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: Union Energy Minister Farooq Abdullah on Thursday said India is keen to generate 20,000 MW of solar energy by 2020 to drastically minimise use of fossil fuel. Speaking at the inauguration of a daylong workshop-cum-exhibition at Delhi Secretariat on
As the world watches the proceedings at the Copenhagen climate summit, West Bengal has started taking small but steady steps to promote the use of renewable energy. The state saw the inauguration of the country
A German solar company Azur Solar GmbH has signed a MoU with Raza Impex Pvt Ltd Pakistan during the visit of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to Germany. According to Board of Investment (BoI) here on Monday, the signing ceremony was attended by the officials of German Ministry of Economics …
1,300 MW target set for first phase in three years. The first megawatt level solar power generation plant in West Bengal was commissioned in Asansol on Tuesday. The function coincided with Copenhagen's international meet on climate change. Manish Basu Though the Centre had announced its ambitious plan for producing 20,000 …
The United Nations Climate Change Conference, 2009 received a shot in the arm on its opening morning as an authoritative analysis showed that if countries deliver on their present commitments for the year 2020, they could almost keep the global rise in temperatures to within 2 degrees Celsius of pre-industrial …
This policy brief examines the feasibility of scaling up solar power development in North Africa to promote regional development goals on the one hand, and climate protection targets for North Africa and Europe on the other. It identifies the opportunities, risks, and challenges associated with efforts to expand solar energy …
After Debut, Solar Plane Set For Round-The-World Trip Geneva: The prototype of Solar Impulse, a pioneering Swiss bid to fly around the world on solar power, briefly took off for the first time on Thursday but under battery power, the organisers said. The high-tech single-seater with the wingspan of an …
Modular cabins with a capacity of 100 people to be set up. Three will come up this month as part of trial run Ambika Pandit | TNN Night shelters for homeless, which the government sets up each winter, are mostly dingy, filthy and cold. But this year, they could be …
K Subramanya The final Solar Mission document does not mention details of the financing required. This is peculiar since an earlier version projected that Rs 92,000 cr will be required over 30 years. he much awaited National Solar Mission was finally Tlaunched on November 19. The final 15-page document, which …
German Ambassador to Bangladesh Holger Michael yesterday said Germany will give Bangladesh 6.5 million euros in grant for installing three lakh solar home systems in the rural areas by 2012. In a meeting with the state minister at his office, the German envoy also mentioned another 8.6 million euros for …
In Nature India, Pew's Namrata Patodia explains why India should be part of a global climate deal. for full text: http://www.nature.com/nindia/ 2009/091203/full/nindia.2009.348.html
This article shares the experience of deploying CSPP (Community Solar Power Plants) by a private enterprise in two villages of India. The article touches upon various aspects of village electrification, such as village mobilization, capacity building, technical solutions, and project execution.
Passive solar heating of houses is a clean technology which was made mandatory in the government/semi-government sector in 1994 in the Western Himalaya state of Himachal Pradesh. HP is the first state in India to take such a policy decision for promoting energy efficiency in buildings. A Solar House Action …
This paper points out the challenges in identifying goods used solely for renewable energy generation purposes for computing trade statistics. It also highlights goods for which identification is relatively easier and those sectors which appear to be more trade-intensive than others. In addition, it shows the key exporting and importing …
This paper, prepared in support of the Major Economies Forum (MEF) Global Partnership by the International Energy Agency, seeks to inform decision making and prioritisation of RD&D; investments and other policies to accelerate low-carbon energy technologies in the MEF and IEA member countries and others by providing three primary sets …
This paper focuses on the potential role that large-scale energy storage systems can play in future power systems. The starting point and basis for simulations is the Energy Technology Perspectives 2008 (ETP) BLUE scenario for power supply. According to the scenario, increased use of renewable energy and nuclear technologies can …
