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 British government plans to plug a loophole in its support scheme for solar power plants which would have allowed producers to benefit from higher tariffs for large-scale plants which the government intends to curb. The Department of Energy and Climate Change announced on Wednesday it intends to change a …
Traffic congestion is expected to ease at Peelamedu A fully solar-powered automatic traffic signal was inaugurated by City Police Commissioner Amaresh Pujari near New Scheme Road Junction, on Avinashi Road on Wednesday. With increasing vehicle population on city roads, the new signal is the 44th traffic signal installed in the …
The Rajshahi City Corporation is going to install solar power for streetlights. The RCC officials said that they had already conceived a plan in principle on pilot basis. This was disclosed after a delegation from a Chinese company — Hue Nan Oriental Rare Earth Luminous Energy — called on Rajshahi …
BP Solar is closing its U.S. manufacturing facility and will refocus is business on developing solar power projects rather than making panels for them, a company spokesman said on Thursday. The Frederick, Maryland, facility had not been producing solar modules since last year, yet 80 employees remained at the office. …
No amusement park is complete without a bumper car ride. Visitors, young and old, enjoy the experience of wheeling around crazily, bumping into other cars at will. With water theme parks coming up all over the State, the concept of a bumper boat ride became relevant. The Kerala State Council …
To invest Rs.7,500 cr over the next five years Zynergy Projects and Services Pvt. Ltd. (ZPSPL), a 55:45 joint venture between Zynergy Capital Pte. Ltd. of Singapore, and the Chennai-based Nath family, announced on Wednesday its official launch of solar energy business. It would invest around Rs.7,500 crore in solar …
Many of the new sustainable buildings popping up around Europe contain technology to make use of solar power and rainwater, and aim to transform surrounding neighborhoods. But these state-of-the-art developments in cities like Madrid and Paris haven't resolved the debate over whether going green pays off for investors. While new …
Punjab government will introduce solar water pump technology for the benefit of farming community. The pumps to be operated through solar energy will provide abundant water for irrigation purposes free of cost, which will also result in increase in agri-production. This was stated by Senior Advisor to Chief Minister Punjab, …
Pakistan can take advantage of Chinese experience to ensure food security as China is feeding around 21 percent of world population by just bringing four percent of the total global area under crops. They are producing 400 kilograms of grains per capita as against the 170 kilograms per capita available …
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts has teamed up with German insurance company Munich Re to acquire a stake in 42 solar power plants in Spain and Italy, underlining how some of the larger private equity groups are rushing into Europe
Most of the companies that have won bids to put up solar power projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission have achieved financial closure. The total capacity of all the projects that have confirmed financial closure exceeds 500 MW, Mr Anil Agarwal, Chief Executive Officer, NTPC Vidyut Vyapar Nigam …
DAWAR (BANDIPORA) : Minister for Science and Technology and Animal Husbandry Sayed Aga Rahullah distributed domestic solar lights among 2055 families of border tehsil of Gurez at a function held at Dawar today. MLA Nazir Gurezi, SDM M.A. Hakak and the officers of Science and Technology Department were present on …
Plans to use massive new hydropower development to boost China's power capacity by nearly half by 2015 will not dent coal demand enough to cut greenhouse gas emissions and could further damage the country's strained river system. China wants to raise installed power capacity by 490 gigawatts (GW) to 1,440 …
Italy's booming solar power market is expected to grow nearly four times to 30 gigawatts of capacity by 2020 as part of incentive-driven efforts to fight climate change, the head of Italy's top utility said. Italy's solar market, the world's second-largest after Germany, has rapidly grown since 2007 when the …
Competitive bidding adopted under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission is an appropriate process for megawatt-scale solar power procurement, given the changing prices of solar power and the limited paying capacity of India’s consumers and taxpayers. MW-scale plants may be useful to kick-start the solar photovoltaic industry in India. However, …
Tokio Marine Asset Management Co and Mitsui & Co plan to launch a 10 billion yen ($123.3 million) fund to construct 10 or more large solar power plants across Japan, the Nikkei reported. Solar is one of the power sources the government of the world's third-largest economy is focusing on …
The technology to enable the promise of solar energy has quite some way to go, with one requirement being an efficient way of tracking the sun during its daily movement across the horizon. Two city-based entrepreneurs here say they've developed a more efficient system in this regard, of a motor …
