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 …
NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam (NVVN) expects to sign power purchase agreements with 22 companies by January-end to develop 350 MW of grid-connected solar photovoltaic energy. The companies include GAIL (India), Welspun Solar, Mahindra Solar One, Enfield Infrastructure, Essel Infraprojects, Azure Power India and French firm Fonroche Energie S.A.S. The trading …
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) released the draft Terms and Conditions for Tariff Determination from Renewable Energy Sources Regulations, 2012 in November 2011, specifying technical parameters for tariff determination for renewable energy projects set up during the Twelfth Plan period. The draft regulations are a welcome step as they …
Before the launch of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) in 2010, not much attention was paid to solar radiation assessment in India. The country had 45 meteorological stations managed by the Indian Meteorological Department to operate as weather observatories, which were not equipped to collect data on direct …
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has played a significant role in promoting renewable energy development. Incentives like accelerated depreciation and programmes like the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) have given a fillip to the wind and solar industries.
India plans to install 20,000 MW of solar capacity over the next decade - 10,000 MW each in the concentrating solar power (CSP) and photovoltaic (PV) segments. A huge market has been created along with supportive policies to optimise the abundant direct normal irradiance (DNI), large engineering tool and technical …
Over the past decade, many photovoltaic (PV) plant operators have observed the unexplained degradation and power loss of PV modules. Recent research shows that this is due to potential induced degradation (PID), also known as high voltage stress.
Private equity (PE) investment in the Indian renewable energy space surged ahead in 2011, with both deal volumes and average deal values increasing manifold over the previous years.
A dye-sensitised solar cell (DSSC) is a thin film cell that uses thin layers of photosensitive organic dye deposits on a substrate to produce power from solar energy. In 2011, this technology took several important steps towards cost effective commercialisation, with major industrial players such as Tata Steel Europe (formerly …
India suffers from chronic energy poverty. Even after 65 years of independence, one-third of India's households have no access to grid power. More than a million households go dark after sunset. But India’s energy poverty also provides an opportunity to design a new energy future for the world. It could …
Grid-connected solar power is a new and rapidly growing sector in India – from almost nil grid- connected solar power in 2009, the country will have 2.5 gigawatts (GW) by 2014, if all goes as per plan. It has already installed about 1.0 GW and the Union government plans to …
Driven by perpetually rising demand for energy, more than 100 countries including India have enacted policies and programmes for harnessing solar energy. The achievements, however, have been mixed so far. This review provides the practitioner perspective and reviews the progress made in development of solar energy in Thar desert, Rajasthan— …
The development of an ecosystem- through economic, social, institutional arrangements- is of utmost importance in supporting technology dissemination and adequately serving the needs of a community. The National Solar Mission of India has not paid adequate attention to this aspect in its objective to promote off-grid applications of solar energy. …
Solar power is a clean energy source. But in the arid part of northwest India it can also be a dusty one. Every five days or so, in a marriage of low and high tech, field hands with long-handled dust mops wipe down each of the 36,000 solar panels at …
Builds portfolio of non-conventional energy projects. NTPC Ltd has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) with MP Tradeco in Bhopal for supply of power from 50 MW solar PV (photovoltaic) power plant to be set up at Rajgarh in Madhya Pradesh. Expected to be commissioned by the year 2013, the …
AGARTALA: State-owned ONGC is to set up a slew of projects in the nuclear, fertiliser, solar, wind power and lighting sectors, a top company official said Thursday. A gas-fired fertiliser plant would be set up in Tripura, the solar projects in Rajasthan and Gujarat and the wind power project in …
With a view to creating awareness and disseminating information about the usefulness of solar energy in the housing, institutional, commercial and industrial sectors, thus reducing energy dependence and cutting green house gas emissions, the PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in association with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, …
New Delhi Tata Power, the country's largest integrated private power player, on Tuesday said it would acquire BP Alternative Energy Holding's 51% stake in joint venture Tata BP Solar. The decision was made days after BP decided to exit its 40-year old solar business. Though financial details of the deal …
Tata Power will buy out its partner BP Alternative Energy Holdings’ 51% stake in their JV Tata BP Solar India but continue their technology partnership until 2013, the Tata utility said in a statement to the stock exchange on Tuesday. Post acquisition, Tata Power would own 100% in the solar …
Dec. 26: Raj Bhavan will glow in solar power and lead the way in use of renewable energy when a 30KW solar power plant is installed on the premises in another six months. The power plant project, to cost Rs 67 lakh, has been sanctioned by the ministry of new …
Some remote and inaccessible border areas in the state will soon get electrified through solar and wind energy. This is being done under the Remote Village Electrification Programme (RVEP) to be commissioned by the Science and Technology Department of the state. “The project will provide electricity to remote inaccessible areas, …
