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 …

Parliament going green, solar power to light up Houses

Renewable Energy Ministry Working On Rs 2.53-Crore Project Likely To Become Operational By February Next THE Parliament House complex is going green. With the emphasis on energy conservation and pollution free environment gaining momentum, Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar has greenlighted the project to reduce the dependence on conventional sources …

Sunny nights: Solar lamps for 40,000 girl students in UP

There could not have been a better gift for 40,000 girls studying in 454 Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalayas (KGBV) in Uttar Pradesh. A Swedish company, Ikea

Reconstructed Thyagaraj Stadium inaugurated

Multipurpose stadium boasts of world-class infrastructure NEW DELHI: Union Sports and Youth Affairs Minister M. S. Gill and Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday jointly inaugurated the newly refurbished Thyagaraj Stadium for the upcoming Commonwealth Games in the city. Boasting world-class infrastructure, the multipurpose air-conditioned stadium has a total …

Solar power project to come up in Hanakon

Ind-Bharath Power (Karwar) Limited (IBPKL), has decided to construct a solar power project at Hanakon near Karwar. The company had earlier shelved its proposed plan to set up a thermal power plant the same site. The company in its affidavit before the National Environment Appellate Authority, here said that it …

Measuring and managing the environmental cost of coffee production in Latin America

Coffee is a major international commodity, and because of this, coffee production has the potential for considerable global impacts on the environment. These impacts can include the consumption of energy, water, land and the loss of native forest. Here we quantify these costs using Costa Rica as a case study, …

US $ 13.5m solar power plant coming up in Hambantota

The first Government sector solar power plant costing US$ 13.5 million will be established at Baruthakanda, Hambantota, said renewable Sustainable Energy Authority Director Athula Jayathunga. Japan and Korea are providing aid for this. The plant will contribute 900kw to the national grid. Solar power technology is important because it produces …

Haryana registers mini projects under national solar mission

Preeti Parashar Chandigarh: Haryana has initiated the process of registration of developers of small-scale solar photo voltaic (SPV) rooftop power plants to be included under the national solar mission (NSM). As per the proposed guidelines for small solar power plants, connected to 11 kv grid under the national solar mission, …

Tripura building rules to make solar energymandatory

AGARTALA, March 28: The Tripura government has planned to make solar energy tapping provision mandatory in Building Rules for reducing dependency on conventional sources. Informing this, official sources today said the Agartala Municipal Council (AMC) authority held meeting with businessmen, hotel and restaurant owners and concluded that water heating devices …

Tripura Building Rules to make solar energy mandatory

Agartala: The Tripura government has planned to make

China surges ahead of U.S. in clean energy race

Ananth Krishnan BEIJING: China spent almost twice as much as the United States on clean energy investments last year, and is now set to take the lead as the world's premier green energy power, according to a report released on Thursday. In 2009, China invested $34.6 billion on expanding its …

MoU signing for solar park

The memorandum of understanding for the second phase of country

Centre working on project to tap solar energy for cellphone towers

PUDUCHERRY: The Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy along with the Union Ministry of Telecommunications is working on converting almost all cellphone towers into

NTPC wont be allowed to sell power in open market

Govt Feels NTPC Should Focus On Other Avenues Such As Wind & Solar Energy THE power ministry has ruled out any possibility of allowing state-owned power major NTPC to sell power in the open market.

IFC to invest $10 million in Azure Power

New Delhi: In the first ever investment of its kind by World Bank

NDPL wants 1500kW solar power before 2010 Games

New Delhi: In line with its commitment to minimize greenhouse gases, discom NDPL has prepared an ambitious plan to tap renewable sources of energy. Apart from its several solar projects that already exist, the discom is working on various other plans with an aim to generate up to 1500kW power …

Centre offers incentives for domestic use of solar power

R. Sairam Harnessing solar energy may address the energy problems in rural areas. MADURAI: Solar power generation units no longer remain in the sole domain of industries as a new scheme of the Central Government offers generous incentives to promote its domestic use. The Rooftop Power and Stand alone Small …

Need to realign Indias National Solar Mission

While solar energy has great potential as a renewable energy source for India, in terms of resource availability, flexibility in scale and applications, it is one of the most expensive of such options today. The Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, with an ambitious target of 22 GW of solar power …

PEDA gets project to solarise Rashtrapati Bhawan, Parliament

Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) has been entrusted with the work of solarising important structures including the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament House and the Sri Harmandir Sahib. All the gadgets of these buildings would be run through solar energy under the project and work on the first phase would be started …

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