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 …
Bangalore, DHNS: The KERC proposes to fix tariff for solar PV energy at 3.40 per unit for the demonstration projects that will be set up during the 11th plan. According to a release, this tariff will be in addition to the incentive of Rs 12 per unit of solar PV …
CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister, Bhupinder Singh Hooda, on Wednesday announced launching of a new scheme known as "Shiksha Deep' in the State. Speaking at the celebrations of Rajiv Gandhi Akshya Urja Diwas at Panchkula near here, Mr. Hooda said that under this scheme, LED solar lanterns would be provided to …
PANJIM, AUG 20 -- A modern Renewable Energy Park will be established in Margao under Goa Energy Development Agency (GEDA) disclosed Chief Minister Digambar Kamat at a function held to commemorate Rajiv Gandhi Akshay Urja Diwas at Goa Science Centre, Miramar today. The function coincided with the birth anniversary celebration …
San Francisco-based Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E;) agreed last week to purchase power from two solar-panel manufacturers in the state. OptiSolar, based in Hayward, will build a 550-megawatt plant, to be accompanied by a 250-megawatt plant from SunPower of San Jose.
In a plan that would drastically remake New York City's skyline and shores, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg is seeking to put wind turbines on the city's bridges and skyscrapers and in its waters as part of a wide-ranging push to develop renewable energy. The plan, while still in its early …
The power division has drafted a renewable energy policy with an ambitious target of meeting five per cent of total electricity demand by 2015 and 10 per cent by 2020 with renewable energy. At an inter-ministerial meeting, which reviewed the draft on Monday, power secretary M Fouzul Kabir Khan asked …
There were limits to how green Bruce Letvin was willing to go. For years, the 53-year-old anatomy professor had wanted to install solar panels on his Manhattan Beach, Calif., home. But the up-front installation costs always outweighed the benefits for the environment and his conscience. This spring, however, he managed …
The Ministry of Water and Power was committed to promote alternative energy to overcome the acute shortage of energy and to meet the growing demand of electricity in the country. Minister for Water and Power Raja Pervaiz Ashraf said this while talking to Tariq Sayeed, President Saarc Chamber and former …
Two solar power plants to be built in California together will put out more than 12 times as much electricity as the largest such plant today, a fresh indication that solar energy is starting to achieve significant scale. The plants will cover 12.5 square miles, or 32 square kilometers, of …
This piece is in response to a news item which appeared in The Daily Star on August 10 under the headline "1m solar household systems by 2012 to achieve target'. The report said that over 2.30 lakh rural households have been brought under the solar power system in the last …
PG&E;, a California power company, has placed an order for what are believed to be the world's two biggest photovoltaic solar farms, giving a strong endorsement to a technology that few power generators have yet considered to be ready for utility-scale use. Between them the two farms, due to come …
Kolkata, August 12: After installing the city's first rainwater harvesting project in Raj Bhavan, Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi is aiming for another first: a clean energy project to meet the power requirements of Raj Bhavan. Lalu, kin got land in exchange for Rly jobs, as gifts: JD(U) to PMCorruption in projects: …
BY RASHME SEHGAL NEW DELHI Dr Prodipto Ghosh, former secretary in the ministry of environment and forests, currently a special energy adviser with The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), believes the future lies in developing renewable forms of energy. Dr Ghosh, who played a key role in penning the recently …
THIRTY minutes load-shedding every day, undeclared power-cuts any time and the looming threat of an increase in the electricity tariff. For Keralites, electricity comes at a heavy price. No wonder many people are looking for alternative power sources that can keep homes welllit without burning the pocket. For the majority, …
Over 2.30 lakh rural households were brought under the solar power system in last five years by Infrastructure Development Company Ltd (IDCOL) as alternative source of energy. Executive Director of IDCOL, a company under the Ministry of Finance, M Ehsanul Haque yesterday said they have set a target to install …
MARBURG, Germany: This fairy-tale town is stuck in the middle of a utopian struggle over renewable energy. The town council's decision to require solar-heating panels has thrown Marburg into a vehement debate over the boundaries of ecological good citizenship and led opponents to charge that their genteel town has turned …
THE poor may now hope to use nonpolluting lanterns instead of carbon emitting kerosene lamps. The government is considering a proposal to use a portion of kerosene subsidy to fund distribution of solar lanterns in rural areas. The proposal, discussed in the Prime Minister's Energy Co-ordination Committee (ECC) meeting recently, …
