Reply by the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) in compliance to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) order dated January 21, 2024 in the matter of ‘News item titled “Feeling anxious? Toxic air could be to blame” appearing in Times of India dated 10.10.2023’. NGT had directed CPCB to file a …
This IEA technology roadmap for solar PV estimates that by 2050, PV will provide around 11% of global electricity production, and avoid 2.3 gt of CO2 emissions per year. But says that achieving roadmap
The Indian Semiconductor Association (ISA) has published a report entitled: 'Solar PV Industry 2010: Contemporary scenario and emerging trends'. This report looks at the contemporary scenario of the solar PV industry, both globally and within India. The analysis is based on a comprehensive review of secondary literature and extensive fieldwork. …
Ahmedabad: Exciting plasma balls with flashes of electricity visible, an interactive presentation explaining how hydro power is generated or a screen that you can slide and the film playing on the screen changes. All this an much more for the children seeking to know about how, what, why, who and …
Bijoy Ghosh The renewable energy sector, particularly solar energy, should now focus on technology and bringing down costs, said Dr Farooq Abdullah, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy. Addressing a seminar on mainstreaming green energy here on Thursday, he emphasised that the Government was keen on supporting the industry …
The technology was demonstrated at the UN Conference on Environment in Bangkok in 1995 as a follow-up to Rio Earth Summit and recognised as the best in Asia-Pacific. G. Srinivasan As ensuring clean growth is a big challenge in the light of growing ecological concerns, the setting up of waste …
WITH the Indian government’s pledge of generating 20 gigawatts of power from solar energy by 2020, about US $20 billion must be invested in developing infrastructure. Everyone wants to know which technology gets the largest piece of the cake. Most agree that as far as solar cells go, the ones …
This latest paper focuses on the challenges concerning finance and investments in renewable energy. Says that financiers and policymakers need to work much more closely together, to develop the agenda required to deliver scaled up capital flows into renewable energy. Scaling up the use of renewable energy is a key …
This paper provides an overview of some of the issues surrounding the use of renewable energy technologies (RETs) to increase access to modern energy services in rural areas. RETs include, inter alia, the provision of electricity generated from renewable sources such as wind, solar, water, tide/wave and geothermal, and the …
By producing electricity from locally available rice husk, the company lights up a thousand rural households Growing up, Gyanesh Pandey hated his home state Bihar. Today, the 33-year-old doesn
NEW DELHI, March 9: Streetlights remaining switched on even during day time or not functioning when needed in extreme weather conditions will become a thing of past as Delhi mayor Dr Kanwar Sain formally launched India
There is a way of returning to nuclear while overcoming safety and waste concerns: hybrid nuclear fusion. The concept has been around for decades, and has been discussed in the technical literature and at the International Atomic Energy Agency. But it has not yet been explained to governments, industry, researchers …
A quiet revolution is underway in the world of hydropower. An emerging non-dam based hydro industry holds the promise of economically viable technologies that do not deplete resources or warm the planet, and do not wipe out species, ecosystems and cultures. With supportive policies from governments, non-dam hydro could become …
The objective of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) under the brand `Solar India' is to create conditions, through rapid scale-up of capacity and technological innovation to driver down costs towards grid parity and establish India as a global leader in solar energy.
Efficient synthesis of renewable fuels remains a challenging and important line of research. We report a strategy by which aqueous solutions of {gamma}-valerolactone (GVL), produced from biomass-derived carbohydrates, can be converted to liquid alkenes in the molecular weight range appropriate for transportation fuels by an integrated catalytic system that does …
Hopes for the development of pebble-bed nuclear reactor technology, long held up as a safer alternative to conventional nuclear power, have suffered a blow. The South African government confirmed that it will effectively stop funding a long-term project to develop the technology.
In a new way plant-derived enzyme cocktails are used to break down orange peels and other waste materials into sugar, which is then fermented into ethanol, turning discarded fruit peels into cheap, clean fuel.
Applauding the Jawaharlal Nehru Solar Mission 2022 initiative launched by India to unleash 20,000 MW of power during the next decade, US-based Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has expressed its strong desire to be associated with the Indian Government, industry and academia to research and develop clean energy green technology …
VELLORE: The Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah has called for research targeted at reducing the cost of storing solar energy in the context of the National Solar Mission, recently launched by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, which aims at generation of an installed capacity of 20,000 …
