'Renewing' energy practices

Idling away

Most household electronic devices waste a lot of energy doing simply nothing

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India stands 90th on Energy Architecture Performance Index

The country’s ranking remains low due to inefficient energy infrastructures and lack of energy access  

Double timing

Will 2 time zones help India function at peak efficiency?

Oil in a day's work

THE NEW GEOPOLITICS OF ENERGY·John V Mitchell, Peter Beck and Michael Grubb· Energy and Environment Programme, The Royal Institute …

Never to be renewed reality

Lighter load

A global switch to efficient lighting will reduce electricity bills by one-tenth

How 10 billion people could live well by 2050 – using as much energy as we did 60 years ago

Achieving such a world requires radical action on all fronts, including the mass rollout of the best technologies available

Forget oil

Create a culture that places a premium on human power

As investment in energy declines, share of renewable energy improves

New IEA report shows an increasing trend in the share of investments in renewable energy, especially for electricity generation

A new deal

It's dark outside the TV grab

Bytes

Targets or Diktats?

India: Aim, Hope High

Opting for renewables

Time to plug in

The International Conference for Renewable Energies is to be held in Bonn, Germany. But here is a sector dwarfed by fossil fuels, and although …

A non-priority?

Environment managers do not count

Stranglehold

Pesticides: what's the way out?

Flaying the environment

Tanneries: ill-managed, technologically challenged

Black liquor

Agro-based pulp and paper: technological inability?

Balancing act

Energy: economic and environmental compatibility

Free flow

Water: industry is misusing it, but for how long?

By hook, crook or vision

Profits and a cleaner environment can sometimes complement each other. But Indian companies are still mired in poison. They must now look for a …