Full Coverage: Energy

27.05.2006 from Climate Change blog:
Both countries are building dirty coal-fired power stations fast. These are not 'clean energy sources' as industry PR suggests: the 'lie that may destroy the Earth's atmospheric system'.

26.05.2006 The government’s plan to make blending of 5% ethanol with petrol mandatory from October 2006 is a welcome step. But for a steady supply, we need a long-term, comprehensive policy on biofuels with clear targets, a well-defined pricing policy and a road-map to develop a variety of feedstock options for biofuel production.

24.05.2006 A project that is bringing clean, efficient energy to rural communities in Nepal received a major boost this month in the form of a deal that rewards it for reducing the country's greenhouse gas emissions.

22.05.2006 The Indian government's Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources and the UNDP/GEF hold a demonstration on biomethanation technologies which can be easily replicated and can help in cutting down on green house gases. The Indian government is considering mainstreaming these technologies for its waste-to-energy programmes.

20.05.2006 from Center for Global Development blog:
It hasn't been all plain sailing as the carbon market and its managers are still finding their way. But it is still an historic model for what the whole world must do to combat climate change, claims David Roodman.

18.05.2006 from Gristmill:
'Solar and wind can't be anything more than add-ons to a more reliable coal-based grid.' That is the orthodox view. But there are solutions in sight.

16.05.2006 Environmental organisations in the Western Ghats region have expressed opposition to the proposed thermal power project at Tadari near Gokarna in Uttara Kannada. They have termed the project not only "destructive", but also "dangerous".

15.05.2006 The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) - a grouping of seven south Asian neighbours - held a meeting with the World Energy Council (WEC) in India recently over the unrealised potential of renewable energy and to discuss a role for public-private partnerships.

12.05.2006 UNITED NATIONS, May 12 (OneWorld) - With growing concerns over high prices of oil and its adverse impact on the world's poor and the environment, the United Nations is urging policy makers to explore the use of alternative sources for energy.

11.05.2006 from Musings of an Eco-Entrepreneur blog:
A 'credit' idea which is like how wind power works, but instead of the credits reflecting energy that was created in a green way, they're derived from energy that’s not needed to be created in the first place.

11.05.2006 Small rural communities in Nepal will reap the benefits of the carbon market as the World Bank promotes the use of biogas as a commercially viable industry. This is the first greenhouse gas emission (GHG) reductions project in Nepal under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol.

08.05.2006 RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, May 8 (ENS) - Brazil has inaugurated its first uranium enrichment facility to produce the type of fuel for nuclear power plants that Iran is running into trouble for attempting to produce. There are strong suspicions that the objective of the Iranian nuclear program is to eventually build a bomb, but Brazil has managed to assure the international community its intentions are industrial and commercial, not military.

05.05.2006 from WattHead blog:
"I believe there are better alternatives to nearly all of the potential applications of hydrogen," says Jesse Jenkins who then explains why.