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 US is consuming energy considerably more efficiently and with lower emissions than just five years ago thanks to a slew of modern technologies that are changing decades-old patterns, research firm Bloomberg New Energy Finance and industry group the Business Council for Sustainable Energy find in a new report. The …
Tata Power Company Ltd has said it has registered its 25 MW project at Mithapur, Gujarat, with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This will allow the company to trade the certified emission reductions (CERs) it will earn from the renewable energy project. GHG abatement Tata Power …
Korea International Cooperation Agency (Koica) has installed 20 solar powered irrigation pumps and 1,250 solar home systems for poor farmers and villagers at Modonhati in Rajshahi. Rajshahi City Corporation Mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton and Korean Ambassador to Bangladesh Lee Yun-young formally inaugurated the project on Monday. Koica initiated the project …
The Nepal Electricity Authority does have the opportunity to make hay while the sun shines, but it has to encourage the Valley denizens to harness solar energy, according to experts. They say rooftops of the city receive enough sunshine — almost 10 hours a day even during the winter — …
The corporation has decided to call for tenders to this effect In spite of not being able to resolve the tangle over the termination of contract for its energy saving plan for streetlights, GVMC is now toying with the idea of turning to LED lighting or solar lighting. For nearly …
As part of a project to tackle man-animal conflict in the North Wayanad forest division, villages bordering the forests in the Thirunelly grama panchayat limits have been ringed with a 34-km solar fence to stave off raids by wild animals. The Kerala Forest Development Corporation has installed the fence for …
TPS-II Expansion at Neyveli and coal-based power plant at Tuticorin expected to commence operations in 2013-14 Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) is planning to increase its power generation capacity to 4,240 MW with TPS-II Expansion (500MW) at Neyveli and a coal-based power plant of 1,000 MW at (NTPL), Tuticorin expected to …
IKEA has produced the equivalent of 34% of the company's total energy used in its buildings through renewable energy. In its sustainability report for 2012, the company says it is committed to investing €1.5bn (£1.3m) in renewable energy by 2015, adding that at the end of the year 250,000 solar …
Would develop solar power kits for residential as well as industrial segments Solar PV modules manufacturer, Shan Solar has announced its foray into the roof-top systems. The Bangalore- headquartered company which has its production facility in Chitoor District of Andhra Pradesh said it would develop solar power kits for the …
Grid-based solar power only reaches only households that are connected to energy supply, and simply subsidises costly solar for an already-reached population India’s solar power policy is now entering round two. Much needs to be reviewed and reworked, since the business of solar energy has seen massive turbulence in India …
The government has begun preparations to install a 5 MW solar power plant at its central secretariat in Singhadurbar. The plant is being installed to supply power to all offices inside Singhadurbar and some other government offices within the periphery. An official at the Ministry of Energy (MoE) said that …
The Government of the Republic of Maldives has been planning to transform the electricity sector in Maldives through private sector investments based on programmes on developing renewable energy on a large scale. The Ministry of Environment and Energy has initiated the “Solar Maldives” project based on the programmes to install …
The Government of the Republic of Maldives has been planning to transform the electricity sector in Maldives through private sector investments based on programmes on developing renewable energy on a large scale. The Ministry of Environment and Energy has initiated the “Solar Maldives” project based on the programmes to install …
Nuclear energy throughout the world is nearing irrelevance, says John Byrne, Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CEEP) and distinguished Professor of the University of Delaware, U.S. He has contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1992 and shares the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize …
The Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) has said that it does not intend to purchase solar power from private, small-scale generators in the City, on the ground that it is not cost effective. The State-owned company has virtually shut its doors on many private generators, including several entrepreneurs using solar …
If extreme climatic events occurred, the worst afflicted would be some of the poorest societies on earth. This was the crux of a lecture delivered by Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman, Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and head of The Energy and Resources Institute. Mr. Pachauri who was in the …
The Tamil Nadu Solar Energy Policy envisaged the State to have 3,000 MW solar energy generation by 2015. The policy has given a boost to the sector in the State, said Sudeep Jain, Chairman and Managing Director of Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA). The Coimbatore District Small Industries Association …
BANGALORE: Harish Hande is in the business of spreading sunshine. When he set up his company in 1995, he wanted to dispel the myth that the poor cannot afford sustainable technologies and that social ventures cannot be run as commercial entities. Selco Solar shows it can be done. For 17 …
Aeon Renewable Energy Solution, a newly-launched solar energy firm of Chennai-based Madurai Appu Chain of restaurants, plans to invest Rs 250 crore over the next three years on setting up 25 megawatt (Mw) of solar power generation capacity in Tamil Nadu. The company is planning to establish its presence in …
Pune: A 150 MW solar power plant will be commissioned in the state by end of March this year. The Rs 1,600 crore plant is coming up near Nizampur village in Dhule district, around 330 km from here. Dhule, in north Maharashtra, is known for dry land, bright sunlight and …
