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 …
As India is looking forward to increase the capacity of renewable energy in the power sector to 225 Giga Watts by 2022, the government?s main thrust would be to promote indigenous manufacturing of high quality solar equipments, Union Power Minister Piyush Goyal said. Wind - we are manufacturing in India; …
Solar power tariffs appear to be on a free fall in India to find a new floor at Rs 2.62 per unit, some 18% lower than the average price of Rs 3.20 charged by India's largest generation utility NTPC for electricity generated by its coal-fired plants. The historic low was …
BSES Rajdhani Power Limited (BRPL) has signed a memorandum of agreement (MoA) with the Power Trading Corporation of India Limited today for procuring 100 MW of wind power. The MoA will set up 1,000 MW Inter State Transmission System connected wind power projects under the Ministry of New and Renewal …
For the first time in the country, capacity additions in the renewable energy sector were close to those of the thermal power segment in 2016-17. The renewable energy sector has ended 2016-17 with a record capacity addition of 11,320 MW, though it fell short of its target (16,660 MW) for …
PATNA: Two state-owned power distribution companies - North Bihar Power Distribution Company and South Bihar Power Distribution Company - signed an MoU with Power Trading Corporation (PTC), an undertaking of ministry of power, in New Delhi on Wednesday for purchase of 200MW wind energy from a proposed wind energy production …
Union Minister Piyush Goyal uses ‘shock treatment’ to cure a sector that had been critically ill When Piyush Goyal took over as the Union Minister for Power, Coal and Renewable Energy in May 2014, he inherited perhaps the worst of the UPA regime’s handiwork. In October 2014, at least 56 …
Renewable power capacity addition at 11.5 gw in fiscal 2017, just a shade below 11 gw added under thermal The renewable energy sector reported a record capacity addition of over 11 gigawatt (gw) in fiscal 2017, an increase of around 60% over the previous year. The addition is neck and …
Solar tariff touched a new low last week as the final levelised tariff for a 250 MW solar project in Andhra Pradesh was discovered to be Rs 3.15 per unit. In a bid to encourage the use of rooftop solar power, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has …
Solar power tariffs appear to be on a free fall in India, finding a new floor at a tariff of Rs 3.15 per unit quoted by Solairedirect in the auction for state-run generation utility NTPC's 250MW at Kadapa in Andhra Pradesh. This beats the previous low of Rs 3.30 per …
India may add around 6,000 megawatts (MW) of wind power capacity in the ongoing fiscal, an industry body has said. "The government's target (for the 2017-18) I think is 4,500 MW. We know that we have number of challenges in front of us, but we will try our best to …
It was India’s carbon tax; it was thought to be a source of funding clean energy projects, to combat climate change. Now it is being thrown out of the window. In the last six years, government of India has collected around Rs. 54,000 crore by levying a cess on every …
Power Minister Piyush Goyal today squarely held human beings responsible for the climate challenge, saying they can address it ultimately. "It is time that human beings understood that climate change is a challenge caused by humans only and ultimately it is humans who can address it," Goyal said while addressing …
The power ministry was seeking to let regional officials grant forest clearances for projects that have an area up to 40 hectares The environment ministry has turned down the power ministry’s proposal of letting the regional officials grant forest clearances (FCs) for hydro projects that have an area up to …
A rooftop solar plant at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International (SVPI) airport commissioned on Tuesday, a statement from airport officials said. "As an initiative towards fulfilment of the government of India's target for installation of 40GW rooftop solar power plants by 2022, Airport Authority of India (AAI) has commissioned a grid-connected …
As per energy blueprint, two solar photovoltaic power plants in Port Blair will have battery storage of 25 MW As part of an ambitious greening effort in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a plan to set up Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) power plants at two sites in Port Blair with battery …
The Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam (DHBVN), in an effort to ratchet up solar power generation, will take steps to make net meters easily available in the city. Sudhir Chabbra, chief engineer (commercial), has directed all subdivision officials to ensure a hassle-free procedure is followed to get net meters installed …
The union environment ministry recently expressed doubts about international reports that link air pollution with mortality and recommended exercising caution in interpreting these studies. But now the union health ministry along with the World Health Organisation (WHO) is set to release a public declaration on the health impacts of air …
The life size model of a green building called SPARSH was inaugarated here by Power Secretary PK Pujari on Monday. Launched by the Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA), SPARSH has been designed to enhance the user experience of a "green building". According to a statement by the GRIHA …
PTC India today said it will be the nodal entity for purchase and supply of electricity from wind power projects of 1000 MW auctioned by government. "PTC India is the nodal entity for supplying power to utilities after entering into a power purchase agreement (PPA) with successful bidders," PTC India …
Buoyed by drop in tariff to record low of Rs 3.46 per unit in the first auction of wind power, the government is mulling putting on the block more such projects next fiscal. "Transparency which is the hallmark of the Modi government, has brought down the tariff of wind power. …
