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 …
To attract private investment in the wind energy sector in 1993, the government announced a package of fiscal incentives. This included 100 per cent accelerated depreciation on the capital investment in the first year of operation; 35 per cent concessional duty on import of complete wind electricity generator; duty exemption …
In 1891, an innovative teacher called Poul la Cour of Denmark discovered that the traditional clapboard-sailed windmill, used to grind, corn could produce electricity, too. For many years, his discovery helped in lighting his high school and village houses. During both the world wars, dozens of crude wind turbines based …
The wind energy sector in India has problems aplenty. There are complaints of wind energy development not yielding proper returns to investors, grid failure and transmission losses, inappropriate sites and machinery and, last but not the least, corruption. At the same time, Western nations, particularly Germany, Spain and Denmark, have …
Worldwide wind energy capacity has reached 10,000 megawatt (mw), a record and another demonstration that wind is the fastest-growing of all renewable energy sources. Propelled by supportive new government policies
Gujarat has wind farms with a total installed capacity of 170 mw, mostly in the private sector, along the coast of Saurashtra and Kutch. It has the second highest number of wind energy generators (WEGs) in the country, though the installation count is one-fourth of that in Tamil Nadu. Tax …
Wind energy developers in Andhra Pradesh also seem to be taking a breather after the rush of activity in the early 1990s. "The establishment of new farms has been short of expectations,' says M Venkateswarulu of the Wind Developers' Association of Andhra Pradesh. With an installed capacity of 61.79 megawatt …
India relies heavily on coal-based thermal and hydel power plants for electricity generation, and on wood and crop residues for household energy needs in rural areas. All these are associated with environmental problems, including land degradation, water and air pollution, and depletion of biomass and soil capacity. There is a …
sometime in April 1999, worldwide wind energy capacity would have touched a record 10,000 megawatts (mw). This is another demonstration that the wind energy sector is growing fastest among all renewable energy sources. The landmark figure for wind energy use was announced at a meeting of the executive committee of …
Germany is going to promote installation of photovoltaic (PV) equipment on 100,000 roofs and facades throughout the country. In terms of budget and investment volume, this is the largest market scheme for PV technology ever launched, aiming to create a total energy generating capacity of 300 MW within just three …
Anandpur Sahib in Punjab will soon become the first solar city of India. The project is being implemented by the Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) through the promotion and development of non-conventional energy sources in Anandpur Sahib. This is being done on the occasion of the Khalsa tercentenary celebrations. "The …
British consumers will soon be able to buy "green' electricity following the launch of renewable energy power stations. Ecotricity, a joint venture between Renewable Energy Company and Thames Water Private Limited Company, was formed as part of the government's Non-Fossil Fuel Obligation (nffo) scheme. British energy minister John Battle, speaking …
SCIENTISTS all over the world are working hard to find alternative energy sources which are environment friendly. Stephen Paul of Princeton University in New Jersey, USA, is also one of them. Paul who has done research on nuclear fusion, believes that waste hydrocarbons might still be useful as vehicle fuels, …
WITHIN 10 years, the world will begin to run out of its principal fuel - oil. We are rapidly approaching the point where global output of oil will begin to contract while the demand for petro-energy products will rise sharply. Oil industry executives and energy planners have reached the consensus …
SINCE February 1998, four villages in Tumkur district, Karnataka, arc using oil from the Pongamia pinnata seed to fuel alternator engines in biogas plants. Though efficiency of this oil is about 20 per cent lower than that of diesel, countries such as Australia and Fiji are switching over to it …
aids prevention: The government of India plans to launch the second phase of its nationwide AIDS control and prevention programme. The government has received Rs 750 crore from the World Bank for this programme. For the first phase (1992-99), the government had allocated around Rs 320 crore. Half of the …
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Global Environment Facility (GEF) have launched a US $1.8 million project to help Sri Lanka expand its use of renewable energy sources, including wind, water and biomass, and decrease greenhouse gas emissions from thermal power. Much of Sri Lanka's domestic energy needs rely …
norway's hottest environmental issue at the moment is the planning of two gas-fuelled power plants, which will lead to the emission of 2,000,000 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide ( co 2 ) annually. Permission for setting up the plants was granted by the Norwegian parliament before industrialised countries agreed, in …
alternative energy sources - compressed natural gas, biomethanation technology, wind energy, solar thermal, ocean power, bio energy. Get ready for the catchwords of tomorrow. In a world struck by an impending energy crisis, it is time that India began pondering over the various options available through renewable and eco-friendly energy. …
scientists in Australia have recently developed a revolutionary new system that could reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 10 per cent. The system, the developers claim, converts tree and wood residues into electricity. Wood, the source of renewable energy for this system, is derived from residues …
