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 …
Engineers India Limited (EIL) is diversifying into areas such as water and waste water management, nuclear and solar power and green infrastructure to increase its revenues. EIL chairman and managing director AK Purwaha said the company has taken this initiative to drive growth by leveraging its experience and technological knowhow. …
Dues to equipment makers swell to . 1,000 crore on back of rising demand The government is reviewing the subsidy scheme under its flagship programme aimed at promoting off-grid solar applications such as irrigation pumps, home lights and solar lanterns after its dues to solar equipment makers swelled to . …
“About 40 per cent of global energy consumption is estimated to be in building sector” Non-conventional energy resources must be tapped to meet the growing demand for electricity, said K. Muthuchelian, Head and Chairperson, School of Energy, Environment and Natural Resources, Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai. Renewable energy could be derived …
Initiative Helps Them Run Weighing, Testing Machines On This Energy Bangalore: Power interruptions don’t interrupt them. As many as 522 milk cooperatives in the state are using solar power to run electronic weighing and testing machines, all thanks to an initiative by the SELCO Foundation. Co-founded by Magsaysay Award winner …
The conventional rooftop solar plant is capable of powering lights and fans. However, hybrid solar technology developed by Chennai-based Basil Energetics Private Limited is now capable of operating all electrical appliances. The solar plant would power homes during day time and take power supply from the electricity grid at night. …
Bangalore: To ensure the poor have easier access to power, the US Consulate General (Chennai) has granted $ 200,000 to SELCO Foundation, a social enterprise working towards providing sustainable energy solutions to the underprivileged. SELCO will utilize the aid to set up six innovation labs, which will develop and test …
The Mahagenco's 50 MW grid interactive solar project at Shirsuphal in Baramati will be the first of its kind and unique PPP model project in Indian Power sector, sources in the energy department said. It is based on revenue share basis for a period of 25 years and this is …
Energy minister D K Shivakumar on Tuesday said that the new solar energy policy would be in place from 2014 to 2020. Speaking at the national convention of natural resources at the Indian Sustainability Congress here, Shivakumar said that the government was striving to enhance generation of power from the …
Pakistan Council of Renewable Energy technologies (PCRET) has initiated a project under which different villages throughout the country will be electrified though promotion of clean and renewable solar energy through Photovoltaic process. The basic objective of this project is up gradation of silicon crystal growing and wafering,cell fabrication and lamination …
Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif presided over a high level meeting here Tuesday which reviewed the progress on Quaid-i-Azam Solar Park project. Additional Chief Secretary Energy, Chairman Quaid-i-Azam Solar Park Chaudhary Arif Saeed, President Bank of Punjab, Chief Executive Officer Quaid-i-Azam Solar Park, Chairman Punjab Investment Board and official …
Demand for U.S. solar power increased 41 percent last year driven by record growth in residential projects, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association. Developers installed 4.75 gigawatts of photovoltaic panels in 2013, making solar the biggest source of new generating capacity after natural gas, the Washington-based trade group said …
Huge reserves of India’s natural resources going unutilized Modern technology should be used effectively to attract the youth to farming, K. Narayana Gowda, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, has said. He was addressing a seminar on “Information technology and agriculture” held on Monday at ‘Agrifiesta 2014’, an …
In yet another significant stride towards achieving self-reliance in energy generation, the State Government today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry for New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India for implementation of Solar Power Projects of the capacity of 7500 MWs. The signing of memorandum was …
Agriculture Minister S. Damodaran recently inaugurated a solar power generation unit at Thalakarai, near Pollachi. According to a release from the district administration, the Thalakarai Panchayat Union had spent Rs. 19.05 lakh to erect the solar power panels. The panchayat union had commissioned the unit in keeping with the Chief …
To slash coal imports for its 3000 Mw Kaniha plant NTPC, the country’s biggest power producerwould sell 10 Mw solar power to Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC).The solar power plant of 10 Mw capacity installed within thecomplex of NTPC’s 3000 Mw super thermal power station at Kaniha, near Talcher, ispoised for …
The Karnataka Government will come out with a solar energy policy soon, according to D K Shivkumar, Karnataka Power Minister. Addressing presspersons here on Sunday, he said the Government would encourage people to take up rooftop solar energy production under this policy. If they have excess power after generating power …
Cooking on open fires and kerosene lighting causes indoor air pollution, which is considered as one of the largest global public health issues More than 30million people would die from diseases caused by indoor smoke by 2030 in Bangladesh, said Veena Khaleque, country director of Practical Action, Bangladesh. Cooking on …
Durbarmarg in central Kathmandu has witnessed a metamorphosis as solar powered lamps have been installed. The joint effort of Kathmandu Metropolitan City and Durbarmarg Development Board (DDB) has proved of note. “The major work of construction has been completed, as the poles with twin lights have been planted,” said Bimal …
The 100MW Rajasthan Sun Technique CSP plant is not only the first linear Fresnel CSP plant in India and the largest in the world, it is also one of the cheapest large-scale CSP plants ever built. This case study finds that while Indian solar policy was essential to build this …
The years since the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was signed in 1992 have been marked by rising concern about the climate problem, given that emissions have continued to rise and atmospheric concentrations have continued to build up to a level where the likelihood of avoiding dangerous climate …
