Energy

Least developed countries report 2017

UNCTAD’s Least Developed Countries Report focuses on transformational energy access for the LDCs, where 62 per cent of people have no access to electricity, compared with 10 per cent across other developing countries.

Publication Date: 
22/11/2017
UNCTAD
Tags:
Energy, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Power Transmission, Developing Countries, Electricity, Infrastructure Development, Household Energy, Renewable Energy, Poverty, India, China, South Africa, Brazil, Russia
Energy

India’s Electricity sector transformation: momentum is building; peak coal in sight

This report examines the rapid electricity market transformation now taking place in India, showing how renewable energy and energy efficiency measures can help the country, soon to be the world’s most populous, avoid the mistakes China made in its dash for coalfired electric generation growth in the first years of this century, but also leverag

Publication Date: 
21/11/2017
Tim Buckley, Kashish Shah
Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA)
Tags:
Electricity, India, Power Transmission, Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency, Coal, Thermal Power Plants
Energy

Centre’s solar plans get $98-m boost from World Bank

India’s attempts at generating electricity from renewable sources have got a boost from the World Bank in the form of a $98-million loan agreement.

Publication Date: 
21/11/2017
Business Line (New Delhi)
Tags:
Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, World Bank, Power Transmission, Energy
Energy

Volt-face

HOVING into view behind a row of eucalyptus trees, the twin cooling towers of the Sahiwal power plant, a 1,320-megawatt facility in central Pakistan, are so large they seem other-worldly.

Publication Date: 
11/11/2017
Economist (London)
Tags:
Pakistan, Electricity, Power Transmission, Hydroelectricity
Energy

Poor thermal power generation activity in India forces PowerGrid to eye Brazil projects

PowerGrid Corporation of India is planning to bid for transmission packages in Brazil on engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) basis by December-end, as the company looks for opportunitie

Publication Date: 
08/11/2017
Financial Express (New Delhi)
Tags:
Thermal Power Plants, Power Transmission, Brazil, Energy Policy, Electricity, Energy
Energy

Shedding light on electricity utilities in the Middle East and North Africa: insights from a performance diagnostic

The electricity sector in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is in the grip of an apparent paradox.

Publication Date: 
07/11/2017
Daniel Camos, Robert Bacon, Antonio Estache, Mohamad M. Hamid
The World Bank
Tags:
Electricity, Power Industry, Economy, Africa, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Oman, Power Transmission
Energy

Amend Electricity Act to enhance trade with Saarc nations: ADB to India

The Electricity Act, 2003 is the overarching policy of India that governs country's electricity sector

Publication Date: 
06/11/2017
Business Standard (New Delhi)
Tags:
Electricity, Hydroelectricity, Asian Development Bank (ADB), Power Transmission, Renewable Energy, Energy
Energy

Solar project to supply 12-hour power to farmers

NASHIK: In a first, chief minister Devendra Fadnavis on Saturday launched a pilot project that seeks to provide 12-hour power supply to 600 farmers in Ralegan Siddhi through 2MW Solar Agriculture F

Publication Date: 
06/11/2017
Times Of India (Nashik)
Tags:
Maharashtra, Nashik, Ralegan Siddhi (Ralegan Shindi), Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, Power Transmission, Energy
Energy

Complete electrification by 2018? 427 villages in UP dist continue to live in darkness despite 2015 target

Bijnor: At a time when the Union government has revealed its plans to electrify each household in the country by 2018, as many as 427 villages in Bijnor alone – which were to be electrified by 2015

Publication Date: 
30/10/2017
Times Of India (Meerut)
Tags:
Uttar Pradesh, Power Transmission, Rural Electrification, Bijnor (D), Energy
Energy

Judgement of the Supreme Court on the issue of Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission extending the control period of the Solar Semiconductor Power Company, 25/10/2017

Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Ltd vs Solar Semiconductor Power dated 25/10/2017. The issue before the Supreme Court is whether the Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission, in exercise of its inherent powers, could have extended the control period for the Solar Semiconductor Power Company (India) Private Limited & Others. The control period is the period during which a particular tariff order operates. S

Judgement Date: 
25/10/2017
Tags:
Power Industry, Gujarat, Power Transmission, Supreme Court, Solar Energy, Renewable Energy, Energy Policy

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