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 …
More than 100 mayors of us cities congregated at Seattle on November 1-2 as part of a climate protection campaign. They sought an 80 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas (ghg) emissions by 2050, but said that they cannot do it alone. "We are showing what is possible in light …
Fraser place may someday loom large in the annals of environmental history. Completed in Shenzhen in 2005, the crescent-shaped service apartment is China's first green commercial building. The windows are designed to capture breezes, reducing the need for air conditioning. Rainwater runs off the roof and into an irrigation system …
a new solar panel unveiled by Georgia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta in April 2007 promises to produce about 60 times more electricity than traditional solar cells. The new cells are smaller and less complex. Conventional flat solar cells reflect a significant portion of the light that hits them, reducing …
A few years ago, Shaktipada Jena, a small farmer could dream of buying a home solar power system. He'd have to stretch his means to save between Rs 3,100 and Rs 4,800, the going rate. But now prices have gone through the roof and a solar unit is out of …
This document contains the White paper on Project Surya, aiming at reduction of air pollution and global warming by cooking with renewable sources: a controlled and practical experiment in rural India. Project Surya will deploy inexpensive solar and other energy-efficient cookers in rural India and document their role in reducing …
Last year Microsoft outfitted its campus in Silicon Valley with a solar system from Sun-Power, a local company that makes high-efficiency (and, some say, the world's best-looking) solar panels. A few months later Microsoft's arch-rival, Google, began building something on an even grander scale-one of the largest corporate solar installations …
All for ageing oil well Oil and Natural Gas Corporation has inked an agreement with the Russian Tatarska Geophysica Technologies (TGT) for increasing production of matured fields. TGT is a service provider in well and reservoir management. The MoU is to put the ageing fields back into production and arrest …
This new report from EurObserver is being published at a time when the whole world is looking for solutions to the challenges of climate change, energy supply security and competitiveness. Growth in the renewable energy markets of Europe will make important contributions towards meeting these challenges. Decision makers at all …
This paper is based on a review of the effectiveness of solar home systems (SHS) in Africa in meeting users expectations on a service based analytical approach. Various projects have deployed SHS on the promise that they are cost-effective, can meet end-user demands, have ability to alleviate poverty, can save …
This document contains the Report of the working group on new and renewable energy for XITH five year plan (2007-12) . The 5 Programmes proposed for 11th plan are: (i) Grid-Interactive and Distributed Renewable Power; (ii) Renewable Energy for Rural Applications; (iii) Renewable Energy for Urban, Industrial & Commercial Applications; …
• The global potential for renewable energy is 20,000 times than that of the daily consumption of atomic and fossil energy. In 2005, non-hydro renewables generated only 2 per cent of world's net generation of 4.06 trillion kilowatt-hour (kwh) • At present, there are two principle methods employed by governments …
The overall goal of this policy is to contribute to rural poverty reduction and environmental conservation by ensuring access to clean, reliable and appropriate energy in the rural areas. In order to achieve this goal, the
scientists in Australia have developed a sun and wind driven ventilation system to cool commercial buildings. They hope that the new system will reduce the power requirements of a commercial ventilation system by 15-20 per cent. Designed by Simon Shun, working under the supervision of N A Ahmed at the …
Power to the people: The Sri Lankan government has started working on a five-year national plan on power and energy development to provide quality service at cheaper rates and to solve the country's power crisis. Under the plan, construction of the first natural gas-fired power plant with a 300 MW-capacity …
it may soon be possible for you to get a bubble wrap for your house or your soda bottle or for anything you want to keep either cool or warm. Plus, it will run free of cost on the most abundant energy source known
Achieving an efficient configuration of the various forms of energy requires consistency in the policies governing each sector and consistency in the pricing of different types of energy. There is also a need for clarity in the direction in which we wish to move in aspects like energy security, research …
Achieving an efficient configuration of the various forms of energy requires consistency in the policies governing each sector and consistency in the pricing of different types of energy. There is also a need for clarity in the direction in which we wish to move in aspects like energy security, research …
