The government announced various electricity-saving measures as the nagging power crunch didn't change much despite previous steps, including the daylight-saving step.

Under the latest plan, the government decided to conduct campaigns to encourage people to use solar energy, Concentrated Fluorescent Lamp (CFL) and Electronic Balast.

The government has planned to add 717 MW of electricity in national grid from eight public and private-owned power plants by December next, a senior official of Power Division said yesterday.

"Of the 717MW of electricity, a total of 480MW would add from public sector and the rest from private sector," the official said.

Prospects for a new U.N. climate pact in Copenhagen have brightened but negotiations must speed up to meet a December deadline, the head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat said on Tuesday.

Despite Washington's nearly single-minded focus on healthcare reform, the Obama administration still expects the U.S. Senate to pass climate change legislation, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Tuesday.

Japan's prime minister-elect said on Monday he will forge ahead with a tough 25 percent cut in emissions by 2020, despite growing opposition from industry which says the target will hurt the world's No. 2 economy.

But Yukio Hatoyama added that the target, more ambitious than the outgoing government's, was premised on a deal on ambitious goals being agreed by major nations.

Signs Pact To Get Rs 50,000 Cr Investment In 5 Yrs
Ahmedabad: The Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI), a programme of US-based William J Clinton Foundation, on Monday announced setting up of the world

CHENNAI: If the Indian Government diverts a part of the subsidy for fuels to create renewable energy sources, there will be a tremendous change in the lives of people, said Farooq Abdullah, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy.

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Details will be announced in National Solar Mission

SOLAR POWER: Farooq Abdullah, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, inaugurating WinWinD

USE of solar power-driven water pumps is a major alternate energy source for better crop yields in power-starved Bangladesh, according to experts. To ease the country's acute power crisis, solar power can be used as an alternative source of electricity for irrigation and it would at least help reduce 700 to 800 MW in every day's load.

USE of solar power-driven water pumps is a major alternate energy source for better crop yields in power-starved Bangladesh, according to experts. To ease the country's acute power crisis, solar power can be used as an alternative source of electricity for irrigation and it would at least help reduce 700 to 800 MW in every day's load.