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 …
The Haryana Renewable Energy Development Agency (HAREDA) has signed a management contract with Gurgaon-based Advit Foundation for running the Rajiv Gandhi Renewable Energy Park in Gurgaon. HAREDA director Sumita Misra said the state-level renewable energy park had been set up by the Department of Renewable Energy, Haryana, and HAREDA at …
Substantial effort is being made to accelerate the development and deployment of Carbon Capture and Geological Storage (CCS), particularly in developed countries, with governments focusing on a post-2012 timeframe. This report compares the support of CCS to that given to other low carbon technologies, suggests next steps to overcome current …
PRAKASH CHAWLA CHA-AM HUA HIN Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Sunday said India was committed to the success of international efforts to combat climate change and sought a global mechanism to develop environmentfriendly technologies and ensuring their availability to developing nations at an affordable cost. Addressing the fourth East Asian …
Engineers are brimming with ideas of how to extract every last tonne of fossil fuel: one company is now showing that all it takes is common fertiliser.
State-owned NTPC will set up a 100 Mw power unit based on synthesis gas (coal turned into gas) and would appoint consultants for this by the end of this year. The plant will be based on the integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC), which creates less pollution and has higher efficiency …
Scientists and companies around the world are working on microbiological processes to make bioethanol out of cellulose. They're also wondering whether butanol may not be even better.
The Electric and Plug-in Hybrid Vehicle (EV/PHEV) Roadmap for the first time identifies a detailed scenario for the evolution of these types of vehicles and their market penetration, from annual production of a few thousand to over 100 million vehicles by 2050. It finds that the next decade is a …
NEW DELHI: Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) on Thursday notified tariff regulations for green power generated from renewable energy sources in an effort to attract new investments in this sector. The regulations have been finalised keeping in view the statutory mandate to Electricity Regulatory Commission for promoting co-generation and generation …
A bacterium can generate electricity from mud and waste fuel cells which use microorganisms to convert chemical energy to electrical energy are seen as one of the future sources of clean power. But the capacity of such cells to generate electricity is very low. Researchers knew of microbes that can …
N. Anand Details will be announced in National Solar Mission SOLAR POWER: Farooq Abdullah, Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, inaugurating WinWinD
Luis MirandaWith nearly 20 per cent of its Rs 6,000-crore corpus invested in clean energy, IDFC Private Equity has identified clean technology as a focus area. The seven-year-old company, which manages three funds, has committed over Rs 1,100 crore to nine companies, the latest being Krishna Godavari Gas. The investment …
Margaret Williams / Sunderbans (gosaba & Basanti) September 02, 2009, 0:18 IST The Sunderbans boast the highest concentration of solar home panels in India thanks to the efforts of a former government scientific officer. Sustainable technology may be the next big thing for India Inc, but for S P Gon …
This latest report which comes ahead of Copenhagen climate change summit says that India's per capita Green house gas emission in 2030 will be well below those in the developed countries in 2005 and this should put at rest any rest any apprehension that the country's emission is poised for …
