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 …
Since its inception in 2003, Bangladesh’s solar home system (SHS) program has installed household electrification systems in three million rural households, two-thirds of them in the last three years. In the same time period, the country’s rural electricity cooperatives have extended access to the national electrical grid to about 1.3 …
Chief Minister, Dr Mukul Sangma today said that the state government has embarked upon the Green City Project in the towns of Shillong and Tura, whereby streets are lighted by solar streets lights. “Funds in this effect have already been provided and the municipal boards have also been taken on …
Favouring imposition of anti-dumping duty on solar cells, the Commerce Ministry, on Wednesday, said it would boost manufacturing in the country and attract foreign investments in the sector. This assumes significance as Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy and solar power producers are strongly opposing …
The Rs 65-crore project has an estimated annual output of 18 million Kwh Rajasthan-based Rays Power Infra (P) Limited (RPIL) on Wednesday announced commissioning of its 10-Mw solar power plant at Midjil in Mahabubnagar district of Telangana. The Rs 65-crore project has an estimated annual output of 18 million Kwh. …
PUNE: The slums in the city will promote the use of unconventional energy if the civic body's plan to use solar energy to power lights is approved. A proposal to fit solar street lights in the slums has been tabled before the standing committee. The Shivajinagar assembly constituency has been …
Japan’s domestic shipments of solar modules more than doubled last fiscal year as solar panels spread from rooftops to land once used for golf courses. Local shipments rose to 8,546 megawatts in the year ended March 31, from 3,809 megawatts a year ago, the Japan Photovoltaic Energy Assocation said on …
China's taxation authorities announced on Wednesday that buyers of distributed photovoltaic (PV) power should invoice for purchases, a move to reduce the tax burden on PV power producers and promote green energy. The buyers, mainly companies of the State Grid, will be required to invoice power generators from July 1 …
. 7.5 a unit by 2020 if indigenous solar cells are used Say cost of solar power could fall & remain at ` Domestic manufacturers of solar cells have said that use of indigenous products can help keep cost of solar power low, countering the government's claim that it will …
The BJP leader has business interest in bio-mass based power generation and sugar industry Union road transport, highways and shipping minister Nitin Gadkari’s departments might not have anything to do with solar power generation, but he has written to Nirmala Sitharaman, minister for commerce and industry, opposing the levy of …
KATHMANDU: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) handed over its pilot project on wind-solar hybrid energy system at Dhaubadi village of Nawalparasi district to the state-owned Alternative Energy Promotion Centre (AEPC) amidst a function held here today. A transfer document was signed by Yongping Zhai, director of the ADB’s Energy Division, …
India’s transport minister has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government to scrap a plan by the nation’s previous administration to impose duties on solar imports from China, the U.S., Malaysia and Taiwan, the Hindu Business Line reported. Minister of Road, Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari opposed the duties in a …
Google Inc. (GOOG) plans a deeper push into the $363.7 billion U.S. power-sales market by working on tools that help utilities deliver electricity to homes and businesses more efficiently, people with knowledge of the matter said. The operator of the most popular Internet-search engine is in the early stages of …
Mumbai. The multi-party MLAs in Maharashtra Assembly will collectively work towards the actual realization of the renewable energy potential of the state, through their legislative actions. They will focus on the new comprehensive renewable energy policy and a solar policy for the state. The legislators will also demand to form …
Domestic consumers who are beneficiaries of the Chief Minister’s scheme for solar rooftop capital incentive can hope to have the installation of solar photovoltaic (SPV) systems early. Twenty five systems have been installed. The delivery of the first set of bidirectional (net meters) meters is expected shortly and the meters …
Announces "Green" Hospitals and more Public Health Institutes On the occasion of World Environment Day, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister, Dr Harsh Vardhan, has announced his resolve for greening the health care and to converting All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi into a green hospital. With …
The Indian government may strangle Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s efforts to reap more electricity from the sun should it impose duties on solar panel imports proposed by the nation’s previous administration. Only a quarter of the 1.6 gigawatts of solar capacity in the works now will be finished if the …
When Narendra Modi was chief minister of Gujarat he aggressively promoted renewable source of energy with focus on generating solar electricity. But the manufacturers of solar panels for water heater systems in the state are yet to get Rs 30 crore worth of subsidy since the last two years from …
The Tamil Nadu government has installed around 90,000 green houses with solar roof and around 20,000 street lights through solar power since 2011. While plans were to add 60,000 solar roof houses and 20,000 street lights through solar power every year, the initial procedures and other issues affected the schedule, …
Tata Power has crossed the 500 MW mark in renewable energy capacity with the commissioning of a solar plant at Palaswadi, Maharashtra. This is in line with the company’s commitment to have 20-25 per cent contribution in clean energy generated from hydro, solar, wind, geothermal, and waste gas. Currently, Tata …
Queensland treasurer Tim Nicholls has described solar panels as the preserve of the "champagne sippers and the latte set" while attacking a solar bonus scheme set up by Queensland Labor. Nicholls suggests that installing solar panels is more popular with wealthier, metropolitan residents than it is with those in regional …
