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 …
But a workshop on equity at the climate inter-sessional refused to move beyond well-embedded party demarcations. It was India, which at last year’s climate negotiations at Durban had insisted on bringing the principle of equity back into the agenda for tackling climate change. The concept, which not so long ago …
The April 28, 2012, issue of The Economist has a story on India’s solar power and mentions Charanka village in Patan district, Gujarat. Solar energy can be converted into electricity, using photovoltaics, or can be converted into heat. (There are other technologies too, but those aren’t important yet.) So far, …
The 200 MW solar programme of the state of Rajasthan has been indefinitely postponed. On Thursday, the Rajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation put up a circular on its website, which read: “Last date of receiving of bids (RfS) for all the three RfS/PV 10/RREC/6 for Solar PV projects, RfS/Thermal 50/RREC/7 for …
Lowering your carbon footprint and reducing greenhouse gasses may become as simple as painting your home or office, thanks to breakthrough research from the University of Notre Dame. The researchers, led by Professor Prashant Kamat, have created a new solar paint dubbed Sun-believable, which is laced with power producing nanoparticles …
The United States on Thursday announced the imposition of antidumping tariffs of more than 31 percent on solar panels from China. The move by the Commerce Department is certain to infuriate Chinese officials already upset after recent bilateral frictions over China’s human rights policies and its increasingly confrontational approach toward …
Apple Inc plans to power its main U.S. data center entirely with renewable energy by the end of this year, taking steps to address longstanding environmental concerns about the rapid expansion of high-consuming computer server farms. The maker of the iPhone and iPad said on Thursday it was buying equipment …
To reach its strict climate targets and fulfill Chancellor Angela Merkel's nuclear exit plans, Germany needs to avoid coal and build a stack of gas power plants to secure clean energy supplies beyond 2020. Yet the challenge facing Merkel's new environment minister Peter Altmaier, his predecessor fired this week following …
NEW DELHI, 16 MAY: Welspun Group today said it has bagged a contract for developing the country's largest solar power project in Madhya Pradesh entailing an investment of about Rs 1,218 crore. “We bid Rs 8.05 per unit to bag the 125 megawatt (MW) out of 200 MW that was …
With energy consumption worldwide projected to roughly double in the next 35 years, conventional wisdom says renewable sources of power will play a big role in meeting demand. But the conventional wisdom may be wrong. In a report just published on RatingsDirect, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services says cost, feasibility, …
The project, which will cost about $225 million, will be set up in about 18 months Welspun Group, the country's largest solar power developer, has won a 125 MW solar photovoltaic project in Madhya Pradesh, a top company official said today. "We bid Rs 8.05 per unit to bag the …
Union rural development minister Jairam Ramesh on Monday stated that the Centre is planning to set up 10,000 solar-based water systems in 78 districts, which are affected by Maoist violence. The plan is in a bid to solve the drinking water woes of people in the Left-Wing Effected (LWE) districts, …
KOCHI: The Solar City project, intended to make Kochi the first solar city in the state, is all set to takeoff soon as the Corporation is planning to constitute a committee for its launch. The project that will be implemented with the financial aid from the Central and State Governments …
Organisation calls for promoting renewable energy as substitute for atomic power The Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad (KSSP) has urged the State government to turn down the State's share of power from the Kudankulam atomic power plant. A resolution adopted at the 49th State conference of KSSP called on the State …
HOSUR: As many as 2,104 houses are being constructed under the Chief Minister’s Solar-powered Green House Scheme in Krishnagiri district, said Municipal Administration Minister K P Munusamy. Reviewing the developmental work in Krishnagiri in the presence of Collector C N Maheswaran, the minister said that officials should complete the construction …
Solar energy services provider SunEdison announced on Thursday that International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank Group, will provide Rs 75 crore (around $14.5 million) equity to SunEdison at first close to fund SunEdison’s photovoltaic power projects in South Asia, South East Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Further, …
The government's plan to reduce electricity consumption by forcing building owners to install rooftop solar panels might not yield desired results as the initiative involves a number of flaws, an analyst warned yesterday. M Rezwan Khan, vice chancellor of United International University, said recent rules make it mandatory for owners …
With growing cost of diesel based irrigation to crops in the field, the government has taken an innovative step to irrigate fields with solar run pumps. Such a pump has been set up at Mirjapur under Godagari upazila of the Rajshahi district on Wednesday for the first time in the …
The German parliament's upper house suspended the government's proposed cuts in subsidies for the solar power industry on Friday and referred them to a mediation committee, in a setback for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives. The opposition and federal states who oppose plans to slash the photovoltaic feed-in tarifs by between …
Czech power utility CEZ opened a 5.0 megawatt solar energy park in northern Bulgaria, its first investment in renewable energy in the Balkan country, the company said on Thursday. CEZ, which controls power distribution in western Bulgaria and thermal power plant in the Black Sea city of Varna, said it …
Tiny Pacific nations which are most at threat from rising seas have vowed to dump diesel and other dirty expensive fuels blamed for causing global warming and replace them with clean sources. Using coconut biofuel and solar panels, Tokelau — which consists of three island dots half way between New …
