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 …
Northern Rajasthan is quickly becoming a hub for solar energy in India. The 15th October was the deadline for some of the first major projects of 5 Megawatt capacity each and most plants are now feeding into the electricity grid. The capacity under construction in Rajasthan will put the states …
The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission was launched in 2009 to create policy conditions to make solar power as affordable as conventional power by 2022, and establish India as global leader in solar energy. The Mission creates a secure investment structure designed to encourage large-scale investment, technical innovation and rapid …
This information paper accompanies the IEA publication Deploying Renewables 2011: Best and Future Policy Practice. It provides more detailed data and analysis, and explores the markets, policies and prospects for a number of renewable energy technologies. This paper provides a discussion of ten technology areas: bioenergy for electricity and heat, …
As India braces itself for an over-ambitious Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, it also has to deliberate the prospects of developing other renewable energy resources. Of all the non-conventional renewable energy sources, small hydro represents the highest density resource.
This Greepeace report is a documentation of 10 successful case studies from across India on how communities and individuals have used decentralised renewable energy to energise and empower their lives. Asserting the fact that renewable energy holds the key to India’s energy future, Greenpeace released the report Taking Charge: Case …
The Ernst & Young country attractiveness indices (CAI) provide scores for national renewable energy markets, renewable energy infrastructures and their suitability for individual technologies. The indices provide scores out of 100 and are updated on a quarterly basis. The CAI take a generic view and different sponsor or financier requirements …
The Solar Energy Park at the Garden of Five Senses that has been non-functional since 2007, is now in line for revival. The Delhi Tourism is ready to float tenders for maintenance and operation of the park that has solar powered cars, cycles and buses, which ply in the 20-acre …
Britain`s energy ministry said it will on Monday launch a review of state subsidies for solar power installations, the second change to the scheme since it started in April 2010. Energy Minister Greg Barker is scheduled to publish details of a consultation into altering the so-called feed-in tariffs (FITs) in …
Ranchi, Oct. 27: The Planning Commission has set a December deadline for the Jharkhand government to complete a majority of the projects launched under the Centre’s Integrated Action Plan (IAP) in the 14 Naxalite-hit districts of the state. Planning Commission senior consultant Ranjan Chatterjee, who arrived in Ranchi this morning, …
California political leaders chose a site near the headquarters of Solyndra to kick off hearings on how the state's growing cleantech industry can proceed in the wake of that solar company's dramatic collapse. The solar industry is especially reeling now that its stand-out champion, First Solar Inc, just ousted its …
California regulators on Thursday approved final regulations for a carbon market that is one of the biggest U.S. responses to climate change. The state believes the market for greenhouse gases, which starts in 2013, will let it address global warming in a low-cost way and become the center of alternative …
Stressing on more usage of non-conventional energy resources, state minister (independent charge), additional sources of energy department, Akbar Husain on Thursday said that given the high demand for conventional sources of energy, their cost is going up. Apart from this, their usage is also affecting environment, which is a matter …
Subsidies for households to install solar panels are about to be slashed by ministers in a controversial move which could make a further dent in the coalition’s green credentials. Ministers are also on Thursday expected to announce a shake-up of wind power incentives from 2015, which will cut subsidies for …
New Delhi The ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has selected four sectors in the country to seek funding from the World Bank and Asian Development Bank supported Clean Technology Fund (CTF) to complement the ongoing National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) and the low carbon growth path. The …
At a time when several new power projects in the country are facing resistance from people, residents of Sakri town in Dhule district of Northern Maharashtra are fighting to retain a 125-MW solar power project. The State Forest Department has recently issued a notice to the project promoter – Maharashtra …
Suryachakra Global Ventures Ltd, Hong Kong (SGVL), has entered into a memorandum of understanding with American Bio Sources Inc., (ABS) and Environmental Energy Finance Corporation Inc. USA (EEFC) to work together and implement renewable energy power projects. Suryachakra Global Ventures Ltd is a 100 per cent subsidiary of Suryachakra Power …
India's solar power sector is gathering steam, with 150 companies rushing in to offer 2,500 megawatts of projects for the second round of bidding, seven times the allocated capacity of 350 mw for which bids were invited, raising hopes that electricity tariffs from the renewable source would fall below . …
Chief Minister Narendra Modi on Friday took a dig at the Centre for not starting any solar power project despite formulating a policy about it. Inaugurating the 30 MW solar power plant set up by the Moser Baer Clean Energy Ltd (MBCEL) at Gunthawada village of Banaskantha district of north …
An Indian-origin researcher-led team in Singapore claims to have exploited nanostructure technology to make a highly efficient and yet cheaper silicon solar cell. Navab Singh, who led the team from Nanyang Technological University and A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics hopes that their new product would halve the cost of solar energy. …
The 125-MW Shivajinagar Sakri solar plant, one of the largest solar projects in the country, under construction at Dhule in northern Maharashtra, is in jeopardy. The Forest Department of Maharashtra has now put a claim on that land. The Rs 1,987-crore project is being implemented by Maharashtra State Power Generation …
