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 …
In an ambitious plan to tap solar energy, the Delhi division of the Northern Railway is all set to use trains to generate solar power by the year-end. For the purpose, the railway authorities will roll out first train with solar panels fixed on its roof by the end of …
With the apex court upholding renewable purchase obligation, power purchasers in all states would have to follow the regulatory norms for renewable purchase obligations Compulsory purchase of renewable energy got a major boost last week from a Supreme Court order, even though it is likely to increase the power cost …
Australians now have access to some of the cheapest electricity in the industrialized world — but not because grid electricity rates are low. In fact, Australians pay a lot for the electricity that they purchase from their utilities (and are generally quite unhappy about this). Instead, as Hugh Bromley of …
A new survey found that 77% of Australians believe large-scale solar facilities can be of great help to the future, but the news comes at the same time as a separate report criticizing the Australian Government’s solar industry subsidies. Solar Receives Public Support Commissioned by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency, …
CANBERRA, May 26 (Xinhua) -- An Australian company lighting India's slums with solar energy is providing a solution to the problem of deadly air pollution in India's poorest areas. Pollinate Energy, a small company founded by five Australians, is slowing changing the way the people in India's slums light the …
The big fall in solar PV costs over the last five years is helping redefine the future of energy generation across the world, with grid parity in the retail market achieved in dozens of countries, and even beating wholesale prices in markets such as Chile and the Middle East. And …
Likely to attract over Rs 7,000-crore investment After announcing solar parks in Gujarat and Rajasthan, Adani Power has firmed up plans to set up a 1,000-megawatt (Mw) one in Tamil Nadu. The proposed energy park is likely to attract around Rs 7,000-crore investment. Although an Adani spokesperson declined to comment, …
Out of 400 MW of rooftop installations, the residential sector makes up only a quarter while the rest is at commercial buildings. The government’s ambitious plan to get 100 GW of solar power capacity created in the country by 2022 has got even tougher, with several issues constraining installation of …
Report on solar power puts the capital cost of household systems at $18 billion, with benefits of $9 billion. The cost of installing and maintaining more than one million household solar power systems has outweighed their benefit by more than $9 billion, a new report has found. And by the …
The construction on a 2.3-megawatt floating solar power plant has been completed on Sunday in Hyogo prefecture, western Japan, which is the world's largest floating solar power plant in terms of output. The plant, coinvested by electronics giant Kyocera Corporation and Century Tokyo Leasing Corporation, is expected to generate 2, …
Most Hongkongers are willing to produce renewable energy at home, for example by investing in rooftop solar power generators if utility companies agree to buy the surplus electricity generated, according to a survey by a global conservation body. Prentice Koo from the WWF, which interviewed more than 1,000 people by …
Longest solo plane flight in history will be attempted in Solar Impulse II aircraft powered by nothing but sunlight A Swiss pilot and his craft powered by nothing but sunlight will launch an attempt to cross the Pacific Ocean on Monday in what will be the longest solo plane flight …
“THE history of the development of the human society is a history of discovering and exploiting energy.” With those grand words did Li Hejun (pictured), one of China’s wealthiest billionaires, inaugurate a giant exhibition centre devoted to clean energy near Beijing’s Olympic Forest Park on May 20th. At the event …
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy is very close to announcing Phase II Batch 2 programme Solar installations in India have gone up to more than 2,000 Mw so far in 2015 due to positive developments in Tamil Nadu. The Modi administration has continued to announce various solar programmes, goals …
Morocco’s ambitious Noor-Quarzazate project has received financial backing from the European Union. The European Union (EU) has granted a $47.8 million loan to the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy (MASEN) for the 150 MW Noor III concentrated solar power project. According to media reports, the agreement was signed by EU …
The chief minister has instructed environment minister Dr Sudarshan Ghosh Dastidar to install solar power in 300 schools situated in remote areas. While placing the budget for his department, Dr Ghosh Dastidar said that they have already set up solar power electrification in 100 schools located in remote districts. The …
The Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, Tiruchi, would donate grid connected roof-top solar photo voltaic power plants worth Rs.1.5 crore to nine schools in and around its Kailasapuram Township under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative. Inaugurating the first batch of systems in three schools at a function held at the …
The Climate Investment Funds (CIF) unanimously endorsed Ghana's ambitious investment plan to transform and promote its renewable energy sector. The plan, which is slated to receive $40 million in funding from the CIF's Programme for Scaling Up Renewable Energy in Low Income Countries (SREP), is structured around four key projects: …
A bright light in electricity access was applauded by Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson in her budget speech on Tuesday, after a Northern Cape community with no electricity benefited from an independent power project (IPP) solar initiative. "In the !Kheis Municipality, Hilda Scheepers is part of the Duineveld community which has …
Six billion dollars in investment in wind and solar power will be lost as a result of a compromise deal on the renewable energy target, energy market analysts say. Bloomberg New Energy Finance says investment in Australian projects will fall from an expected $20.6 billion by 2020 to $14.7 billion …
