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 US Agency for International Development (USAID) and Asian Development Bank today signed a pact for providing Rs 5,681 crore (USD 848 million) to develop solar parks across India, as part of clean energy infrastructure in the country. The agreement was signed by Jonathan Addleton, Mission Director, USAID for India …
The Solar Energy Corporation's latest tender for solar plants in Uttar Pradesh, setting a base tariff of Rs 4.43 per kwH, has drawn bidders even as many in the trade have deemed the price too aggressive. RattanIndia Solar 2 Ltd, a subsidiary of the RattanIndia Group, won a 50 MW …
Toorputallu and Pedhamyanavanilanka will be electrified completely on solar power from this year. In a first of its kind of green development initiative, two Andhra villages, Toorputallu and Pedhamyanavanilanka will be electrified completely on solar power from this year. "These will be the first two villages in the country to …
“The said capacity will be developed across three sites in Kutch and Bhavnagar districts of the state. The project is expected to be commissioned by March 2017,” stated an official release from the company Monday. The city-based Torrent Power Limited has entered into a contract with a leading group manufacturing …
Asian Development Bank and the US Agency for International Development will assist India in developing the clean energy infrastructure by collaborating on design and development of PPP investment models for solar parks. Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) today signed a Memorandum of …
As part of this experiment, the managers there have already planted grass below the panels, which are spread across 13 acres of land adjacent to the Mulshi lake. The Mulshi solar plant, run by Tata Power, is a perfect example of how mankind's energy needs do not have to be …
Vanderbilt University Professor says raising a formal dispute with the US might be useful India can achieve greater success in its solar dispute with the US at the World Trade Organisation, according to Vanderbilt University Law School Professor Timothy Meyer. India needs to focus on its arguments or future measures …
China is aiming to triple its solar photovoltaic (PV) generation capacity by the year 2020, bringing it up to 143 gigawatts (GW), as newly revealed by the country’s National Energy Administration. The plan is to add between 15 GW and 20 GW of new solar PV generation capacity a year …
Wind and solar energy is growing at record speeds and prices dropping fast. The renewable sector increased its contribution from 9.1 percent in 2014 to 10.3 in 2015. But even that is not enough to effect the amount of carbon emission cuts required to check irreversible climate change, says a …
According to UNEP's 10th "Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2016", prepared by the Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre for Climate & Sustainable Energy Finance and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Bloomberg New Energy Finance all investments in renewables totalled $286 billion in 2015, some …
Nashik: The state power generation utility issued two tenders last week seeking bids to prepare detailed project reports on generating power using solar panels atop water bodies. The Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Limited (Mahagenco) has decided to step up solar power generation using the water bodies with the water …
India will get $421 million from an American financial institution for its solar and broadband projects to enable it to become a low carbon economy and expand the internet infrastructure. US government's development finance institution, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), approved $250 million last week in senior debt financing to …
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 …
KOLKATA: The private sector may be giving up on greenfield thermal power projects and looking to solar energy instead. Installation and generation costs have risen for thermal plants following an increased coal cess and stricter pollution norms, experts said, adding that are likely to go even higher. Also, there's uncertainty …
Making a marked departure from the conventional system, a Chennai-based company provides a comprehensive system that ensures that a 2 kW solar panel can power a 1.5 tonne air conditioner, one 300 litre refrigerator, five fans, five LED tube lights (4 feet in length and 16 watts each) and eight …
Visakhapatnam: Only 51% of 2,861 eligible agriculture farmers in five districts in Eastern Power Distribution Company of AP Limited (APEPDCL) limits are using the solar agriculture pump sets that was introduced by the discom in April 2015 under the Solar Agriculture Pump Set Scheme (SAPSS). A total of 4,125 farmers …
Kampala — Energy ministry in partnership with Access Uganda Solar Limited has launched a 10MW solar power plant in Soroti District, aimed at increasing power access in the eastern district. The power produced from the $19m (about Shs64b) solar power plant is expected to be added to the national grid …
Urban development minister released the model building bye-laws 2016, which aim to boost ease of doing business in the construction sector. The new bye-laws provide a structural framework for single window integrated building plan approval process and set the maximum time limit for all kind of building approvals at 30 …
Rooftop solar has significant potential to contribute to India’s renewable energy targets and energy security. The Government’s target of 40 GW of solar rooftop capacity by 2022 has injected increased ambition into the sector. The 40 GW target requires 86% growth each year which is faster than the growth in …
Power and Renewable Energy Minister Piyush Goyal has said that for the next six-and-a-half years, the NDA Government's thrust will be in the areas of hydroelectricity and bio-fuels. "Twenty five additional solar parks will be added in India," he said at a seminar on renewable energy here during the ongoing …
