Reply filed by the Director, Environment-cum-Special Secretary, Forest, Environment and Climate Change Department, Odisha and Member Secretary, Odisha Coastal Zone Management Authority, May 1, 2025. NGT, had registered suo motu in response to the news item in the Hindu, May 4, 2024 titled "Swell waves likely to strike coastal areas …
US Firm Says UP Indifferent; Govt Finds Plan Not Viable Lucknow: Inordinate delay on the part of UP government in allowing it to set up a multi-crore-rupee waste to energy (WTE) project in the state has left a US based company completely frustrated. The company, which has evinced interest in …
PANAJI: In addition to the two large waste treatment plants - one each in Calangute and Cacora -- the government has mooted a third garbage treatment plant (GTP) in Bicholim to handle the state's plastic waste which will be converted to fuel. The project is being undertaken through the Goa …
A 9.9 MW biomass plant has been set up in Mahendragarh district with a total cost of Rs 60 crore and a similar project of 9.5 MW in Bhiwani district is at its final stage. While stating this here today, an official spokesman of the Renewable Energy Department said three …
Shimla, November 24: The state government has decided to formulate a comprehensive policy to facilitate conversion of various non-biodegradable wastes into energy to give push to recycling. So far, the focus had been on reduction of non-biodegradable waste through steps such as imposition of ban on polythene carry bags and …
Vedanta Aluminium (VAL) has commissioned a red mud powder producing unit at Lanjigarh refinery in Odisha, describing it as first of its kind in alumina industry tackling major environmental hazards. "The unique project of producing red mud powder has been commissioned in a fully mechanised and automatic plant. The system …
The government has given license to two private companies for conducting feasibility study to generate electricity from garbage. The Gold Rush Company has got survey license to generate 7.9 MW electricity from the garbage of Pokhara Sub-Metropolitan City, the Electricity Development Department said. The company has been given license to …
The residents of Palayam ward who have been conveniently ignoring the reminders of the city corporation not to dump garbage on public places and to make use of the daily collection system will now have to deal with the police. The corporation has now teamed up with Museum police to …
The first pilot biomethanation plant of the Chennai Corporation that uses Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) technology will be launched in Pulianthope soon. The pilot plant, which will be ready in 45 days, will have the capacity to convert two metric tonnes of bio-degradable waste into 40 KV of power …
The 5,000 tonnes of garbage generated in the city per day has the potential to be converted to 12 crore litre of aviation fuel and 4.5 crore litre of diesel per year. An expert told Express that through plasma gasification and vitrification process, a technology developed by NASA, the garbage …
Environmental federation Friends of the Earth International (FoEI) has released a new report called “Good Energy, Bad Energy: Transforming our energy system for people and the planet”. The report, underlines the importance of a just, sustainable, climate-safe energy system, in the wake of warnings by the world’s leading scientists about …
The company is investing Rs 250 cr for this venture Pune based My Eco Energy, a bio diesel manufacturing company is setting up a fuel producing unit and network of fuel stations across Maharashtra. The company is investing Rs 250 crore for this venture. The company will be engaged in …
Construction of Nisargruna biogas plants likely to begin by January Madurai is all set to adopt Nisargruna, a solid waste management technology devised by Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), to convert biodegradable waste collected from households in rural areas into methane and organic manure. The District Rural Development Agency (DRDA) …
ADB has agreed to fund the program, which has made good progress, for two more years Energy: Bhutan’s ongoing biogas project will achieve at least 85 percent of the total target by the end of the project in February next year, according to the department of livestock. The funding agency, …
Aimed at optimally utilising recycled agriculture waste in the state as alternative fuel, Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal today constituted a committee under the Secretary, Agriculture, KS Pannu, to explore the feasibility of implementing this project successfully in the state in collaboration with a private firm. A decision to this …
Demand comes down due to State’s power restrictions on HT consumers The relaxation of power cut restrictions on high tension (HT) consumers can also lead to problems for some. Since the middle of August when the State government lifted the restrictions, about a dozen biomass power plants, which were till …
The State Pollution Control Board (PCB) plans to solve the problem of waste management by utilising it for the generation of energy. Kuldeep Singh Pathania, Chairman of the State Pollution Control Board , said in his view waste had to be treated as a raw material resource for energy in …
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) under the ministry of science and technology (MoST) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in collaboration with India's Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), have announced a project to support Indian investigators to drive research, development, and production of the "next generation toilet" for …
This 23rd edition of the Survey of Energy Resources published by World Energy Council covers all fossil resources (coal, oil, both conventional and unconventional and gas, both conventional and unconventional), and the main renewable and transitional resources: peat, nuclear and uranium, hydro power, biofuels and waste, wind, solar, geothermal and …
The Coimbatore Corporation has chosen a Bangalore-based firm to generate 500 MW power from the waste accumulated in the Corporation areas under a public-private partnership project. Of the five firms that had submitted solid waste management proposals for processing 500 tonnes, the Bangalore firm was short-listed by a committee. The …
Renewable energy developments in India - a presentation by Alok Srivastava, Joint Secretary (Wind Projects), Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy at CSE Annual South Asian Media Briefing Workshop on Climate Change, 2013 being held in New Delhi from September 18-19, 2013.
