Clean energy market monitor: March 2024
Clean energy is growing rapidly, as annual deployment of a number of key technologies has surged ahead in recent years driven by policy support and continued cost declines. Their growth is starting to
Clean energy is growing rapidly, as annual deployment of a number of key technologies has surged ahead in recent years driven by policy support and continued cost declines. Their growth is starting to
Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has told his officials to keep the public interest in mind while acquiring land for companies to establish industries in the state. “Think twice where land acquisition is involved. The public interest is as important as the industrial development,” he told them yesterday, while reviewing the status of agreements signed for various investment proposals made in January this year. Allotment of land by the state to industries in the 2004-09 ministry of Rajasekhara Reddy has become the subject of much controversy, with more than one probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
Mumbai: Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners has struck a deal to invest Rs 1,200 crore in Continuum Wind Energy, developing 500MW assets. The private equity arm of Morgan Stanley will hold majority
Minister for Electricity and Transport Aryadan Mohammed told the Assembly on Thursday that the State government proposed to take up new power generation projects to solve the power shortage in the State in five years. This would include addition of 100 MW by setting up windmills. Replying to the debate on the demands for grants for Power, Transport and Taxes on Vehicles, the Minister said the State had already drawn up plans to generate 1,200 MW from LNG at a plant to be set up at Cheemeni in Kasaragod district. The Union government would be adding 1,950 MW from the Kayamkulam thermal power station using LNG as fuel. Detailed project reports were being prepared for new hydel projects.
With turbines threatening some bird and bat populations, researchers are seeking ways to keep the skies safe for wildlife.
Buildings are experimenting with alternative energy with small wind turbines on rooftops In the last few weeks, the city has had a respite from its daily burden of two-hour power cuts — wind energy has helped reduce load shedding to one hour a day. Thanks to the huge wind turbines that dot the State's southern coast, much-needed power is supplied to grids. Of late, some buildings in the city have begun to take their own measures to go green. Small wind turbines have cropped up on several rooftops.
Despite leading in some aspects of green technology, such as solar and wind power, China still faces a fight to reduce its level of emissions. China considers ways of reducing emissions Twenty six
Tata Power Co Ltd, India’s largest private power producer, is looking at bidding for projects in countries with easy regulatory norms, with South and West Asian nations being high on the priority list, a top official said. The company has already set up a crack team of “seed staff”, which is looking for the “right environment” where the company can bid for projects, Anil Sardana, managing director of Tata Power, told Business Standard.
China's carbon emissions could be much lower than estimated by a U.N. panel of scientists, according to a leading Chinese climate change specialist. The comments by Professor Wang Yi, director of the
A 30 percent cut in the cost of producing electricity from offshore wind farms is possible in the UK by the end of this decade, helping it compete with cheaper power from onshore wind or biomass, two separate
AHMEDABAD: In order to make multi-utility spaces in urban areas viable and add to the revenue of civic agencies, Gandhinagar Urban Development Authority (Guda) plans to set up windmill-powered utility centers. This unique utility centre will act as a bus-stop, have space for advertisement display, a small cafeteria and sitting space. The centre will be powered by a small windmill and a solar panel and will draw little electricity from the main grid.