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 …
Kohima: Nagaland is fast advancing with the New Renewable Energy and introduced a 50 Kilo Watt (KW) of energy capacity Photovoltaic (PV) Solar Power Plant the Nagaland Bamboo Resource Centre (NBRC) in Dimapur, which acquired as an answer to the frequent power shortages that hinders the smooth operation of the …
The District Rural Development Agency should evolve and implement a uniform procedure for setting up solar power units, with a view to achieving the State government’s objective of supplementing the growing demand for energy, said a cross section of councillors at the District Panchayat Council meeting held here on Friday. …
The European Union launched an investigation on Thursday into alleged state subsidies for Chinese solar panel manufacturers, intensifying a trade war between the two centred on the multi-billion dollar solar power market. The EU’s executive body is already studying Chinese dumping of solar panels, or deliberately selling products for less …
Germany will provide 10.97 million euros (equivalent to Tk 111.37 crore) to Bangladesh as climate change fund for cyclone affected people in the coastal areas particularly in Barguna and Patuakhali districts. The fund will be utilised for construction of solar-powered cyclone centres, installation of solar-irrigation pumps and development of other …
German solar power generation increased 50% in the first nine months of 2012, compared with the same period in 2011, helping to push total renewable energy supply to over one-quarter of total power production. According to the latest figures from the Federal Association of the Energy and Water Industry (BDEW), …
Coimbatore Amrita Vidyalayam students conduct survey on solar power generation Every household can generate the power it needs and also a little more, if only it were to install solar panels on the roof. “Our study reveals that a household will be able to not only meet its average requirement …
The Punjab government has decided to explore the possibility of developing solar power clusters to energize agri-pumps in rural areas besides setting up of solar panels on canals and roof tops of big buildings. Presiding over a meeting, the Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal pointed out that the state …
Solar bicycle is the need of the hour since it is less polluting and will save fuel, says Shyam Kumar S, technical director, Innovation Experience, a Thiruvananthapuram-based non-profit organisation. In a major initiative the organisation has developed two solar bicycles at a cost of Rs 40,000 each, these are now …
Top 50 corporate and industrial majors and most of the electricity generation and distribution companies in the country belonging to various state governments may face punitive action for not meeting the solar power generation targets mandated under the renewable purchase obligations (RPO). According to the RPOs, every company generating, consuming …
Will invest Rs 1,000 crore for the proj, which is to be commenced in 2015 Welspun Energy today said it will invest Rs 1,000 crore in setting up a 100 MW solar power project in Chhattisgarh. Welspun Renewables Energy Ltd (WREL), a subsidiary of Welspun Energy, has inked an MoU …
Spanish engineering and renewables major Gestamp intends to put up a 100 MW solar photovoltaic project in Tamil Nadu, but in phases. Southern Solar Pvt Ltd, a joint venture of Gestamp and Chennai-based Zynergy group, will put up the first 25 MW by March. Gestamp has 70 per cent stake …
The rising cost of conventional power, largely driven by increasing raw material exports and the growing cost of putting up green-field facilities coupled with the steady decline in solar power costs could result in solar projects reaching grid parity by 2014, a new study by KPMG India has suggested. Grid …
Tamil Nadu Chamber of Commerce and Industry has welcomed the new Solar Energy Policy 2012, which targets generation of 3,000 MW through solar power by 2017 by mandating large power consumers to buy 6 per cent of their power needs from solar energy producers. In a statement, chamber senior president …
Ahmedabad: The Gujarat Solar Park project inaugurated with much fanfare in Charanka village of Patan district recently has courted controversy. The Gujarat high court on Thursday sought explanation from the state authorities over allegations of huge irregularities in land acquisition process for the project. Petitioner Farsubhai Goklani filed a PIL …
China said on Thursday that it would launch anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations into imported European Union solar-grade polysilicon, in the latest instance of tit-for-tat trade tensions in the global solar industry. The move comes as the EU's executive body mulls duties targeting Chinese solar producers, a probe launched in September …
The TN govt has announced its new Solar Energy Policy, which envisages generation of around 3,000 Mw of solar power within 2015 Nissan Automotive India Pvt Ltd and Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt Ltd have said they planned to use solar energy to power some of their requirements in future. …
Power from renewable sources could emerge as a mainstream source of energy if backed by right policies and initiatives, leaders of the wind energy sector said while announcing details of the forthcoming ‘Wind Power India 2012’ international conference and exhibition. New estimates Led by WPI-2012 organising committee chairperson V. Subramanian, …
A renewal energy company, OMC Power, is lighting up rural parts of Uttar Pradesh, delivering solar-charged batteries to homes in an out-of-the-box move that promises cheap and uninterrupted power supply. A startup company floated a year ago by three former employees of Ericsson, is supplying electricity to about 3,000 households …
Butwal municipality has successfully launched the first solar energy street light project in the country. The solar energy street light had started the project at Amarpath, Rammandir Line, Traffic Chowk and Durga Line in Butwal three years ago with assistance from Public Private Cooperation Programme for Urban Environment. Consumers’ Committee …
China launched anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations into imports of solar-grade polysilicon from the European Union, the Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday. Solar-grade polysilicon is one of the main materials in solar panels. The investigations will be combined into the ongoing probes into imports of the same product from the …
