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 …
Giving relief to residents, the Chandigarh Administration has extended the deadline for installing solar plants by six months. Sources said the decision was taken after a large number of associations of traders, industrialists and residents approached the Administration seeking an extension of the deadline citing various reasons. The sources said …
Tripura government has embarked into a plan to provide power connection to 52,000 odd remote tribal families tapping solar energy by six moths under Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya). Deputy Chief Minister, holding the charge of power Jishnu Dev Varma said here today that providing power supply …
New policy hopes to expand their reach and spread When the lights went on in Birgaon for the first time on a chilly winter evening late last December, it allowed the government to announce in April this year that every village in India now had electricity. Every home in Birgaon …
Even as the recently announced national wind-solar hybrid policy is expected to boost renewable power generation, setting up adequate number of evacuation network will be critical, experts say. Under the new policy, the government intends to auction wind-solar hybrid projects on tariff based competitive bidding, and these can be set …
In a first such initiative in Maharashtra's prisons, the Yerawada Central Jail in Pune has reduced the usage of LPG by opting for an energy-efficient solar cooking system. This switch to a solar steam-based system has helped the correctional facility cut down on consumption of around seven cylinders per week. …
South Africa is set to commission its first solar powered desalination plant at the end of October 2018 in Witsand, Hessequa Municipality in the Western Cape. The project, initiated by Prof Erwin Schwella, Professor of Public Leadership at Stellenbosch and Tilburg Universities together with the municipality, is co-funded by the …
A report published by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis describes how solar energy is accelerating the transformation of the global electricity-generation sector through gains in technology innovation and price deflation. The study—“Solar Is Driving a Global Shift in Energy Markets”—details some of the world’s biggest utility-scale and …
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has estimated that India will lead the world in terms of the power consumed for residential cooling. The agency estimates that India’s cooling-related energy demand will soar from 90 terawatt hour in 2016 to 1,350 terawatt hour (TWh) in 2050 — a 15-fold increase. “The …
The Bhandup plant treats 2,300 MLD (million litres daily) of water. It requires 45 lakh units of power on a monthly basis, which comes to 5.40 crore units every year. TWO YEARS after being approved by the civic standing committee, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has finally completed the work …
Nagpur: Efforts of energy minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule to go for renewable energy are paying dividends with two private companies agreeing to supply MSEDCL the cheapest solar power in the country. Four other companies will supply solar power at a rate 1 paise per unit higher than the minimum rate. MSEDCL …
Most of the leaders in the domestic renewable energy sector believe that developers have been irrationally aggressive while bidding for solar and wind power plants in the reverse auctions held by the central and state governments. Most of the leaders in the domestic renewable energy sector believe that developers have …
India may not achieve its renewable energy target of having 100 GW of solar energy and 60 GW of wind power by 2022, as per a survey conducted by a consulting firm Bridge to India. India is expected to add total 66 GW of solar energy and 52 GW of …
MUMBAI: The BMC uploaded its draft advertisement and sky sign display policy guidelines on its website on Tuesday. The civic body has invited suggestions within 30 days. Illumination of display boards with solar energy will get a 10% rebate in advertisement fees for the first year. CCTV cameras must be …
India set a new record with 9.6 GW of solar installations in 2017, which was more than double the 4.3 GW installed in 2016 India emerged as the third largest solar market in the world in 2017 behind China and the US, Mercom Communications India said in a report. "In …
अहमदाबाद। गुजरात के सुप्रसिद्ध मंदिरों को अब सौर ऊर्जा द्वारा रोशन किया जाएगा। राज्य सरकार सोमनाथ, अंबाजी, द्वारका, बहुचराजी तथा शामलाजी सहित विविध मंदिरों में सोलर पैनल लगाने का निर्णय किया है। राज्य के मशहूर मंदिरों में वार्षिक 70 हजार से दो लाख रुपए बिजली का बिल आता है। इसके …
Over 1.6 lakh solar jobs created till 2016-17; wind industry has spawned 61,000 jobs The solar power sector created 164,400 jobs by the end of 2016-17, while solar heating gave jobs to 17,000 people. The wind industry has spawned 61,000 jobs. This is according to a recent report by the …
In yet another effort to boost clean energy generation, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) today unveiled a National Wind-solar Hybrid Policy that which seeks to promote new projects as well as hybridisation of the existing ones. The MNRE is also in the process of launching a scheme …
The date of submission of bids for 5,000 MW inter-state transmission system (ISTS)-based solar projects (2000 MW and 3000 MW capacity) under the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) is likely to be extended by a couple of weeks. A pre-bid meeting decided to issue revised tender documents. The last …
Thirsty Middle Eastern and North African countries could tap into their solar-energy potential to cope with freshwater scarcity, according to resource experts. Water could be saved by switching to renewable solar energy from fossil fuel electricity generation that uses up water, said the World Resources Institute (WRI). The findings show …
A 140 kWp solar photovoltaic plant, inaugurated today by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at Milan Vihar Co-Operative Society, IP Extension area, here will generate 1,71,696 units in a year and society will earn generation based incentive of Rs 3,43,392 per year. The Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Management Centre, Department …
