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April 18, 2013

India needs energy infrastructure
New Delhi (UPI) Apr 16, 2013
India should consider developing infrastructure to deal with supply and demand issues in its energy sector, a Shell top executive said. "On supply, India is already a significant component in the global energy consumption and is going to be 10-15 percent of global energy in the decades ahead. For that, you need to have infrastructure," Jeremy Bentham, vice president, Global Business Environment for Shell told India's Business Standard. India's reliance on imports is about 80 percent for ... read more

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