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 …
Trees might be the source of the ultimate green power and researchers have figured out a way to plug into the power generated by trees. Scientists have known for some time that plants can conduct electricity. In fact, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that plants can pack …
California is on track to more than double its power generated by solar panel installations in 2009, going against a downward global trend, according to research released on Wednesday. Research house iSuppli Corp also expects the Golden State's hot-streak to continue in 2010, when California's photovoltaic installations, in terms of …
South African industry needs to tap its 2,000 MW co-generation potential to avoid another power crisis, but is facing pricing and regulatory hurdles, an industry official said on Wednesday. Dave Long, a former regional manager at paper maker Sappi, said that despite a battle lasting years the industry has not …
Hyderabad, Sept. 14 The Union Minister for New and Renewable Energy, Mr Farooq Abdullah, will inaugurate the Phase-I solar PV manufacturing facility of Solar Semiconductor at Fabcity and also launch GE Day on Wednesday. The solar PV (Photovoltaic) unit of Solar Semiconductor will be the first to start manufacturing from …
After the Commonwealth Games floodlights have been switched off at the Thyagaraj Stadium, the complex will continue to light up around 1,800 homes. The highlight venue of the
BHUBANESWAR: With more and more investors queuing up for generation of power from non-conventional and renewable energy sources, Orissa, for the first time, is looking to supplement green energy by hooking to the grid. By 2011, the bio-mass-based power plants are likely to go on stream so as to be …
Ford Motor Co is selling a closed plant near Detroit to two companies that plan a $725 million investment to develop a renewable energy park that could create up to 4,000 jobs, the carmaker said on Thursday. Terms of the sale to Xtreme Power and Clairvoyant Energy were not disclosed. …
India, which hopes to attract $16 billion in renewable energy investments by 2012, will soon announce new policies to cut the cost of investment in the green sector, the chief of India's renewables agency said on Thursday. Proposals include financial incentive models linked to units of green power generated and …
The government announced various electricity-saving measures as the nagging power crunch didn't change much despite previous steps, including the daylight-saving step. Under the latest plan, the government decided to conduct campaigns to encourage people to use solar energy, Concentrated Fluorescent Lamp (CFL) and Electronic Balast. The dos and don'ts announced …
The government has planned to add 717 MW of electricity in national grid from eight public and private-owned power plants by December next, a senior official of Power Division said yesterday. "Of the 717MW of electricity, a total of 480MW would add from public sector and the rest from private …
Chinese government officials signed an agreement on Tuesday with First Solar, an American solar developer, for a 2,000-megawatt photovoltaic farm to be built in the Mongolian desert. Set for completion in 2019, the First Solar project represents the world
Prospects for a new U.N. climate pact in Copenhagen have brightened but negotiations must speed up to meet a December deadline, the head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat said on Tuesday. Yvo de Boer said moves by countries including Japan, China and India to curb greenhouse gases had helped …
First Solar Inc said on Tuesday it plans to build the world's largest solar plant in China in the first major foray by a U.S. company into the Asian nation's fast growing alternative energy sector. Under a memorandum of understanding with the Chinese government, First Solar will build a 2-gigawatt …
Despite Washington's nearly single-minded focus on healthcare reform, the Obama administration still expects the U.S. Senate to pass climate change legislation, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Tuesday. "Right now we are focused on this crusade for healthcare reform for the country and that's where our time and energy will …
Japan's prime minister-elect said on Monday he will forge ahead with a tough 25 percent cut in emissions by 2020, despite growing opposition from industry which says the target will hurt the world's No. 2 economy. But Yukio Hatoyama added that the target, more ambitious than the outgoing government's, was …
Signs Pact To Get Rs 50,000 Cr Investment In 5 Yrs Ahmedabad: The Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI), a programme of US-based William J Clinton Foundation, on Monday announced setting up of the world
Mumbai Come march, Mumbai will have solar-powered streetlights. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has proposed to install solar panels on nearly 50,000 out of 1.25 lakh lampposts across the city. The proposal will be tabled for approval before the civic standing committee on Wednesday. According to the plan, BMC will carry …
