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An enormous offshore wind farm in the North Sea, a large geothermal power plant near Hanover and a 400-billion-euro project to generate solar electricity in the desert

Rajendra Pachauri heads TERI, The Energy and Resources Institute, based in New Delhi. An engineer of the railways in his early career, Pachauri went to the United States to earn a PhD in industrial engineering and another in economics, after which he returned to India in 1981 to work with TERI.

Any policy that limits supply of fossil fuels must raise their price. The economic logic binding price to scarcity holds true, regardless of the cause of scarcity. When OPEC wants to increase the price of oil, it cuts production.

K R Datye, a civil engineer by profession, worked for more than half a century on ideas for the water, energy and infrastructure sectors, ideas that were based on a vision for India of a sustainable, equitable and a democratic agro-industrial society. A critical appraisal of KRD

As the world is moving towards cleaner and more sustainable energy alternatives, biofuels have gained a lot of importance, mainly because they are

Wind offers an important alternative to coal as a source of energy for generation of electricity in China with the potential for substantial savings in carbon dioxide emissions. Wind fields derived from assimilated meteorological data are used to assess the potential for wind-generated electricity in China subject to the existing government-approved bidding process for new wind farms.

Financial institutions push coal-fired power plants, not renewable energy, says US study 88 coal-fired power plants received funds from World Bank and other international public financial institutions in the past 15 years US $137 billion has been spent on constructing/expanding the plants since 1994, the year the United Nations Framework on Climate Change came into force Most of