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 …
From its inception in July 2010, the National Clean Energy Fund (NCEF) has collected revenues to the tune of Rs 1,066 crore in FY 2010-11, an estimated Rs 3,249 crore in FY 2011-12, and is expected to generate a further Rs 3,864 crore in FY 2012-13. However, little is known …
This study by the Centre for Development Finance, IFMR & IIT Madras evaluates the design of the eight climate missions as developed by individual ministries using the principles laid out in the National Action Plan on Climate Change. A new study, An Evaluation of India’s National Action Plan on Climate …
This new report by Power Grid Corporation of India, covers various studies on transmission infrastructure requirement and other related services for integration of large scale envisaged renewable capacity in 12th Plan. India has huge potential of Renewable Energy (RE) resources such as wind, solar, hydro etc. Most of the renewable …
Arduous & Lengthy Process To Obtain Admin Permission Jaisalmer: Wind and solar power producing companies in the districts of Jaisalmer, Barmer and Bikaner are staring at the bleak prospects of projects getting delayed as they cannot deploy labourers owing to an existing ban on outsiders entering these border areas for …
UNNAO: Here is an apt example of government setting up infrastructure, which is eventually rendered as useless. Sample this: Khursat village, located around 30 kilometres from Unnao got an over head tank installed to provide water to the parched villagers some 20 years ago. However, the tank never got operational …
As many as 35 houses in Ayyanadaipu village in Thoothukudi district have started receiving renewable enery with the installation of a 240W DC solar power plant. Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA), in association with Minda NexGenTech Ltd, a private company with an objective to promote the use of new …
Buksh Foundation and The Energy and Research Institute (TERI India) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for ‘Lighting a Million Lives’ project. The project aims to give energy impoverished communities across the country access to clean and reliable sources of lighting through solar technologies to improve their quality of …
This Presentation on "Facing the Sun: Policy for sustainable grid-connected solar energy" was delivered by Jonas Hamberg, Centre for Science and Environment, during the round table on solar energy policy, on 29 June 2012, organised by CSE in New Delhi, describing briefly the findings of the report on the same …
Earlier this year, Sunil Kadam, 38, a sugarcane farmer from Kolhapur, went to Europe, where he visited dairies and cheese processing units in Amsterdam, saw greenhouses being run on solar energy in Germany and learnt more about mixed farming. A couple of months later, Kadam started a dairy unit to …
Germany's Environment minister said the state will help set the ground rules for the country's shift to more renewable power resources but will leave the details of how to implement it to market forces. Speaking at a power conference in Berlin on Wednesday, Peter Altmaier told the meeting that the …
‘The concept of alternative energy is just catching on’ It is not just industries here that are going in for renewable sources, such as wind power, to meet their energy needs. Some of the retail outlets have also started exploring the green energy options. Recently, Chennai Silks installed a stand-alone, …
Jaipur:Riding on the crash in photo voltaic (PV) panel prices, the solar power sector in India had a dream run last year with capacity ballooning to 940MW in 2011-12 from a paltry 20MW in 2010-11. That’s just statistics. What’s significant and not borne out by these statistics is the fact …
The coaches of Kalka-Shimla toy train — the Himalayan Queen — have been fitted with solar power system with the aim of harnessing green energy and reducing carbon emission. It is the first train in the country to have all its coaches solar-powered. The experiment will earn carbon credit for …
The coaches of Kalka-Shimla toy train — the Himalayan Queen — have been converted to solar- based power system with the aim of harnessing green energy and reducing carbon emission. It is the first train in the country to have all its coaches solar powered. The experiment will earn carbon …
Tens of thousands of people will soon gather in Rio de Janeiro for the United Nations Earth Summit. Participants, ranging from weary politicians to enthusiastic campaigners, are supposed to reignite global concern for the environment. Unfortunately, the summit is likely to be a wasted opportunity. The UN is showcasing the …
Vadodara/Anand: It’s like a sunflower that follows the sun as it moves around the sky each day. Researchers at Sardar Patel University (SPU) have designed, developed and implemented an automated dual axis solar tracker system, which works on sunflower motion for a solar power plant. And the country’s first indigenously …
KOLKATA, 15 JUNE: A Kolkata engineer has designed a cycle-rickshaw that uses passenger load to push the vehicle and reduces the puller's drudgery by using bumps on the road for propulsion. Mr Pratik Kumar Ghosh's wonder vehicle, which promises to improve the lives of thousands of rickshaw pullers, is easy …
Buildings are experimenting with alternative energy with small wind turbines on rooftops In the last few weeks, the city has had a respite from its daily burden of two-hour power cuts — wind energy has helped reduce load shedding to one hour a day. Thanks to the huge wind turbines …
Despite leading in some aspects of green technology, such as solar and wind power, China still faces a fight to reduce its level of emissions. China considers ways of reducing emissions Twenty six newly wed couples held a group wedding on the first day of 2012 in Zhanjiang, Guangdong province, …
