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 …
Himachal Pradesh will have the country's first solar-grade silicon plant, based on environment friendly, state-of-the-art technology. The plant will be set-up by Indo-Norwegian Solar Company. "It will manufacture silicon ignots and wafers at 70 per cent lower cost, to meet India's emerging demand for solar cells. The price of silicon …
Washington: Ever thought the curtains in your house are not bright enough? Researchers at MIT have created designs for flexible photovoltaic materials, known as solar textiles, that can also be draped as curtains, which may change the way buildings receive and distribute energy. According to a report in Science Daily, …
WIND power works, and will work better in the future. But wind is only an interim stop on the way to a world where electricity no longer relies on fossil fuels. The ultimate goal is to harvest the sun
Grameen Shakti, has installed 1,50,000 solar home systems in rural and remote areas of Bangladesh Bangladesh's rural development bank, Grameen Shakti bagged the coveted
NEW DELHI: Power Minister A. K. Walia has asked all the three private power distribution companies in the Capital to prepare their Action Plan for Solar Energy Generation Pilot Projects in their respective areas. Talking to mediapersons, the Minister said the discoms had been asked to prepare the Solar Energy …
Jacquelyn Hayes highlights a method for better biogas production biogas plants don't function well when ambient temperatures are low and hence remain out of use for the greater part of the year
Solar water heaters require only a one-time investment, after which there are no running costs, writes Deepti Adlakha Solar solutions: It is important for people to recognise the underlying potential of solar energy. The recent fuel crisis has created an urgent need to examine and opt for alternate sources of …
Q-Cells, the world's largest independent solar cell manufacturer, yesterday confirmed that it would invest $3.5bn in Mexico to supply US and Latin America markets with a new generation of solar panels. The investment, which will be the German group's first in the Americas and is thought to be the biggest …
Next year will mark the 150th anniversary of the US's first oil well, in Titusville, Pennsylvania. Today, we are working to build a new economic future based on clean, renewable energy. The innovators of Titusville have modern-day counterparts in the entrepreneurs, scientists, investors and working people who are part of …
Of the reported 25 lakh homes worldwide that use solar home systems today, about" 3.6 lakh are in India, second only to China which has four lakh solar home system users. The market for solar photo voltaics (PV) continues to find its relevance in such decentralized off-grid applications because despite …
If Dubai's Burj Al-Arab hotel with its billowing sail is changing world architecture, wait till the India Tower, currently under construction on Mumbai's marine row Queen's Necklace, gets into business in 2010. At 300 m, it may not match Burj in height (321 metres) but it will stand tall for …
In a bid to resolve the worsening power crisis in the State, the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has chosen 54 interior villages of Asom including six in Jorhat to be powered by alternative source of energy. In Jorhat district, the Forest Department has began the contract …
CR Bhattacharjee Solar power in India had found it difficult to attain commercial viability for quite some time. It had generally been pushing forward in niche areas like rural electrification, which of course is justifiable in areas deprived from grid connectivity. Certainly alternative viable options to provide power to the …
The Forest Department will provide solar lights for electrification of six remote villages in the district. A meeting was held today between the Jorhat Deputy Commissioner and Forest officials to discuss the Centre-sponsored project. Preliminary details regarding the implementation of the project were discussed in the meeting. The use of …
The neglect of India's energy resources and the failure to adopt a scientific approach to maximise their use are unforgivable, and the simultaneous pursuit of exotic treaties is unfortunate. India faces the peril of sharp energy inadequacy today
After part of a cooling tower collapsed last August at Vermont's only nuclear power plant, the company that runs it blamed rotting wooden timbers that it had failed to inspect properly. The uproar that followed rekindled environmental groups' hopes of shutting down the aging plant. Workers last August examined the …
We have heard all about Al Gore's inconvenient truths on climate change. Now comes an extremely convenient truth from his German counterpart. Social Democrat MP Hermann Scheer, who has been dubbed more revolutionary than Greenpeace, says the great unspoken truth is how painless it will be to convert the world …
The Delhi government's "go green go solar' campaign is fast catching up with educational institutions switching to renewable energy to meet their water needs in the power-starved national Capital. Around 50 schools and colleges including Miranda House, Sri Ram College of Commerce, St Stephans, Modern School, Delhi Public School at …
