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 International Finance Corporation (IFC) has signed an agreement with the Zambian government for the development of two solar independence power projects, a statement seen by Xinhua said. The IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has signed the agreement with the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC), a Zambian government …
Setting ambitious goals for producing energy from the sun, wind and other renewable sources, Hillary Rodham Clinton seized on an issue Monday that increasingly resonates with Democratic voters and sets up a stark contrast with the Republican presidential field. With many Republican candidates saying they do not believe that climate …
The State Government has prepared a master plan to develop the Capital as a solar city. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has shortlisted Bhubaneswar along with 54 cities in 27 States for development as solar cities under Solar Cities programme. The Ministry has been implementing the programme under …
Solar power tariffs are likely to be equivalent to conventional thermal power prices of around Rs 4.5 per kilowatt (KW) by 2017-18 because of a decline in capital costs. The tariff reduction will be "driven by a decline in capital costs (solar modules and other balance of plant), an increase …
Punjab got a thumbs-up from solar power project developers, including representatives of a French solar company, for emerging into a major solar power generating state. Buoyed by industry response, the state is now looking at generating 2,000 mega watt of solar power by 2016-17. The Go Solar Punjab summit got …
As many as 55 cities in 27 states and union territories are currently being developed as solar or green cities, parliament was told today. So far, 55 existing cities in 27 states/UTs are being developed as solar cities in the country under 'Development of Solar Cities programme', Power and New …
COIMBATORE: Solar power is likely to become cheaper than or equivalent to conventional thermal energy prices over the next 2-3 years and reach Rs 4-4.5 per unit by 2017-18, India Ratings and Research has estimated. "This will be driven by a decline in capital costs (solar modules and other balance …
Australians’ biggest fear in tackling climate change is that they are doing the “lifting” while other countries do the “leaning”, the former head of the United Nations agency tasked with leading the global response to climate change has said. Yvo de Boer, who headed the UN framework convention on climate …
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 sugar …
Solar power could become as cheap as conventional thermal energy over the next two to three years and reach Rs 4-4.5 per unit by FY18, India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) said in a report. "This will be driven by a decline in capital costs -- solar modules and other balance …
China has begun constructing its largest solar power plant spread over 2,550 hectares in the Gobi desert. The plant will come up in Qinghai province. The plant will have an installed capacity of 200 megawatts, and be capable of supplying electricity to 1 million households, according to Qinghai Solar-Thermal Power …
Hit hard by two successive crop failures and the unwillingness of tenant farmers to lease out their agriculture land, farmers of Punjab, especially those who give their land on lease rather than cultivating it themselves, have found a ray of hope in the new solar power revolution that is sweeping …
The state has a robust 5,000 kilometres of extensive canal network Punjab plans to harness the extensive canal network in the state for the generation of an estimated 1,000 Mega watt of solar power. Bikramjit Singh Majithia, Minister of New and Renewable Energy, Punjab, told Business Standard that the state …
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten is set to unveil a bold climate policy goal requiring half of Australia's large-scale energy production to be generated using renewable sources within 15 years. Fairfax Media has learnt that despite Labor's humiliating 2013 election defeat caused in part by voter contempt for its carbon tax, …
IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Industrial Development Corporation of Zambia to explore development of two 50 MW solar PV independent power projects in Zambia through the Scaling Solar program. The projects would be Zambia's first utility scale PV projects, …
Proposed measures include cutting aid to small-scale solar power installations, with option of ending subsidies for roof-top panels earlier than expected The government has unveiled sweeping plans to cut subsidies to the renewable energy sector, saying costs are out of control and the consumer must be protected from soaring bills. …
The UK government has announced it would cut subsidies provided to renewable energy projects, hoping to save billions on costs. The moves comes from the Department of Energy and Climate Change and has been criticised by the sustainable energy industry, which says that subsidies are the cheapest way for the …
Construction has begun on China's largest solar power tower plant in the northwestern province of Qinghai. Occupying 2,550 hectares of the Gobi Desert in Golmud city, the plant will have an installed capacity of 200 megawatts, and be capable of supplying electricity to 1 million households, according to Qinghai Solar-Thermal …
BEIJING, July 22 (Xinhua) -- China will develop a renewable energy micro-power grid, to further promote the sustainable development of energy resources, according to the National Energy Administration on Wednesday. Micro-power, the opposite of large power stations, refers to electricity sources that are small, mass producible, quick to deploy, cost …
Solar-powered cars have come a step closer after scientists discovered a way to create compact fuel cells that use the power of the sun to generate hydrogen. Researchers claim their method has increased the efficiency of using solar cells to split water into its constituent elements – hydrogen and oxygen …
