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 …
A $6 cardboard box that uses solar power to cook food, sterilize water and could help 3 billion poor people cut greenhouse gases, has won a $75,000 prize for ideas to fight global warming. The "Kyoto Box," named after the United Nations' Kyoto Protocol that seeks to cut emissions of …
In the backdrop of scarcity of electricity one may think of daylight saving by advancing clock timing which is in practice in Europe and other countries. Bangladesh is a tropical country where difference of day and night time is not too wide. Sun shines 10 to 12 hours in daytime …
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Hasan Mahmud yesterday sought assistance from Switzerland for strengthening local government bodies and supplying solar panel to meet the demand for power in remote areas. Mahmud sought the Swiss cooperation for imparting training to the women vice chairmen of the upazila parishads. He made the …
Participants of a multi-topic international symposium have overwhelmingly demanded reversal of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) privatisation, observing that the private management has failed to enhance the utility
GOUTAM DAS AA | BENGALURU The budding solar industry in India, somewhat pegged back by the poor economic climate, wants the National Solar Mission to be operationalised. The National Action Plan for Climate Change, experts say, is excellent as a programme but the government needs to fix
TIRUNELVELI: The Indian Railways, which is actively exploring the possibilities of tapping non-conventional energy sources across the country to meet a portion of its ever-growing energy needs and executing a couple of projects in this direction at vantage points, will generate 50 MW electricity from solar energy by installing the …
Chatting with a visitor about energy issues in the back of the Greater Mount Carmel Baptist Church here, a group of women exploded in laughter at the idea that their electric rates were among the lowest in the nation. One of the 21 coal-fired power plants in Missouri that emit …
United Nations climate talks threaten Saudi Arabia's economic survival and the kingdom wants support for any shift from fossil fuels to other energy sources such as solar power, its lead climate negotiator said. Contrasting interests of different countries are challenging faltering climate talks, meant to forge by December a new …
At first glance, a new day seems to be dawning for the overshadowed solar sector in Australia, the world's sunniest continent. The government is pushing through a carbon trading scheme that will penalize big greenhouse gas emitters; a major piece of renewables legislation is due for approval within months, setting …
Japan's subsidies for home solar panels have attracted far fewer applicants than planned, industry data showed on Wednesday, underscoring the likelihood of bold government steps to promote solar power. Greater spending on solar power systems is expected to be a key feature of Japan's new stimulus plan, its fourth such …
Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin unveiled his economic recovery plan for Russia in a speech to Parliament on Monday, which in sharply focused terms explained the need to generate domestic consumer demand to substitute for shriveling oil exports. The plan offers $90 billion in stimulus spending, with an emphasis on …
Plans for a solar powered racing car which will cruise at 60 mph using the same power as a hairdryer have been unveiled by students at Cambridge University. The car, codenamed
The United States is ready to take a leading role in tackling climate change, President Barack Obama said on Sunday, receiving a cautious welcome from European Union hosts at talks in the Czech capital Prague. Obama made the commitment at an EU-US summit intended to mend transatlantic ties stretched by …
Green Infra Ltd, promoted by IDFC Private Equity fund, is set to invest over Rs 3,000 crore in renewable power generation projects in India by the end of the current Plan period (2012).
Rahul Gandhi might just have to rewrite his energy security script, with the protagonist of his story choosing to look the renewable way. News is that Kalavati Bandurkar, whose story the MP had so forcefully narrated in the parliament last July for drawing a connect between poverty and nuclear energy, …
Chandigarh: The UT Administration is considering a proposal to make Chandigarh a solar city. A draft of the detailed project report prepared by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) submitted to the Administration last week says if suitable measures are taken, the UT can meet 20 per cent of its …
TAMIL Nadu will soon have a solar thermal power station in Sivaganga district, chairman, Tamil Nadu Energy Development Authority (TEDA), Mohan Varghese Chungath told a meeting on
