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 …
Even as National Energy Conservation Day was celebrated like a routine event every year, there is no perceptible change at the grassroots level. Despite the Union and the state governments launching various schemes to promote solar energy, it is confined to mega commercial projects. The Union Government and its agencies …
India is running the largest renewable capacity expansion programme in the world. The government is aiming to increase share of clean energy through massive thrust in renewables. The year started with Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi's statement "India is graduating from Megawatts to Gigawatts in Renewable Energy production. The quote …
KOCHI: The Kerala High Court on Tuesday flayed the act by the Justice G Sivarajan Commission of sending murder convict Biju Radhakrishnan, a key accused in the Solar scam case, along with a police team for recovering CDs allegedly containing video evidence to substantiate his allegations against Chief Minister Oommen …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Rajesh Kumar. Vs MoEF & CC & Ors. dated 16/12/2015 regarding implementation of plan of using solar rechargeable LED lights instead of kerosene oil lamps for lighting and to reduce the pollution, thermal emission, carbon emission caused by using kerosene …
LUCKNOW: In the wake of Delhi government preparing to implement the odd-even registration number vehicles formula to tackle air pollution which has reached alarming levels in the national capital, Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Monday offered a solution. He said bicycle was the best way to counter all pollution problems. …
Emphasising the need to rely on renewable sources of energy, the Art of Living Foundation has decided to distribute solar lamps to 200 Scheduled Tribe families in the district. Initiated by the foundation district committee, the lamps would be distributed as part of the rural development programme conceived by the …
A US town has rejected a proposal for a solar farm following public concerns. Members of the public in Woodland, North Carolina, expressed their fear and mistrust at the proposal to allow Strata Solar Company to build a solar farm off Highway 258. During the Woodland Town Council meeting, one …
European renewable energy stocks rallied on Monday following an agreement over the weekend at the Paris global climate summit to find ways to stop global warming. Goldman Sachs' analysts described the deal in Paris as the most important climate agreement since the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, adding it would boost the …
US Secretary of State John Kerry says the global climate accord reached in Paris will spur massive investment in American technology for renewable energy. World leaders in Paris may have lauded the future of renewable energy, but in small-town America, all that solar hocus-pocus is still viewed with a healthy …
The proposed policy aims to provide incentives to renewable energy projects as well as push for efficient use of power generated from conventional sources of energy like coal and others. Union Cabinet is likely to approve next week a new power tariff policy to boost regulatory mechanism for discoms and …
The International Solar Alliance (ISA) of over 120 countries, which was launched at the Global Climate Summit in Paris, will spearhead world efforts on solar energy, the government today said. To boost solar power in developing nations, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had last month unveiled ISA with French President Francois …
The political leader of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, recently announced the Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050, which includes a number of renewable energy targets. Perhaps most notable is that all rooftops in the city will have solar panels by 2030. Some might say, however, it’s the goal of solar …
For those wanting to understand what a clean electricity footprint looks like, go to Uruguay. In less than 10 years, the country has shrunk its carbon footprint while lowering electricity costs, without calling on the government for renewable energy subsidies. In fact, this country now obtains nearly 95% of its …
According to a CAG report that was tabled in the parliament on December 8, five years since the Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government leased almost 3,404 acres of land - mostly in Jaisalmer, at preferential rates to various developers for solar thermal plants remain unused for its intended purpose. According to …
LUCKNOW: The National Thermal Power Corporation has evinced interest in setting up solar power plants in UP. The 'Maharatana' company is in talks with UP government for getting land to set up solar power units in the state. NTPC has already experimented with the idea in the open space available …
In a first of its kind, the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) is gearing up for a 500-kilowatt floating Solar Grid Interactive Photovoltaic project in the Banasurasagar dam in Wayanad. The Rs.10-crore pilot project will be implemented by Adtech Systems Ltd, a Thiruvananthapuram-based company, with technical support from Vatsaa Energy …
NEW DELHI: The aviation ministry has asked all airports in the country to install solar energy plants on the lines of the Kochi airport, the world first aerodrome that runs completely on solar power. Union aviation minister Ashok Gajapati Raju told EThe has asked Airports Authority of India (AAI) to …
Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP), a unit of Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL), has set up one megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) power generation unit inside the plant premises at a cost of Rs 6.68 crore. The system, which is in the final stage of commissioning, is expected to generate …
The report also noted that against the target of 500 MW of solar thermal projects, projects of 447.50 MW (approximately 90 per cent) had not been commissioned as of February 2015. The latest report by the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) on Renewable Energy Sector in India states that Rajasthan …
Welspun Renewables, one of India's leading clean energy companies, announced commissioning of its 126 MW wind project located in Pratapgarh district of Rajasthan. The project is the largest wind project in the company's portfolio. The project will generate 290 million units of clean energy and help mitigate 2,11,922 tonnes of …
