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 …
The government has sought for public comments for draft National Wind-Solar Hybrid Policy which aims at providing a framework to promote large grid connected wind-solar PV system for optimal and efficient utilisation of transmission infrastructure among others. Draft National Wind-Solar Hybrid Policy has been prepared and being placed for comments/suggestions/views …
Promotion of competition in the electricity industry in India is one of the key objectives of the Electricity Act, 2003. Power purchase costs constitute the largest cost element for distribution licensees. Competitive procurement of electricity by the distribution licensees is expected to reduce the overall cost of procurement of power …
An Adani Group company has won the project to set up a 100 MW solar power unit in Chhattisgarh, in an auction where none of the bidders quoted below the reserve price. Parampujya Solar Energy, an arm of Adani Green Energy, sought the lowest viability gap funding (VGF) of Rs …
Mangaluru: Chasing the 'Make in India' dream, city-based Canara Engineering College students have developed four rural India oriented student projects which aims to help the common man, start-ups and farmers. The projects include: Arecanut classification, artificial finger implementation, design and implementation of MPPT technique for photovoltaic system and ECG at …
Tata Power today said it will acquire Welspun Energy's subsidiary, Welspun Renewable Energy Pvt Ltd (WREPL) for an undisclosed amount. Tata Power's subsidiary Tata Power Renewable Energy Ltd (TPREL) will acquire WREPL through a share purchase agreement (SPA), it said in a statement. "TPREL, a 100 per cent subsidiary of …
Residents of Coimbatore, who suffered long hours of power cut a few years ago, have started tapping solar energy to meet the power requirements. According to information available with Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation, the region, which covers Coimbatore, Tirupur and The Nilgiris districts, has close to 700 solar …
ABB has successfully commissioned five substations to integrate a 648-megawatt (MW) solar project at Kamuthi in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu to the national transmission grid. The project was awarded by independent power producer (IPP) Adani Group in 2015, and completed on schedule. The solar photovoltaic project – …
New Delhi, June 13, 2016: - Fortifying its leadership position in the solar power segment, Waaree Energies recently bagged the National Excellence Award for Roof top solar power projects. The central government through Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has honored India’s No. 1 ranked Solar PV manufacturer and …
India's quest for green energy has crossed a major milestone, with renewable plants, mainly wind and solar, surpassing the capacity of large hydroelectricity projects, which were once the country's biggest source of electricity and regarded as "temples of modern India". The total capacity of renewable energy projects expanded to 42,850 …
Moody's predicts new wind power equipment growth over the next five years to come from emerging markets like India, Brazil and Africa as momentum for wind turbine sales have been shifting from mature markets in Europe and the US to emerging markets. In 2015, installed capacity of wind turbines in …
The 10,000 roof-top solar power plants programme in the State will result in savings to the tune of one crore units of grid-connected electricity per day when completed and has been recognised by the Union government as an innovation in the field of energy generation from non-conventional sources. The Agency …
Solar Industries India rose 3.63% to Rs 3,194.15 at 12:47 IST on BSE after the company secured an order worth Rs 443.44 crore from Singareni Collieries Company for supply of explosives. The announcement was made during market hours today, 10 June 2016. Meanwhile, the S&P; BSE Sensex was up 41.05 …
Jamshedpur: The state government aims to produce 1,200 MW of solar electricity by 2017-end. Solar plants are expected to be set up at 45 different sites across state at an investment of Rs 6.5 crore per MW. "The bidding process is over. We will now focus on setting up solar …
The Indian solar market has been growing very fast, but analysts feel infrastructure including adequate grid connection and other associated systems have not kept pace with auction announcements and it could lead to idle capacities. A situation that California in the US has already started to face. According to the …
India and the US have announced a joint initiative to mobilise up to $400 million for lighting up a million Indian households by 2020 with renewable power. According to the joint statement issued after discussions between PM Narendra Modi and US President Barack Obama, both governments will equally set up …
Defence manufacturer Bharat Electronics Ltd is initiating a Rs. 600-crore, 150-MW solar power plant with other defence public sector units for joint consumption, BEL's Chairman & Managing Director S.K.Sharma said on Wednesday. The plan and investment are being discussed with other PSUs. About 80-90 per cent of its own needs …
The U.S. solar energy market will nearly double new installations this year to 14.5 gigawatts, led by utility projects that developers scrambled to bring online in anticipation of the expiration of a key federal tax credit, according to a report published on Thursday. Solar installations rose 24 percent in the …
KAZUNGULA, Zambia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Munji Malambo and his younger brother used to wake up at 5 a.m. every day to fetch water for their family and livestock. With the nearest working well over two kilometres away, the boys often missed school as they carried enough water home. That …
KOLKATA: Mercom Capital Group , a global clean energy communications and research firm estimates solar installations in India to total 5 GW in 2016. Cumulative solar installations in India crossed the 7.5 GW mark in May 2016. About 2.2 GW new capacity has been installed so far this year and …
India's solar project pipeline has now surpassed 22 GW with 13 GW under construction and 9 GW in the Request for Proposal (RfP) process, it said. India is expected to see an additional solar power generation capacity of 5 GW this year, much higher than witnessed in 2015, according to …
