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 NED University of Engineering and Technology will shortly launch a project approved under the annual development programme to become Pakistan’s first green campus. According to university officials, the government is likely to release funds for the Rs200 million Dr Ishratul Ibad Green Campus Initiative soon. “We’ve already got solar …
The Kerala government today appointed retired high court judge Justice G Sivarajan as the head of the Judicial Commission to probe the solar panel scam, after the high court refused to part with the services of a sitting judge. The high court informed the government that due to shortage of …
Tamil Nadu is hot for solar. Even before the state-mandated ‘solar purchase obligation’ has kicked-in, and before power purchase agreements are signed for a big bunch of projects, a number of solar projects are coming up in the State. Most of the investors are textile businessmen, who want to avail …
The first ever solar-powered irrigation plant became operational in a Khushpur village of Faisalabad on Wednesday. Ecologically friendly and running at no cost, the project has been supported by Canada’s Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development - Canada Fund for Local Initiatives through the Shahbaz Bhatti Memorial Trust for …
Dubai switched on its first solar plant and plans to build a second, bigger sun-powered one to diversify energy supply in the United Arab Emirates, an OPEC member with 6 percent of global oil reserves. The new 13-megawatt photovoltaic plant is the largest of its type in the Middle East …
BHUBANESWAR: Rooftop solar power plants will soon be mandatory for hotels and hospitals besides big residential and commercial buildings in city. The state government recently approved the revised draft amendment to Planning and Building Standards Regulations 2008, which makes solar energy compulsory for all such new constructions. According to the …
Over four years after the city was chosen to be turned into a 'model solar city', Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) is set to kick-off works, beginning with Rs 9.38 crore of total sanctioned plan of Rs 1,453.10 crore. Having decided to focus on this novel project, municipal commissioner Shyam Wardhane …
The policy will seek to tap 5MW of power each from the sun, wind, and biomass AREP 2013: The department of renewable energy (DRE) is in the process of drawing up guidelines and regulations to harness from renewable energy sources at least 25 megawatt (MW) of power by 2025. The …
Greenpeace India on Saturday laid the foundation for its revolutionary rural electrification micro-grid project at the Dharnai Village in Jahanabad district of Bihar. The model for this project will be based on an innovative smart solar based technology. Earlier on September 4, 2013, Greenpeace had announced the launch of this …
Cocking a snook at the US, which had objected to compulsory local sourcing conditions imposed in the first phase of India’s National Solar Mission, the country is all set to extend similar norms to the second phase as well. Domestic sourcing conditions would, however, be imposed on just 50 per …
The earth revolves around the sun, and so does the green-tech industry. Some of the earliest pioneers of solar energy started in Israel 30 years ago with the company Luz. Luz went on to become Luz II, then BrightSource, which is now a US-based solar power company about to flip …
Policy provides for subsidy in the form of viability gap funding Projects in batch 1, phase II of JNNSM will be supported with funds from the National Clean Energy Fund (Photo: Jonas Hamberg) The Centre has cleared the decks for setting up 750 MW grid-connected solar PV power projects under …
The Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Ltd. (KREDL) is considering the possibility of making solar energy available in remote hamlets at around 90 per cent subsidised rate. Disclosing this while addressing members of the Federation of Karnataka Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FKCCI) here, KREDL managing director G.V. Balaram said the …
The Centre may get tough on states which are not meeting the clean energy target. The Union ministry of new and renewable energy has written to the power ministry suggesting that it make it mandatory for states to fulfill their 'Renewable Purchase Obligation' (RPO) if they want to get central …
Author(s): Joel Kumar Uttarakhand gets applications for 65 per cent of its target in 15 days of launching scheme Applicants for rooftop solar projects are eligible for a subsidy of 30 per cent (Photo: Joel Kumar) UTTARAKHAND is exploring new strategies to make full use of the state’s solar energy …
The country needs a financial model that can give the poor access to expensive power We were standing in the only street of a small village called Mohda. Located in the forested region of Chhattisgarh, the village had no access to roads and markets. The women of the village surrounded …
A solar energy -based drinking water project has been brought into operation at Khumkhani of Halwar, the remotest village in Dang district. The project was constructed with the assistance from foreign organisations. According to Project Construction Committee Coordinator Fatte Bahadur Thapa, the construction of the project cost Rs. 12.5 million. …
Investment in clean technology for UK has risen to £1.6bn, but sector remains under pressure amid growing energy bills Installations of solar power in the UK are likely to top records this year, and could offset some of the expensive dependence on gas, research has found, but the global outlook …
The Communist Party of India (Marxist)-led Left Democratic Front had announced an indefinite siege of the Kerala state secretariat until the chiefminister owned responsibility for the "solar scam" and resigned. The calling off of this indefinitesiege within 30 hours raises a number of questions, including about the political conduct of …
The Punjab government has approved 36 development schemes of various development sectors during the current fiscal year 2013-14 with an estimated cost of Rs 27,771.083 million. An amount of Rs 8,430.215 million for road sector, Rs 241.882 million for energy sector, Rs 4,201.143 million for health sector, Rs 5,501.858 million …
