India's grand solar plans threatened by ugly US trade spat
The Guardian
That's the dilemma before India – and the world – at the moment. Desperately short of power, but with an average of 300 sunny days a year, India is aggressively pursuing solar energy. Its national solar programme, the grandly named Jawaharlal Nehru ...

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India faced with power tariff increases as govt fails to fix import pricing
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
As previously reported by Mining Weekly, India's Central Electricity Authority has projected the country's coal imports for thermal power generation during 2013/14 at 80-million tons. Edited by: Esmarie Swanepoel. To subscribe to Mining Weekly's print ...
Consumers face fresh power tariff hikesLivemint
Good coal economicsIndian Express

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Consumers face fresh power tariff hikes
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This also comes at a time when the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, India's apex power sector regulator, has offered a bailout package to Tata Power Co. Ltd for the electricity generated from its imported coal-based Mundra plant in Gujarat ...
Good coal economicsIndian Express
Measure to Increase the Production of CoalPress Information Bureau (press release)

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Pakistan: Pakistan lags far behind India,China in wind power generation
Power Engineering Magazine
Power sector expert Mohsin Syed said India and China faced even higher energy shortages than Pakistan as their economies grew at a very rapid pace, increasing their domestic and industrial power. Their economies would have been in same dire state as ...
New market study, "Wind Turbine Market in India 2013", has been publishedClickPress (press release)

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Pakistan lags far behind India,China in wind power generation
Power Engineering Magazine
Power sector expert Mohsin Syed said India and China faced even higher energy shortages than Pakistan as their economies grew at a very rapid pace, increasing their domestic and industrial power. Their economies would have been in same dire state as ...
New market study, "Wind Turbine Market in India 2013", has been publishedClickPress (press release)

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Top India Stories From WSJ: Protests Over Girl's Rape, Subsidies to Boost ...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Protests Over Girl's Rape Escalate in New Delhi: Fresh protests broke out in New Delhi over last week's rape of a 5-year-old girl, with hundreds of demonstrators gathering on Sunday outside Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's residence and the house of ...

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Wall Street Journal
India Plans Subsidies to Boost Solar-Power Sector
Wall Street Journal
A key reason India's solar sector has struggled is because its solar power is still expensive, there are few takers for it and India lacks adequate and cheap technology. The federal government is trying to address some of those gaps with these proposed ...
India's grand solar plans threatened by ugly US trade spatThe Guardian

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India Plans Subsidies to Boost Solar-Power Sector
Wall Street Journal
The new rules will extend local content requirements, which so far have been restricted to a type of technology known as silicon wafers, to thin-film cells as well, Tarun Kapoor, joint secretary in India's Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, told The ...
India to move WTO against US over renewable energyBusiness Standard

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India Plans Subsidies to Boost Solar-Power Sector
Wall Street Journal
A key reason India's solar sector has struggled is because its solar power is still expensive, there are few takers for it and India lacks adequate and cheap technology. The federal government is trying to address some of those gaps with these proposed ...
India's grand solar plans threatened by ugly US trade spatThe Guardian

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Pakistan lags far behind India,China in wind power generation
The News International
Power sector expert Mohsin Syed said India and China faced even higher energy shortages than Pakistan as their economies grew at a very rapid pace, increasing their domestic and industrial power. Their economies would have been in same dire state as ...

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National Thermal Power Corporation and Power Development Bangladesh ...
Jagran Josh
The MoU for India's cooperation in Power Sector were identified as exchange of power, grid connectivity, energy efficiency and electricity generation with Bangladesh, during the visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to India in January 2011. In January ...
Bangladesh, India sign pacts for power JVBangladesh News 24 hours

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Bangladesh, India sign pacts for power JV
Bangladesh News 24 hours
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Bangladesh and India during the visit of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to India in January 2011. In the MoU, the fields of cooperation in power sector were identified as exchange of power, grid ...
National Thermal Power Corporation and Power Development Bangladesh ...Jagran Josh

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Domestic auto sector fears India-EU thaw
Business Standard
An executive said, "If the import duty is lowered on pre-owned cars, given the restricted purchasing power of Indian consumers, the country would become a dumping ground for used cars from the EU market." The import duty on pre-owned cars in India ...
The EU-India Free Trade Agreement: India up “For Sale” to Western Corporate ...Center for Research on Globalization

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It's about new technology, stupid. Not trade wars
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The JNNSM is honest in recognising the challenges faced by the Indian power sector and the need of solar power in India. But somehow the three main challenges stated by JNNSM — ecologically sustainable growth, energy security and energy unserved ...

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The unsustainability of fossil fuel use in India
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As the major part of India's coal import is for the power and steel sector, coal has been substituted by two carbon free non-fossil fuel energy resources from among the conventional ones–namely nuclear and hydro in large storage–for power generation.
Overseas Demand Breathes New Life into U.S. CoalKitsap Sun

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Indian power utilities' coal imports seen up 56% yoy in 2013-14
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... power secretary P. Uma Shankar said on Wednesday. Coal fuels more than half of India's power and the country is the fourth-biggest importer of the fuel as capacity additions in the power sector have outpaced domestic coal output growth. Comment E ...

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India says it plans to double renewable energy sources by 2017
GlobalPost
Not only does India rely on dirty coal for most of its power generation, but it also faces a looming coal shortage that will make it hostage to import prices in the near future. Air pollution already ranks among the leading causes of death. And the ...
PM says equitable sharing of mitigation burden must in global energy strategyNetIndian

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States raise electricity tariffs again
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If tariffs have not been increased for a long time, the quantum of tariff increase should be higher,” added Deo, chairman at India's apex power sector regulator. Many believe there are good times in store for the sector. Mint quoted power secretary P ...

Top India Stories From WSJ: Court Finds Man Guilty for Pune Blast, Inflation ...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Tata Power Gets Approval to Raise Price: India's power-sector regulator has allowed Tata Power Co. to temporarily increase the price of electricity it supplies from a plant in the western state of Gujarat to offset higher cost of imported coal. Book ...

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Economic Times
Twelve stocks in focus in Tuesday morning trade
Economic Times
Tata Power Ltd, after India's apex power sector regulator offered a bailout package to the power company for the electricity generated from its imported coal-based Mundra plant in Gujarat, in a repeat of its earlier judgement on Adani Power Ltd's ...