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 …
CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda has urged Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to provide a rebate under Section 80 of the Income Tax Act to individuals investing in the renewable energy sector and restore increased financial assistance on solar pumps for the agricultural sector. In a letter to Dr. …
K Subramanya A Nehru s India moves ahead implementing the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission, one of the key questions that have emerged is the pan-India dissemination and uptake of solar energy at a commercial scale. Though India is abundantly endowed with sunshine, from a technical perspective, only two states …
VELLORE: The Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah has called for research targeted at reducing the cost of storing solar energy in the context of the National Solar Mission, recently launched by the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, which aims at generation of an installed capacity of 20,000 …
PEAK oil has been around for a while now. Energy specialists in India, specially those working in the renewable energy space, are now talking the same about coal: not quite peak coal but an increasing likelihood that coal will not always be available to run power plants. Will this mean …
BENGAL Aerotropolis Projects Ltd (BAPL), in which Singapore's Changi Airport International holds a 26% stake, plans to set up a solar power equipment manufacturing hub within the proposed Rs 10,000-crore airport city coming up in West Bengal. Coined the 'Solar Valley', the area is expected to attract an investment of …
Plans to use concentrating solar power plants in the Sahara to generate and export electricity have been on the table for years. Now, it looks as though political will might help move things forward.
METTUR: Farmers of villages in and around Kolathur have urged the Department of Forest to erect solar fence to prevent elephant herd from straying into their villages and fields. They claimed that since River Palar was fast drying up, the elephant herd in search of water had started straying into …
R. Sairam MADURAI: The Central Government has allotted a sum of Rs. 150 crore to promote the use of solar power among industries. Central financial assistance would be provided under a Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy scheme with the sum being split in to two equal parts for …
Recommendations of the Committee set up for promotion of manufacturing in solar energy in India. This Committee was set up to recommend a policy framework under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission to encourage domestic production of raw materials and components required for expanding the domestic industrial base by identifying …
Preeti Parashar Chandigarh: The ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) has accepted proposals by Haryana for transferring four solar photovoltaic power projects to the national solar mission. The state had signed memorandum of understanding (MoUs) with four independent power producers (IPPs) for setting up power projects amounting to 10 …
ANANTAPUR, Feb. 3: The Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (APIIDC) has decided to set up a solar city, at Kadiri in Anantapur district, with an outlay of Rs 3,000 crore in 5,000 acres. The APIIDC managing director, Mr B.P. Acharya, had announced setting up of a solar city at …
S. Sundar Installs a 10 kw solar power plant to mitigate power shortage Alternative: Solar power plant at Balaganapathy Mills, Malli village, in Srivilliputtur. SRIVILLIPUTTUR: Peak hour restriction on usage of power for industrial units and two-hour load shedding has made a private spinning unit near here to experiment with …
The state government is planning to set up 20 eco-friendly houses at Sunderbans for victims of cyclone Aila. At a function organised by an NGO, South Asian Forum for Environment (SAFE) prior to World Wetland Day, Mr SP Gon Chowdhury, managing director of West Bengal Green Energy Development Corporation (WBGEDC) …
Emphasising that the National Climate Change Action Plan will only work with local and state level implementation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh kickstarted the first National Conference of Chief Secretaries on Monday, where state-level climate change action plans were discussed. And Delhi finally appears ready to comply. Being the first state …
In a first of its kind effort to encourage technology-driven development at the grassroots, the science-related departments of the government got together to inform the states about indigenous technologies currently available in the country and how they can be utilised to solve everyday problems. Seven scientific departments, including the Department …
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Govt. of India has come out with the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission (JNNSM) with the objective of establishing India as a global leader in solar energy by creating policy conditions for its diffusion across the country as soon as possible. This …
