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 future of alternative energy, particularly solar, is bright and the Asian Development Bank is betting big on it Hedge fund managers may feel, as some of them did at a gathering in New York in the last week of May, that alternative energy
DHAKA: The number of households in electricity-starved Bangladesh using solar panels has crossed the one million mark -- the fastest expansion of solar use in the world, officials said Wednesday. In 2002, just 7,000 households were using solar panels but now more than a million households -- or some five …
Internet giant Google has partnered with solar power installation company SolarCity to create a $280-million fund for financing residential solar projects. In a joint statement, SolarCity and Google
The single largest emitter of Greenhouse Gases (GHGs) in India is the power sector. Sixty-five percent of our electricity is produced by thermal power plants that emit GHGs. It is believed that by 2040 India will exhaust its coal reserves. Is alternative energy the future?
MHS Energy, a Chennai-based infrastructure company that offers technology for low maintenance outdoor power solution mainly for the telecom tower infrastructure, has entered into a joint venture with the German-based b+w Electronics Systems to provide technology and R&D; support to manufacture solar power solutions for telecom tower infrastructure. Addressing a …
Power-Starved Punjab scripted a sunshine story on Wednesday by giving nod to a 1-MW project that will use the space above canals to generate solar power. First-of-its-kind project outside the US, it will be based on the design of Golden Gate in California, which uses triple galvanised cables. The project …
Germany's planned exit from nuclear power received backing from the cabinet on Monday, the economy and environment ministers said in Berlin. The far-reaching energy strategy, spurred by the crisis in Japan, reverses longer life cycles granted to nuclear power stations only last autumn. It will entail changes to power grid …
New Delhi In an effort to create favourable conditions for indigenous solar manufacturing capability and market leadership in the country, minister for new & renewable energy Farooq Abdullah is leading a Ficci solar energy business delegation and senior officials to Intersolar Europe 2011, Munich, Germany. Prior to Intersolar Europe conference, …
Delhiites will soon have an opportunity play a pivotal role in saving the environment by installing solar power plants on the rooftops of their houses and even earning by selling electricity to power distribution companies (DISCOMS). The Delhi government, in partnership with the ministry of new and renewable energy, is …
New Delhi, Former President APJ Abdul Kalam has emphasised an urgent need to evolve a global energy independence policy for 2030. Speaking at the FE-EVI Green Business Leadership Awards, he said climate change and energy policy should be integrated to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions.
Sales of soft drinks have long been stymied by erratic power supply, but an environment-friendly innovation developed by Coca-Cola India now promises to change all that. Armed with the new product, Coca-Cola India plans to offer an entire range of its chilled soft drink products to markets deep in the …
Delhiites will soon have an opportunity play a pivotal role in saving the environment by installing solar power plants on the rooftops of their houses and even earning by selling electricity to power distribution companies (Discoms). The Delhi government, in partnership with the ministry of new and renewable energy, is …
Infrastructure Development Company Ltd (IDCOL), the state owned financial institution, is set to install 2000 solar panel-based mini-grid power plants in the off-grid areas of Bangladesh. "Under this programme, with an average capacity of 25KW, plants will be installed in the off-grid areas to produce 113kWh electricity per year," said …
