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 …
Conservation of energy should become a way of life. Rational energy pricing and fuel substitution policies should be kept in place. And a really competitive market with an independent regulator must be created, says T N R Rao. ENERGY security is the term made familiar now by all protagonists of …
Press Trust Of India / Raipur August 25, 2008, 0:55 IST The Chhattisgarh government today strongly opposed the coal import policy of the Centre saying any such scheme will lead to escalation of power tariff in the country. "The Centre's decision to start five ultra mega power projects (UMPPs) with …
New Delhi, Mukesh Ambani-run Reliance Industries and Anil Ambani's Reliance Infrastructure are the only two companies to have qualified for the $6-8 billion project to convert coal into oil, as per the criteria set by the government. Firms run by the two Ambani brothers were the only ones to meet …
The amnesty scheme would ensure correct billing, enhance consumer satisfaction Category change would be allowed Applicants need to fill a declaration form NEW DELHI: In order to bring consumers under correct tariff category according to their usage of electricity and to minimise unauthorised use of electricity and align sanctioned load …
Business Standard / New Delhi August 21, 2008, 5:48 IST India has experimented with dual pricing in many commodities, including cement, and still does in sugar. As a transition to a free market, it is perhaps unexceptionable. But in almost every case, it introduces distortions and rackets of different kinds
Sudheer Pal Singh / New Delhi August 21, 2008, 0:23 IST Central Electricity Authority data reveal that orders for some higher capacity (500-800 Mw) equipment have not been placed India is set to miss the 11th Five-Year Plan's power capacity addition target as some orders for higher-capacity equipment have not …
The national policy on biofuels that is expected to be announced soon has the potential to change India's fortunes either way.The government should be cautious about the land-use while allotting wasteland to companies interested in the cultivation of biofuel crops, says Sushmi Dey AT A TIME WHEN THE world is …
New fuel for Kolkata vehicles kolkata may soon become the first city in India to have vehicles running on methane if a deal between Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ongc), a private gas distribution company, and the West Bengal government goes through. ongc and Calcutta Compressions and Liquefaction Engineering, a …
Wind power has used the economic route to be viable In major wind power producing countries like Denmark and Germany, wind power is promoted through preferential tariffs and a larger incentive is given to wind farms with high plant load factor. In Denmark, wind power had a fixed preferential feed-in …
Progressive Maharashtra has rushed to install wind energy plants. But, ask nidhi jamwal and shikha lakhanpal, reporting from Mumbai and Dhule, why so little electricity is actually generated? Is there an other purpose to private interest in wind? Of greater note
The 11th plan has set what industry considers a modest target of 10,000 mw capacity addition in five years. Everyone agrees that much more is possible. But for this to happen, big time, the business of wind must be into energy generation and not just encashing credits because of investment …
CHENNAI: Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers' Association (IWTMA) has called for a generation-based incentive policy to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) into the nascent wind energy sector. Addressing a press conference here on Monday, D. V. Giri, Chairman of the association, said any generation-based incentive should have no ceiling on capacity. …
Barack Obama and John McCain on Monday stepped up their increasingly tetchy exchange over high petrol prices, with Mr Obama accusing his rival of being in the "pocket of big oil' and Mr McCain accusing his opponent of hypocrisy. Mr Obama, whose opinion poll numbers have slid sharply since his …
China is the world's leading producer of energy from renewable sources and is on the way to overtaking developed countries in creating clean technologies, says a Climate Group report. The report, published on Friday, says China's "clean revolution", shows that supportive government policies investing billions of dollars in energy efficiency …
The Ministry of Power is concerned with perspective planning, policy formulation, processing of projects for investment decision, monitoring of the implementation of power projects, training and manpower development and the administration and enactment of legislation in regard to thermal, hydro power generation, transmission and distribution.
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) is the nodal Ministry of the Government of India for all matters relating to new and renewable energy. The broad aim of the Ministry is to develop and deploy new and renewable energy for supplementing the energy requirements of the country.
