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 state government has set an ambitious target to generate 14,400 MW from the non-conventional energy sector. A policy in this regard will be unveiled soon. This will be a manifold increase from the 2,500 MW renewable energy target in the previous policy, which was approved in 2008. Energy minister …
CHANDIGARH: Decentralized solar energy and power-efficient appliances are the answers to India's power woes, said Ashok Jhunjhunwala, an Padma Shri award-winner and IIT-Madras professor who gave a lecture on the campus of PEC University of Technology, here on Thursday. The lecture - titled 'Towards Next-Gen Powering of Indian Homes: Capitalizing …
Such systems could both be harnessed for self-consumption and also feed state grid The Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (UPERC) has approved the state rooftop solar regulation, which would allow consumers in the state to install solar rooftop systems. Such systems could both be harnessed for self-consumption and also feed …
Renewable energy developers will receive “the vast majority” of a $1 billion credit line the Export-Import Bank of the U.S. extended to India, the institution’s president said. Regulatory policies in India, including terms for selling power, are conducive to financing solar- and wind-power projects, and make it easier for the …
Harare — Big cities across the world struggle with crime, and Zimbabwe's Harare is no exception. Naison Gumpo, a journalism student studying in the capital, knows this only too well. "I was mugged right in the central business district and lost my jacket, wallet and passport. I long ago stopped …
Environmentalism is fast becoming a top concern in France – a rooftop concern, to be precise. Excitingly, the nation has just passed new legislation that will require all upcoming commercial construction projects to feature either green roofs or solar panels above their top floors. By now, most people are at …
As part of the move to promote alternative lighting solutions in public spaces, Kerala state electricity board (KSEB) has installed two solar flower trees in front of the power utility's headquarters here. The geometrically-cut flower-shaped solar panels were designed and manufactured by a startup company run by four young engineering …
NASHIK: The Karamveer Baburao Thakare College of Engineering managed by Maratha Vidya Prasarak Institute is all set to become self-reliant for its power supply needs. The private college would install solar panels in its premises as a part of pilot project to reduce its dependency on power companies. College principal …
While the government wants to generate 100,000 Mw of solar power by 2022, it is yet to seriously implement steps to meet production and transmission targets The ministry of new and renewable energy set a target of adding 1,100 Mw of solar power capacity in 2014-15. The ministry's website puts …
Project implemented at Rs. 3.97 lakh The commissioning of the 3.25 Kilo Watts Power (kWp) solar power plant at the Salem Railway Junction is expected to bring down the dependence of the Railways on the traditional energy to a considerable extent. The solar plant set up atop the newly extended …
Low-carbon industries saw a record turnover of £122bn in 2013, with an annual growth rate of 7.6% since 2010, according to Government figures released yesterday. "The low-carbon economy that many have talked about is now within reach," said Energy and Climate Change Secretary Ed Davey. "There is still a long …
Lagos — Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola has assured that primary and secondary schools in the state will enjoy regular and uninterrupted electricity supply. Fashola who said this while addressing stakeholders in the education sector at a programme tagged 'Support Our Schools Initiative', held at the City Hall in Lagos. …
M-KOPA Solar today announced that it has connected over 20,000 off grid homes in Uganda to affordable solar power. The 'pay-as-you-go' energy service provider for off-grid homes, is now expanding its distribution nationwide and targeting to add 50,000 more homes by the end of 2015. Jesse Moore, Managing Director and …
(Reuters) - Australia will decide within weeks whether to follow the United States and Europe by imposing tariffs on solar panels imported from China, after Australia's only manufacturer accused Chinese rivals of selling below cost to steal its customers. After an 11-month investigation into Chinese solar panel imports, the Australian …
With conventional energy sources being limited in their availability, the search for alternative renewable energy sources is inevitable. Solar energy, an inexhaustible renewable energy is considered a vital source for a developing country like India, where there is a major deficit between the demand and supply of electricity. Crowded urban …
Federal Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Ezektech Limited for the provision of solar powered plants ranging from 250kw to 1mw across the country. Minister of Power, Chinedu Nebo who signed on behalf of the Government described the initiative as the right thing to do, stressing : …
Solar power could provide up to 4% of the UK's electricity by the end of the decade, the government has said. The plummeting cost of solar panels has caused the government to revise upwards its forecast for solar energy use, Energy Secretary Ed Davey said. He said this had contributed …
A pioneering solar-powered water distribution system is improving access to potable water in a region of Far North Cameroon beset by drought, water-related illness and an influx of refugees fleeing Boko Haram attacks. The system, in which water is collected in a large dam built amid the region's hills and …
The Abbott government has been accused of politicising the release of official greenhouse gas projections that confirm Australia’s international climate change pledge for 2020 is becoming easier to reach, but which will also increase pressure for Australia to adopt a more ambitious post-2020 target. The official figures have shown that …
China will push this year to install almost 2 1/2 times as much solar capacity as the US added in 2014 in a race to clear its increasingly polluted air. The world's biggest emitter of carbon aims to install as much as 17.8 gigawatts of solar projects in 2015, the …
