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 …
A workshop was held at Ministry of Housing and Environment to finalize the documents prepared under Clean Energy for Climate Mitigation Project on 12 September 2011. This project will be implemented in G.Dh. Thinadhoo island and is funded by the Climate Change Trust Fund (CCTF) of Maldives administered the World …
Saroj Devi's family of six used to spend over Rs 900 every month to buy kerosene for lighting the three lamps in her house. Their village, Lala Teekar, in Moradabad district of Uttar Pradesh has two rivers passing by and is often called the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of Moradabad. …
The outlook for renewable energy may be cloudy as governments scramble for solutions to a faltering global economy and financial markets suffer from uncertainty, but it is not bleak, analysts said in two separate reports on Friday. Renewable energy sectors have lagged fossil fuel energy and wider global stocks over …
Ranchi, Sept. 11: The sun will help supply safe drinking water in Jharkhand’s hinterland from November this year, as the state government hopes to kick-start its ambitious project of solar-powered hand pumps. An initiative of the state drinking water and sanitation department under the Centre’s National Rural Drinking Water Programme, …
Moser Baer Clean Energy Limited (MBCEL) has commissioned a 5 MW solar park at Trefullock, Southern England, UK. A park of this capacity in this region requires an investment of around £15 million , industry observers said. “This solar farm will generate approximately 5 million units of clean energy annually. …
The European Union’s executive arm announced plans on Wednesday aimed at stopping its countries from striking bilateral deals that cede too much power to oil and gas exporters like Russia. Günther Oettinger, the European energy commissioner, says Europe needs to speak “with one voice” in energy matters. Europe needs to …
Solyndra, a solar panel maker that received $535 million in federal loan guarantees, filed for bankruptcy on Tuesday. Solyndra, which also received more than $700 million in venture capital financing, said it would try to find a buyer quickly to avoid a fire sale liquidation. The solar industry has been …
China's top polysilicon company GCL-Poly Energy Holdings Ltd said on Friday it secured loans worth $713 million from state-owned lender China Development Bank in a deal highlighting the nation's continuing support for the solar sector. The company signed loan agreements with the bank's Hong Kong branch involving a $400 million …
Sun-baked and debt-choked Greece presented on Monday a plan to become Europe's solar energy powerhouse, attracting up to 20 billion euros of investment in the decades to come to lift its economy out of the doldrums. The cash-strapped country regards clean energy as one of the few advantages of its …
Japan's new prime minister has made clear he sees nuclear power playing a part in energy supply for decades -- so one of his first challenges is to convince a skeptical public to allow shut reactors to restart. Yoshihiko Noda inherits a country with no cohesive energy policy after the …
Farmers in Haryana’s Rohtak district are offered a solar pump costing Rs 8.25 lakh at just Rs 3.28 lakh to irrigate their fields under a Centrally subsidised programme. Even this may not tempt farmers, given the low returns from agriculture. Despite heavy subsidies the sale of solar devices has not …
Australia's First Utility-Scale Solar PV Project is under way—and it will help meet Western Australia's water security issues by fueling a much needed desalination plant. A joint effort funded by Australia's Verve Energy, GE Energy Financial Services and Western Australia Government, the 10-megawatt project will use First Solar PV modules. …
The bankruptcies of three American solar power companies in the last month, including Solyndra of California on Wednesday, have left China’s industry with a dominant sales position — almost three-fifths of the world’s production capacity — and rapidly declining costs. Solar panel inspection at a factory in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. …
Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group firm RPower has got a Rs 400-crore loan from the US Emport-Import Bank for a 40-MW solar plant being set up in Rajasthan. The company is developing the country’s largest solar photo voltaic (PV) project with 40-MW generation capacity, which is scheduled for commissioning by March …
Unless eco-friendly buildings make economic sense to the buyer, they will not have a market A galaxy of experts from the infrastructure industry as well as environmentalists participated in The Economic Times Infragreen 2011 held last month. They, inter alia, discussed issues such as (a) energy-efficient technologies, (b) use of …
Perhaps for the first time, the district authorities have launched a scheme to provide solar energy-based irrigation pump sets to the farmers. The pump worth around Rs 8.25 lakh each will be available at a cost of just Rs 3.28 lakh after a 60 per cent subsidy paid by the …
Solar start-up Solyndra LLC, succumbing to pressure from lower-cost Chinese rivals, said it has suspended operations and plans to file for bankruptcy, 15 months after President Barack Obama visited a company factory that was to be expanded with the help of a federal loan guarantee. The Chapter 11 filing, expected …
Net metering has become a widespread mechanism in the U.S. for supporting customer adoption of distributed photovoltaics (PV), but has faced challenges as PV installations grow to a larger share of generation in a number of states. This paper examines the value of the bill savings that customers receive under …
The case study analyzes the lessons learnt from ground realities on implementation of solar energy systems in rural India. This is an excellent case of making policy-practice connect viable. Off Grid Energy Solutions are viable in remote corners of country with community ownership harvesting the benefits to the maximum extent. …
Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Tamil Nadu are front runners among states that have grid connected solar power plants. A total of 20 grid connected solar power plants with capacity of 1 megawatt (MW) or more have been commissioned in the country by July 2011, the Minister of New and Renewable Energy, …
