Pakistan on Monday signed two agreements with the World Bank for making improvement in electricity distribution and transmission infrastructure worth 256.7 million dollars and water sector capacity building and advisory services for its efficient management worth 38 million dollars. The financing agreements for both projects were signed by acting Secretary of Economic Affairs Division Junaid Iqbal Chaudhry on behalf of the government of Pakistan and Country Director Yousapha B. Crookes on behalf of the World Bank.

Call it a quirk of fate. When B.S. Yeddyurappa took oath as the Chief Minister of Karnataka's first BJP government on May 30, 2008, he did so in the name of the farmer. He knew he owed his present position to him. The first decision of his Cabinet was also seen as pro-farmer: the government announced that it would not charge them for the electricity sold to power irrigation pumpsets. However, a few days later, when his police opened fire to control a mob of violent protestors, the first victim, Siddalingappa Choori (35), was a farmer. Several others were wounded.

Decades of investment in civilian nuclear power puts france in the energy catbird seat.

France ranks 10th in the EPI because of its supply of clean energy.

France, as the next head of the E.U., faces the challenge of adopting clean fuel and finding new energy sources. An overhead network of gas pipelines at a refuelling terminal in Lille. Almost 100,000 tonnes of local organic waste is treated annually to produce biogas which is used to run 75 per cent of the city's public buses.

Pune July 01 The Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) has urged citizens to make a solemn promise to conserve energy. Pradeep Bhargava, Chairman, Confederation of Indian Industries, Maharashtra said that Pune has zero loadshedding and has proposed that consumers should endeavour to keep the energy bill the same in rupees which they were paying before the reliability charge came into force. Bhargava who pointed out that the Pune model that was operational from June 4, 2006, was steered by CII and had resulted in the city being free from load shedding.

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Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson has flagged a looming confrontation with the Rudd Government on climate change, saying there is "a high probability" that the Coalition will oppose the Government's blueprint to tackle global warming. As world oil prices hit yet another record, and the Government's climate change adviser Ross Garnaut prepares to release his draft report on Friday, Dr Nelson said introducing an emissions trading scheme would make the introduction of the GST "look like a walk in the park".

FOR most of its 271 years, an old lumber mill along the Rahway River in Cranford got its power from water spilling over the falls near its banks. The building is now used for office space, its old-fashioned waterwheel long ago displaced by electricity generated from a modern fossil fuel-burning plant.

Smriti Kak Ramachandran DERC undecided whether to levy surcharge or not Consumers unsure of the benefits of open access NEW DELHI: Power consumers in the Capital are yet to warm up to the idea of choosing their electricity distributor, a practice known as "open access' that will become functional from July 1.

Low-cost biogas, an alternative fuel for cooking, is increasingly getting popular among the people in different rural areas of Lalmonirhat. Biogas is not only used as fuel for cooking foods it is also being used for producing electricity. The people, who never thought of having electricity in their remote areas, are now using electric bulbs, operating radio and television thanks to biogas plants. Currently, more than 250 rural families in the district are using biogas instead of firewood to cook foods and to electrify their houses, local sources said.

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