“The larger society cannot be a mute spectator to allow sub-optimal planning for additional generating capacity.  The state authorities should be made to adopt integrated resource management approach, consisting of high energy efficiency and conservation, Demand Side Management and renewable energy sources, in all cases of large projects in electricity sector…”

Energy and Agriculture in the Third World - (Part – VI)

“The mistake of the Chinese planners was their failure to note that the peak labour problem was, in essence, an energy problem. Selective mechanization of peak labour operations with multiple cropping by using rice transplanting machines, harvesters, etc., would probably have been a more satisfactory solution than encouraging the production of babies…”

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OIL & GAS

ONGC strikes gas in Mahanadi

Oil firms may get more time to drill wells

RIL strikes gas on east & west coast

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Navratna oil PSUs allowed investing abroad

POWER

Brazil to help India in civilian nuclear energy

BHEL plans to set up power plants in Tanzania

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NTPC to foray into wind power

Russia to build nuclear plant in Myanmar