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 …
In a major boost to attain self sufficiency in energy, the Centre today allotted a huge number of solar energy instruments to Asom. During the financial year 2007-08, a total of 750 solar home-lighting systems, 50 solar street-lighting systems and 500 solar lanterns were allotted to Asom. Sources from the …
China's rapid economic growth over the last two decades has brought numerous environmental problems. Today, China contains seven of the ten most pollluted cities in the world and is now the second largest source of carbon dioxide emissions, behind the United States. China's new renewable energy law recognizes the looming …
This report focuses specifically on the topic of renewable energy for heating and cooling for two reasons. First, the heating and cooling sector contributes largely to energy consumption, and therefore the emission of greenhouse gases. Globally, heating and cooling accounts for an estimated 40-50% of final energy demand. In the …
China's Huaneng Group will start in June building the country's largest wind farm of 300 megawatts, a Chinese paper said, as the world's second-largest energy user seeks to grow its tiny renewables sector. The project, with a total of 200 turbines to be erected in a 100-square-kilometre area in Fuxin …
India was probably the first country in the world to have a non-conventional energy ministry. It began as a commission of additional sources of energy in the department of science & technology way back in 1981. Next year, it got incorporated in a new department of non-conventional energy sources in …
The North-east India Energy Summit 2008 was held in Guwahati on March 29. The Summit was organized jointly by the Assam Energy Development Agency of Department of Science & Technology, and Government of India Energy Forum, East India Chapter, Kolkata. The Summit deliberated on all the major issues which need …
The Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC) will generate power from organic waste with the help of the West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency. The SMC has identified a plot at Putimari, in Rajganj block, 12km from the town, for the proposed project. "We will donate 13 acres of land and set …
There is an urgent need to popularise renewable energy sources such as small hydro, biomass, solar, wind, etc., as the first and possibly the most viable option. But the general trend has been to consider it as an option of the poor. Observing this at the North East India Energy-2008 …
The White House is threatening to veto a bill that the us House of Representatives recently cleared to boost renewable energy and energy-efficient projects. The bill, called the Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Tax Act of 2008, would be financed by ending us $17- billion tax incentives for oil and …
The wind energy capacity addition in the State during the current financial year, which will end on Monday, is likely to be less than what it was in the previous years. Though 237 MW has been added this year, a senior official of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board hopes the …
Eco impact study on Tanzania project Hydrology studies are being undertaken and the Tanzania project would not start until Norconsult comes up with the report.
The Sun is believed to be 4.6 billion years old and it has never ever failed to show up. No one owns the sun and yet everyone owns it. It supplies its energy free to all who wish to take it. Supplies are inexhaustible. There are no rate hikes. In …
Could biofuels do more damage to the climate than the fossil fuels they replace? That's the fear casting doubt on the wisdom of a law that from next month will require a certain proportion of vehicle fuel to come from biological sources.
THAT'S NOT COUNTING the energy efficiency technology market aimed at reducing power consumption. GE has identified 17 products worth $10 billion in annual sales, including jet engines, locomotive engines, consumer appliances, plastics and water treatment plants as part of the Ecomagination platform where it could embed a greater amount of …
Solar Semiconductor, a solar photovoltaic (PV) modules and services, on Thursday entered into a strategic partnership with IBC Solar of Germany, a distributor of system integrators of solar PV products in Europe. The partnership is valued at Rs. 2,300 crore ($575 million) in the next three years. Solar Semiconductor CEO …
An electric company plans to install a huge patchwork of solar cells, 10 times bigger than any previous such installation, on more than 100 large rooftops around Southern California. Times Topics: Solar EnergyThe California governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, will take part when Southern California Edison announces the plan on Thursday. The …
Renewable energy will contribute 10% of China's energy consumption by 2010, forecasts the country's latest 5-year plan. This ambitious target, equivalent to the energy produced from burning 300 million tonnes of coal, was announced by the country's National Development and Reform Commission last week.
Till the very last rupeeAn undernourished programmeChanging the climate in '08Still at the bottom When the last UNDP report was launched, it raised eyebrows as it suggested that developing countries like India take on emission cuts in addition to the action taken by the richer countries. United Nations Development Programme …
The Green Ventures Carbon Fund has tied up with a few major European financial partners and are actively looking for Indian strategic partners and project developers either for carbon credits or to jointly set up environment friendly projects. Though names of the partners was not revealed, Green Ventures India MD …
