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 …
Solar power projects with a total capacity of 600 Mw will soon be commisioned at a ceremony at Gujarat Solar Park at Charanka village in Radhanpur, officials of Gujarat Power Corporation said here on Sunday. The projects at Solar Park currently has an aggregate capacity of 214 Mw.Twenty one new …
Around 82 inaccessible, remote villages in Gopalganj, Saharsa, Supaul and Kaimur districts would be energised under Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification programme (RGREP) in Bihar, the State Hydel Power Corporation Chairman-cum-Managing Director, Mr A K Pandey said. Talking to PTI, Mr Pandey said around 40 villages of Baikunthpur and other blocks …
India's "National Solar Mission", with a goal of 20 GW of solar power installed by 2020, helped drive the seven-fold jump in solar energy investments, to $4.2 billion, says a report by an American NGO.WASHINGTON: With Indian receiving $10.2 billion investments in clean energy, the country has emerged as one …
The Union Ministry of Science and Technology today announced the selections for three consortia projects under the Indo-US Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center (JCERDC). The JCERDC is being established under an agreement signed between the Governments of India and the United States of America which commits an amount …
The West Bengal Government will soon roll out policy guidelines on renewable energy, Mr M. K. De, Principal Secretary, Department of Power and Non-Conventional Energy Sources, said here on Thursday. According to Mr De, the policy has already been drafted and is awaiting approval. “The State's Renewable Energy Policy will …
Three weeks ago, President Barack Obama stood in front of a sea of gleaming solar panels in Boulder City, Nevada, to celebrate his administration's efforts to promote "green energy." Stretching row upon row into the desert, the Copper Mountain Solar Project not far from Las Vegas provided an impressive backdrop …
AREVA Solar, an AREVA subsidiary, has been awarded a contract by Reliance Power to build a 250 MW concentrated solar power (CSP) in Rajasthan. AREVA said under the contract, it will build two 125 MW CSP plants using its Compact Linear Fresnel Reflector (CLFR) technology and will provide construction management …
With India receiving $10.2 billion investments in clean energy, the country has emerged as one of the top performing clean energy economies in the 21st century, an eminent American non-profit organisation said in a report. The Pew Charitable Trust, in its report, said India's clean energy sector continued to flourish …
Subsidy for the scheme increased by 10 per cent National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) has enhanced its support to a Central Government scheme to promote solar power. To promote commercial marketing of solar accessories, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), had launched the Jawaharlal Nehru National …
Chandy to launch solar lighting project today The Department of Prisons is all set to go green with solar lighting systems to be installed in the Central Prison in the city. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy will inaugurate the pilot project at the Central Prison at 4.30 p.m. on Wednesday. “This …
India continued its ascent as a top destination for private clean energy investment, according to a research report released by The Pew Charitable Trusts, a non-profit organisation. The country’s ‘National Solar Mission,’ with a goal to have 20 GW of solar power installed by 2020, helped drive the seven-fold jump …
Italy will scale back financial incentives for solar and other renewable energy that have inflated consumer power bills more than expected, and also will raise national renewable energy targets for 2020, two ministers said on Wednesday. Italy's green power industry has boomed in recent years as investors from around the …
Duties to fend off competition from cheaper Chinese solar panels risk feeding the European sector's addiction to artificial subsidies, destroying more jobs than they save and stoking tension with one of the EU's biggest trading partners. Policy decisions by EU governments, among them Germany's deep cuts in solar power incentives, …
Jorhat, April 10: The forest department is thinking of installing solar fences in an area along the Brahmaputra, northeast of the town to keep out a wandering herd of elephants — that moves along the river and chaporis (sandbars) — from the villages near the bank. Solar fencing system helps …
Biomass-based power producers, with an installed capacity of 2,664 Mw, have made a strong pitch for according priority sector status on the lines of agro sector. These producers have also appealed to the Centre to launch biomass mission on the lines of solar mission to attract more investments. They have …
MUMBAI: The civic body has proposed an environment protection agency, in a move that could change the way environment in the city is protected. The proposal, prepared by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's ( BMC) environment department, will be sent to the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board, under whose aegis it functions. …
Solar mission mandate to promote domestic crystalline silicon technology fails to achieve desired result. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy is planning to create a fund to help entrepreneurs who are setting up domestically engineered solar power plants in the country. Many project developers feel the pinch while buying …
India has told the US that it does not intend to alter the domestic content requirement in its ambitious national solar power generation programme as it is essentially procurement by the government, which is outside the purview of the World Trade Organisation. “India is not a signatory to the Government …
Ranchi’s Sidho-Kanhu Park is all set to take a green ride this summer. The park, spread on 10 acres behind the state capital’s SKIPA building, will soon boast an eight-bogie toy train running on solar energy, the tracks for which are being laid. A solar-powered musical fountain will also be …
