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 …
Business is down at the Surya Chambal power plant, but not because of recession. It is the fuel. This power plant runs not on coal, but on mustard husk. When it was set up four years ago in Kota, in Rajasthan, mustard husk was in surplus. It cost Jyoti Ranjan, …
With so many contenders emerging for agricultural residue and fuel wood, biomass power plant owners are looking beyond national boundaries for viability. To make a profit they now look at carbon credits. “They are the plant’s lifeline,” Ranjan said. His power plant in Kota uses 1.4 kg husk for each …
While the government thrashes out ways and means to ensure raw material and boost green power plants, a biomass power plant had to shut shop unable to cope with the raw material crisis. Rising prices of biomass led the 7.5 MW Konark biomass power plant in Karnataka’s Tumkur district to …
KOLLAM: Union Minister for Non-Conventional Energy Farooq Abdullah has said that the Central Government was not against the implementation of the Athirappally hydel project, if controversial areas are avoided. Farooq Abdullah told reporters here on Sunday that the project could be implemented by excluding the
PUDUCHERRY: The Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy along with the Union Ministry of Telecommunications is working on converting almost all cellphone towers into
The year: 2004. The movie: Swades (Hindi for homeland). Shah Rukh Khan is playing the character of Mohan Bhargava, a non-resident Indian space scientist in the US. On a trip to meet his grandmother in India, Bhargava is appalled by the living conditions in her village, Charanpur, set in the …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Electricity Minister A K Balan has said that the pilot distribution of 1.5 crore Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL) will begin at the Thirumala, Mangalapuram, Attingal, Poovar, Pallam, Changanassery, Kuruppumthara and Kottarakkara sections of the KSEB on March 16. Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, the Minister said that …
The objectives of this guidelines are: To promote off-grid applications of solar energy (both SPV and Solar Thermal) for meeting the targets set in the National Solar Mission for Phase-I; To create awareness and demonstrate effective and innovative use of Solar systems for individual/ community/ institutional applications; To encourage innovation …
Mr Bibek Bandyopadhyay, Advisor on the Solar Thermal Programme of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, has said that the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission aims at setting up 20,000 MW grid solar power and 2,000 MW of off-grid solar power by 2022. Speaking at the Indo-German dialogue on
Bio seems to be the buzzword of the moment when experts in India talk about the country's future energy supply. India's government wants to put more emphasis on biomass and the industry shows increaseing interest.
This document presents national and international best practices on solar water heater and reviews the building sector policies and regulations in India in the context of solar water heating (SWH) system promotion & assesses their effectiveness. This report has three distinct sections, section I deals with National and International best …
An effective financial assistance can play an important role in promotion of SWHS. The involvement of various stakeholders in the development and implementation of financing mechanisms and instruments is essential to understand the financial needs of different kinds of sectors and demand segments in India. Further, in order to examine …
Ever since the Copenhagen mess happened, India has been planning to independently launch a Renewable Energy Certificates (REC) trading programme to bring down carbon-intensive energy consumption. The New and Renewable Energy Ministry and the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) want to roll it out in April. CERC deputy chief Sushanta …
The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) on Tuesday announced its plans to develop five small hydro electric projects as carbon credit projects under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In a statement here, the power board said it proposed to utilise the financial assistance extended by the …
Vrinda Sharma BATHINDA: Aiming to make Punjab power-surplus in the next two years, a bio-mass power plant, one of over 30 planned in the State, was inaugurated at Muktsar, 70 km from here, on Friday. Union Minister of New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah, who inaugurated the plant, termed it …
Bhubaneswar: The ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) secretary, Deepak Gupta, said on Thursday that the country has great potential for generation of renewable energy from rice husk. Recognizing the potential of the sector and its relevance in the backdrop of the energy crisis the country is facing , …
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 …
R. Sairam MADURAI: The Central Government has allotted a sum of Rs. 150 crore to promote the use of solar power among industries. Central financial assistance would be provided under a Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy scheme with the sum being split in to two equal parts for …
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Govt. of India has come out with the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) with the objective of establishing India as a global leader in solar energy by creating policy conditions for its diffusion across the country as soon as possible. This …
