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 …
Reliance Power plans to invest . 8,000 crore to set up 500 MW solar power projects in Rajasthan over the next three years, sources close to the development said. The planned investment is the largest investment in solar projects in India and one of the largest in the world. The …
The United States was a net exporter of solar energy products last year, thanks to strong demand from China, Germany and Japan for U.S.-made polysilicon and capital equipment used to make solar panels. U.S. photovoltaic-related exports totaled $5.6 billion in 2010, compared with imports of $3.7 billion, according to a …
Bangladesh on Monday sought US support for tapping solar power to use for irrigation purposes to reduce dependency on highly subsidized diesel and electricity to run the existing shallow pumps. State Minister for Environment and Forest Dr Hasan Mahmud sought the support in a meeting with acting US ambassador in …
A combination of solar and hydroelectric power generation with pumped storage can provide a solution to the State's power woes and form the backbone of a sustainable energy system for Kerala, according to R.V.G. Menon, social activist and former director of the Agency for Non-Conventional Energy and Rural Technology (ANERT). …
Standing under the enormous swinging blades of the world’s most powerful wind turbine near the German city of Magdeburg, it is hard to imagine that Europe’s wind industry has much to worry about when it comes to foreign rivals. The turbine, which is almost as high as the Great Pyramid …
A study sponsored by the solar power industry has concluded that the United States ran a trade surplus of $1.88 billion in solar technologies last year, as exports of raw material and factory equipment for the solar sector outpaced imports of finished solar panels. The report is clearly aimed at …
New Delhi The government is considering exempting developers of solar mission projects from bearing electricity transmission charges and technical losses. If implemented, the policy will give a leg-up to solar power, which remains disadvantaged due to high costs of generation. The government plans to provide this exemption to 1,000 mw …
Seeking to expand its global presence, German-based SMA Solar Technology AG, market leader in photovoltaic inverters, on Thursday announced the launch of its Indian subsidiary SMA Solar India Pvt Ltd. SMA Solar's objective is to extend its global expertise and domain knowledge to its Indian customers by offering diverse and …
New Delhi With the prospect of a slowdown in the renewable power sector in their home markets, US and European solar power equipment manufacturers are betting big on Indian demand. The global renewable energy majors are not only increasing their presence in the market by participating in equipment-supply tenders but …
Kolkata, 25 Aug: The West Bengal government today said it has invited an expression of interest from private sector companies to partner West Bengal Green Energy Development Corporation for implementation of the country's largest renewable energy project in the Sunderbans. The biomass-solar hybrid project is planned for execution under a …
Germany's SMA Solar, the world's largest maker of solar inverters, expects its Indian unit to get business worth 3,500 megawatt in Asia's third-largest economy in three years, a local unit official said. "We are going with the pace of the Indian industry...but our objective is to be in leadership position …
Six months after Japan suffered the world's worst nuclear disaster in 25 years, a race is on to succeed Prime Minister Naoto Kan. But the widespread fallout from the crisis in Fukushima is barely on the lips of most of the contenders. To the extent they have hinted at a …
Students in some rural areas of Karnataka used to literally burn oil, with no electricity at home. No longer. They can carry a few watts from school. Selco Labs, the innovation and incubation arm of Selco Solar Pvt Ltd, is behind a pilot initiative at some rural schools in the …
Optimal utilisation of wind energy is an integral part of the overall strategy to become power-surplus Even before Chief Minister Jayalalithaa assumed charge, she rightly identified power shortage as a top priority area of the administration. In her early interactions with the press, she emphasised that her government would make …
Japan's lower house of parliament passed a bill on Tuesday to promote investment in solar and other renewable energy sources as politicians took a step toward the prime minister's goal of reducing reliance on nuclear power. Damage and the radiation leak at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has shattered …
The objectives of these guidelines are: To facilitate a quick start up of the JNNSM; To ensure serious participation for projects to be selected under JNNSM; To facilitate speedier implementation of the new projects to be selected to meet the Phase I target of JNNSM; To enhance confidence in the …
The Delhi Electricity Regulatory Commission has come out with a draft regulation for the Renewable Purchase Obligation (RPO) and Renewable Energy Certificate Framework Implementation 2011. The draft will be finalised after a public hearing with the stakeholders. The draft states the minimum quantum of power that discoms will have to …
Japan's lawmakers have the opportunity to show how strong their support is for boosting renewable power supply to replace nuclear reactors with the passage of a green energy subsidy scheme likely within days. The country is struggling to overhaul its energy policies after the March quake and tsunami triggered a …
It won't be easy to run a national railway on renewable energy like wind, hydro and solar power but that is what Germany's Deutsche Bahn aims to do for one simple reason: it's what consumers want. Deutsche Bahn says it wants to raise the percentage of wind, hydro and solar …
Japan's Mitsui Chemicals Inc, Mitsui & Co and Toshiba Corp plan to construct the country's largest solar power facility with an output of 50,000 kilowatts (KW), the Nikkei business daily reported. The project is in anticipation of the passage of a bill that will require utilities to purchase electricity from …
