Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
Worldwide, there is a growing recognition of the role of energy access in the last mile delivery of community services. However, in India, energy access has had a strong household-level focus, while its role as an enabler of better health and education services has not gained enough attention. Even though …
The government today came out with the draft policy for repowering of the wind power projects to optimally utilise the wind energy resources and increase the power generation through this resource. Putting up the draft policy for stakeholders’ comments, the government said the objective of the Repowering Policy is to …
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) wants all wind turbines of less than 1MW capacity and built before the year 2000 phased out and replaced by new ones. It has circulated a draft wind repowering policy saying that its financing arm, the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) …
Chandigarh may soon make solar rooftop plants mandatory for all houses and buildings occupying plots larger than 100 square yards in a first of its kind clean energy drive in the country. A notification to this effect is expected shortly, said Santosh Kumar, director of Chandigarh Renewable Energy Science and …
The Government of Haryana has formulated Haryana Solar Power Policy 2016 to promote the generation of power from solar energy. For giving effect to this Policy, necessary amendments in various policies, rules and regulations, wherever necessary, shall be expeditiously undertaken by the concerned Department.
For availing the benefits under this policy, power generated from any of the approved modes, has to be consumed within the state. Hyderabad: The TS government has come out with a slew of incentives for the benefit of companies coming forward to set up wind power plants. Among these incentives …
It used to be 80% until today's announcement Shreya The Union Budget capped the accelerated depreciation (AD) tax benefit provided under Income Tax Act at maximum 40% effective from April, 2017. The wind energy sector which till yet enjoyed AD of 80% is likely to take a major hit. Of …
100% village electrification is positive but power supply needs to be ensured Power industry fears the Finance Minister's proposal to increase rate of Clean Environment Cess from Rs 200 per tonne to Rs 400 per tonne will have adverse impact on tariff structure. The industry players expect there will be …
This Puducherry Solar Energy Policy intends to create a framework that enables the development of solar energy in the Union Territory of Puducherry. The Union Territory of Puducherry comprises of four erstwhile French settlements viz. Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam, which are unconnected regions. The Union Territory is fast developing …
Telangana is eyeing addition of 2,000 MW wind energy in the next three years and has proposed to offer a set of incentives to developers, including 100 per cent tax refund for inputs and stamp duty for land purchased. National Institute of Wind Energy, based on initial surveys, has identified …
Canada has continued to harvest its vast natural resources and witnessed a shale revolution alongside rising oil sands production and investment in the energy sector over the past five years. The medium-term outlook for gas/oil production and exports, however, is challenging amid uncertainties around pipeline developments and an era of …
KOLKATA: The state's first and country's second solar slum was inaugurated on Tuesday by state power minister Manish Gupta at Topsia's Majdoor Para area falling under ward number 66 of the Kolkata municipal corporation. As many as 800 families doting the slum area where sunlight hardly enter the rooms will …
Advises Centre to ask states to execute energy accounting & implement availability based tariff Adani Power: When the biggest pvt thermal player thinks solar Amid the Centre's push to pursue an ambitious renewable energy (RE) target of 175 GW by 2022, the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) has taken a …
Gurgaon: The district administration will equip students with skills in installation, commissioning, sales and service of solar devices at the Rajiv Gandhi Renewable Energy Park in Sector 29 to push the uptake of solar power in the city. The three-month course will be offered under the Suryamitra programme in association …
The sector is beset by reliability of grid, payment mechanism and surety of payment and the long term policies, they say As the government gives renewed push to clean energy sources in the country, the wind sector expects a strict policy for mandatory power purchase. In an exclusive interaction with …
India will add 1,504.24 MW of solar power capacity by March 31, 2016 to take the total installed capacity in India to 6,752.45 MW, the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy said on Monday. Giving a status report on the implementation of various schemes to achieve the target of 100,000 …
With the control period for solar power tariff ending at the end of March, the Tamil Nadu Energy Regulatory Commission (TNERC) has put out a consultative paper to issue a comprehensive tariff for the coming year. The commission is soliciting comments from stakeholders till March 3 before finalising the tariff. …
A policy to boost manufacturing in solar energy sector is on the anvil, Union Minister for Power, Coal, New and RenewableEnergy, Piyush Goyal said on Monday. The policy will focus on boosting end-to-end manufacturing of solar panels, said Mr Goyal while speaking at a session on renewable energy. “I see …
Generation-Based Incentive To Be Given For Power From Rooftop Solar System This is just the right time to install a solar roof top system for your house. Del hi government has decided to give a generation-based incen tive (GBI) of Rs 2 per unit of so lar energy produced to …
A Yieldco is a company created to manage operational capacity through investment by various entities As India’s renewable energy sector gets on to massive capacity addition, a Yieldco model of companies may come sooner than expected. Experts, however, caution that unless the government makes some taxation changes, Yieldco may not …
