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 …
Thiruvananthapuram, May 18 Solar energy has the potential to improve the living conditions of poor rural households in India as well as contribute to the country
German solar companies that have not yet set up US and Chinese production plants are likely to lose out on significant subsidies and will struggle to bring down their production costs to the levels of their Asian peers. Announcements of solar subsidy programmes in the two countries have supported the …
Australia plans to build the world's largest solar power station with an output of 1000 megawatts in a A$1.4 billion (US$1.05 billion) investment, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said on Sunday. The plant would have three times the generating capacity of the current biggest solar-powered electricity plant, which is in California, …
Remote villages of Deh Tiko Baran in Jamshoro district will be provided electricity generated through solar technology at a cost of Rs10 million. The project has been approved by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and will be implemented by the Alternative Energy Development Board, which is working on a programme …
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has approved Rs 10 million for the provision of basic energy services through solar energy to the remote villages of Deh Tiko Baran in Jamshoro district. The PM issued the directive based on the recommendations of Federal Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf. …
The global photovoltaic (PV) power industry is experiencing dramatic technology advances and market growth. Over the past 20 years, manufacturing output has grown by a factor of 200, reaching 5 gigawatts (GW) in 2008. The total accumulated installed capacity is now around 15 GW. This is quite small relative to …
The German solar industry expects a recovery in the second half of this year after a string of earnings showed on Thursday the sector has written off the first three months as the low point of 2009. Conergy, Germany's second-largest solar company by revenue, Phoenix Solar, a builder and operator …
California utility Pacific Gas and Electric Co on Wednesday announced an expanded agreement with solar thermal power company BrightSource Energy Inc for more than 1.3 gigawatts (GW) of clean, solar energy. The utility, a unit of PG&E; Corp, said the new deal supersedes a 900 MW agreement it struck with …
With a series of compromises on the stickiest issues behind them, the House Energy and Commerce Committee is poised to approve far-reaching legislation on energy and global warming by the end of next week. Where it goes from there remains highly uncertain. President Obama on Wednesday praised the committee
About 120 units of electricity are being produced through solar energy system in Khulna everyday under the project for Promotion of Renewable Energy in Khulna division. The project has been implemented by Khulna City Corporation with the technical and financial assistance of European union, Germany and Italy, Dr Bibhuti Roy, …
China called on rich nations to sign up to carbon emission cuts of 25-40 percent by 2020, an official with China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said on Wednesday. The official also said China, the world's top emitter of planet-warming greenhouse gases, wanted to commit to emissions reductions in …
US electricity generators support compromises being reached by Democrats in the House of Representatives on proposed climate legislation, saying the changes would soften the impact on power bills. "It makes (the proposed bill) more reasonable and we've always said we would be willing to support a more reasonable cap-and-trade bill," …
Democrats in the US House of Representatives neared an agreement on a climate-change bill on Tuesday and said they expected to approve it soon. "Our goal is to finish this bill by the close of business next week on the House floor," Representative Edward Markey, chairman of a House Energy …
Power generation from renewable sources such as wind turbines, solar cells and biomass plays a small but important part in satisfying total electricity demand around the world, and is growing at an exponential rate thanks to generous public subsidies and government support. Renewable sources have increased their share of worldwide …
Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Wednesday vowed to push for major changes to a climate change bill that could move through a key committee next week, including a proposal to count nuclear power as a clean energy alternative. The House Energy and Commerce Committee will try by …
The Karnataka Energy Department plans to set up at least one lakh solar roofs in the next five years to emerge as the number one in the country in terms of renewable energy usage.
Australia's government will spend A$4.5 billion (US$3.4 billion) in partnership with private investors to build up to eight commercial power stations testing clean coal and solar technologies, Treasurer Wayne Swan said on Tuesday. In one of few budget surprises, Swan said the leftist government would help fund between two and …
