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Off-grid systems are immune to high losses. It can cater to a whole range of rural consumers

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Extreme weather increasingly disrupted generation of nuclear power in last 30 years: State of the Climate in Europe 2022

Nearly 60% of plants located by rivers or lakes in the continent experienced nuclear power production losses since 2017  

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A high-tech power station foreign companies are building in Maharashtra is being touted as the "perfect solution" to its anticipated electricity …

Thermal power plants are still not disposing of fly ash properly, NGT cases show

These cases show it is imperative to bridge the gap between legal mandates and their execution

Prepare for more grid failures

Load on the grid will be about four times higher in August

Wave of concern

Hazy about untimely fog that caused blackouts

Jindal power plant risk to alphonsos

It can function without treating SO2, says environment ministry

CAQM’s focus on captive thermal power plants in Delhi-NCR a welcome step, but challenges ahead

Several industries Down To Earth spoke to were unaware of the new order or were perplexed about the technical feasibility of it in …

Coal ministry cancels allotment of 18 coal blocks

Government to decide the fate of 10 more coal blocks on February 25

BPL millionaires

Industrial houses use tribals as fronts to amass tribal land in Chhattisgarh

Countries move away from coal even as India moves towards it

Germany, Japan, Spain and the US have all decided to move to renewable energy

Big engagement with small power

Generating electricity to raise economic profile

National Electricity Plan: No coal expansion, renewable capacity to dominate in India by 2031-32

Emissions from power sector in a decade expected increase by 10 million tonnes; efficienty of plants to be improved

A central meeting showed pushback against tech in power plants to reduce SO2 emissions. Here’s why it’s a bad idea

New IIT-D study has challenged need for flue gas desulfuphisation in thermal power plants

Two years from now, India will see biggest percentage growth in energy consumption: IEA

Asia will consume half of the world’s power for the first time by 2025

Solar power lights up Sundarbans island

Six solar micro-grids cater to about 600 families in Satjelia island  

Clean coal technologies lie untapped

Faltering steps and narrow vision thwarts decades of research

US bank uses carbon smokescreen

EXIM Bank nearly denied funds to Reliance’s coal-fired plant

India set for new nuclear age

Hunt on for the site of the world’s first thorium-based plant. But is it safe?  

Instal bird diverters on overhead power-lines by July 20: Supreme Court to Rajasthan, Gujarat

Move aimed at protecting Great Indian Bustards, lesser floricans

Can India have ‘Project Great Indian Bustard’, apex court asks during hearing on GIB deaths

A total of seven Great Indian Bustards have died in 2022 due to electrocution

Cell power

Levy plan scuttled