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 …
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy is implementing a National Programme on Solar Water Heating aimed at peak shaving, conservation of electricity and fossil fuels and providing a clean, non-polluting solution for water heating in housing, institutional, commercial and industrial sectors. Over 4 million sqm of collector area has …
This paper looks at the ways in which clean energy is being governed in India. It analyses and seeks to explain the nature of governance arrangements and policy-making processes around the development of energy sources and technologies defined as ‘clean’ both by the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) and beyond. Such …
The U.S. Energy Department finalized loan guarantees for two major solar projects on Wednesday, as the deadline loomed for the government's renewable-energy incentive program. The government wrapped up deals that would back $737 million in financing for a solar thermal plant sponsored by privately held SolarReserve LLC and $337 million …
New Delhi Solar electricity has finally joined the national power grid in India. What’s more significant, it has entered the grid at a cost far less than expected, reducing the need for heavy government subsidies to make the sector viable. The ministry of new and renewable energy recently opened bids …
French firm Areva's Indian arm Areva T&D;, now part of Alstom Grid, on Tuesday announced that it had bagged a contract from Anil Ambani-owned Reliance Power for the execution of a solar power project. Areva T&D; India's transmission business has been awarded a Rs. 40 crore contract by Reliance Power …
New Delhi Fossil fuel-based power generators like NTPC, Reliance Power and Lanco Power, and energy majors such as Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum, Hindustan Petroleum and GAIL, are warming up to renewable power in a big way as India moves to control its fast-expanding carbon footprint as part of the …
KOCHI: With the increasing spread of water borne viral diseases in the state, social activist Mukesh Jain's novel initiative of setting up solar water heaters in schools of the state is in demand. It has also got the approval of the government and education department. Jain has set up solar …
In May 2011, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presented its report on potential of renewable energy (RE) which emphasizes significant future role of RE in cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and powering sustainable development. A global team of technological experts and scientists reviewed over 160 scenarios on the …
Conversion of carbon dioxide into methanol or to any other value-added chemical using solar light (known as artificial photosynthesis) is of great importance from the point of view of energy crisis and global warming problem. This note discusses the methods and challenges that need to be addressed for realizing processes …
New Delhi The government may extend bid date for the allocation of projects through the second round of bidding under the first phase of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) to give more time to interested bidders to finalise their offers. The bid submission date for the second round …
First Solar Inc. said Thursday the Department of Energy won't provide a loan guarantee to help finance construction of a large California solar farm, but the company said it is in "advanced discussions" to sell the project. The Tempe, Ariz., solar-panel maker and solar-farm developer said that the DOE informed …
India is keen on technology-based partnerships and research collaborations with the US investors in the field of renewable energy. “We are open to all kinds of business models – whether it is PPP (public-private partnerships) or BOT (build-operate-transfer), you tell us what you are comfortable with,” said Dr Farooq Abdullah, …
The US government’s $8-billion bet on solar energy that would pave the deserts with mirrors risks following the Betamax into the technological wilderness because of Chinese backing for a cheaper system. The US department of energy guaranteed loans to six plants that will reflect sunlight to boil water for making …
Hooking up the UK’s electricity system to neighbouring countries through a European “supergrid” could bring a host of economic and environmental benefits, but there are “tremendous uncertainties” about the overall value because of the very high costs involved, MPs have reported. The idea of a supergrid, long espoused by renewable …
India and Australia must forge a comprehensive partnership, going beyond the gas and coal sourcing deals they have signed, by taking ‘inventive steps' to make the most of their convergent interests in security, economics and growing social connections. This is the view of leading figures, from various walks of life, …
A major expansion of renewable energy could create millions of jobs worldwide, stir economic growth in heavily indebted countries and help fight climate change at the same time, an American adviser to the German leader Angela Merkel said on Monday. Jeremy Rifkin, a best-selling author and an adviser to the …
This work aims to identify the geographic distribution of photovoltaic (PV) energy potential considering the effect of temperature on PV system performance. A simple framework is developed that uses the JIS C 8907 Japanese industrial standard to evaluate the effects of irradiation and temperature on PV potential. The global distributions …
The Delhi Technological University's students have developed a full-fledged car that is driven on solar energy. The university will flag off the car on September 17. It will participate in the race organized by the World Solar Challenge in Australia in October. DTU spokesperson Harish Tiwari said, "A team of …
Excess exports from China's rare earth industry kept prices artificially low for years, and it was now "unrealistic" to expect them to fall back to previous levels as Beijing reins in the sector, a senior industry official said on Thursday. Li Zhong, the vice-general manager of top producer Baotou Steel …
At least 10 lakh houses in rural areas of the country have come under solar energy, official sources said. "At present about 10 lakh houses in 465upazilas and 16 islands of the country are getting electricity from the equal number of solar panels, which generate 50 megawatt electricity per day,"Nazmul …
