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 …
Australia will review its mandatory renewable energy target (RET), the government said Monday, sparking concerns among green groups that a weaker target could pave the way for new coal plants and increased pollution. The target to ensure Australia generates 20 percent of its electricity from renewable sources in 2020 has …
Interim Budget 2014-2015 - Speech of P. Chidambaram. In the speect he stated that "The Global Risks 2014 report has mapped 31 global risks. Of highest concern are ten risks that include fiscal crisis, structurally high unemployment or underemployment, income disparity, governance failure, food crisis, and political and social instability. …
The project aims for localization of Solar Energy through Local Assembly, Sale and Usage of 1 Million Solar Study Lamps” for empowering populations in underserved communities; through high-quality programs that meet their real need to improve the quality of their lives. IIT Bombay is partnering with remote rural organizations Maharashtra, …
The project aims for Installation of 23,500 nos. SPV power plants of 1 kWp capacity each for Domestic household in Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Tamilnadu, Chhattisgarh and other selected States. Limited availability of Grid power is the major factor in these States which makes SPV power as an alternative to …
Roof-Top, Pole-Mounted Units Planned In Attapadi Hamlet, Mananthavadi Estate The state electricity board has, in a first-of-its-kind endeavour suitable to Kerala, decided to roll out several pilot projects to track and test the potential of solar energy. The projects, set to begin in the current fiscal, include grid interactive solar …
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State eyeing 500 Mw of solar power by 2017 Power deficit Uttar Pradesh would soon get an investment of about Rs 880 crore in solar power projects totalling 110 Megawatt (Mw). UP is targetting 500 Mw of solar energy by 2017 under its Solar Power Policy 2013. Last year, the …
The investigation will seek to analyse India's Intellectual Property Rights regime from 2003 On a strong request from American legislators and business chambers, the US International Trade Commission (USITC) has initiated an investigation on Indian trade, investment and industrial policies, for which it began a two-day hearing on Wednesday. The …
Under the energy conservation mission, the government is taking steps to save at least 5 per cent power consumption by encouraging households to set up solar panels on rooftops The Andhra Pradesh government is aiming to generate 500 Mw power through solar energy. While AP Genco is setting up 100 …
Thursday, February 13, 2014 - Lahore—Punjab Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif has said that provincial government is setting up a solar power project at Quaid-i-Azam Solar Park with its own resources. He said that work on provision of necessary facilities in Quaid-i-Azam Solar Park is continuing round the clock. He …
Arguing that there were "huge differences" in the climatic conditions in the west and India, an environment ministry official on Tuesday said the country must not depend on developed nations for its environment-friendly measures. Hem Kumar Pande, IAS, additional secretary in the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF), urged the …
Industry says US violating norms The government on Tuesday said it hadn’t violated global trading norms under the World Trade Organization (WTO), even as the US filed a second case against India on the second phase of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM). In February 2013, the US had …
Responding to the United States’ fresh challenge over local-buying provisions in India’s national solar programme, New Delhi has said that its policy was compliant with World Trade Organisation rules. “Our current policy is WTO compliant. We will participate in the discussions sought by the US,” said Commerce Secretary Rajeev Kher …
India and the Netherlands on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in renewable energy. Under this agreement, an Indo-Dutch Joint Working Group will be set up and the exchange of technical and institutional knowledge on clean energy will be facilitated, the release said. Union Minister of New and …
THE United States Trade Representative (USTR) late on Monday said it would take India to the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) dispute resolution mechanism over the localisation thrust in India’s solar power policies, saying it could put American equipment makers at an unfair disadvantage. The USTR is the American counterpart to …
The United States plans to take India to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over subsidies New Delhi gives to its solar power industry, an Indian government source said on Monday, a step that could further strain relations between the countries. At the time of going to press, US Trade Representative …
Tata Power plans to keep up with its annual investment of Rs 1,500 crore in renewable energy, even as the company’s networth is being eroded by its flagship coal-based project in Mundra. “We have a lot of support from the board of directors when it comes to our renewable energy …
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The United States plans to take India to the World Trade Organisation over the subsidies it gives to its solar power industry, an Indian government source said on Monday, a step that could further strain relations between the countries. There was no immediate comment from U.S. …
At a time when Union minister for new and renewable energy Farooq Abdullah is contemplating to ask World Bank for an assistance of $500 million for the first phase of Sambhar ultra-mega solar power project, chief minister Vasundhara Raje has expressed serious reservation and concerns about the project. Abdullah, in …
Chulhas - cook stoves of poor women who collect sticks, twigs, leaves and every other biomass material they can find to cook meals - are today at the centre of failing international action. The concern is that women are breathing toxic emissions from the stove and that these same emissions …
