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 …
Singapore Australia is set to unlock more than A$13 billion in government funds for clean energy that could boost investments for large solar power stations, but wind farm developers are at risk if the money disrupts an existing green scheme. The Senate on Tuesday passed laws supporting renewables and a …
China's largest solar power plant developer has put a planned $500 million U.S. project on hold over an anti-dumping trade dispute, the company's general manager said on Monday. CECEP Solar Energy Technology Co Ltd, a unit of the state-owned giant China Energy Conservation and Environmental Protection Group, said a planned …
The Asian Development Bank will provide Rs 221 crore to Reliance Power for its Rs 700-crore 40 MW solar project in Rajasthan. The US Exim Bank has already agreed to fund Rs 304 crore. With this, RPower has completed the financial closure of the project. The debt to equity ratio …
A Germany-based NRI scientist plans to introduce solar-powered health centres in remote Indian villages, aimed at helping rural people meet their immediate medical needs and popularising the use of renewable energy. Mr Amal Mukhopadhyay, chief of Hanseatic India Forum e.V. based in Hamburg, has initially planned to set up three …
Tamil Nadu will soon come out with a renewable energy policy that will feature ambitious targets and several innovative features, M. Velmurugan, Executive Chairman, Tamil Nadu Industrial Guidance Bureau, said on Thursday. Addressing an Italian business mission, which is scouting for partnerships on sustainable urban infrastructure and energy, he said …
The government is to power 29 islands facing power generation difficulties with solar energy. The Cabinet discussed the project last month arriving at the decision that the providence of solar power should be expanded further. The project is to be handed over to the company that submits the best bid. …
Japanese utilities will largely avoid power shortages this winter despite prolonged reactor shutdowns amid public concerns over nuclear safety, but hurdles remain for next summer, the government said on Tuesday. It also unveiled ways to bridge the gap next summer, when peak-hour demand is expected to exceed supply by 16,560 …
Even as the global population has crossed the seven-billion mark, delegates to the Clean Energy Expo 2011, Singapore, were busy discussing the booming energy requirements of a growing world. As concerns of energy crisis loom large over several parts of the world and promises of green and renewable energy emerge, …
Growing investment and scarcity of talent in the sector are fuelling demand For those eyeing the energy sector for jobs, solar energy companies could just be their next big destination. To fulfil targets of 20,000 MW of installed capacity under the National Solar Mission, the Indian solar energy industry will …
In a country which reels under voluminous and bountiful amount of sunshine, tapping solar power should ideally be an effortless task. Ironically though, the economics have come in the way of the solar mission. The author unfolds the trend in India and what we can expect in the times to …
Instead of fretting over the paucity of electricity, these 'solar grandmothers' from villages across Asia and Africa decided it would be better to act. As if to give vent to their ambition, the Barefoot College incepted by Bunker Roy, has showed them the way to electrify several villages across the …
While the rates of solar have reduced considerably in the last two years, the off-grid uptake is yet to keep pace with the change. This is a surprising development, since earlier, the sector was driven mostly by off-grid applications.
What began as a mere graduation project for Meidad Marzan, a student at Bezalel Academy of Art in Jersualem, now aims to make solar panels active participants in the architectural sphere, instead of being mere passive radiation collectors. Sapna Gopal delves into how this could alter the concept of lighting …
The policy environment over the past year has helped set the stage for a more competitive renewable energy market in India. The current capacity has been achieved largely due to supportive legal framework anchored in the Electricity Act, 2003, which has been complemented by capital subsidies, feed-in tarriffs (FiTs), accelerated …
The launch of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) in 2009 catapulted the Indian solar market into the global league. The mission's target of 20,000 MW by 2022 is among the biggest solar goals announced worldwide.
A market worth about Rs 300 billion exists for utility-scale solar power projects over the next three years in India. Also on offer is an estimated Rs 100 billion -Rs 150 billion worth of annual potential from the largely unexplored off-grid solar market for rural, industrial and urban demand.
Several countries and states have set targets for substantially increasing renewable energy (RE) contributions in their electricity grids. As the potential for additional hydro-electricity is limited in the US most future RE penetration is envisioned to be in the form of wind and solar. Our simulations, based on hourly resource …
So far, Rajasthan has accounted for 80 per cent of the total project allocation under the Jawaharlal Nehru Solar Mission (JNNSM). The state has assigned top priority to stepping up private investments in solar power and has taken several steps in this direction. Rajasthan also has high potential for the …
This document presents the description of visit to Sirsa District of Haryana, where solar energy project commissioned on April 15th 2011 under Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (Off-grid Solar Photo voltaic applications), Although the entire state of Haryana is connected to the grid, the state (especially rural areas) experiences frequent …
