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 …
Advertisements talking about green community villages and sustainable construction keep popping out from every magazine, newspaper, hoarding and television, but giving form to the idea depends on the executioner. Brad Baker of Codding Enterprises is one such man who has gone out of his way to ensure he delivers what …
Vaporising household waste to create clean energy could solve two of humanity's biggest environmental problems at once. But is "gasification" as green as it sounds?
The Lucknow Municipal Corporation (LMC) has decided to utilise tons of domestic garbage and carcass of animals in a different way. The LMC in place of dumping garbage and carcass on the outskirts of the city will now use it for production of cooking gas. The task has been assigned …
Shastry V. Mallady It will give 5 per cent of its annual budget for research in key areas MADURAI: The Tamil Nadu State Council for Science and Technology has decided to allocate five per cent of its annual budget for promoting renewable energy. It would provide funds for research and …
In a fresh bid to strengthen the national power-grid with another 400 MWs, 159 licences have already been issued to prospective corporate stakeholders to carry on with renewable energy power generation, and interested parties are bound to complete their projects within a set timeframe of two years, a Ministry of …
Participants of a multi-topic international symposium have overwhelmingly demanded reversal of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) privatisation, observing that the private management has failed to enhance the utility
AHMEDABAD : The city's garbage dump site at Pirana is being identified by the US Environment Protection Agency (USEPA) as a potential place for tapping methane the fuel used to run captive power plants. Ahmedabad will join the league of two other cities Mumbai and Pune whose landfill sites have …
The purpose of this study is to gain a more differentiated picture of the impact of the global financial crisis on the renewable energy sector by determining changes and trends in investment flows for renewable energy technologies and companies as the cost of capital rises and access to credit becomes …
Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will receive Rs20 crore in lieu of carbon credit from the Asian Development Bank. The BMC earned its carbon credit from the Gorai dumping ground, which becomes the first garbage dump in the country to earn 'carbon credits'. The BMC sold it to recover …
Waste heat from industrial plants and electricity-generating stations represents a huge amount of lost energy. David Lindley finds out what engineers and regulators need to do to get it back.
March 9: IT major Wipro has set an example of eco-friendliness through its car-pooling facility which enables employees to share rides rather than use individual vehicles. "As many as 5,000 extra rides are prevented with the I dynamic carpooling facility and we are developing a tool to measure the reduction …
Salem, THE managing director and special officer, Sago Serve (an apex marketing cooperative for sago products), Har Sahay Meena has called on agencies with interests in non-conventional energy to explore the potential for alternative energy in sago and starch units. Meena said that the sago and starch units in the …
Algae are quickly becoming the most attractive successor to traditional biofuels feedstocks like corn and soybeans, and even to next-generation feedstocks such as switchgrass and jatropha, Although algal biofuels are not yet being produced or consumed on a commercial scale, a number of companies are working their way toward doing …
India has tightened guidelines for storage of toxic industrial waste. But is it enough?India has tightened guidelines for storage of toxic industrial waste. But is it enough? A fire at Ankleshwar forced India to rethink how it handles hazardous waste. Drums carrying dangerous industrial sludge flew amid leaping flames and …
R. Sairam MADURAI: Huge mounds of garbage piled up in street corners have become an ubiquitous sight across the city, creating not just a sore sight but also a health hazard for people. Besides putting off foreign tourists, the piles of garbage have become a transit point for diseases from …
Demand market rate for power after agreeing to a lower rate SUGAR cooperatives of Maharashtra that have set up power plants that use sugarcane waste as fuel, are trying to wriggle out of their commitment to supply power at lower rates to the state-owned power distribution company, Mahara- shtra State …
New Delhi: At its new landfill sites, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi plans to generate electricity, cooking gas, organic manure and bricks from the waste generated in the city. To come up at Okhla and Timarpur, the landfill sites will have a waste treatment plant for which the corporation is …
Mumbai: Breaking new ground : Civic authorities to tap methane from closed grounds for 20 MW The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is getting ready to enter the energy sector and intends producing around 20 MW from waste and putting it on the distribution grid. The electricity will be from the …
