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 …
NEW DELHI: A Japanese delegation led by Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications, Kazuhiro Haraguchi on Wednesday met the Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy Farooq Abdullah and decided to jointly develop a solar city in India. During the bilateral meeting both sides discussed various aspects of cooperation between …
SHILLONG, Jan 5: Solar street lights were inaugurated at Lungwa village and Wakching village and handed over to the respective village council chairmen by the 37th Assam Rifles on behalf of IGAR(N) and DIG 7 Sector AR. The scheme of installing solar street lights was part of Operation Sadbhavana under …
A total of 60 cities of the country are proposed to be developed as Solar Cities during the 11th plan period. The objective is minimum 10 per cent reduction in projected total demand of conventional energy. At least one city in each State to a maximum of five cities in …
Our Bureau NEW DELHI IT started with an idea that struck a veteran professional of 54, barely six years away from retirement. Darbari Seth had spent a lifetime in one of the most polluting of industries
The policy framework provided in the National Solar Mission document is to enable solar technology penetration in the country, both at a centralized and decentralized level. The Ministry had started processes on the major components through a process of consultation with various Ministries as well as other stakeholders including industry …
After the announcement of the National Solar Mission, a Committee was set up to recommend a policy framework to encourage domestic production of raw materials and components required for expanding the domestic industrial base by identifying the critical elements/components which led themselves to indigenous manufacture and recommend the minimum indigenous …
Distribution Utilities can play an important role in promotion of SWHS, as they can reduce conventional energy consumption in cities and towns and facilitate peak load shaving. Most States are facing peaking and energy shortages and thus any Demand Side Management (DSM) measure can assist in providing better and more …
CERC's order stakeholders comments for setting of the benchmark capital cost of solar-PV for financial years 2010-11, 2011-2012 and solar-thermal projects for the years 2010-2011, 2011-2012 and 2012-13. The order also includes comments and calculations presented by stakeholders in a public hearing in February 2010.
The semi-arid region of Bangladesh is called the Barind tract and has already been designated as drought prone. So this region experiences extremes that are clearly in contrast to the climatic condition of the rest of the country. To combat the extreme conditions of climate for sustainable agricultural development a …
Lanco Infratech Limited is one of the fastest growing integrated infrastructure development conglomerates, engaged in power, EPC, solar, natural resources and other infrastructure projects. Lanco is one of India’s largest private independent power producers in India. Lanco follows a ‘concept to commissioning’ EPC execution model that addresses time, cost and …
Dubendorf Air Base (Switzerland): History is being created inside a hangar here that will radically change the way an aircraft flies. The prototype of an aircraft, to be propelled entirely by solar power even at night, has already been successfully tested for a
KOLKATA: West Bengal is expecting to generate business worth Rs. 10,000 crore from clean energies like solar power over the next ten years, Managing Director of West Bengal Green Energy Development Corporation S P Gonchaudhri said. Trade fair Addressing a session on solar energy, held at the India Industrial Trade …
The Public Works Department has finally given the green signal to discom NDPL to install the first solar powered traffic signal at Madhuban Chowk in Rohini and Old Secretariat. As highlighted by Newsline, the PWD had kept the discom waiting for over a year for its approval. The plan is …
R. Sairam MADURAI: The Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA) is planning a major awareness campaign on the use of solar power in southern districts. It will focus on weaning away educational institutions and commercial establishments from conventional sources of power and replacing it with solar energy, TEDA Deputy General …
Congress general secretary, Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday night, stressed the significance of alternative energy sources for comprehensive prosperity even in interior regions. He was addressing a congregation of Self-Help Group (SHG) members at a village in Unchahar of Rae Barei dstrict. The day after, on Wednesday, Rahul inaugurated the Rajeev …
The National Solar Mission is set to go local, with Chief Secretary Rakesh Mehta likely to hold a meeting with the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy to bring the Mission to Delhi. The Mission is the first to be approved under India
Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency will invite proposals soon Officials will visit Germany and Spain where large solar photovoltaic power plants have come up Programme to encourage generation of grid quality power from megawatt-sized solar plants CHENNAI: Half-a-dozen companies have expressed interest in implementing the recently unveiled national programme on …
