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 solar energy plane made the world's first international flight powered by the sun on Friday to show the potential for pollution-free air travel. The Solar Impulse took off from an airfield at Payerne in western Switzerland on Friday morning and landed at Brussels airport after a 13-hour flight. "The …
The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) has been launched, but developers are still worried about non-recourse financing. This is because lenders think solar power projects are too risky. This perception will change if the Centre helps commercial banks gain expertise in assessing project viability. Institutions like World Bank and …
The book under review comes in the wake of the launch of the National Solar Mission, which intends to use grid-connected solar power to meet its ambitious target. Till recently, solar energy was considered a roof top option both for power and heat. Integration of solar power into the national …
A new method of making electricity from sunlight has just been testedAT THE moment, there are two reliable ways to make electricity from sunlight. You can use a panel of solar cells to create the current directly, by liberating electrons from a semiconducting material such as silicon. Or you can …
The pilot operation has shown reduction in energy consumption by one-fourth Tirupur: High energy requirements have always been a big concern for the dyeing unit owners as rising costs of electricity and usage of large quantity of firewood in the dyeing process are infringing into the profits and threatening the …
Bhopal: With an objective to promote use of non-conventional energy, solar energy plants are being installed in the State. This year, the New and Renewable Energy Department has chalked out a programme to install 8,000 solar street lights in the State. The Urja Vikas Nigam has sent a number of …
Empowered committee of Uttarakhand Renewable Energy Development Agency (UREDA), which is being led by the Chief Secretary Subhash Kumar, has cleared four projects of renewable energy in a meeting on Thursday. For the purpose of setting up the projects of other resources
With an objective to promote use of non-conventional energy, solar energy plants are being installed in the state. This year, the New and Renewable Energy Department has chalked out a programme to install eight thousand solar street lights in the state. The Urja Vikas Nigam has sent a number of …
The National Solar Mission is gathering momentum as more number of projects move towards financial closure and achieve land acquisition, the review meeting of projects noted. The appraised projects include smaller projects of 1 mw and 2 mw, 5 mw solar photovoltaic projects and large scale solar thermal projects. While …
Close to 80 percent of the world‘s energy supply could be met by renewables by mid-century if backed by the right enabling public policies says this new report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Close to 80 percent of the world‘s energy supply could be met by renewables by mid-century …
Renewable sources such as solar, wind and hydropower could fulfill almost 80 percent of the world's energy demand by 2050 with the right policies, according to a U.N. report which won backing from governments on Monday. The 26-page study, by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), broadly matched …
The state-level Single Window Clearance and Monitoring Authority headed by Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal cleared eight new industrial proposals besides one expansion proposal, on Monday, entailing an investment of Rs 1,244.59 crore in the state. Officials in the industries department say the projects will generate employment potential for 1,860 …
The state government is contemplating a comprehensive solar power policy as a large of solar power projects are in the pipeline in Andhra Pradesh. A study team that recently toured Gujarat, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu, said that consultants will now be appointed to give recommendations for the policy. Officials from …
Technological breakthroughs and economies of scale will make solar power competitive in six years and help India add 67,000 megawatts of solar generation capacity by 2022
KOCHI: Lifeway Solar Devices Pvt Ltd, headquartered in Kochi, did a demonstration ride of their newly-designed solar churulan vallam in the Kochi backwaters. The solar boat can continuously run for about four hours. The DC current produced from 200 watt solar panel collected in a battery is used to run …
Since nuclear and biofuel extract environmental cost, renewable energy is our best green bet Recently, ET organised a workshop, Energy India 2011: Energy security, climate change and economic development, where it was stressed, inter-alia, that our government is facing tough challenges in meeting energy requirements in an environmentally-sustainable manner. This …
