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 …
Dina Cappiello The natural gas industry, which produces more gas here than nearly every other county in Colorado, has been relegated to the shadows THE SUN HAD just crested the distant ridge of the Rocky Mountains, but already it was producing enough power for the electric meter on the side …
AMERICA wants one. So do Australia, Brazil, Britain, China, Germany, Italy and Japan, to name a few. Even Malta is building one. Big utilities, such as Electricit
The long-awaited "smart grid" for U.S. power could play a major role in rolling out renewable energy like wind and solar, the top U.S. power regulator said on Wednesday. Demand response, the heart of the "smart grid" concept of a power system that can respond immediately to changes in supply …
Two months ahead of the United Nations climate change conference in Copenhagen, the world body's telecoms arm urged governments and companies to use information technology to fight global warming. "Information technologies contribute 2 to 3 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. But they can also reduce emissions in other sectors …
Prashant Rupera | TNN Vadodara/Anand: You might have heard of terrace gardens in flats and pent houses. But ever heard of a wind and solar farm on any terrace? A terrace of a cold storage in Vadodara is now equipped with a unique micro wind solar hybrid farm that not …
Three public sector companies are planning to set up 60-80 megawatt solar plants with an investment of Rs 1,000-1,200 crore. The projects will come up in Rajasthan, Punjab and the Leh region of Jammu and Kashmir. Rajasthan Rajya Vidyut Prasaran Nigam Ltd (RVPN) would set up a plant at Suratgarh …
The author has been using solar dryers for food processing especially for making amla candy, for the last five years. Solar dryer is an innovative design with combined draught, natural and induced with fan.
India is yet to develop the energy infrastructure to power the entire country and therefore has an opportunity to build the infrastructure of the future. Greenpeace believes that reforms in the energy sector would require nothing short of an Energy [R]evolution. To ensure that everyone has access to quality power …
An enormous offshore wind farm in the North Sea, a large geothermal power plant near Hanover and a 400-billion-euro project to generate solar electricity in the desert
The Renewable Energy for Rural Livelihoods (RERL) project tries to demonstrate the use of renewable sources of energy in reducing poverty through improved quality of life and increased livelihood opportunities in remote, non-electrified villages of India that are not likely to get electricity from the grid. The objectives of the …
The Renewable Energy for Rural Livelihoods (RERL) project tries to demonstrate the use of renewable sources of energy in reducing poverty through improved quality of life and increased livelihood opportunities in remote, non-electrified villages of India that are not likely to get electricity from the grid. The objectives of the …
Solar power has played practically no role in India up to now. But that may change soon. The government has introduced an ambitious program to expand the country's solar output to 20 gigawatt (GW) by 2020 and boost the local manufacturing market.
• The temple complex at Shirdi in Maharashtra's Ahmednagar district, dedicated to the 19th century saint Sai Baba, now has one of the world's largest solar cooking systems •The solar rays are used to heat water and generate steam that is directed through pipes into steam cookers used for cooking …
Despite Farooq Abdullah being the Union Cabinet Minister for New and Renewable Energy, the use of solar energy in the state is quite low. Contrary to the department claims of having spread enough awareness about the benefits of renewable energy among the masses, people in the state seem to have …
China may have to put the brakes on the construction of nuclear power plants to ensure the plants are safe, the country's top energy planning official told reporters on Sunday. Zhang Guobao, head of the National Energy Administration, warned of signs of "improper" and "too fast" development of nuclear power …
Italy will have to double its renewable energy capacity and invest 50 billion euros ($73.29 billion) to meet the European Union's climate change targets for 2020, chairman of Italy's renewable energy body said on Monday. EU leaders agreed in December 2008 that their countries would make 20 percent of energy …
The government is set to develop four satellite towns surrounding the capital to ease the housing crisis and pressure on utilities on the capital. The four towns, each equipped with one 100,000 accommodation facility, will be implemented under public-private partnership initiative, state minister for housing and public works Abdul Mannan …
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wants to make Los Angeles the "cleanest, greenest big city" in the United States, but a key project to bring renewable energy across the desert to the city could change under pressure from environmental groups. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the largest U.S. municipal utility …
