Honda Automoveis do Brasil Ltda (HAB), the Honda automobile production and sales subsidiary in Brazil, on Thursday announced plans to invest in wind power generation to be more proactive in using r

Renewable technologies & greater efforts by emerging economies among few bright spots

The International Energy Agency (IEA) on Wednesday said the drive to clean up the world’s energy system had stalled. IEA Executive Director Maria van der Hoeven told the 23-member Clean Energy Ministerial despite much talk by world leaders and a boom in renewable energy through the last decade, the average unit of energy produced on Wednesday was “as dirty as it was 20 years ago”.

Rising demands of new middle class will be explosive in emerging nations, says new study

India needs to put in place a smart policy to ensure energy efficiency as it urbanises and builds infrastructure rapidly, a top executive of global oil and gas firm Shell says. “A probably biggest social phenomenon of our age is urbanisation, and the way urban centres are structured have huge impact on energy efficiency,” Jeremy Bentham, VP, global business environment, at Royal Dutch Shell, told ET at the launch of Shell’s new study on the future of energy sector.

Workers on Sunday nearly finished cleaning up a handful of beaches drenched by marine fuel after a small spill off the coast of the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo, port authorities said.