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Energy access and renewable energy: fact sheet

Energy access in rural India has been a development priority for the government for many decades. However, 45 per cent of rural households lack access to electricity. Around 700 million people depend on biomass for their energy needs, predominantly for cooking, and 77.5 million households still use kerosene for lighting.

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Thursday, February 27, 2014
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Never to be renewed reality

The world's highest energy consuming country, the us , has done little to promote renewable energy. Being one of the major emitters of heat trapping gases like carbon dioxide, the us would be

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Monday, January 14, 2002
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Green alternatives

Alternative energy sources are being promoted the worldover to replace polluting fossil fuels. For example, in many of the European countries it is mandatory for conventional power producers to

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Thursday, August 30, 2001
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Wind power in India

Renewable energy is fast becoming the buzz word in the international power sector. Countries in Europe, in order to reduce dependence on fossil fuels, are moving towards use of power produced from

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Saturday, April 14, 2001
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Fuelling heat

Humans have not being able to shed their reliance on fossil fuels. Every year, millions of tonnes of coal and oil is burned to produce energy. As a result, carbon locked in the Earth is being

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Sunday, July 30, 2000
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Winds of change

Wind power is constantly emerging as a preferred source of energy the world over. Fast forward by another couple of decades and wind power is predicted to meet 10 per cent of the world's electricity

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Sunday, May 14, 2000
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The polluting rich

There is a continuing preference for energy sources like coal, oil and gas among the industrialised nations. This trend persists against the use of more environment-friendly energy sources like

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Sunday, February 27, 2000
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A clean drive

As the number of vehicles produced around the world increase every year, so does the pollution from these

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Friday, November 14, 1997
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