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 …
Agartala: The ambitious project to make Agartala as country’s first Solar City has received a setback as Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) did not receive the final project proposal, officials said here on Saturday. According to report, master plan for only seven cities, including two of Northeast – …
China's Commerce Ministry on Friday announced an investigation into U.S. government policy and subsidy support for renewable energy, after a U.S. decision earlier this month to probe sales of Chinese-made solar panels in the United States. The announcement comes after China's solar industry association said on Tuesday that Chinese solar …
Unrest in North Africa has set back in the short term ambitious plans to develop solar energy for use locally and in Europe, but for the longer term the region's abundant sunshine offers huge investment potential, the head of France's Medgrid said on Thursday. The grid alliance's chairman Andre Merlin …
Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Ltd (KREDL) has received 22 bids for setting up solar power projects under the ‘Karnataka solar policy’. Today was the last day for submitting the bids. Mr N S Prasanna Kumar, Managing Director, KREDL, told Business Line. As part of its 350 MW programme, KREDL had …
Moser Baer Solar Ltd (MBSL), a subsidiary of Moser Baer India Ltd, has been awarded ‘Green Leaf' mark by Intertek AB Semco, Germany, for its max series ‘lead free' solar photovoltaic modules. According to a company statement, Intertek's Green Leaf mark certifies that the product has been independently tested and …
Pakistan can generate 50,000 MW of hydroelectricity but only about 6,595 MW has been developed over the past 50 years, presenting a grim picture. This was stated by experts at the international conference on "Solar and Bio Energy System," arranged by the Department of Farm Machinery and Power, Faculty of …
Two major European consortiums joined forces on Thursday in an ambitious project to capture solar and wind energy across Arab deserts in order to power homes in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. The German-led Desertec Industry Initiative (DII) signed a memorandum of understanding with Medgrid, founded by French …
The renewable energy ministry has sought a 10-fold increase in fund outlay for the next five years. The ministry estimates requirement of . 40,000 crore to ramp up its capacity to 30,000 mw by 2017. An outlay of . 4,000 crore was earmarked for development of renewable energy in the …
State’s first solar-powered campus, perhaps the first one of its kind in the whole country, is coming up in Thiruvalla. Mar Athanasios College For Advanced Studies Thiruvalla (Macfast), the first private self-financing college in the State that had carved a special niche for becoming first on many fronts over the …
SELCO Solar Private Limited, a social enterprise of Magsaysay award winner Harish Hande, in collaboration with Applied Materials Foundation will electrify 1,000 village households and 10 schools in the State with solar lighting systems. Managing director of SELCO Solar Pvt Ltd Harish Hande (left) interacts with students of Sri Vidyaniketan …
“We have written to the urban development and municipal affairs departments to amend the rules so that there is a mandatory provision for green buildings,” said R.P.S. Kahlon, the principal secretary to the environment department. He was speaking on the sidelines of a discussion on climate friendly industrial development organised …
Selco Solar Pvt Ltd, a provider of energy services to underserved households, has tied up with Applied Materials Foundation (AMF) to electrify 1,000 households and 10 schools in Karnataka using solar lighting systems. AMF, an arm of Applied Materials - a provider of semiconductor, flat panel display and solar photovoltaic …
Union minister for new and renewable energy Farooq Abdullah has said his ministry was focusing mainly on solar, wind, geo-thermal and biomass sectors. “Till every person understands his or her responsibility, India’s development path would not be easy,” he said addressing a national conference on ‘Infrastructure and its role in …
One thousand and nine hundred mini-solar photovoltaic (SPV) plants of 500 Watt each will be established in various village panchayats during the current financial year under the State government's scheme of energisation of street lights with solar power. These mini-SPV plants are meant for 19,000 street lights, new and the …
Developers face penalty in the range of Rs. 2 crore for a month’s delay. With a looming deadline of January 9 next year, many of the 5 MW capacity solar photovoltaic (or PV) projects taken up under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission seem set to miss the deadline unless …
In what is considered a significant breakthrough, SunEdison, a global provider of solar energy services, has tied up debt funds for a slew of solar power projects, which are under various stages of construction in Gujarat and Rajasthan. SunEdison has structured debt financing totalling around $110 million (over Rs.500 crore) …
Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has sanctioned Rs 2.43 crore for installation of SPV Power Plant of capacity of 100 Kwp at Government Polytechnic College (GPC), Srinagar Kashmir. The project will be completed by June, 2012. The Ministry has asked the concerned agency to start work immediately so …
The top U.S. environmental regulator will propose early next year twice-delayed rules on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, she told the energyNOW television show. "I can't tell you what the regulations say right now, but what we are planning to do is release them early next calendar year," Lisa …
A German relief agency German Aid for Afghan Children (GAAC) has distributed 200 solar energy systems amongst the affected people of the devastating flood of 2010 in the far-flung and inaccessible Kaidaam area of district Swat. It was the second distribution of the solar energy systems as the agency has …
SunEdison, a US-based solar power developer and an active player in India too, has announced that it has raised $110 million in debt to fund its several ongoing projects in India. The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), which is part of the US Government, L&T; Infra Finance, and IDFC, have …
