Heading for a burnout

Increased incomes, innovative financing schemes, short-sighted policies and wasteful attitudes have led to an enormous amount of energy being …

Farmers against even modest power rate hike

State ministers are giving the agriculture sector a breather by ignoring the Prime Minister's call to stop subsidising power supply and agreeing …

The power of the zephyr

The government is sowing the wind for energy, attracting investments with the promise of fiscal felicity

Flickering ray of hope for hill areas

Although small hydro electric schemes are considered ideal for remote hill villages, planners have overlooked crucial factors and not all …

Gasbagging

How good are the North's offers of joint implementation programmes with the South to cut the latter's carbon dioxide emissions?

Stockholm+50: We need decentralisation of ‘power’

Power generation and transmission models that are local and self-sustaining can increase access to energy in the future

Bickering scuttles power-saving project

Two non-resident Indians blame inter-organisational rivalry for the rejection of their proposal to use compact fluorescent lamps, which will …

Wind power: up, up and down

Poorly implemented governmental policies are preventing the full exploitation of wind power which could supplement as much as 25 per cent of the …

Straw can generate power, if available