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 …
Government of India (GoI) has set an ambitious goal of providing uninterrupted power for all homes, industrial and commercial establishments and adequate power for farmers by 2022 through its “24X7 Power for All program”. GoI wants a growing share of the country’s electricity to come from renewable energy. It aims …
About 30% of India’s population (77 million households or around 360 million people) lack adequate access to electricity. Most have to rely on expensive and dirty kerosene lamps for lighting. A sustainable and scalable model is essential to allow hundreds of millions of people - in India and elsewhere in …
Chennai: Nearly 660MW of solar power projects in Tamil Nadu are likely to be commissioned before March 31 this year, supplementing existing capacity but at a steep `7.01 per unit for 25 years. TN enjoys early mover ad vantage in the renewable energy sector, especially with wind plants, but solar …
NEW DELHI: Domestic solar manufacturers are alarmed over a proposal the government has sent to the World Trade Organization, seeking compromise in the dispute over the domestic content requirement in India's solar programme, prompting some firms to put their expansion on hold. "We wanted to double manufacturing capacity from 500 …
As per the Tamil Nadu Solar Energy Policy unveiled in 2012 In line with the Solar Energy Policy unveiled in 2012, the State government has now included buildings housing industries, government and quasi-government offices, including urban local bodies, in the list of institutions where an auxiliary solar-assisted water heating system …
Pune: The subsidy route adopted by the state government in solar policy has failed to cut ice with solar water heater manufacturers, who said the process will result in reimbursement delays, thus, taking a toll on the quality of solar installations. On January 26, TOI had reported about the state …
The Railways has started the process of harnessing solar power through roof-top plants at railway stations and buildings to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and conventional sources of electricity. Sources said all railway zones and manufacturing units, except two in the North-East and one in the western region, and some …
According to the new policy, electricity consumers of HPSEBL shall be eligible to install minimum 1 KW to maximum 5 MW capacity solar PV plants on their building roof top or its premises, which will be connected to grid with bidirectional meters, where in consumer will use solar generation for …
A close examination of Bihar's recent growth experience reveals several paradoxes. These are paradoxes only with reference to certain orthodox positions widely held in development economics. Resolving these paradoxes helps formulate a more incisive understanding of what bottlenecks lie in the way of eliminating poverty in Bihar and opens the …
Union Minister of State for Power Piyush Goyal said here on Thursday that all railway stations and airports in the country would be instructed to install Cochin International Airport model solar energy generation facilities. He was speaking after visiting the CIAL solar energy farm on the Nedumbassery airport premises along …
Solar thermal sector has not found much support in the country despite having applications for industrial, residential and commercial purposes and should be promoted by the government, a Delhi-based green body today said. "Solar thermal has many applications where the heat of the sun is directly used for industrial, residential …
MNRE has rolled out a scheme plans to set up 25 solar parks, each with a capacity of 500 MW and above; thereby targeting around 20000 MW of solar power installed capacity. These solar parks will be set up within in a span of 5 years commencing from 2014-15 and …
President and CEO of World Resources Institute says the US has only about 25 gigawatts of solar capacity Praising India's climate change initiatives in the run-up to the Paris summit, an eminent American expert has said the implementation of renewable energy targets has the potential to "drastically shift" global markets. …
BENGALURU: The Karnataka government is working on a model policy for creating an enabling environment for both prospective renewable energy investors and farmers who sell or lease their land to harness renewable power in the state. At the inaugural session on `Karnataka Renewable Energy - Opportunities & Challenges' here on …
The Dakshina Kannada Deputy Commissioner's office here had installed government net metering project. The 25 kW solar panel panel generates 100 units per day there by savings of Rs.2.5 lakh per year on power bills. The project cost of this solar plant is approximately Rs 20 lakh. Kumble Vignesh Prabhu, …
State government had set the process in motion to tap 5000 MW of renewable energy by April 2017. Hyderabad: Following a feasibility study, the National Institute of Wind Energy has estimated a potential to tap 4,244 MW of wind energy in Telangana state. Disclosing this at the 4th Green Energy …
Panaji: In a world where people are leading technologically smart lives, Goa state horticultural corporation (GSHCL) refuses to be left behind. In an effort to not only keep at up with the times and provide healthy inspiration to its citizens, the organization has installed its first solar power kiosk at …
This is the 4th joint report of the European Solar Thermal Electricity Association (ESTELA) Greenpeace International and SolarPACES since 2003. Greenpeace developed a global energy vision – the Energy [R]evolution scenario – which provides a practical blueprint for rapidly cutting energy-related CO2 emissions in order to help ensure that greenhouse …
Kochi:Solar rooftop panels are being put to a wide variety of needs from lighting homes to heating and pumping water. These devices are sold by accredited agencies with a subsidy component utilising Agency for Non-Conventional Energy and Rural Technology(ANERT) funds. The off-grid and grid-connected solar photovoltaic power plants are also …
KOLKATA: ReNew Power Ventures, a Gurgaon-headquartered renewable energy company, raised the largest amount of venture capital funding in the wind power sector last year, according to a global report on wind energy funding and M&A; activity for 2015. ReNew Power Ventures raised $265 million in venture funds last year, accounting …
