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 …
Understanding the impacts of climate variability and change (CV&C;) on electricity systems is paramount for operators preparing for weather-related disruptions, policymakers deciding on future directions of energy policies and European decision makers shaping research programs. This study conducted a systematic literature review to collate consistent patterns of impacts of CV&C; …
There is a lack of clarity at the individual state level on tariffs and policies preventing execution of power purchase agreements (PPAs) in a time bound manner With Prime Minister Narendra Modi's focus on renewable energy in India, many expect Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to have a lot in store …
The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) is turning to ‘sun power’ in Thiruvananthapuram. On Monday,the state-run power company will begin construction on its first solar power project in the district which will feed power into the grid. Deputy Speaker Palode Ravi will inaugurate the construction of the 2 megawatt (MW) …
The State of Uttar Pradesh is endowed with vast potential of solar and bio/biomass power and the Government is making efforts to tap these resources to improve the availability of power in the State by promoting renewable power projects. As a result of sustained efforts made under the rural electrification …
Imagine a country the size of India without power. No electric lights, mobile phones, radios crackling with cricket or televisions blaring Bollywood hits. Its economy would be medieval: tailors without electric sewing machines; metalworkers without power lathes; farmers without water pumps. Everyone would rush to finish work by sundown. Nights …
The Centre has released Rs 1,931 crore till January-end this fiscal under its solar programme to encourage use of the renewable source of power, Parliament was informed on Thursday. In order to expand the use of solar energy in the country, the government has launched several schemes and released Rs …
The Telangana State New and Renewable Energy Development Corporation Limited (TNREDCL) has decided to install 10,000 solar PV water pump systems in the State by the year-end. According to Managing Director of the corporation C. Srinivas Rao, the programme was being implemented with subsidy from Ministry of New and Renewable …
Out of the target of 50MW of solar power, 4 MW allotted to Southern Railway Four major railway stations in Southern Railway, including Chennai Central and Egmore, are set to glow with green power by the end of 2016. This initiative is part of the Indian Railways Solar Mission to …
All Railway Stations will be Covered With LED Luminaire in Next 2 to 3 Years Commissioning of Installed Capacity of 1000 MW Solar Power in Next 5 Years The Minister of Railways, Shri Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu while presenting the Railway Budget 2016-17 in Parliament today said that Environment in the …
With Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu eschewing the path of increasing tariffs to raise earnings, the city-headquartered Eastern and the South Eastern Railway has decided to utilise its locations for generating solar power for captive use. Addressing a press meet here A K Goel, the general manager of the two railways …
Visakhapatnam: Having set an ambitious target of adding a minimum total solar power capacity of 5,000 mw in the next five years, Andhra Pradesh is now turning into a major hub for solar energy manufacturing facilities in the country. Major players including Essel Infraprojects, Golden Concord Holdings, Trina Solar Science …
BHOPAL: Public sector undertaking (PSU) giant Bharat Heavy Electricals (BHEL) which is grappling with depleting order book and increasing overheads, have decided to embark on green project to reduce energy dependence and cut energy bills. Company has chosen BHEL's Bhopal and Haridwar units to take up the project forward and …
India and the US have engaged multiple times to settle the long-running solar power trade dispute through mutually agreed solution at the World Trade Organization (WTO), Parliament was informed today. The US last year filed a dispute in the WTO on India's domestic content requirement in the procurement of solar …
The government's target of 100 GW solar power by 2022 is definitely achievable given the progress made in the last two years, said Tarun Kapoor, joint secretary at the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy at the Economic Times Power Summit. Participating in a discussion moderated by Manish Kumar Gupta, …
KOLKATA: The state's first and country's second solar slum was inaugurated on Tuesday by state power minister Manish Gupta at Topsia's Majdoor Para area falling under ward number 66 of the Kolkata municipal corporation. As many as 800 families doting the slum area where sunlight hardly enter the rooms will …
Canada-based solar energy project developer SkyPower has signed four power purchase agreements (PPA) with the Telangana government to build and operate 200 MW of solar energy projects in the state, the company said in a statement. "The agreements with Telangana mark the continuation of SkyPower's growth strategy in India, one …
Amidst concerns that growth of a country is accompanied by damage to its environment, President Pranab Mukherjee today said that both economic development and environmental protection can "co-exist". Noting that the government has played a "proactive" role in addressing the issue of climate change by launching the International Solar Alliance …
Pakistan's parliament is the first government assembly building in the world to operate solely on solar energy. The China-backed green building was inaugurated on 23 February by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at a low-key event. The entire electricity system of the building in capital Islamabad has been shifted to solar …
Solar power developers added a record 7.3 gigawatts of capacity in the U.S. last year, up 17 percent from 2014 and surpassing natural gas installations for the first time. Residential installations climbed 66 percent, the fastest-growing segment, and accounted for 29 percent of all photovoltaic systems, according to a report …
Renewables accounted for the lion’s share of all power and utility transactions during 2015, according to a new report from EY. EY-7EY’s new report, Power Transactions and Trends: 2015 review and 2016 outlook, highlights the increasing evidence that utilities and investors are using mergers and acquisitions (M&A;) “as a strategic …
