Thiruvananthapuram, May 18 Solar energy has the potential to improve the living conditions of poor rural households in India as well as contribute to the country

Australia plans to build the world's largest solar power station with an output of 1000 megawatts in a A$1.4 billion (US$1.05 billion) investment, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Sunday.

The plant would have three times the generating capacity of the current biggest solar-powered electricity plant, which is in California, Rudd said during a tour of a power station.

China's drive into wind power has been a boon to the young industry, but foreign turbine makers say China has stacked the odds so firmly against them that its own clean energy goals could be in jeopardy.

China's wind power generation has doubled in the last year and is expected to surpass nuclear within a decade as China seeks to wean itself off cheap but dirty coal.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has approved Rs 10 million for the provision of basic energy services through solar energy to the remote villages of Deh Tiko Baran in Jamshoro district.

The PM issued the directive based on the recommendations of Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf. The funding would be provided out of the People

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Ottawa will help Canadian pulp producers struggling with a U.S. tax windfall awarded their American rivals, but has not decided yet what form the aid will take, Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt said on Thursday.

With a series of compromises on the stickiest issues behind them, the House Energy and Commerce Committee is poised to approve far-reaching legislation on energy and global warming by the end of next week. Where it goes from there remains highly uncertain.

US electricity generators support compromises being reached by Democrats in the House of Representatives on proposed climate legislation, saying the changes would soften the impact on power bills.

Democrats in the US House of Representatives neared an agreement on a climate-change bill on Tuesday and said they expected to approve it soon.

"Our goal is to finish this bill by the close of business next week on the House floor," Representative Edward Markey, chairman of a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee, told reporters.

Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday vowed to push for major changes to a climate change bill that could move through a key committee next week, including a proposal to count nuclear power as a clean energy alternative.