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 …
The Telangana Government on Thursday constituted a nine-member coordination committee to operationalise the Centre’s scheme for unemployed youth and farmers to establish grid-connected solar PV power projects in the State. The Centre has allotted Rs.233 crore to Telangana as Central Financial Grant at Rs.50 lakh per MW for an allocated …
The Queensland government is considering stepping in to head off a legal challenge to one of Australia’s largest planned solar farms in the state’s northern sugar belt. The Spanish renewable energy developer FRV has approval from the local council and a deal with a cane farmer to build a 130-megawatt …
The amount of solar power being installed in the UK has largely flatlined since the closure by the government of a subsidy scheme in April, even before a new round of subsidy cuts has taken effect. Official figures released on Thursday show that large-scale solar farm developers rushed to connect …
KOLHAPUR: The state government has formulated the first comprehensive policy on renewable energy and has aimed to produce 14,400 megawatt (MW) power through non-conventional sources. The district in western Maharashtra would benefit the most; considering that almost 50% of the state's potential sites for wind energy are here and the …
GURGAON: The Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (HERC) has announced a 25-paisa rebate on every unit of electricity generated through rooftop solar power plants. It also brought clarity to the net metering facility for consumers installing rooftop solar power plants by making amendments to the relevant regulations. Despite having announced the …
In a bid to reduce diesel consumption in trains, the Indian railways have sort to harness solar energy to run their trains. This will prove to be highly cost-effective to the railways by saving upto Rs 1.24 lakh per coach year. The train in trial has one of its non-AC …
A weak link lurks in Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's push for an unprecedented $US200 billion (expansion of clean energy: cash-starved state electricity distributors. The retailers have racked up more than 2.5 trillion rupees ($54 billion) of losses partly because they're forced to sell below cost to keep energy affordable, …
The Japanese International Cooperation Agency has finalised plans to fund solar power parks in various states of India. According to the recent announcement, the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) plans to invest $500 million into the Indian solar parks. Other multilateral institutions like the World Bank, KfW, the European Investment …
New figures from GTM Research have revealed that, of the 1.2 gigawatts of residential solar installed in the US in 2014, 72% was third-party owned. GTM Research’s latest report, US Residential Solar Financing 2015–2020, explored the current and future residential solar market. The US residential solar market has grown 15 …
‘We look towards India for climate action leadership: Laurence Tubiana French climate change negotiators Laurence Tubiana and Nicholas Hulot were in India interacting with cabinet ministers, including Union Environment and Forests Minister Prakash Javadekar, here on Tuesday to discuss India’s preparedness ahead of the Paris climate change summit scheduled for …
JAIPUR: The cabinet on Tuesday cleared the state government's proposal to form a joint venture with four private companies, including Adani Enterprises and Reliance Power, with whom it earlier signed memorandums of understanding (MoUs) for solar power production. The chief secretary would be the chairman of the company that will …
ACME Solar today said it has commissioned solar plants totalling 150 MW in Rajasthan and Odisha under Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission. "(ACME Solar) announced the commissioning of solar plants totalling 150 MW in Rajasthan and Odisha," the company said in a statement today. ACME Solar is a joint venture …
Last Friday, North America’s SkyPower announced that it would be signing a solar deal with Kenya for a 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatt), $2.2 billion development project. SkyPower released a media advisory last Friday, which announced that the self-proclaimed “world’s largest developer and owner of utility-scale PV energy projects” was expecting …
Ames, Iowa: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has called for a dramatic national shift to energy sources such as solar and wind, setting a goal of generating enough clean renewable energy to power every US home within her first decade in office. Mrs Clinton, the front-runner for her party's 2016 …
In a breakthrough discovery, scientists have revealed a new method which could lead to cheap, efficient metal-based solar cells. Scientists from Rice's Laboratory for Nanophotonics described a new method that solar-panel designers could use to incorporate light-capturing nanomaterials into future designs. Bob Zheng, a graduate student and postdoctoral research associate …
Solar lights installed in various parts of Sunderbans, one of the most energy-deficient regions of the country, are helping in reducing man-animal conflict in the region. Tigers and other animals straying into villages in darkness is a common incident in the Sunderbans region and there are many instances where villagers …
Contrary to the claims made by the Punjab Government of the state becoming the “most preferred destination” in the non-conventional energy sector with over Rs 4,000 crore of investment received to set up solar plants in the state, Punjab’s first solar energy plant installed at Lohara village in Jalandhar under …
Alexander Muyekhi, a construction worker from Ebubayi village in the heart of Vihiga County in Western Kenya, and his school-going children can now enjoy a tiny solar kit supplied by the British-based Azuri Technologies to light their house and play their small FM radio. This has saved the family from …
In the past, the 18-year-old would have to find light elsewhere when his family's off-grid home in the village of Ndela, 80 kilometers (50 miles) east of then Kenyan capital, ran out of paraffin. That's changed since his mother, Rebecca, signed up with M-Kopa, a Nairobi-based provider of solar-lighting systems. …
BAHAWALPUR: As the sun sets and darkness falls over a village outside Bahawalpur, Shama Bibi switches on her solar lantern and starts sewing clothes for an upcoming family wedding. Not long ago, nightfall would have forced her to stop working. But now with access to solar-powered lamps, Shama can sew …
