Month: June 2020

Despite pigheaded intransigence at the highest levels of its national government, the renewable energy revolution is coming to Australia in a big way. And why not? Enough sunlight hits what Bill Bryson calls “a sunburned country” every day to meet all of humanity’s energy needs for a year. All it has to do is figure out how to harvest and distribute all that energy. (It could begin by replacing its national leaders with people who possess actual functioning brains, but the same can be said for many nations around the…

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The news and analysis you need from the-week-that-was in the global renewable energy industry with Recharge’s weekly Agenda As head of Enel Green Power, Antonio Cammisecra leads one of the world’s biggest buyers of onshore wind turbines, and the Italian utility’s global head of power generation has some strong views on the relationship between the land-based and offshore arms within the big-three OEM giants. Cammisecra reckons the two are like “enemies in the same company” and should bury their internal rivalries and learn from each other. The Enel executive offered…

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ISLAMABAD, (APP – UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 12th Jun, 2020 ) :The government has planned to start importing high grade petrol and diesel during the fiscal year 2020-21 aimed at tackling the environmental issues and meeting requirements of high-tech vehicles in the country. “To reduce the environmental impact through improved quality of fuel, high grade imports of petroleum products i.e. Petrol and High Speed Diesel is planned to be initiated during 2020-21,” according to the Annual Development Plan (ADP). Minister for Petroleum Omar Ayub Khan has recently inaugurated…

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India is doubling down on its push to replace gasoline and diesel vehicles on its streets with environmentally friendly electric cars. The government plans to order ride-hailing firms such as Uber and Ola, which operate hundreds of thousands of cars in the nation, to convert 40% of their fleets to electric by April 2026, Reuters reported today. As part of the push, Uber, Ola and other companies would need to show signs of progress toward the goal by the end of next year, the report claimed. It stated that the…

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The Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) has approved Electric Vehicle (EV) policy for heavy commercial vehicles and two and three-wheelers. The sources reported that the policy was proposed by the Ministry of Industries and Production (MoIP) after a detailed discussion with stakeholders. The stakeholders include Ministry of Climate Change (MoCC) Engineering Development Board (EDB) and the Ministry of Science and Technology. Last year, the Ministry of Climate Change presented EV policy 2019, which was approved by the cabinet. However, the policy could not be implemented after objections from MoIP, EDB and other involved entities. This…

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