ICTpost Energy Bureau In the age of innovation , the green theme is throwing up a broad and bewildering array of new companies ; many promising clean-energy start-ups are hitting the market with products and services that could radically alter how we think of, and consume, power. Billions of $s of Venture and government support […]
ICTpost News Network A study from the University of Victoria is suggesting that our atmosphere is far more susceptible to a runaway greenhouse effect than previously assumed. The phenomenon occurs when a planet absorbs more solar energy than it can give off in return. That causes surface water to evaporate, fill the atmosphere with steam, […]
ICTpost Energy Bureau According to ICTpost Energy Tracker, renewable power installations (excluding large hydro projects) held a 24.2% share of the India’s overall power mix and stood at about 90.6 GW as of September 30, 2020. This was a marginal increase from last quarter’s 89.5 GW. In the same period the previous year, the country […]
ICTpost Energy Bureau The concept of a “super-grid” capable of moving huge amounts of electricity over long distances is popular with environmentalists and governments keen to promote the integration of more renewables into the power supply, overcome transmission bottlenecks and bring power to remote communities. An electricity super-grid could take green electricity produced in one […]
ICTpost Governance Bureau Nature has given us everything to live in this world in abundance. However, our greed for more and the technology and innovations have changed the way we live and communicate. Yet, it is also a fact that every technology along with it also brings some side affects for which adequate precautions are […]
By ICTpost Energy Bureau India’s power grid is being renovated as the country moves towards smart grid technology. The upgrade will facilitate a range of new technologies, from more efficient appliances to solar and wind farms. While it will take decades for the entire grid to wise up, it is already a reality in dozens […]
By François Bonnici, Head-Social Innovation, World Economic Forum Social entrepreneurs solve market and government failures by serving excluded and vulnerable populations, which are most at risk to impacts of COVID-19.Decades of work in the impact sector are at stake during the economic crisis.A new alliance of 40 organizations aims to coordinate response to support social […]
McKinsey Global Report Asia’s initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 was partly enabled by technological foundations developed long before the crisis. Over the past decade, the region has developed and deepened its technological capabilities and infrastructure rapidly, accounting for a large share of global growth in technology company revenue start-up funding, spending on […]
ICTpost Energy Bureau Today, people under 25 make up 43 percent of the world’s population in some countries, that number is as high as 70 percent. This amounts to nearly 4 billion young people living on the brink of the greatest technological advances and human progress while also surrounded by intractable public health epidemics, record […]
ICTpost Energy Bureau India has targeted doubling its renewable energy capacity to 55,000 MW, from nearly 27,000. Renewables contribute about 12.5 percent of India’s energy, the report by the New and Renewable Energy Ministry shows. As coal and gas shortages and populist tariff regimes hobble the performance of thermal power stations, renewable energy players want […]
