Global wind report 2024
The global wind industry installed a record 117GW of new capacity in 2023, making it the best year ever for new wind energy, finds this year’s Global Wind Report from the Global Wind Energy Council. The
The global wind industry installed a record 117GW of new capacity in 2023, making it the best year ever for new wind energy, finds this year’s Global Wind Report from the Global Wind Energy Council. The
Part of initiative to tackle power crisis in the State The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) is charting out an action plan for extensively exploiting the solar energy potential to tackle the power crisis gripping the State. Official sources told The Hindu here that a high-level expert panel appointed by the board is holding weekly meetings to scrutinise the successful models set up in different parts of the country for preparing a detailed project report by mid-November. As a proven technology, it has been envisaged to adopt the solar technology at present and then move on to other sources like wind and tidal power in due course.
IKEA, the world's largest furniture retailer, will shift to renewable energy by 2020 and grow more trees than it uses under a plan to safeguard nature that has won support from environmentalists. The
With the State facing an acute power shortage, the Tamil Nadu Government in its solar energy policy has made it mandatory for large-scale power consumers to meet six per cent of their energy requirements
With the nation's oil and gas plants firing at full capacity, government officials say there is little chance Japan will honor its pledge to cut greenhouse gas emissions significantly over the next decade,
Against the backdrop of long hours of power cut and growing demand for power in the State, Tamil Nadu has come out with “Solar Energy Policy 2012.” The policy envisages 3,000 mega watt of solar power in the State in three years. Several industrial and commercial consumers are already going in for solar energy generation. For instance, the RVS group of educational institutions here plans to install 600 kilo watt solar systems in six of its colleges. The Solar Energy Policy will now boost solar power generation in all segments and at different scales of generation – roof tops to large capacity plants.
In an effort to ease the drawing of electricity from main grids, the District Panchayat administration is to set up solar-powered street lights to lit public places in semi-urban and rural areas across 13 blocks in the district at an estimated total outlay of Rs.45.5 lakh. District panchayat chairman M. Shanmugam told The Hindu that the lights would be set up at places where the people throng in large numbers like bus stations, commercial places, markets and also in areas where the streets were lonely.
A solar plant will be set up near the Taj Mahal to provide uninterrupted power supply to the heritage monument and areas around it. A proposal to this effect has been approved by the district authorities
Solar power costly for discoms, non-solar energy has no takers Most state electricity distribution utilities have failed to meet their renewable energy purchase obligation for 2011-2012, experts say,
Chennai Attempting to capitalise on 300 clear sunny days available in the state annually, Tamil Nadu government on Saturday unveiled a new solar energy policy, envisaging to produce over 3,000 MW of power, exclusively from solar power, in the next three years. Christened as 'Tamil Nadu Solar Energy Policy 2012,' the new initiative of the Jayalalithaa government, with a slew of encouraging features, finds opportunity in the rapidly declining solar power costs and aims at tapping at least 1,000 MW through solar power annually in the power-starved state. “(The policy) intends to make solar energy a people's movement just as it did earlier in the case of rainwater harvesting," the policy said.
The Solar Power Policy 2012 announced by the Chief Minister on Saturday will give a new lease of life to the industries, especially the micro, small and medium-scale enterprises, according to R. Ramachandran, president of Coimbatore District Small Industries Association. Mr. Ramachandran has said in a release that Coimbatore was the only city chosen for the solar city project. The association proposed to organise a renewable energy fair here on January next year. This would create tremendous business opportunity for all the solar equipment manufacturers.