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 report outlines the progress renewable energy sources (RES) made in 2015 in the European Union (EU) as a whole, and at country, market sector and technology level. It also provides early European Environment Agency (EEA) estimates regarding developments at all of these levels in 2016. The report confirms that …
Adapting to market demands and innovation will be the way forward for clean energy sources and technologies, experts from India and Japan said at the Global Partnership Summit here on Monday. The panel of experts was discussing the theme of 'Clean Energy Sources and Technology', especially the role of solar …
Kozhikode: Power minister M M Mani commissioned the largest floating solar power plant in the country set up on the Banasura Sagar reservoir at Padinjarethara in Wayanad on Monday. The 500 kWp (kilowatt peak) solar plant of the Kerala state electricity board (KSEB) floats on 1.25 acres of water surface …
This report synthesizes a host of developments in the renewables sector during the year 2016-17 covering power generation from various renewable energy technologies, advances in policy and regulatory frameworks, growth in manufacturing capacity and investment flows, and contribution of renewables to emissions reduction. The analysis shows that 2016-17 has been …
Bioenergy is the main source of renewable energy today. IEA modelling also indicates that modern bioenergy is an essential component of the future low carbon global energy system if global climate change commitments are to be met, playing a particularly important role in helping to decarbonise sectors such as aviation, …
At Neyveli Lignite Corporation India, Tamil Nadu IMP Powers has successfully commissioned its pilot, 4x5kW = 20 KW, Hydro-kinetic Project at Neyveli Lignite Corporation India, Tamil Nadu, India. It is a Break-Through Technology introduced first time in India by IMP which will partly substitute conventional energy sources for sustainable development …
BONN, Germany: Switching over to renewable (solar, wind, biomass and hydro) energy is important to meet the Paris Agreement goal. Keeping this in mind, most of the countries, including India, China, USA and EU, nations in their Paris pledges two years ago had set out specific targets and timelines for …
The 1000-GW objective, more of a desire when the ISA was launched last year, has now become its official target Three years ago, India had surprised many by announcing that it would develop 100 gigawatts (GW) of solar energy by the year 2022, scaling up its then-existing target by almost …
As oil and coal fall back and renewables ramp up strongly, natural gas becomes the largest single fuel in the global mix in the Sustainable Development Scenario says World Energy Outlook 2017. The global energy scene is in a state of flux. Large-scale include: the rapid deployment and steep declines …
ABB India is providing critical technology through its solar inverters for solar powered charging stations for e-rickshaws at four locations in Jabalpur. As the sun hits the solar panels at the charging station, generating the direct current (DC) energy, the ABB inverters convert that power to the alternating current (AC) …
Back in 2010, Anmol Jaggi was one of the key names in the carbon credit market, advising large corporates on how to be energy-efficient and making money from it. With close to 25 million carbon credits and around 400 clients in India, his company was in its heyday since its …
The rapid fall in cost of solar and wind power technologies opens a new range of possibilities to decarbonise the global economy and cut carbon emissions from industry. Besides direct renewable heat and electrification, hydrogen-rich chemicals that are easy to store and transport could serve as feedstock, process agents and …
M.V. Ramana says nuclear energy is fraught with risks and is expensive India would do well to invest in research and development of storage technologies instead of trying to build more nuclear plants, leading physicist M.V. Ramana has said even as he criticised both the UPA and the NDA governments …
A team of researchers from Britain and India has kicked off a project to develop the next-generation photovoltaics (PV) in the country with the aim to have mobile labs that can manufacture these devices at a lower cost. The 8 million pound Strategic University Network to Revolutionise Indian Solar Energy …
Crucial for implementing the Indian atomic power programme, the closed nuclear fuel cycle is the future of the global industry, according to a Russian expert. Crucial for implementing the Indian atomic power programme, the closed nuclear fuel cycle is the future of the global industry, according to a Russian expert, …
The ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) has issued new guidelines on solar panels. Hyderabad: The government subsidy will not be extended to solar plants if they use Chinese panels. The government will give the subsidy to solar plants which use Indian-made solar panels. To encourage solar power, the …
NEW DELHI: Technological and financial concerns as well as differences over taking responsibility for the construction of the proposed 10,000-mw nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Maharashtra are weighing down efforts to fast-track the general framework agreement ahead of French president Emmanuel Macron's visit in December. Macron will be in …
But will it be able to follow solar and become cheaper? Just as every parent remembers and cherishes the first baby step his or her child took, every renewable energy aficionado will take to heart the fact that the contract for building the country’s first large-scale battery storage-backed solar plant …
In Europe, the growing appeal of RE has pulled down wholesale electricity rates Loss-making European power utilities are turning to India for investment opportunities in renewable energy (RE), drawn by the country's impressive drive in the latter. Engie of France, one of the biggest European power companies, which lost about …
The recent tariff-based auctions for wind power capacity, which threw up a surprise low tariff of Rs. 2.64 a kWhr, is all fine, but make sure that the projects do come up, say world energy bodies. Commenting on the auctions, in an e-mailed response to BusinessLine, Fatih Birol, Executive Director, …
