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Leading companies in the battery energy storage market are ABB (Switzerland) Kokam (South Korea), Samsung SDI (South Korea), Total (France), Hitachi ABB.
The real cost of gas- and coal-fired power generation is much higher than investors and analysts realise, according to a study from the RethinkX project. That is because actual capacity factors are much lower than is assumed in most models. But renewable energy has its own problems. According to an article in Harvard Business Review, disposal and recycling costs of solar panels and wind turbines are about to skyrocket. And solar panels are degrading much faster than anticipated. [Gas in Transition, Volume 1, Issue 4]
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Dr B K Mukhopadhyay
(The author is a Professor of Management and Economics, formerly at IIBM (RBI) Guwahati. He can be contacted at m.bibhas@gmail.com)
Dr. Boidurjo Rick Mukhopadhyay
(The author, international award-winning development and management economist, formerly a Gold Medalist in Economics at Gauhati University)
In most of the developing economies, women constitute 70-80% of the total agricultural labour force and they account for over 80% of food production. In the micro and small-scale enterprises MSE sector worldwide, women make up one-quarter to one-third of the total business population and in manufacturing they constitute one-third of the global labour force. However, women and girls also constitute three-fifths from a staggering 75% of the world s poor who live in rural areas. Despite enterprises that are women led or managed making substantial contribution to expanding enterprises consequentially boosting economic development and job creation, there s still lim