Solar Energy

Reply filed by the state of Odisha regarding increasing instances of high energy swell waves, May 1, 2025

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 …

ADB to give BD two solar and wind-run power plants

Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide its newly innovated solar- and wind-run combined power plants to Bangladesh for the country's power generation. This was disclosed by visiting ADB Vice President Xiaoyu Zhao when he called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office Sunday. The ADB will provide two units …

Solar power changes lives

In Chargazaria, a remote village of Shibchar in Madaripur with no link to the electric grid, Amir Ali had stopped performing his prayers in the local mosque. He is a devout man, but in the heat and humidity of the summer, Ali struggled to pray in the mosque, so he …

ADB to provide solar-wind power plants

Asian Development Bank (ADB) will provide its newly innovated solar and wind run combined power plants to Bangladesh for the country's power generation. The multinational lending agency will provide two units of their new generation power plants to Bangladesh, which will be set up in the country's remote areas to …

Few takers for pricey solar power in Delhi

Tariff Policy Late, Delhi Misses Central Rebate Neha Lalchandani | TNN New Delhi: It was touted as a huge fillip to Delhi's crawling renewable energy sector but solar power has turned into the proverbial white elephant - to expensive for the 'aam admi' to maintain or use. Despite various initiatives …

Users handbook on solar water heaters

India is blessed with abundant solar energy. Solar water heater system is a technically proven successful application for use of this energy. However the market for the solar water heater is not yet developed fully. This informative hand book on solar water heater is prepared, for the Ministry of New …

Lanco bags contract to set up solar power plant at Parliament

Chandigarh: Lanco Solar Energy has bagged a prestigious contract for setting up a solar power project at Parliament House here. Five companies, including Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries (Solar Group), Punj Llyod and Wipro Ecoenergy, were vying for the solar power project.

ADB, IFC keen on solar park in Patan

Rajiv Shah | TNN Gandhinagar: Gujarat government is in talks with Asian Development Bank (ADB) and International Finance Corporation (IFC) to fund one of its most ambitious projects to promote solar energy

Lend to solar power projects: Farooq

MUMBAI, Aug 25: Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Dr Farooq Abdullah, today asked bankers to ‘dare’ and take the risk of lending to solar power projects, while assuring Government support for a successful solar story in the energy-starved country. "Bankers are frightened and feel their money is not …

Banks seek nod to float tax-free debt to fund green projects

  BANKERS have asked the Centre to allow them to float tax-free long-tenure bonds to finance solar projects which are facing funding problems. Bankers said they were not averse to financing these projects, but there were certain issues that needed resolution. Speaking at a CII event, S Sridhar, chairman, Central Bank …

Power hope for dark villages

Ranchi, Aug. 20: More than 300 villages groping in the dark can hope for illuminated nights ahead. Jharkhand Renewable Energy Development Agency (JREDA) today decided to prepare a detailed project report (DPR) of 311 villages under the Centre

India-U.S. clean energy research centre established

Narayan Lakshman WASHINGTON: India and the U.S. on Friday formally signed an agreement for cooperation on a joint Clean Energy Research Development Centre. The agreement follows from the discussions held between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and President Barack Obama during the former's visit to Washington in November 2009. At the …

Delhi to harness energy from waste, solar power

NEW DELHI: A bio-gas plant that would use the bio-degradable waste generated in the Delhi Secretariat to provide gas to its canteen was inaugurated by Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday as part of the Akshay Urja Diwas (renewable energy day) celebrations. Ms. Dikshit said harnessing renewable energy is a …

Students develop solar powered 2-wheeler

The students of Mechanical, Electrical and Electronics, Electronics and Communication branches of Canara Engineering College have developed a solar powered tribrid two-wheeler named V-Spark-3, which will be inaugurated by the District- in-Charge Minister J Krishna Palemar on August 20. Speaking to the presspersons on Wednesday, Electrical and Electronics Department Head …

MP plans to provide solar power to 425 villages

The state of Madhya Pradesh plans to provide solar power to 425 villages by the end of the 2010 financial year, and has plans to generate 200MW of power through solar energy by 2013, suggest reports. The state is developing a full infrastructure solar park in the village of Ganeshpura, …

India, China urged to tap solar, wind energy

CHENNAI: India and China can provide solutions to the energy resource problem by tapping solar and wind energy as alternative, said polar explorer Robert Swan here on Monday. Addressing an interactive session organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Mr. Swan said use of these alternative, renewable energy sources …

Energy’s new face

The rakish oil tycoon of the American small screen, J R Ewing, is back. But in a new avatar. Larry Hagman, the actor who played the scheming Texas oilman on the long-running television show, Dallas, is reprising his role as Ewing in an advertising campaign to promote solar energy and …

Astonfield bets big on Indias solarpower mkt

Noor MohammadNew Delhi: US-based Astonfield is betting big on the Indian solar market as the government starts work to implement the first phase of the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM).The company has planned to develop 1,200 mw solar power generation capacity by 2017 with an estimated investment of over …

Farooq moots solar plant in Union Carbide premises

New and Renewable Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah today said a park and solar energy plant should be established in the premises of the now-closed Union Carbide here in memory of the 1984 Bhopal Gas disaster victims.''Positive indications were received from Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan during our related …

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