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 …
Lehman's collapse in 2008 choked off credit to SkyPower, forcing it to seek protection from creditors in 2009 Seven years ago, Kerry Adler watched as the disaster at Lehman Brothers Holdings scuttled his vision of renewable-power riches. Today, he has reassembled assets from the collapsed investment bank, laying the foundation …
Not even one percent of India's total solar energy potential has been harvested till date, a recent study by Deloitte and Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has revealed. All this while the National Institute of Solar Energy has estimated India's solar power potential at 749 GW. The study also revealed …
By 2021-22, Gujarat could emerge as the fourth largest state in India with proposed 3,200 megawatt (Mw) grid connected rooftop solar power projects, a latest Indian solar power market update report by Mercom Capital Group stated. As per the global communications and consulting firm's report, by 2021-22, Gujarat will follow …
KOLKATA: In a year's time, Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport could become one of the greenest facilities in the country with a substantially smaller carbon footprint. Though the Airports Authority of India (AAI) on Monday sanctioned a 2 Mega Watt peak (MWp) solar project for Kolkata airport, the team …
The company has been looking at renewable sources such as solar and wind Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC), a public sector lignite mining and power generating company, will set up units to produce 600 mega watt (Mw) solar power. The company, which has been using lignite as the fuel for its …
Google can now tell you how much solar energy you could generate by installing solar panels on your house - if you live in the right place. The firms new Project Sunroof tool considers factors like roof orientation, shade from trees and nearby buildings and local weather patterns to work …
Solar-powered lighting and charging services are coming soon to families in central Ghana who still have no access to the electricity grid. On July 28, the Hon. Dr Kwabena Donkor, Ghanaian Minister for Power, formally launched the rollout of a PayGo home solar power in the Assin district of Central …
The German research project “HELENE” — a project put together for the purpose of increasing the competitiveness of the country’s solar energy technology sector is aiming to achieve industrial production of monocrystalline p-Type PERC (Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell) solar cells with an efficiency of 22.5% by the end of …
The Chhattisgarh Renewable Energy Development Agency (CREDA) will install solar photovoltaic power plants in 60 Gram panchayat buildings of Jashpur, Surguja, Balrampur and Koriya districts of the State, officials stated.The State Government is now all set to develop sizable hydro power potential in order to electrify villages in remote pockets …
Tangedco says procedures were not followed The governments and activists might be pitching hard for people to convert to clean and renewable fuel, but when it comes to switching over to non-conventional energy, there are a lot of issues for which there is no clarity, city residents complain. Americai Narayanan …
60 units have so far been set up in Dindigul district From now on, farmers need not wait on the corridors of Tangedco offices to check the waitlist of free power applicants to meet their irrigation needs as the Department of Agricultural Engineering has started establishing solar power pumps at …
Government of Gujarat announced new solar policy to increase the solar power production in the state. The Energy and Petrochemicals Department presented the ‘Gujarat Solar Power Policy-2015’, the second solar power policy by the Government, the first one was given in 2009. The first solar policy of Gujarat gave them …
Climate change will be high on the agenda of talks at the second Forum for India-Pacific Islands Cooperation (FIPIC) on August 21 in Jaipur, being attended by all the 14 nations. With many of the island nations that dot the Pacific Ocean east of Australia, threatened by rising sea levels, …
About 63% of the total imports of solar power panels have been from China during the first two months of the current fiscal, Parliament was informed on Thursday. As many as 1.90 crore solar power panels were imported from China out of the total imports of 3.02 crore panels in …
KOCHI: The Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL) is all set to become the first airport in the country to be fully powered by solar power. A 12 MW solar power plant in the airport premises will be inaugurated by the State Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on August 18. As part …
The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy in India has shared year-wise capacity addition targets for the ambitious National Solar Mission. As per the updated targets under the National Solar Mission, India aims to have an installed solar power capacity of 100 GW by 2022. The original target under the …
Uganda is endowed with a wide variety of natural energy resources like biomass, water and compost, as well as favourable conditions for solar, wind and geothermal power generation. Considering all the energy sources in the country, hydropower and biomass are the ones that currently contribute most of the population's energy …
The price of installed distributed solar PV systems in the US has fallen dramatically in 2014, and the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory expects that trend to continue into 2015. Figures at the heart of Berkeley Labs’ latest edition of Tracking the Sun show that the installed price …
A second independent study by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) found that renewable energy from South Africa's first wind and solar (photovoltaic) projects created R4 billion more financial benefits to the country than they cost during the first six months of 2015. The study is an update …
SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son's ambitious proposal to produce 20 gigawatts (GW) of solar energy in India has triggered a major policy shift with the government now looking at issuing mega global tender packages inviting companies to set up solar power generating capacity of 5-10 GW (5,000-10,000 MW). Sources familiar with …
