The government's continued role in the power sector illustrates that India's liberalization has been only partial.
At the time of Independence, about 60% of India's power sector was privately owned.
Then there were the international worries about nuclear plant safety that pulled down the entire power sector.
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India remains perennially energy starved despite 15% or more of federal funds being allocated to the power sector.
Under any realistic scenario, Israel possesses ample supplies to ensure energy security in the power sector for a generation.
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Moreover, industry "does not have the power sector's flexibility to respond to changes in carbon price by reducing their emissions".
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Foreign investment in India's power sector is still paltry, even though foreign companies are allowed to control 100% of Indian ventures.
With little or no help from EPA, power sector coal consumption is expected to fall 2% this year and 4% next year.
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The low per capita consumption is despite the fact that the power sector has been growing at more than 7% every year.
Last week the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported a shocking drop in power sector coal consumption in the first quarter of 2012.
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Weir Power and Industrial, which designs and manufactures valves, pumps and turbines, reported strong profit growth, despite a "relatively subdued" global power sector.
Basically, under such a regime, government would tax utilities according to their carbon footprints that can be readily measured in the power sector.
Unlike the power sector, the steel industry is fragmented and tougher to control, particularly with local governments relying on smaller, and often dirtier, mills.
She said 2010 had also been a "tremendous year" for the renewable power sector, with more wind power developments in the planning and construction pipeline.
Mr. Singh is planning a range of measures to jump-start growth, including encouraging state-run firms to make major infrastructure investments and streamlining regulations in the power sector.
The utility-funded Center for Energy Development has estimated that a third of the existing 200, 000 power sector jobs could be open over the next 5-to-10 years.
In this case, I looked at the MMD A Electric Power as a benchmark, since there is no MMD for BBB-rated bonds in the electric power sector.
Subsidies are more generous in countries such as Portugal, which is keen on building a marine-power sector of its own and offers extra cash to less mature technologies.
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Besides the aim to liberalize the power sector, Manila is also under financial pressure to dispose of the NPC - and reduce the burden of covering its deficit.
One reason the wind power sector has grown so rapidly in Texas is that the state's oil industry has decades of experience building big projects like wind farms.
"The fundamentals of this new reality must be more carefully assessed and understood by government, industry and especially the electric power sector, " said Ron Mahan, chairman of Global Energy.
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Mr. Chatterji asked the company to step up investments that may be planned for future years and to look into expansion in other industries such as roads, railways, waterways and the power sector.
One obvious way for firms in the power sector to reduce their emissions is to switch the type of energy they use, for example from inefficient coal-fired power stations to efficient gas stations.
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With its sales in the atomic-power sector falling by a third since the Fukushima accident, India "would be a major focus of business if regulatory clearance is given by the government, " a spokesman said.
The power sector needs serious attention.
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However, in 2009, the carbon intensity of the electric power sector decreased by nearly 4.3 percent, primarily due to fuel switching as the price of coal rose 6.8 percent from 2008 to 2009 while the comparable price of natural gas fell 48 percent on a per Btu basis.
With the prospect of such levels of investments flowing into the UK's energy sector, it seems clear that the nuclear industry will have to compete with the oil and gas industry, with the wind power sector and with renewable fuels companies, not just to attract electricity customers, but also to attract skilled staff such as engineers and scientists.
Carbon emissions would increase by at least 10% and as much as 17% across the entire economy, while power-sector emissions would soar by 29% to 49%, depending on the mix of replacement power.
But it is Poland's assertive power-sector unions that have turned social-package negotiations into a fine art.
It is widely acknowledged that Vietnam's power generation sector needs modernising.
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