Reply affidavit filed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change regarding setting up a super critical coal based thermal power plant at village …

Reply affidavit filed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Debadityo Sinha & Others Vs Union of India & Others. An application filed before the NGT said that illegal construction activities and clearing the vegetation and forest using massive earthwork and levelling the land …

Ministry gets a dose of perestroika

PRIME Minister P V Narasimha Rao has approved a plan to restructure the Union ministry of nonconventional energy sources (MNES) to improve efficiency and meet targets. The new structure will also see greater private-sector involvement. MNES is presently structured along technology lines, which result in similar end-use applications being handled …

Spurt forecast in nonconventional energy

• A RS 4.5-crore, 100-kw solar photovoltaic power plant -- Asia's largest -- is to be commissioned by Prime Minister P V Narasimha Rao in May 1993 at Kalyanpur village in Aligarh district. • A Rs 4,000-crore, 100-mw tidal wave power project in the Gulf of Kutch is being reviewed. …

Moving towards commercialisation

With the resource crunch persisting, won't you find it difficult to raise funds for the revised target of 2,000 mw for power generation from non-conventional energy in the Eighth Plan ? Funds will be mobilised through private sector investments, loans from financial institutions and assistance from international agencies in addition …

The four pillars of non conventional energy

Mini-micro hydel: Indian technologists developed mini-hydel systems more than 100 years ago, but in the post-Independence emphasis on the new "temples of modern India" -- huge dams and power stations -- mini-micro hydel systems were neglected. In 1989, however, hydro projects below 3 mw were transferred from the power ministry …

Wind power projects push land costs sky high

THE TAMIL Nadu government's decision to encourage private industries to set up wind turbines has received a good response and with an increasing number of industries rushing to buy land, prices, have boomed in the two areas developed for wind farming - Muppandal in Kanniya-kumari di'strict and Kayattar in Chidambaranar …

Energy funding shifts to hi tech projects

FINANCE minister Manmohan Singh contends non-conventional energy sources (NCES) have been given a boost through customs duty reductions of upto 20 per cent on a variety of items and continuation of the tax holiday for renewable energy projects. Funding for solar and wind energy programmes have been raised from 22.9 …

Wind power: up, up and down

THE POTENTIAL for wind energy in India has been separately estimated at 30,000 megawatts (mw) -- by the Department of Nonconventional Energy Sources (DNES) -- and 50,000 mw -- by the Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) in New Delhi. According to Jami Hossain, wind energy technologist at TERI, "Wind power …

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