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  • Energy policy of India

    INDIA, 2011/01/01 The energy policy of India is characterized by tradeoffs between major drivers: Rapidly growing economy, with a need for dependable and reliable supply of electricity, gas, and petroleum products; Increasing household incomes, with a need for affordable and adequate supply of electricity, and clean cooking fuels; Limited domestic reserves of fossil fuels, and the need to import a vast fraction of the gas, crude oil, and petroleum product requirements, and recently the need to import coal as well; and Indoor, urban and regional environmental impacts, necessitating the need for the adoption of cleaner fuels and cleaner technologies. These trade-offs are often difficult to achieve. For example, the supply of adequate, from presently on affordable electricity generated and used cleanly is a continuing challenge because expansion of supply, and adoption of cleaner technologies, particularly renewable energy, often means that this electricity is too expensive for a lot of Indians, particularly in rural areas.

  • China to get MORE VIGILENT in energy saving

    CHINA, 2010/11/25 Xie Zhenhua, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the country's top economic planner, said China will make energy savings progressively additional obligatory for enterprises, and not of simply persuading them to do so. China will resort to additional legal, technical and fiscal measures for better evolution in energy saves and emission decrease over the next 5 years, said officials attending the China International Green Industry Forum 2010 in Beijing Wednesday.

  • Electricity exported from November 1 2009-01-01

    TAJIKISTAN , 2009/01/01
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