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 …
Some wind power companies are resorting to employee retrenchment as part of their efforts for ‘costs optimisation’ as they take hit on revenues due to a shift from feed-in-tariff to auction model and piling-up of inventories. The renewable energy sector, one of the big-thrust areas of the government, is witnessing …
The Union ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) issued a circular to all state governments to this effect. Hyderabad: The Centre has said that that environment impact assessment (EIA) is not applicable for solar power projects and to development of solar parks. The Union ministry of New and Renewable …
GREATER NOIDA: The 11th edition of Renewable Energy India 2017 Expo (REI), is set to take place from Sept 20-22 at the India Expo Center, Greater Noida. The expo which aims to stress on green energy and means to generate it along with promoting global interest, international investments and technology …
The government has put on hold auctions for 1gigawatt of wind power projects, which were to be conducted by the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) on September 19. Industry executives termed this as a relief because they would be in a better position to make a bid after the …
MNRE has enlisted six standards for different types of equipment used in solar power project With the domestic solar industry facing the heat from cheap imports and steeply falling tariffs, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has drafted a new set of norms and standards for all solar …
Regen, Leap Green, NLC India bag 900-Mw projects, against a tender of 500 Mw in Tamil Nadu Six months after the first auction of projects, the second one has seen wind power tariff falling to a record low of Rs 3.42 per unit. The three companies that have qualified in …
Assam Governor Banwarilal Purohit, along with the Minister for Science and Technology Keshab Mahanta, inaugurated a 30-KW grid interactive solar power plant under Renewable Energy Project in Raj Bhavan on Wednesday. Inaugurating the solar power plant, the Governor said that solar energy is considered to be the best option for …
UK-based firms GJ Nature Care & Energy (GJNCE) and GJ Eco Power (GJEP) plan to invest close to ₹1,500 crore over a period of five years in waste-to-energy projects across South Indian cities. GJNCE has already won the global bid for the waste-to-energy project in Kochi under DBFOT (Design, Build, …
The cost of wind power in Tamil Nadu has fallen to 3.42 per unit, the lowest in the country.The price now is 4 paise lower than that quoted in the Union renewable power ministry's wind power tender bid. CHENNAI: The cost of wind power in Tamil Nadu has fallen to …
The government has set itself a target of 100 GW of solar power by 2022, of which 60 GW is to come from utilities and 40 GW from rooftop solar installations. While the 60 GW target seems achievable, the country is lagging behind on the target set for rooftop solar. …
government has implemented new rules for buying power from grid-linked solar power projects through competitive bidding under the National Solar Mission to improve transparency and standardise auctions. These guidelines, prepared by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), cover the grid-connected solar PV power projects with a size of …
The Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has launched a pilot scheme for the promotion of large-scale grid-connected roof-top solar PV projects in Raipur city, officials said. The Raipur Smart City Ltd (RSCL) is to implement the project in the city. The generated solar power may be utilised …
The International Solar Alliance is likely to be a recognised multilateral agency of the United Nations by this year end. Speaking at 8th World Renewable Energy Technology Congress, Minister of State (Independent Charge) Coal, Power, New and Renewable Energy and Mines, Piyush Goyal said, “Before the end of this calendar, …
“The Centre will fund only those solar parks with a minimum capacity of 500 MW. But such a huge project requires a big stretch of land ... at least 2,000 acres. It is difficult to get such huge plots as we have fragmented land," said said Shovan Deb Chattopadhyay. The …
Three union ministers -- Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power, Coal, New and Renewable Energy and Mines Piyush Goyal and Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan -- have confirmed their participation in the two-day Business and Climate Summit (BCS) …
In light of the fact that developers who were granted connectivity in existing sub-stations earlier did not go on to win any capacity in recent auctions, the renewable energy ministry in a missive to the CERC has made a pitch that winning players be accorded priority for getting grid connectivity. …
The installed wind power capacity is over 32.5 GW. Hyderabad: Union energy minister Piyush Goyal said tenders would be called at the appropriate time to meet the wind power capacity target of 60 GW by 2022. In a written reply to TRS MP B. Vinod Kumar in the Lok Sabha …
As on 31.07.2017, the cumulative Solar Energy capacity installed, as on 31.07.2017, is 13652 MW while the same at the end of 2014-15 was 3743.97 MW. This was stated by Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal & New and Renewable Energy and Mines in a written …
The Indian solar market added 1,869 MW capacity in April-June quarter taking the installations to 4,765 MW during H1 of 2017, a recent survey said. According to a study conducted by Mercom India Research, the total capacity added in the first half (January-June 2017) of this year has surpassed the …
BENGALURU: Karnataka has overtaken Gujarat to become the third highest producer of renewable energy after Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. The state, which occupied the fourth position last year, has outranked Gujarat in the recently released progress report of the Union ministry of new and renewable energy. Energy minister D K …
