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 …
As renewable energy technologies move to the forefront, the energy sphere in the 21st century is set for a major overhaul. Worldwide, studies predict that solar and wind energy will address more than 60% of the future energy needs. Countries, including India, are taking concrete steps to ensure a stable …
AHMEDABAD: The news of farmers' suicides from various parts of the country upsets this trio. Chintan Chauhan, Dharmesh Kakadia and Deepak Dhore have designed pro-type of a solar pump which they feel will help farmers reduce their power bills and also help them save time. "This pump will help them …
In January, Deepak Gupta, the secretary for ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE), reaffirmed plans to install 20 gigawatts (GW) of solar power by 2022, calling it
The first trading session of renewable energy receipts (REC) on March 30, witnessed a total of 424 non-solar RECs traded on two power exchanges While 274 non-solar RECs got traded on PXIL at a clearing price of Rs 2225 per certificate, 150 non-solar RECs were transacted on India Energy Exchange …
This report provides information to relevant stakeholders on the importance of developing the solar energy sector in Asia and the Pacific, investment opportunities and challenges in the sector, and the approach adopted by the Asia Solar Energy Initiative to facilitate the rapid deployment of solar energy applications in the region
Minister for Forest Filipe Neri Rodrigues has assured to introduce innovative and long term measures to curtail nuisance of wild life animals in farms. Solar or electric fencing around cultivation, dragging trenches, boulder walls to protect crops, fencing are some of the long term measures proposed by Forest department to …
THE Union budget’s approach to the renewable energy sector remains scattershot. The only mention the sector gets in the 2011-12 budget is when it talks about the duty cuts on the energyefficient LED lights, solar lanterns and solar cells. “Except for the small concession of withdrawing customs duty on inputs …
The clean energy race is on. The investment and finance data presented in this report show that countries are jockeying for a leadership position in this growing and increasingly competitive sector. Countries with clear, consistent and constructive clean energy policies are powering investment forward. The clean energy race is on. …
Western companies are in the race for slice of the lucrative market for clean technologies such as renewable energy and water or soil treatment projects in India and China, which corporate leaders say will be worth trillions of dollars in a few years as the Asian giants grapple with rising …
A clutch of emerging companies are piping solar power in to the national grid and building solar lighting devices as investor attention flares across the sector. Ahona Ghosh tracks the emerging sector. India
The Cabinet on Tuesday reviewed the implementation of several projects under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM), which aims at producing 20,000 mw solar power by 2022 in the country. "The progress of implementation of the mission is satisfactory and as per the schedule," a source said. The JNNSM …
It is no mean task to find a moneylender for a financially risky project. More so, if it is a high-investment, low-return project under the ambitious Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission. The fact that government did not plan finance for a mission that aims to address the challenges of climate …
Based on field studies in 7 cases rural renewable energy projects in Brandenburg (federal state of Germany) were analysed during an 18 month period (early 2009 to mid 2010). The study identified relevant social dimensions of renewable energy technology and classified them according to organizational complexity, technology acceptance, participation by …
Solairedirect Energy India is in talks with the Gujarat government to set up a 20 MW plant at the Solar Energy Park in Kutch at an estimated cost of . 300 crore.
With citizens and government bodies looking to promote bicycles, a city-based engineer has claimed to have invented a solar-motor pedi-cab, (a tricycle of sorts) that could potentially replace the traditional auto rickshaw. Chunabhatti-based PK Pillai has now sent the designs to IIT-Bombay for comments are looking for funding to promote …
The Municipal Corporation of Gwalior has received consent in principle from the Government of India for its proposal of solar city. The representative of Bangalore-based Elpro Energy Dimensions Pvt Ltd company gave presentation in this connection before Mayor Sameeksha Gupta, Collector Akash Tripathi and Commissioner of municipal corporation NBS Rajput. …
Germany's policies prove that renewable sources of energy are a viable option. IN September 2010, the German Federal Environment Agency announced that by 2050 the country would be in a position to meet all of its electricity requirements from renewable energy sources as opposed to the present 16 per cent. …
