Renewable Energy

Lessons learned from the energy policies of IEA countries

This paper provides policy makers and managers, facing tough energy policy challenges, with a wider perspective of how the same issues are being addressed by different IEA member countries. The topics included are: Government structures for co-ordinating energy and climate policies; the use of long-term energy forecasts and scenarios; and progress in the delivery of key energy security policies.

Publication Date:

01/09/2009

Source: International Energy Agency

Tags:

Hydrogen, Climate Change, Energy Policy, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Fossil Fuels, Electricity, Fuel Cell, Public Sector

Environment

Global green new deal: an update for the G20 Pittsburgh summit

In response to the financial and economic crisis, UNEP has called for a

Publication Date:

01/09/2009

Source: UNEP

Tags:

Environment, Economy, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Transport, Poverty, Global, Climate Change

Climate Change

World economic and social survey 2009: promoting development, saving the planet

The latest annual UNDESA report released by Sunita Narain, director of Centre for Science and Environment backs India and developing countries on the climate front.It says that rich countries had consumed more than fair share oftheir carbon space and needed to take deep emission cuts if the new climate agreement was to be equitable.

Publication Date:

01/09/2009

Source: United Nations

Tags:

Climate Change, Green House Gases, Economy, Climate Agreements, Renewable Energy, Climate Adaptation, Energy, India, Sustainable Development, Developing Countries

Energy

A wind–PV-battery hybrid power system at Sitakunda in Bangladesh

The measured wind data of Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) for 2006 at 30 m height shows a good prospect for wind energy extraction at the site. For a few months and hours the speed is below the cut in speeds of the available turbines in the market. The predicted solar radiation data from directly related measured cloud cover and sunshine duration data of Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) for 1992–2003 indicates that a reliable power system can be developed over the year if the solar energy technology is merged with the wind energy technologies for this site.

Publication Date:

01/09/2009

Author(s): Sanjoy Kumar Nandi, Himangshu Ranjan Ghosh

Source: Energy Policy

Vol:

37

Issue:

9

pp:

3659–3664

Tags:

Wind Energy, Renewable Energy, Bangladesh, Electricity, South Asia, Solar Energy, Energy Technology, Batteries

Energy

Prepare master plan on renewable energy

A parliamentary standing committee yesterday asked the energy, power and mineral resources ministry to prepare a master plan on generating electricity from alternative sources such as solar, wind and wave power.

The ministry was also asked to submit the plan to the committee and the government within three months.

Publication Date:

31/08/2009

Source: Daily Star (Bangladesh)

Tags:

Renewable Energy, Wind Energy, Solar Energy, Electricity, Wave Energy, Sri Lanka

Climate Change

Urgency of tackling climate change

WITH the clock ticking and less than a hundred days to go until ministers from around the world meet at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, now is the time for the UK and [South Asia/India/Bangladesh] to work together to get a climate deal that is fair to the region's economy and its people.

Publication Date:

31/08/2009

Source: Daily Star (Bangladesh)

Tags:

Environment, Himalaya, Agriculture, Kosi, Climate Change, Floods, Economy, Renewable Energy, Landslides, Bangladesh, Nepal, United States Of America (US), India, West Bengal, Developing Countries, South Asia

Climate Change

What can Bangladesh do to combat climate change? (Editorial)

I lend my voice of support to Prof. Shairul Mashreque's call for combating climate change (CCC) published recently in The Daily Star (

Publication Date:

29/08/2009

Source: Daily Star (Bangladesh)

Tags:

Deforestation, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Change, Green House Gases, Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Toyota Motor, Bangladesh, China, United States Of America (US), India, Developing Countries

Climate Change

Two missions on climate change ready for implementation, says Shyam Saran

KOLKATA: Two of the eight missions in the National Action Plan on Climate Change were ready for implementation through the cabinet-level decisions regulatory mechanisms and even through legislation if necessary, said Shyam Saran, the special envoy of the Prime Minister on climate change, here on Friday.

Publication Date:

29/08/2009

Source: Hindu (New Delhi)

Tags:

Climate Change, Climate Mitigation, Renewable Energy, Solar Energy

Climate Change