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 …
Shillong: The traditional chiefs of Meghalaya have called upon Union Power minister, M Veerappa Moily, to accelerate the process of complete electrification in Meghalaya. In a memorandum submitted to the Union Power Minister during his visit to the city on Monday, the chairman of the traditional chiefs of Meghalaya, JF …
Surat: Surat could well become the first city in India to make solar water heating in all buildings, residential and commercial, mandatory. Earlier, this year, the Union urban development ministry had made it mandatory that civic bodies of all 58 cities identified to be made “solar cities” change their construction …
More and more of the capital’s best known monuments may now be illuminated through solar energy. Building on the experience gained over the last three years and keen on promoting the use of environment—friendly solar energy, the Delhi government plans to light up more of the capital’s historical sites through …
India may launch an anti-dumping investigation against solar panels made in China, after the US and Europe launched similar probes, the Guangzhou Daily reported on Monday. The Indian anti-dumping authority said that they have received an application from local companies, asking them to start investigating solar panels made in China, …
Tourism is a success in Kerala as it revolves around the region’s roots — its art forms, cuisine, ethnic products, martial art forms etc., Amitabh Kant, managing director and CEO of Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, who was formerly secretary of Kerala Tourism, said. At a session on tourism at the Emerging …
Supply issues comprise one part of the energy conundrum, as we discussed last fortnight. The cost of energy and our ability to pay for it is the other. The matter gets vexed because the rise in price of raw material of all energy sources is accompanied by huge inefficiency in …
Cost of solar power may equal to that of conventional energy by 2014: Study If India’s conventional power sector, particularly coal-based thermal power projects, has found itself squarely stuck under the long shadow of governmental inefficiencies and suspect allocation mechanisms, there is a drastically different story unfolding in the country’s …
Pilot Project To Be Taken Up In Cambay Surat: After wind and solar power, Gujarat is all set to tap another unconventional source of energy. The state government is planning to explore the feasibility of geothermal energy “We are meeting a delegation from Norwegian government to make a beginning of …
Agartala: To reduce dependency on conventional energy, the Tripura government Wednesday announced ambitious plans to make Agartala a ‘solar city’, replacing at least 10 percent of usual power use by solar energy. “Agartala city would be the first ‘solar city’ in northeast India within the next few years,” Tripura’s Urban …
The report presents a point of view on the Solar Energy sector in India. This report focuses on the solar cost trends and looks at segments of the market which are most suitable for adoption of solar power within the coming few years. Given the financial position of the power …
Ahmedabad: The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) is practising what it teaches—making the most of available resources. The premier institute may soon become an energy independent business school by using solar energy and other energy-efficient products. IIM-A alumnus Akshat Khare and his partner Dhaval Shah, a Nirma University graduate, …
REGIONAL leaders have agreed to cut tariffs on solar panels, wind turbine blades, solar hot water systems and other ''environmental goods'' in what has been hailed as a shift against protectionist sentiment after global financial turmoil. Meeting in the Russian port city of Vladivostok, the 21 leaders of the Asia-Pacific …
In an off-grid but interactive system, govt would provide feed-in tariff incentives for entrepreneurs to set up local solar energy systems Supply issues comprise one part of the energy conundrum I discussed in this column last fortnight. The cost of energy and our ability to pay for it is the …
Mumbai India needs to stem an influx of cheaper imports from China and ease taxes on locally made solar cells to boost domestic manufacturing, Tata Power Solar Systems’ newly appointed CEO Ajay Goel told FE in a telephonic interview on Wednesday. The government aims to turn India into a major …
Assembly committee reviews 50 petitions of 120 received As many as 1,440 solar-powered houses have been constructed in the district under the Chief Minister’s Green House programme, P. Mohan, Chief Whip of the government, and the chairman of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly Petitions Committee, said here on Wednesday. Talking …
Chief Minister Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that besides various concessions for generation of renewable energy in Madhya Pradesh, the State Government is giving other facilities including identifying sites for setting up units in this sector. He said that a new scheme has been chalked out in Madhya Pradesh …
The NSW government has promised to triple the amount of energy generated by wind turbines and solar panels in NSW over the next eight years, at no extra cost to the public. Its draft "renewable energy action" plan, released this morning, confirms its existing commitment to a 20 per cent …
China observers in Europe said that the opening of an anti-dumping investigation into Chinese solar panel exports by Brussels is "unfortunate, destructive and not smart" while urging Beijing to react reasonably to avoid an escalation. The experts said that they don't believe officials in Brussels "deliberately" announced the decision on …
Since it would take about five to six years to develop the projects The state grid network will add about 1,500 Mw from hydro power generating plants by 2020, said the water resources department."We have 10 projects under pipeline with a combined capacity close to 1,500 Mw and the DPRs …
The State government would extend the solar street light project to all parts of the State in the coming days, Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar said here on Monday. Mahesh, an exhibitor from Hubli, displays a solar lamp, at ‘Solarcon India 2012’ in the City on Monday. Speaking at the inauguration …
