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 …
Pakistan has achieved a big breakthrough in private sector against prevailing energy crisis by successfully installing fully indigenous 100KW On-Grid Micro Solar Power Plant in Haripur, KPK. Giving details of the locally made solar power plant, the CEO of TESLA Technologies Pakistan Aamir Hussain, a nuclear physics scholar, informed that …
A new environment minister who advised David Cameron on energy has suggested subsidies for wind and solar power are "still too high", amid growing speculation the Tories are planning an assault against green costs on energy bills. George Eustice, who had an energy brief on Cameron's policy board until this …
The government will set up wind and solar farms in Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu in the first phase of the . 43,000-crore green energy corridors project that aims to add 30,000 mw to the national grid by 2020. The first phase of the Indo-German project is expected to cost . …
The government has decided to formulate a Solar Energy Policy to facilitate speedy harnessing of the solar power potential and help the state meet the mandatory renewable power purchase obligation. The state has so far not made any headway in the solar power sector and as a result the electricity …
The government has drawn up a plan to set up solar power plants in major office complexes and police stations and install solar lights. Giving this information here today, Power Minister Sujan Singh Pathania said Himurja would set up 4-kw solar power plants at all the district Secretariats and 2-kw …
Environment and forests minister Hasan Mahmud on Sunday slammed Transparency International, Bangladesh for its recent investigation report on the government’s climate change trust fund utilisation. He termed the report ‘a fancied, wrong one prepared without any study’ while addressing at a roundtable on ‘Narrowing the demand-supply gap with commercial biogas …
Environment and Forest Minister Dr. Hasan Mahmud said the government plans to meet 10 per cent of total electricity demand of the country from renewable sources. "The government is ready to extend all-out support for renewable and sustainable energy. We have plans to meet 10 per cent of our total …
State govt plans to dig the land through MGNREGA scheme Assam government today said it plans to give solar fencing in Kaziranga National Park (KNP) to protect the wildlife from poachers. "We want to give solar fencing to protect the wildlife. We are planning to dig the land through MGNREGA …
The total viability gap funding requirement for the scheme works out to Rs 1,875 cr The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved the setting up of a 750-Megawatt (Mw) power generation capacity under the initial leg of the second phase of the National Solar Mission under implementation. The projects would be …
The Punjab government on Thursday approved four development schemes in Energy Sector, Urban Development and District Program Sectors with an estimated cost of Rs. 3360.921 million. These schemes were approved in the 11th meeting of Provincial Development working party of current fiscal year 2013-14 presided over by the Punjab Planning …
Could Ikea's panels package help to lift gloom in the domestic solar market? We look at what's on offer Ikea is shining a fresh light on the UK's domestic solar panel market, offering customers a fully installed, decent-sized system for £5,700. Following a successful pilot project at its Lakeside store …
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs has approved the implementation of scheme for setting up 750-MW grid-connected solar power projects under the second phase of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission. This would be facilitated through viability gap funding (VGF), which would be funded from the National Clean Energy Fund. …
Lack of clarity on domestic content and procedural hitches delayed the launch by over six months State-of-the-art manufacturing unit of Indian solar manufacturing company, Indosolar, under forced closure. Indian manufacturers bled profusely because of solar mission phase one policy which allowed import of thinfilm technology from abroad and mandated domestic …
The scope of these guidelines is to select 750 MW grid connected solar power projects and provide the necessary policy framework for development of projects under the “Viability Gap Funding scheme for 750 MW of Phase II Batch-I of the JNNSM”. The objectives of these guidelines are: To enable scaling …
Powerloom weavers in Somanur and nearby areas are exploring options that will give them financial support to go in for solar energy. P. Kumarasamy, secretary of the Coimbatore District Job Working Powerloom Unit Owners’ Association, told The Hindu on Wednesday that just a handful of powerloom weavers in the district …
A Rs 95-crore international exhibition-cum-convention centre, a Rs 3-crore laser project, Rs 70-lakh solar power station top the list of the development initiatives of Greater Cochin Development Authority (GCDA). The 60-kw solar power station set up at its headquarters in Kadavantra will be commissioned by Minister for Transport and Electricity …
Breaking the ground in Green Energy Efficient Solutions in heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) industry of Pakistan, first solar-powered AC systems with up to 80 percent energy savings have been launched in Pakistan by the Extreme Engineering Solutions (EES) Pvt Ltd, a cutting edge engineering solutions company of the country. …
Consumption of fuelwood in Bhutan, which is one of the highest in the world, according to energy officials, could drop in the coming years, going by the decreasing trend in supply that has been visible in the recent years. Department of energy’s last finding in 2005 showed that the per …
This 23rd edition of the Survey of Energy Resources published by World Energy Council covers all fossil resources (coal, oil, both conventional and unconventional and gas, both conventional and unconventional), and the main renewable and transitional resources: peat, nuclear and uranium, hydro power, biofuels and waste, wind, solar, geothermal and …
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just said that humans are the largest contributors to climate change. Developing nations have for long been accused of emitting greenhouse gases, and with this, pressure on India to reduce emissions is going to mount further. But the country is, in a small …
