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 …
Wind and solar power grew at a blistering pace in recent years, and that growth seemed likely to accelerate, especially in the United States under the green-minded administration of the new president, Barack Obama. But because of the credit crisis and the broader economic downturn, the opposite is happening: Except …
ROYAL Dutch Shell, censured twice by Britain's ad police for exaggerating its commitment to green issues, is hoping to avoid controversy in its latest ad campaign. It isn't clear if it has succeeded. The Anglo-Dutch oil giant drew fire from activist groups like Green- peace and Friends of the Earth …
The small wind turbine technology is a potential source of energy for electrical power in rural and remote areas, which are otherwise difficult to connect to the grid.
A small wind turbine is a wind powered electric generator with a capacity of less than 30 kilowatts. Small wind turbines can be put to use efficiently for power generation at very low or
Compared to other global small wind turbine (SWT) markets, India has a minuscule installed capacity of SWT/PV-wind hybrid energy systems of about 890 kW (as on January 2009) and hence there is ample scope for SWT or renewable energy hybrid systems sector to grow.
Farmers are not alone in keeping a close eye on the weather-in the control centres of the energy sector and on the trading floor of the electricity exchange, too, it is always good to know exactly when the wind will be blowing or the sun shining. The special services offered …
According to this latest global report on wind energy, total worldwide installations in 2008 were more than 27,000 MW, dominated by the three main markets in Europe, North America and Asia. The United States passed Germany to become world #1 in wind power installations, and China
DAVOS - Clean energy investment needs to more than triple to $515 billion a year to stop planet-warming emissions reaching levels deemed unsustainable by scientists, the World Economic Forum said in a report on Thursday. The hefty investments required in renewable energy sectors such as solar and wind energy need …
After spurning wind power, China has swung around and embraced this clean energy. But the nation's love affair with wind may be spinning out of control, finds David Cyranoski.
Date: 21-Jan-09 Country: BELGIUM Author: Pete Harrison BRUSSELS - Employment in the wind power industry will more than double in the European Union to around 330,000 in 2020, according to a report issued on Tuesday. The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) also called for greater investment in the renewable energy …
The wind turbine industry in Denmark is the largest in the world. The success has been primarily due to a close collaboration between the government and the industry to finance key areas such as research and development, certification, testing and the preparation of standards.
State Government Unfurls Amended Wind Energy Policy TIMES NEWS NETWORK Gandhinagar: With just three days to go for Vibrant Gujarat summit and Rs 20,000 crore worth of wind energy projects breezing in, Gujarat government announced an amended wind power policy offering a purchase rate of Rs 3.50 per unit as …
The Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission has lauded the wind energy sector for having come to the rescue of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board during the peak wind season. Perusing the figures of load shedding and wind energy generation during April-October 2008, the Commission, in its recent order, said that …
It offers generation-based incentive of 50 paise per unit Incentive for projects with minimum installed capacity of 5 MW Scheme to woo new and large independent power producers Entrepreneurs from Tamil Nadu, which has the highest share of wind power in the country in terms of installed capacity, have not …
Gandhinagar : The state has won four national awards in different fields of governance infrastructure , non conventional energy generation, e-governance and public transport. Gujarat Infrastructure Board (GIDB) has been given international audit agency KPMG's Infrastructure Today award for 2008 for outstanding and admirable work in the field of infrastructure …
