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 …
A number of solar mission projects operational only on paper. The Government has decided to act tough with 14 companies which did not commission their solar power projects in time. NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam Limited (NVVN), the power trading arm of the state-owned National Thermal Power Corporation, penalised them by …
New Delhi A committee, set up by the government to probe alleged irregularities in the solar mission project bidding, has questioned top executives of companies facing charges of fronting for Lanco Infratech. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) recently accused Lanco Infratech of flouting rules for bagging projects under …
Solar panels were previously installed under the free assistance by the Japanese government. Housing ministry states that the current project is the second phase of the “clean energy promotion in Male”, assistance worth Rf 171 million by the Japanese government. Housing Ministry official said that in the second phase of …
Minister radiates hopes of power-surplus situation by 2014-15 Despite its enormous potential for tapping solar energy, the State has been sanctioned fewer projects under the Jawarhalal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM), Electricity Minister Natham R. Viswanathan said on Monday. Approval for solar projects of only seven megawatt (MW) was given …
German company Enercon has expressed interest in putting up a 500-MW wind farm in Karnataka. Confirming this to Business Line, Mr N.S. Prasanna Kumar, Managing Director, Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Ltd (KREDL), said that the State, however, might not be in a position to allow the company to put such …
The 'Project for Clean Energy Promotion in Male' which is a project which promotes rooftop based grid connected solar photovoltaic (PV) systems in Male granted by the Japanese government has been handed over to the current administration. At a ceremony held at Hiriya School the Japanese ambassador to the Maldives …
JAISALMER: Railway stations under the Jodhpur division will be lit up using solar energy soon under a plan being made in this regard. Discussions for the pilot project have already started and initially a few railway stations will be selected for this experiment, where solar panels will be put up …
Claims to contrary nonsensical: Nobel Peace laureate At a time when the debate over nuclear energy is on the boil in Tamil Nadu, German physicist and Nobel Peace laureate Hans-Peter Duerr is as clear on his anti-clear standpoint as his advocacy of solar and other alternative sources for energy security. …
Solar photovoltaic systems will soon be installed in all the government offices of the city while solar water heating systems are likely to be installed in all government residences. This was decided during a review meeting of various projects, held under the chairmanship of Punjab Governor and UT administrator Shivraj …
Iran is keen to explore the possibility of exporting electricity to energy-hungry India after the much-touted tri-nation gas pipeline project with New Delhi slid into limbo. Iran's energy minister Majid Namjou said Iran might well export electricity to India instead of gas. Namjou said that India is one of the …
The Electronics Division of State-owned Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has commissioned 13 MW of solar power plants across the country under its solar photovoltaic business in 2011-2012. The company aims to commission 20 MW of PV projects during the current year. The projects include a 3-MW grid-connected solar power …
As part of expanding solar power throughout the country the government has decided to set up a 5-MW solar power plant would at Kaptai to increased dependence on renewable energy to 10 percent of country's total power generation by 2020. The government is planning the move to reduce carbon emission …
Forget about breakthroughs in cell technology; improvements in manufacturing processes will themselves drive down solar costs, say Mr Krister Aanesen and Mr Rajat Gupta, experts on the solar industry at McKinsey & Company. They predict that ‘solar system' costs will come down from $2.50 a watt today to $1.50 by …
New Delhi The government is considering setting up a separate corpus out of the existing national clean energy fund to help finance renewable energy projects. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee is likely to announce this in the forthcoming Budget. The proposal is that the government will set up the corpus out …
ZAFAR ALAM KHAN says the Madhya Pradesh Government is doing its best to frame the State’s solar energy policy by March and has invited suggestions from investors. The Madhya Pradesh Government is set to promote solar energy generation as part of its efforts to overcome the power crisis in the …
Plans by Germany to cut solar power subsidies by up to 30 percent will be postponed to April 1 from March 9 and may be watered down for large-scale power plants, according to members of parliament in the centre-right coalition. The deputies in Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU), their …
Japan may become a bright spot for the solar industry due to regulatory changes and its nuclear power crisis, which equipment makers from home and abroad hope will help offset a profit outlook clouded by oversupply, falling prices and shrinking demand elsewhere. A new feed-in tariff designed to boost industrial …
Energy technology: Better ways of storing energy are needed if electricity systems are to become cleaner and more efficient. Summer in Texas last year was the hottest on record. Demand for power spiked as air conditioners hummed across the state. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), the state grid …
Scientists inspired by a camel's nostrils are set to achieve the impossible and grow aman-made forest in the Sahara Desert. The £3.3 million giant open-air greenhouse in Qatar will bring plant life to one of the most inhospitable spots on earth and it is all thanks to the humped mammal's …
Members of parliament in Chancellor Angela Merkel's centre-right coalition have demanded delaying cuts in solar power incentives to April 1 from March 9, according to a position paper by centre-right deputies obtained by Reuters on Friday. Resistance to the March 9 cuts has especially strong in the Christian Social Union …
