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 …
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the World Bank, will support Gujarat in the replication in five cities of the rooftop solar project, completed last month in Gandhinagar, in order to improve access to power and reduce air pollution from the burning of wood and fossil fuels. The …
‘Production has fallen to about 30 per cent of the scheduled capacity' The city's gas based power plants have scaled down production, compelled to do so in the absence of the required quantum of gas. A case in point being the power distribution company Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited's Rithala …
In a major boost to the Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Limited’s (MahaGenco) plans for a 150 MW solar power project at Shivajinagar in Dhule district, the union Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) has cleared the grant of 325 hectare of the forest department’s land for the project. The decision was …
What was once hailed as an endless source of desert electricity has now fallen by the wayside in the profitability race. Is concentrated solar power condemned to remain a niche player in the energy market.
Dr Bibek Bandyopadhyay is Senior Scientific Advisor in the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and heads the Solar Energy Centre (SEC). He is an expert in the fields of hydrogen energy, fuel cells, solar, thermal, development of green buildings and solar cities. In conversation he discusses the research …
Namrata Hingorani, an ex-business consultant who spent 22 years in the US and UK and has recently relocated to Mumbai wanted to celebrate her 40th birthday in a special way. She met with the Project Chirag team and decided to "light up" a village. It takes INR 3000-4000 to light …
The aim of the Local Sustainability 2012 study is to document the variety of local processes for sustainability that have emerged globally since the 1992 Earth Summit. Local initiatives, many of them inspired by Local Agenda 21, have made a lasting mark not only on local but also on national …
In 2002, countries met in Johannesburg, South Africa for the 10th anniversary of the first Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At the Johannesburg Earth Summit, countries committed to: “…substantially increase the global share of renewable energy sources with the objective of increasing its contribution to total energy supply…” …
A solar photovoltaic (SPV) lantern (Solar lantern) is a lighting system consisting of a lamp, battery and electronics, all placed in a suitable housing, made of metal or plastic or fiber glass, and a photovoltaic (PV) module. Electricity generated by PV module charges the battery. The lantern is a portable …
An innovative solar power project in Gujarat has started generating 1 mw of power, that is 1.6 million units of electricity per year, enough to meet the domestic power requirement of 16,000 families. The project, mooted six months ago by the state power department, was operationalised on March 28 and …
The National Solar Mission, which aims to install 20,000 MW capacity of solar energy by 2020, has commissioned 89% of its allotted capacity in its first stage, government officials said. The government had signed power purchase agreements (PPA) with 28 solar power developers for 140-MW solar photo voltaic (PV) projects …
New Delhi: The fight against climate change will take a strategic jump in the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012-2017) with the government intending to plough in almost Rs 2 lakh crore through the various missions, the working group on climate of the 12th Five-Year Plan has said. The report seeks setting …
Reeling under a severe power crunch, the Tamil Nadu Government has drawn up plans to encourage energy efficient systems using solar and other forms of energy in the coming months. The proposals include provision of subsidised solar pumps, generation-based incentive scheme for domestic solar rooftops, besides presenting awards to those …
Ministry of Water and Power has issued nine Letters of Intent (LoIs) to different Solar Independent Power Producers (IPPs) to produce cumulative capacity of 228 MW electricity. A senior official at the Ministry on Sunday said these small and big projects are at various stages of development and once executed …
Is the sun the answer to India’s energy problems? On A salt plain near the border with Pakistan lies half a billion dollars’ worth of solar-energy kit paid for by firms from all over the world. A million panels stretch as far as the eye can see. Past a dishevelled …
VELLORE: In an effort to provide better visibility to motorists and road users at night, the Vellore Police Department has installed barricades fitted with solar-powered lights and blinkers at major junctions in the Fort City. The new barricades have been installed at three major junctions - Makkan, Ariyabhavan and Mummy …
For a change, farmers in Bihar may well look up to the Sun now than cloud. Awadhesh Kumar, a resident of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s native village Kalyan Bigaha under Nalanda, had a different kind of irrigation experience this month, with his fields experiencing the functioning of a solar photo …
