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 …
KATHMANDU:The Ministry of Finance (MoF) today signed an agreement with the World Bank (WB) Group for $130 million (equivalent to Rs 12.93 billion) for implementation of ‘Grid Solar Energy and Energy Efficiency Project’.The project has two components — installing solar plant of 25 megawatts and connecting it to the national …
Solar power solutions provider Rays Power Experts has started early-stage discussions with private equity firms to raise its first round of funding, estimated at . 400 crore. Blackstone and Gujarat Venture ` Finance are among the risk capital investors in talks to invest in the four-year-old, Jaipur head quartered startup. …
Stresses the need to have a legislative framework for targets & monitoring system. NITI Aayog has proposed formulation of a new comprehensive national renewable energy policy that would set targets, provide roadmap for financial support and enable creation of an institution that would centrally procure renewable energy from developers to …
Biggest project is worth Rs 6,000 crores and it is with CVC India Infrastructure for establishment of five bio-ethanol based refineries Punjab on Monday inked memorandums of understanding (MoUs) worth Rs 13,500 crore for investment in solar projects. It also signed pacts for setting up five bio-ethanol plants worth Rs …
The Hinduja Group, with business interests ranging from power and automobiles to financial services, will be entering the solar power sector in India to develop a generation capacity of 1,000 MW, in phases. This is part of the group’s strategy to execute only short-gestation greenfield opportunities in India, and focus …
Can Do Away With VAT On Devices, Batteries, Say Experts PM Narendra Modi may have taken a dig at AAP over its free electricity promise, but one sector where both the Arvind Kejriwal government and the Centre are focused on is solar power.While AAP's poll manifesto has details about its …
Punjab's solar mission was recognized by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday with the best performing state award in renewable energy capacity building at the inaugural session of the First Renewable Energy Global Investors' Meet and Expo - 2015 in New Delhi. Congratulating Punjab for promoting renewable energy, Modi emphasised …
Next year on Independence Day, India will have the world's largest 750MW solar power plant in Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh, which will pip America's much-vaunted 550-megawatt Desert Sunlight solar project in California, commissioned four days ago. Acquisition of 1500 hectares of land for the Rs 4000-crore project is close …
Chhattisgarh has bagged a National Award as the best performing State by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Renewable Energy segment. Chhattisgarh Principal Secretary, Energy Department Aman Kumar Singh received the award from the Prime Minister during the Renewable Energy Global Investors Meet (RE-Invest) held at Vigyan Bhavan in New …
Noting that there has been energy deficit in the country, Prime Minister narendra Modi on Sunday insisted on making renewable sources like solar and wind power affordable. He also asserted that the country’s push for green energy was not to impress the world. Mr Modi informed that India is working …
This publication explores a range of opportunities for India in decentralized energy generation, that offer clean and efficient energy solutions for rural and remote areas. The booklet was released during the first Renewable Energy Global Investors Meet organized by Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India.
The Indian solar sector has the potential to generate around 1 million jobs if India achieves its targeted 100 GW of grid-connected solar power capacity by 2022 says this new analysis released by the Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) Increasing energy …
Amid the political debate over dilution of the law on acquiring land for industrial units or other projects, the renewable energy ministry has "cracked the code" for overcoming any opposition from the local population to setting up of big solar power projects. The ministry is working on a policy to …
Tata Power, as part of its centenary celebrations, has announced plans to develop 450 MW clean power through hydel to contribute to green energy initiative. This year, the company will commission 120 MW hydro power capacity to mark 100 year celebrations, it said. Tata Power commissioned its first hydro unit …
In 2013, the state had awarded projects of 250 Mw to 26 developers in different parts of the state, which have either been commissioned before time or likely to be commissioned by March 2015 Thanks to the proactive steps of Punjab in harnessing solar power, the state has managed to …
With the increasing consumption of solar energy in India, the state government of Andhra Pradesh has also decided to avoid the power crisis by utilizing solar power in the state. Andhra Pradesh has released the detailed list of qualified bidders for 500 MW solar projects, 63 bids qualified the selection …
Bridge to India however said that for a large number of commitments on the list, not much thought has gone into arriving at the stated numbers In the build-up to the government-sponsored renewable energy investment summit, RE-Invest 2015, the participating companies have provided non-binding investment indication of 166 gigawatt (Gw) …
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi encourages competition among states, his home state Gujarat is likely to lose its position as the top solar power producing state. It is facing tough competition from states like Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh which are fast catching up. Gujarat is currently the top solar power …
The Rajasthan Government and Adani Enterprises Ltd., on Monday, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for developing solar parks with a capacity of 10,000 MW in the next ten years. Signs MoU with State The MoU was signed by Adani Enterprises CEO Vineet Jain and Rajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation Managing …
The draft policy will be implemented in two models namely - Green Energy Development Corporation of Odisha (GEDCOL) model and private developer model The Odisha government plans to add aggregate clean energy capacity of 1,000 Mw by establishing 3 to 4 solar parks in the state by 2020. The target, …
