry today.

However, in the coming years many governments and energy companies are hoping to reinvent coal as a cleaner, more modern form of energy in the coming years, as they try to reconcile energy security with the need to halt climate change.

Wind power has long been the big beast of the renewable energy jungle. The technology to generate electricity from wind has been established for more than two decades, and in the past five years has been refined and expanded towards much larger and more powerful turbines including ones that can be used at sea, and towards very small turbines that can be fixed to office buildings or houses.

Atiq Khan

Bid to tide over power crisis in the State
Last nail in the coffin, says Assocham

LUCKNOW: The Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation Limited (UPPCL) order to suspend electricity supply to industrial units from 10 PM to 6 AM threatened to hamper the progress of industrial development in the State. The order, which became effective from Friday night, was issued in a bid to tide over the ongoing power crisis.

Continuing power breakdowns and unscheduled load shedding resulted in a clash between locals of the Mustafabad area of Dharampura and officials of the Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) on Friday. The scuffle occurred as WAPDA officials tried to leave the area without restoring the electricity, City 42 reported. The channel cited the locals as saying that the area was without any electricity for long hours every day and WAPDA officials had done nothing to resolve the problem.

By S L Rao

The state has no energy policy or a co-ordinated action plan. And there is no system to ensure timely implementation.

There has never been a year in the last decade when India did not have a power crisis. This year is worse. Karnataka which was the most progressive, is very short of power today.

A programme to provide electricity to 58 villages in 20 divisional secretariat areas in Galle, Matara and Hambantota districts has been launched by the Southern Provincial Ministry of Power and Energy.
Arrangements have already been made to install transformers in 14 villages to extend the power supply.
Funds amounting Rs. 29.5 million have been reserved to implement rural electrification schemes in the Galle district, Rs. 24 million for the Matara district and Rs. 18 million for the Hambantota district under the programme, Ceylon Electricity Board sources said.