Business Standard: A switch from conventional diesel- and electric-powered irrigation pumps to solar-powered ones can help the country achieve 38 per cent of its envisaged 175 Gw renewable energy target by 2022. The shift to solar-powered irrigation pumps can also save enormous sums of money and generate additional income for farmers, says a report by […]
Luhut Binsar Panjaitan, Menteri Koordinator Bidang Maritim, Jumat (27/7/18), bikin pernyataan yang mengundang respon publik. Di Istana Kepresidenan, Luhut bilang pemerintah akan mencabut kebijakan alokasi pasar domestik (domestic market obligation/DMO) batubara karena harga naik di pasar dunia. Agustus ini, harga batubara acuan (HBA) mencapai US$107,83 per ton. Senada dengan Wakil Menteri Energi dan Sumber Daya […]
Business Standard: China’s investment in foreign wind-powered electricity markets has surpassed $12 billion in Europe and Australia alone as private and state-owned Chinese companies move aggressively to capitalise on fast-growing renewable energy markets, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) said on Thursday. Most of the wind investment activity has been in Europe. […]
The Energy Mix: U.S. investors are beginning to second-guess Canada’s plans to buy out Kinder Morgan’s C$9.3-billion (and rising) Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, according to an analysis published last week on the 24/7 Wall Street blog and summarized by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). “Canadian resistance to buying the Trans Mountain […]
SierraClub.org: Ireland’s vote is particularly important because it reflects a major shift in the divestment movement, Vondrich explained. Originally, fossil fuel divestment was entirely driven by moral concerns—institutions pulled their money out of oil, gas, and coal companies because they didn’t want to be contributing to the destruction of a stable climate. Now, divestment is […]
InsideClimate News: “We lost the power plant and the rates have gone through the roof,” Adkins told ICN. “It has happened in a region of Kentucky that is more challenged than any other region of the country because of the downturn in the coal economy.” But there’s another way of looking at the outcome, said […]
Lincoln County News (Maine): The basic direction of the world away from coal, oil, and natural gas is at last undeniable. On Wall Street, regardless of dominant political trends, the fossil fuel industry has morphed from the investor’s surest bet into an increasingly challenged enterprise. According to the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, […]
The Narwhal (Victoria, B.C.): When the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) released its 2018 oil outlook, which predicts major production growth to 2035, there was one major detail no one seemed to notice. The projections assume a world where future emissions don’t stay within the climate limits set in the Paris Agreement. Not by […]
CounterCurrents.org: At a time when India has shelved several planned coal power plants across many of its states, it is constructing a new coal power plant to supply electricity to energy starved Bangladesh. Located at the edge of the Sundarbans, one of the world’s largest mangrove forests shared by India and Bangladesh and a UNESCO […]
محطة توليد طاقة رئيسة نفسها – إنجازا تقنيا غير عادي. ومن جانب آخر، تعد الطاقة الكهرومائية تقنية تستطيع توصيل الكهرباء إلى المجتمعات النائية للمرة الأولى. وقد زادت الصين من التزامها في هذا الصدد بالتعهد باستثمار 360 مليار دولار إضافية في الطاقة المتجددة قبل عام 2020. ووفقا لتقرير حديث صادر عن معهد اقتصاديات الطاقة والتحليل المالي […]