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 …
Pune:The Union ministry for new and renewable energy resources (MNRE) will set up 66 data monitoring stations in high solar power generation areas in the country. The monitoring stations will provide data on solar intensity which will help power companies to design their projects. Speaking to TOI, Ashvini Kumar, director …
Wants Waste Plant To Go, Pledges Terraces For Solar Panels New Delhi: Residents of Sukhdev Vihar’s Pocket B have embarked on a unique mode of protest against the government’s waste-to-energy plant in the area. They have pledged their rooftops for solar panels to increase the city’s renewable energy supply so …
Greenpeace organised a renewable energy community fair ‘Switch on the Sun’ in association with the Sukhdev Vihar (Pocket B) Residents’ Welfare Association here on Sunday to address the energy crisis in Delhi. The NGO slammed the Delhi Government for not developing alternative sources of energy. “Delhi has more than 320 …
Investments of Rs. 1,240 crore are likely Southern districts will take the lion’s share of new solar power plants to be set up under the State’s Solar Energy Policy. Of the plants approved for 209 megawatt (MW), the south will have 155 MW, of which Ramanathapuram district alone accounts for …
After making rain water harvesting a mass movement, the state government is now working towards a mass revolution in generating solar power from the rooftops, according to chairman and managing director of Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency, Sudeep Jain Hit hard by a power crisis, the state is focusing on …
Aiming to tackle the impending power crisis in summer, the state government today announced 40 per cent subsidy on purchase of solar pumps to encourage farmers for using these pumps for irrigation. A government spokesperson said the Chief Minister, Parkash Singh Badal, had sanctioned Rs 5 crore for providing the …
The country is going to celebrate installation of two million solar home systems (SHS) and also launch one million echo-friendly improved cooking stoves on Sunday. State-owned Infrastructure Development Company Ltd (IDCOL), a non-banking financial institution under the Economic Relations Division (ERD) of the Finance Ministry, has installed the solar home …
Shares of German panel-makers zoom, Beijing calls for dialogue The European Commission agreed to impose punitive import duties on solar panels from China in a move to guard against what it sees as dumping of cheap goods in Europe, prompting a cautious response from Beijing which called for further dialogue. …
Rajasthan is set to play a major role in solar and renewable energy, according to its Governor Margaret Alva. “Energy is the key to progress. At the same time, it is a big challenge too. Rajasthan is a national leader in solar energy and under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar …
BHOPAL: Striving for a place under the sun - Madhya Pradesh could outdo other states in renewable energy sector, government officials claimed on Thursday. The state hopes to increase renewal energy production from current levels of 499 MW to 3.3 GW by June 2015. Addressing a conference on 'investment opportunities …
The Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) is set to become the first Public Sector Unit (PSU) in the state to function fully on solar energy. It has begun to harness solar power by installing an offgrid solar photo voltaic (SPV) system. At the installation of SPV system at the …
Execution of six mini hydel power projects is expected to complete by the end of 2014, while work allotment for the other four has been completed after the tendering procedure. This was apprised in a review meeting by Ladakh Renewable Energy Development Agency (LREDA) project director Jigmat Takpa. The meeting …
The State Government should allot land in the new industrial estates proposed to be launched in the southern districts for solar power generation, according to the Tamil Nadu Electricity Consumers Association (TECA), Coimbatore. It has also hailed the move for an industrial estate to manufacture solar power panels in Tirunelveli …
The Exim Bank today said it has signed an agreement for a 20-year €150 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to support projects that contribute to climate change mitigation. The borrowings under the facility will enable Exim Bank to lend for energy projects, notably wind, solar photovoltaic, concentrated …
A private non-conventional power producer has won the contract to set up a 60MW solar power plant in Tamil Nadu. Welspun Energy, which got the confirmation letter from the government for setting up the plant on Monday, has shortlisted two districts in the state. "We will finalise the location next …
The state government has initiated the privatization of power distribution network in 12 cities and awarded the contract for Bhagalpur and Muzaffarpur. State energy secretary Sandeep Poundrik made this announcement here on Wednesday at the daylong conference on 'Powering Bihar: approaches to distribution reforms'. The conference was organized by the …
This documents is prepared based on draft guide lines issued by MNRE for selection of 750 MW New grid connected Solar Power projects Under JNNSM Phase-II, Batch-I and may undergo changes.
CEC LAHDC Rigzin Spalbar today convened a meeting to review the implementation and progress of hydro and solar power plants undertaken by LREDA. The meeting was attended by all the ECs, Councilors, Jigmet Takpa, Project Director, LREDA and team of engineers of LREDA. Takpa gave a presentation of the total …
Kochi: Kochi corporation has decided to appoint International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) to prepare a detailed project report (DPR) for executing the solar city project. The local body has informed that it will hold preliminary discussions with ICLEI representatives in a month. The aim of the project is …
The Union ministry of new and renewable energy has approved a Rs 1028.47-crore master plan submitted to it by the Guwahati Municipal Corporation (GMC) to make Guwahati a solar city. A senior GMC official said the ministry recently approved the master plan of the solar city project, which was submitted …
