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 …
Energy generated by using wind, solar, small hydro, tides, geothermal heat and biomass is known a non-conventional energy. All these sources are renewable process of energy generation and do not cause environmental pollution. Standing Committee on Energy present this Twenty-nineth report on "Availability of Identified Non-conventional Resources of Energy – …
Chief Minister announces measures to tide over crisis Faced with flak from all quarters over the government’s handling of the energy crisis, Chief Minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy on Wednesday said that the State had sought an additional 500 MW of power from the central power generation stations in the …
Shillong: The North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) is planning to set up a solar power plant within its campus during the current 12th Five-Year Plan period to meet the growing power requirement. Informing this here on Tuesday, NEHU Vice-Chancellor Prof AN Rai said the Central University has proposed an investment …
China’s solar panel manufacturers, who dominate global sales with a two-thirds market share, are confronting growing trade and financial problems, a Chinese industry official acknowledged Tuesday, shortly before one of the industry’s largest companies, Trina Solar, announced weak results for the second quarter. The Chinese manufacturers “face challenges of decreasing …
A new Greenpeace India campaign is gearing up to take on the Indian coal industry, coal ministry and even the Prime Minister. The environmental action group is determined to create awareness about how coal mining in Central India destroys forests, forest dependent communities, endangered tigers and other wildlife. Of course, …
New Delhi US-based First Solar, which has mainly operated as a project contractor in Indian solar power market so far, is now looking at a second business model based on development of solar power plants for subsequent sale to an equity investor or an independent power producer (IPP). The world’s …
Arunachal Pradesh Chief Minister Nabam Tuki on Monday emphasised on chalking out mechanism to tap the massive potential of renewable energy in the state. "Our hill locks, mountains and river banks has enormous potential for developing wind energy which if rightly harnessed can generate good revenue," Tuki said while delivering …
Shimla: The government will provide 4,337 solar lanterns to nomadic shepherds who keep moving around the state for grazing their sheep. Stating this after flagging off the Akshay Urja Rally, organised to mark the birth anniversary of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi here today, Chief Minister PK Dhumal said a …
ITANAGAR: The Arunachal Pradesh government will chalk out mechanism to tap the massive potential of renewable energy in the State. “Our hill locks, mountains and river banks has enormous potential for developing wind energy which if rightly harnessed can generate good revenue,” Chief Minister Nabam Tuki today said while delivering …
States will now be able to buy renewable energy certificates (RECs) to make up for a portion of their mandatory renewable energy purchases from entrepreneurs who produce power and operate in rural areas. In a recent move, the Forum of Regulators (FoR), a statutory body of electricity regulators, has approved …
Funding offers at low rates by the United States will ruin the domestic solar photo-voltaic (PV) manufacturing industry, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has said. The US Exim Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) are offering loans at about three per cent interest rates to Indian …
The area around forests has had several human-animal conflicts Solar fences will henceforth secure human settlements and farmlands in the three forest divisions of Wayanad from wild animal raids that have lead to several man-animal conflicts in recent years. Solar fences will be installed along a length of 300 km …
A grid-connected system linking rooftop solar panels across the State could drive down the cost of generating solar power and provide the basis of a sustainable energy system for Kerala, noted social and environmental activist and the former director of the Agency for Non-conventional Energy and Rural Technology (ANERT) R.V.G. …
AUSTRALIANS put more household solar panel systems on their roofs than anyone else in the world last year, new data from the Clean Energy Regulator and the International Energy Agency show. The statistic astonished many in the solar industry, given Australia's small population compared with renewable energy market leaders such …
The Cabinet approved guidelines Friday for drafting the fiscal 2013 budget, emphasizing financing for an economic growth strategy and the development of renewable energy resources. The guidelines also stress that the government will maintain fiscal discipline, maintaining the current fiscal year's ¥71 trillion cap on major policy spending and ¥44 …
China cut its energy usage by 2.01 percent last year to 0.79 tons of standard coal equivalent for every 10,000 yuan ($1,570) of China's GDP, according to government data issued Thursday. Beijing posted the greatest decline, dropping its energy use by 6.94 percent to 0.45 tons of standard coal equivalent …
Bill Gates has awarded Loughborough University $60,000 for developing a toilet that produces biological charcoal, minerals and clean water. The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation set up a competition called 'Reinvent the Toilet Challenge' asking universities to develop innovative ways to manage human waste. The challenge, announced last year, was …
Read this Press Release by CSE on issue of utilization of climate finance by United States to kill the Indian solar panel industry. Currently, 80 per cent of the Indian manufacturing capacity is in a state of forced closure and debt restructuring with no orders coming to them, while the …
Going solar is no longer a bright idea for the four-decade-old photovoltaic manufacturing industry. This high-potential renewable energy sector has suffered a serious setback in India as much as across the globe. And the alarm bells are ringing loud. In the 1970s, public sector companies Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited and …
New Delhi Nearly half of the 1,000-Mw capacity addition envisaged under the first phase of the national solar mission is likely to miss the commissioning schedule, with technical and equipment availability issues hampering progress in project execution. Developers are required to commission these projects by May next as per the …
