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 …
MUMBAI: Tata Power BSE -1.13 % is in early-stage talks with IDFCBSE -1.87 % Private Equity Fund-owned Green Infra Ltd to merge the renewable energy assets of both companies, a person with direct knowledge of the development said. The transaction, if consummated, will create India's largest renewable power producer. IDFC …
A surge in hydro power and further inroads from other renewable energy sources is contributing to a drop in carbon emissions from the electricity sector, according to Pitt & Sherry research. Annualised output from Hydro Tasmania is now at its highest since Tasmania joined the National Electricity Market (NEM) in …
How will solar energy be made to work in India? As I discussed in my previous article, there are three key challenges. One, how will the country pay for solar energy in a situation where there is no money to pay for even the crashing costs of installation? Two, what …
Reliance Industries chairman Mukesh Ambani, owner of world's largest oil refinery, on Sunday said solar power will be at the core of the shift in future source of energy needs — from hydrocarbons to renewables. "We will transit from hydrocarbon presence which is coal, oil and natural gas over the …
Industry claims vested interests are likely to take advantage of lax bidding rules for 1,000 MW solar power The recent bidding guidelines launched by the Andhra Pradesh government for 1,000 MW of solar power projects, leave enough room for corruption. It’s been less than a month since the document has …
US charges that India’s National Solar Mission is discriminating against foreign solar companies Hogwash, we say. The US has been dumping subsidised solar power panels in India. It is browbeating India to further the interests of its own solar companies. It is US which should be made answerable at the …
Government has made half-baked efforts to promote solar pumps, a cost-effective irrigation tool “Peter takes away all our money,” say farmers in Bihar, bristling with anger. They want to get rid of Peter but can’t. Peter is the diesel pump used widely in the state for irrigation due to power …
New Delhi: It will take at least another 28 months before the under-recoveries on account of sale of diesel can be eliminated. Addressing the India Energy Congress on Thursday, Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia said: “Diesel is on a progressive elimination of subsidies and by mid-2015, present under …
With conventional sources of electricity likely to get scarcer and more expensive in the coming years, the Delhi government is weighing the option of generating more solar power in the near future. "The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission (DERC) had issued an advisory to the government for generating solar power. We …
Americans are increasingly convinced that the planet's climate is changing and show more support for regulating greenhouse gas emissions, finds a Duke University online survey released Thursday. The share of Americans who say climate change is occurring — 50% say definitely and 34% say probably — has rebounded, reaching what …
The United States on Wednesday filed a challenge with the World Trade Organization over elements of India's national solar program, which it said discriminates against foreign solar products in violation of a core global trade rule. The case comes as a number of governments, including the United States, are supporting …
'It is an attempt to browbeat India and further the interest of US solar companies' The US has challenged India's solar energy policy before the World Trade Organisation (WTO), saying it favours domestic sourcing of solar panels. The challenge, filed on February 6, says the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission …
The Kochi Corporation will soon entrust an agency with the preparation of the detailed project report (DPR) for the Solar City project which aims at making Kochi the first solar city in the state. The civic body had already invited an Expression of Interest (EoI) from the agencies that will …
SHRAVASTI: To adress man-animal conflict along the Indo-Nepal border, the area will be equipped with solar fencing and thorny wires at the cost of Rs 8 crores. Till now, the efforts to stop such conflicts is a failure. The difference between the population and the forest could not be widened …
As part of its corporate makeover agenda, the Rs 7,000-crore Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) is considering a handholding relationship with the World Bank. DVC is currently a statutory organisation jointly held by West Bengal, Jharkhand and the Union Government by virtue of the DVC Act, 1948. Apart from its chain …
THE new head of Australia's solar thermal research effort says the cost of generating solar thermal electricity can be halved by 2020, placing it on course to match the renewable energy contribution from solar photovoltaic technologies. Manuel Blanco, an international specialist in solar energy, started on Monday as director of …
The Solar Independent Power Producers Association (SIPPA) has petitioned the Government not to go ahead with imposition of anti-dumping duty on Solar PV modules in the larger interest of the country and instead put in place a long-term policy to ensure best outcomes for the solar industry. In a representation …
Tamil Nadu is facing an acute power crisis today and this is an opportunity for rural people to turn to solar energy to tide over the crisis, said Dr Rajendra K Pachauri, Director General, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Chairperson, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Addressing an …
Spain took steps on Friday to cap the government's growing debt to the energy sector, including ending a link between power tariffs and the consumer price index and restricting pricing options for renewable firms. The overhaul will save the power sector 600 million to 800 million euros ($821.8 million-$1.1 billion) …
Extension of rooftop solar power scheme to 10,000 households will mark the beginning of a new era of participatory power generation in the State, Governor H.R. Bhardwaj has said. Adequate supply of power is a sine qua non for the economic development of the State, he said in his customary …
