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 …
India and the US on Tuesday announced the setting up of two financial assistance programmes worth $60 million for supporting India's much-needed clean energy initiatives including in solar power and other renewables. "The United States is committed to bring to bear its technical capacity, resources and private sector, and is …
Thanks to Chile’s major investments in renewables, the Latin American country is seeing an incredible solar boom. In a new Bloomberg report, “Chile Has So Much Solar Energy It’s Giving It Away for Free,” solar capacity from the country’s central grid has increased four fold to 770 megawatts since 2013. …
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India has announced an ambitious solar target of 100,000 megawatts (MW) installed capacity by 2022, of which 40,000 MW of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems are to be installed on rooftops. There have been several efforts at the policy, regulatory and …
Giving a major push to clean energy , the AAP government today came out with an ambitious policy announcing incentives and tax breaks to promote solar power and making it mandatory for government and public institutions to install rooftop solar panels. The solar policy, finalised at a cabinet meeting chaired …
We are ready to give permission, says Water Resource Minister M.B. Patil Water Resource Minister M.B. Patil has said that the State government is ready to allow private players to invest in setting up solar power plants all along the canal network of all major irrigation projects in the State, …
The city is set to become environment friendly in terms of power generation with the state cabinet approving on Monday a solar power policy. The approach outlines regulations and mandates incentives and tax breaks for the generation of rooftop solar power in the capital. The government plans to offer a …
French firm EDF Energies Nouvelles and Luxembourg-based EREN Renewable Energy may exit Acme Solar , their joint venture in India with Acme ACleantech Solutions, industry sources said. "EDF and EREN are parting ways with Acme," a person aware of the development said. "Maybe the foreign players had a different set …
Aiming to reduce its carbon footprint, the Indian Navy has set a target of producing 21 MW of solar power and is also looking at tapping the energy of oceans for power generation, a statement said. For this, the navy has pledged to use 1.5 per cent of its work …
NAVI MUMBAI: JNPT, nation's biggest container cargo handling port, has embarked on a major solar power project. The 25 MW project estimated to cost around Rs 170 crore has the potential to meet around 55% of the port's requirement. The long-term project along with a smaller solar project that JNPT …
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy( MNRE), Government of India, today announced two awards for the UT, Chandigarh, The city has been ranked first among the solar cities of the country in terms of solar power installation. Chandigarh has installed 7.7 MW solar energy, whereas second ranked Gandhinagar has …
With World Environment Day (June 5) just around the corner, we take stock of sustainability initiatives practised by corporates in and around the city Lighting Lives ‘Lighting Lives’, the CSR project of Henkel India, has seen the installation of solar cells in three villages situated in the Palghar district of …
CPI demands windmill units to provide employment to locals. Anantapur: Despite being given thousands of acres for the units, windmills and solar power generation plants have failed to provide minimum employment to skilled locals of Anantapur district. Mr Phani Raj, who graduated in mechanical engineering from Anantapur, hoped for a …
An upsurge in new wind, solar and hydro plants and capacity saw renewable energy smash global records last year, according to a report on new supply. Some 147 Gigawatts of renewable electricity came online in 2015 - the largest annual increase ever and as much as Africa’s entire power generating …
The 2015 global renewable energy development had a strong Indian flavour to it, with India being ranked among the top five nations in new investments, and in the top four as regards creating jobs in the green energy sector. Emerging markets broke the record in 2015 by committing larger investments …
The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has claimed to have made a breakthrough in developing technology for utilising solar heat harnessed during the day for heating rooms during the night at extreme altitude. The Defence Institute of High Altitude Research (DIHAR), a DRDO laboratory based at Leh, has developed …
Even as India crosses 5000MW solar power generation this year, Maharashtra, the largest power-producing state in the country, lagged behind in extracting electricity from the sun . As per the statistics released by the central government for top 10 states generating solar power, Maharashtra stood at fifth position with power …
Australia installed almost 1 gigawatt of new solar capacity last year but was easily eclipsed by cloudy nations such as the United Kingdom, which installed about four times as much, according to the REN21 Global Status report on renewable energy. Investment in new renewable energy and energy efficiency programs rose …
The Ashden Awards are a globally recognised measure of excellence in the field of sustainable energy and each winner receives up to £30,000 prize money (just under INR 30 lakh) as well as tailored business support to scale up their work. Greenlight Planet, which has an office in Mumbai, has …
Renewable energy giant SunEdison, which filed for protection from creditors in the US in late April, is close to an agreement with domestic wind energy major Sitec RE to sell a 24 Mw wind power plant in Andhra Pradesh . This is the first asset sale by SunEdison in India …
At the December 2015 Paris Climate negotiations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced India’s commitment to 100 Gigawatts of solar energy connected to the grid by 2022. Commentators have questioned this ambitious target given the fact that India’s current solar capacity is approximately 5 GW and India’s commitment is equal to …
