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 …
MARKING its silver jubilee on Sunday, the Salem Tree Club released a declaration that spells out eco-friendly solutions to day-to-day pollution. Pasumai Thayagam chairperson Sowmiya Anbumani received the first copy, which would be submitted to the government also. The declaration opens with a demand to ban tree cutting for fuel …
FAISALABAD, Nov 24: The city district government is working on a project to generate electricity with the help of solid waste to overcome power deficit, District Coordination Officer (DCO) Saeed Wahla told a press conference here on Tuesday. The Punjab government would also undertake such plans in other cities, he …
N. Gopal Raj A simple and strictly local power generation system has proved that rural Indian communities are willing and able to pay for reliable electricity. Some seven years ago, two young men, chums from their days at boarding school, chatted over the Internet about what they might do for …
A technology that converts rice husk into electricity is gaining ground in Bihar. Some 100,000 households in the state already use electricity produced from biomass and their number is steadily growing. A rice husk power plant in Rupahi village in West Champaran district of Bihar. IANSAccording to an estimate, 44 …
SHILLONG, Nov 20: The city will witness innovative practice in waste management by heralding a new technology as the process is to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Creative Company Ltd and Eco-Recycle Port of Hiroshima, a Japan-based company that specialises in the treatment of solid waste and conversion …
With its new, more comprehensive solid waste management plan in place, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has said it will generate 28 mega watts (MW) of power from treated solid waste. The civic body has announced that it will implement two ambitious projects on a public-private partnership. There are …
New Delhi: As part of its agenda on climate change, the city is exploring the possibility of producing biofuel using waste oil from hotels and restaurants. The project is still in the planning stages though with Indian Railways already running a pilot project, the government is confident of having the …
Power distribution company BSES Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL) has signed a 25-year Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with East Delhi Waste Processing Company (EDWPCL) to buy electricity from Delhi's first 'city waste-to-power' initiative. This would enable the company to purchase clean and renewable electricity generated from solid waste in the city. …
NEW DELHI: Power distribution company BSES Yamuna Power Limited (BYPL) has signed a 25-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with East Delhi Waste Processing Company Limited (EDWPCL) to buy electricity from Delhi
Buoyed by the success of generating power from sewage, an urban local body here has sought carbon credit for its green gas project. "We are not only been able to reduce the green house gas emission but also minimising the grid power consumption through our sewage-based power plants. Now we …
On a trial basis at India Cement Limited at Sankar Nagar TIRUNELVELI: For the first time in Tamil Nadu, using of finely shredded non-recyclable plastic waste along with the coal as supplement fuel in the cement factory on a trial basis was inaugurated in the manufacturing unit India Cement Limited …
Scientists claim to have found a new way of converting pig poo into green power. A large amount of pig manure created by thousands of pigs in giant hog farms can pollute rivers, poison groundwater and pump out clouds of methane and carbon dioxide. So, finding alternative uses for the …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Keeping its word on reducing the waste heaps at Vilappilsala treatment plant, the Corporation has decided to set up biogas plants in major markets in the city. The step is as part of the decentralisation of waste treatment, which is one of the main focus areas of the final-year …
More lucrative British incentives to produce energy from rotting and gasified waste are driving a push to biogas, following a wider European trend. More farmers aim to use crop waste to generate electricity from burning biogas while big business is considering the same for industrial waste, after Britain introduced more …
In the present studies, attempts are made to optimize digestion time, initial feed pH, feed temperature and feed flow rate (organic loading rate, OLR) for maximum yield of methane gas and maximum removal of chemical oxygen demand and biological oxygen demand (BOD) of food processing industry wastewaters in three-phase fluidized …
Mumbai Cowdung and kitchen wastes will turn into cooking gas everyday at the Bombay Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) Hospital, which has installed a biogas plant on its Lower Parel premises. The organic conversion will involve no extra energy or electricity. What
East Africa should tap its large cogeneration potential, burning waste from its sugar and tea output to cut reliance on hydro power, which is increasingly hit by drought, an energy analyst said on Wednesday. Stephen Karekezi, Director of the African Energy Policy Research Network (AFREPREN), said the region was relying …
