Sunny times for solar – The Hindu (July 04, 2016)
The World Bank’s agreement with the India-led International Solar Alliance (ISA) to help it mobilise a trillion dollars in investments by 2030 and its billion-dollar programme to support Indian initiatives for expanded solar generation are significant steps in the global transition to a clean energy pathway. For further reading, visit “The Hindu”.
Today’s Words:
- Sunny (adjective) – brilliant, clear, bright, fair; cheerful, happy, optimistic.
- Mobilise (verb) – (of resources) carry them fo use for a particular work.
- Photovoltaic (adjective) – related to generating electric power by using solar cells to convert energy from the sun into a flow of electrons.
- Hedge (noun) – security, protection, safeguard, insurance.
- Technology transfer (noun) – the transfer of technology (specifically from a developed country to a developing country).
- Five-fold (adverb) – by five times.
- Renewables (noun) – natural resources (such as water, wind, solar energy)
- Adverse (adjective) – unfavourable, disadvantageous, disagreeable.
- Stipulation (noun) – precondition, prerequisite, requirement, specification.
- Prescribe (verb) – advise, recommend, advocate, commend, suggest, endorse.
- Boon (noun) – benefit, advantage, blessing, help, asset, gain.
- Energiewende (German word for “Energy Transition“) – a sustainable energy transition is the shift by some countries, most notably Germany (German: Energiewende), to decentralised renewable energy, and energy efficiency. Although so far these shifts have been replacing nuclear energy, their declared goal is also the abolishment of coal and other non-renewable energy sources and the creation of an energy system based on 100% renewable energy.
- Net metering (noun) – Net metering (or net energy metering, NEM) allows consumers which generate some or all of their own electricity to use that electricity anytime, instead of when it is generated.
- Bureaucratic (adjective) – administrative, official, procedural, governmental, red-tape.
- Ramp up (noun) – boost, increase, buildup.
- Arguably (adverb) – possibly, probably, conceivably, potentially, debatably.
- Induct (verb) – admit to, allow into, introduce to, initiate into.
- Viability (noun) – ability to work/live to succeed.
- Gold mine (noun) – a rich source, resource.
- Exploit (verb) – use, utilize, make use of, capitalize on.
Note:
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- Definitions & Synonyms provided for the words above are my personal work and not that of Oxford University Press.