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 …
South Mumbai has a new landmark near the colonial era Opera House. It is a solar powered automated teller machine (atm), installed by the IndusInd Bank in its four-storey building at Lamington Road. It was inaugurated on December 18. The solar panels spread atop the roof of the building have …
Hoteliers can reduce dependency on electricity and cut their power bill by installing solar heaters, Deepak Gupta, secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) said here on Friday. Addressing a day-long workshop on
BANGALORE: The State has embarked upon an ambitious initiative to reduce power consumption by hotels, hospitals and technical institutions by convincing them to switch over to renewable energy sources, especially solar and through implementation of
After the Vaishno Devi shrine in Jammu and Kashmir, it is now the turn of Golden Temple, Durgiana Mandir, Jallianwala Bagh and India-Pakistan Wagah Border in Amritsar to go green. Officials from the Punjab Energy Development Agency on Wednesday discussed the installation of solar and other renewable energy sources at …
The Gujarat Electricity Regulatory Commission (GERC) has become the first State Regulatory Commission in the country to issue a tariff order on solar energy. It has issued its first tariff order for procurement of power by distribution licensees from solar energy generators (solar photovoltaic and solar thermal projects). According to …
Under its special area demonstration programme, the Union Ministry for New and Renewable Energy has sanctioned a project involving over Rs 1 crore for the implementation of a project on demonstration of renewable energy at Raj Bhavans in the twin capital cities of Jammu and Srinagar. The project envisages installing …
K Subramanya As the details of the implementation guidelines for the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission trickle out, the vast majority of the Indian solar industry has gone into thinking mode over the last two weeks, worrying why the government, in a throwback to an earlier era, is trying to …
AZUR Energy Group of Germany would set up a 50 Mega Watt Solar project in Pakistan and a feasibility report in this regard has already been formulated. This was told by a German Energy Group delegation during the visit of Board of Investment (BoI) here on Wednesday. The delegation also …
A German company has expressed interest in setting up a 50 megawatt solar power plant in the Multan and Bahawalpur areas. A delegation of the AZUR Energy Group, Germany, informed the Board of Investment (BOI) Chairman Saleem H. Mandviwala here on Wednesday that the company had already prepared a feasibility …
London: Space engineers plan to put satellites into orbit that can collect large amounts of energy from the Sun and convert it into a infrared laser beam transmitted back to Earth as an alternative to the planet
SUBOL Mondal, a 55-year-old smalltime farmer, at Dayapur village in the Sunderban forests, West Bengal, is very particular to keep his date with the local banker every month. He is servicing a 15-year loan, at subsidised interest rates, and paying out an equated monthly instalment (EMI) of Rs 900 in …
L. N. Revathy Much of the 40-km drive from Coimbatore to Sirumugai beyond Mettupalayam can be tedious as the road is not broad enough to take the traffic. Vehicle movement is particularly heavy because of the good number of industrial units on either side of Mettupalayam road. But take a …
JAIPUR: The Rajasthan Government has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Clinton Climate Initiative, a programme of the US-based William J. Clinton Foundation, for setting up solar parks in the State. Each solar park will serve as a concentrated zone of solar development and produce 3,000 to 5,000 MW …
Everyday at half-past-nine, Father Mathew settles down at the workshop in the St. Mary's Church campus of Phulwarisharif, Patna, where he stays till 5.30 p.m. His day is spent not dealing directly with the divine but monitoring and fine-tuning the manufacturing process of solar appliances. A Jesuit priest based in …
KOTTAYAM: Ever thought of solar cells doing the same function like that of plants? Set to revolutionise the tapping of solar energy and thereby effectively address the growing energy needs of the globe, of course in a green way, the idea was mooted by L Cattin, M Morsil and J …
