"power" tag
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Power moves: The women changing Africa’s leadership

From Ghana to Namibia, recent appointments of women to top political positions have been encouraging. But with more women in significant roles, are African nations really boosting female political representation? With Ghanaian Vice President Jane Naana...

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Bitcoin: Is Scandinavia’s cryptoboom coming to an end?

Europe’s Nordic countries are popular for sustainable cryptomining because electricity there is cheap and mainly comes from renewable sources. But other industries also want to take advantage of this green energy. Bitcoin is a real...

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Next 5 years, India doesn’t need coal power, but 50GW still under consideration

The New India needs no coal. The Indian power industry saw a massive paradigm change over the last few years with renewable energy, particularly solar energy dominating the discourse around new generation. While King Coal...

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Bangladesh struggling to balance energy and environment needs

In a bid to bolster the electricity generation capacity of the energy-poor nation, the government is looking to build several coal-fired plants in the coming years. But activists oppose them citing environmental risks. The plan...

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Changing dashboard – Power, Infrastructure, Finance & Politics

Miles to cover for the power sector in India, Could you elaborate on this? India ushered in power sector reforms, with enactment of Electricity Act 2003. After more than two decades, reliability of power in India...

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Power shortages hamper India’s manufacturing

India’s energy demand far outstrips its generation capacity leading to power outages. The government has to tackle this if it wants to achieve its aim of turning the country into a manufacturing powerhouse, say experts....

Stupid Planning results in a heavily Unbalanced Power situation in India

The less said about India’s power administration structure the better. The country has already earned the in-dubious  distinction of hosting the biggest blackout in the country, as hungry states overdrew power from the grid. The power generation sector...

Budget 2013-14: from Dilemma to Equilibrium

Budgets are a complex Prisoner’s Dilemma[1] problem where hidden expectation of the government and the citizen decide whether or not the outcome would be a good equilibrium where everyone gains or a bad equilibrium where...