Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item Titled "Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s Golconda Fort Cries for attention appearing in ‘The Siasat Daily’ dated 25 May 2025". The application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled “Neglected Katora Houz in Hyderabad’s …
Mumbai: Students of Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) have created an initiative to provide 70 lakh solar study lamps to remote villages in five states Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and Uttar Pradesh. Villagers including women and youth are being trained by IIT-B students to repair and create these lamps for …
The solar power sector continues to drive the addition of renewable energy capacity in the country. Also, rooftop solar capacity is in the verge of crossing the 1GW mark during this fiscal. In the first nine months of this fiscal, the renewable energy sector added 5,603MW of new capacity, of …
Decision will help India's Solar Mission become WTO compliant As India faces heat at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for giving preference to domestic solar manufacturers in its renewable energy programme, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has made changes to the content sourcing policy. This comes at …
Technology innovation remains critical for both cleaner coal and energy storage systems green energy targets in mind, but is India technology-ready? India's green energy targets for the next few years may be clear and crisp, but the country may need to focus more on related technologies to achieve its environment-friendly …
The Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has been apprised of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on India-Italy Cooperation in Renewable Energy between India and Italy. The MoU was signed on 30th October, 2017 at New Delhi. The MoU was signed by Shri Anand Kumar, Secretary, Ministry …
CHANDIGARH: If all goes according to the plans of the ministry of new and renewal energy (MNRE), City Beautiful will be on green energy by the end of 2018. After the selection of Chandigarh for development as a model solar city, MNRE directed Chandigarh administration to make the city 100% …
India's renewable energy sector is undergoing transformation and disruption, with solar and wind tariffs hitting record lows. The country's global ranking in terms of installed renewable energy capacity, too, has improved in the last couple of years. In solar energy, India's ranking has jumped to 6th from 11th in 2015. …
At a time when the government of India is trying to decide on whether or not the Indian solar cells and modules manufacturers deserve protection by way of anti-dumping duty, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has said that the cell/module manufacturing capacity in the country is “obsolete”. In …
CHENNAI: In a bid to phase out free power and promote the use of renewable energy, the Tamil Nadu government is pushing for the adoption of solar pumps for agriculture, by offering 90% subsidy to the farmers. In the first phase, it has floated a tender for the supply of …
Promoting the use of energy-efficient measures and encouraging rooftop solar power generation, Delhi Power Minister Satyendar Jain on Monday inaugurated India’s first rooftop solar plant at a carport commercial mall ‘Unity One’ at Rohini. The 300 KW plant has been jointly executed by Tata Power Delhi Distribution and Tata Power …
‘Revamp present grid system suiting the hybrid power system’ Citing the ambitious target of achieving an installed capacity of 1,75,000 MW of renewable energy by 2022 set by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), energy experts called for a robust shift to alternative energy sources while speaking at the …
Nagpur: Nagpur Metro has decided to go in for captive solar power generation and will get it at Rs4.50 a unit. It will use costly conventional power in evening. Mahametro managing director Brijesh Dixit said that the earlier state power generation company Mahagenco was to generate solar power for Nagpur …
Solar sector shines, but wind power struggling to add capacity In a significant development, India’s total renewable energy capacity crossed 60,000 MW in the September quarter. The country added 10,000 MW in the last nine months; the cumulative clean energy capacity had crossed 50,000 MW in the December quarter last …
Cooch Behar: A solar plant that can generate 10 kilowatts of power was commissioned at the Sadar Government High School here on Wednesday. This is the first time that such a facility has been installed at an educational institution in the district. The plant will cut down power bills of …
Ministry unveils draft regulation for private participation in exploration The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has unveiled draft guidelines on private participation in studies for exploring and identifying offshore wind power blocks. In October 2015, the Centre had introduced an offshore wind power policy aimed at tapping India’s …
Buoyed by the success of 2 tariff-based bidding for wind power projects, government will go ahead with 2-3 more such auctions for around 3 GW capacity, which may stagger to 2018, a senior official said. The tariff-based competitive bidding for 1 GW wind projects brought down the tariff to a …
45% of the financing target under RE-Invest met till yet: MNRE The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy is also in the final stages of drafting separate bidding guidelines for future projects The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) is looking to auction close to 3 GW of wind …
The previous low was Rs 3.46 per unit during an auction held in February. Hyderabad: The tariff for wind power touched the lowest level of Rs 2.64 per unit on Wednesday. This was the price discovered at an auction conducted by the The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) on …
India’s energy needs are going to double in the next 6-7 years at the present rate of growth of the economy, according to the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power and Renewable Energy, R K Singh. Speaking at the curtain raiser for RE-Invest 2017, Singh said, “We expect India's …
The Chambers of Industrial and Commercial Undertakings (CICU) in association with the United Nation Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) organised a workshop to promote concentrating solar thermal (CST) technologies for the industrial sector. The workshop was organised with cooperation of the Punjab Energy Development of Agency (PEDA) and the Ministry of …
