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 …
Udaipur: Marwar Junction, Rani, Falna and Ranapratap Nagar railway stations under Ajmer division would soon be lit up with solar power. To harness the abundantly available solar energy, solar photo voltaic power plant having total capacity of 280 KWp will be installed. In the presence of Naresh Salecha, divisional railway …
Fund will be used to offer subsidy or incentives to people who generate more than 1,000 units of electricity. The Delhi government has proposed a ‘green fund’ to keep the air clean by promoting solar plant installations. The fund will come from the amount collected from the cess levied on …
Worldwide, there is a growing recognition of the role of energy access in the last mile delivery of community services. However, in India, energy access has had a strong household-level focus, while its role as an enabler of better health and education services has not gained enough attention. Even though …
The state government is making all efforts to promote solar power energy in Punjab. There is a subsidy up to 30 per cent for institutional and domestic users. However, industrialists suffered a setback with the Central Government withdrawing the subsidy for industrial and commercial users. Industrialists feel to boost the …
The Bharat Solar Power Development Forum (BSPDF), floated by the RSS, wants the government to impose anti-dumping duty on imported solar cells and modules, and bring Indian industry and academia together to overcome the gaps in India's solar manufacturing. "Creating capacity within the country is the only way to go," …
Bathed in the artificial yellow light of a New Delhi restaurant, the dainty dumplings lay unattended. Not a ray of sunshine was peering through the cracks but my mind was getting fuzzy with the zeros of the sunlight. At any given moment, the sun emits 174,000,000,000,000,000, or 174 quadrillion watts. …
As many as 33 solar parks will be set up across the country as part of an effort to reduce the production cost of solar power, Power Minister Piyush Goyal said today. Government has taken a number of steps to reduce the production cost of solar power in the country, …
Renewable energy company Gamesa has bagged orders for 12 MW solar energy projects in Tamil Nadu, taking its tally in the solar sector to 60 MW in the country. "Gamesa would be responsible for engineering and design, supply of inverters, erection and commissioning of the 12 MW photovoltaic solar plans …
Chandigarh may soon make solar rooftop plants mandatory for all houses and buildings occupying plots larger than 100 square yards in a first of its kind clean energy drive in the country. A notification to this effect is expected shortly, said Santosh Kumar, director of Chandigarh Renewable Energy Science and …
Government will meet its target of electrifying 18,452 villages by March next year, much ahead of the May 2018 deadline as over a third of the task has been completed already, power minister Piyush Goyal said. "During the last 11 months we have already electrified 6,029 unelectrified villages under our …
The UK could save up to £8bn a year by using electricity better, the government's infrastructure advisers say. The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) envisages a smart energy revolution with more cables linking the National Grid to mainland Europe. NIC also says the UK needs to store much more energy from …
China plans to set up a market for renewable energy certificates to try to increase the use of cleaner energy as the world's largest greenhouse gas producer tries to reduce its reliance on coal. Power suppliers will be able to trade "green certificates" that represent the proportion of non-hydro renewable …
A 75-seater solar-powered passenger ferry, the first of its kind in the country, is quietly taking shape at Aroor in Alappuzha district. The boat is expected to be commissioned within the next three months. The boat is being built by NavAlt, a Kochi-based joint venture, in collaboration with a French …
Chandigarh-based engineering procurement and construction company, Hartek Power is betting big on the new thrust being given to solar power generation across the country. The company is eyeing new projects besides setting up global footprint. Hartek Singh, CMD, Hartek Power, said the company was growing at 40% on year-on-year basis …
The Government of Haryana has formulated Haryana Solar Power Policy 2016 to promote the generation of power from solar energy. For giving effect to this Policy, necessary amendments in various policies, rules and regulations, wherever necessary, shall be expeditiously undertaken by the concerned Department.
The amount of electricity generated by Photovoltaic (PV) systems is affected by factors such as shading, building orientation and roof slope. To increase electricity generation and reduce volatility in generation of PV systems, a portfolio of PV systems can be made which takes advantages of the potential synergy among neighboring …
The Union Budget 2016-17 presented by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley turned out to be positive for some sectors and negative for others. The Budget announcements came in as a mixed bag for the power companies. At close, the BSE power index was down 1.06 per cent down at 1,582.48 against …
The quiet Victorian town of Newstead – population approaching 500 – has a big ambition: to source all its electricity needs without burning any fossil fuels at all. Within five years, it wants all of its power to come from renewable energy sources. Newstead is not unique in that goal. …
By 2020, the sales of off-grid solar products in emerging markets are expected to reach $3.1 billion, providing access to improved energy for 99 million households with no access to the grid, according to a new report released by the World Bank Group and Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), in …
This Puducherry Solar Energy Policy intends to create a framework that enables the development of solar energy in the Union Territory of Puducherry. The Union Territory of Puducherry comprises of four erstwhile French settlements viz. Puducherry, Karaikal, Mahe and Yanam, which are unconnected regions. The Union Territory is fast developing …
