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 …
Pune: Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) can save around Rs 1 crore annually on electricity bills thanks to the civic body's plan to install solar power plants on civic properties. As many as 14 rooftops solar plants will be set up on PMC buildings. "We have given approval for the project. …
Instead of incentivising distribution companies, the government must reward developers who create capacity When your achievement is 8-9% of your target, things are not quite all right. That is the reality of the rooftop solar business in India today. Against a target of 10,000 MW for March 31, 2018, the …
Agra: For the first time, Basant Day will be celebrated in an eco-friendly manner in Dayalbagh on Monday, with only solar-powered decorative lights. Twenty-thousand followers of the Radha Soami faith, from different parts of the country as well as abroad, will attend the celebrations. The entire Dayalbagh locality can be …
The solar installation will provide uninterrupted power supply to the Kurdula community, which includes around 500 households totalling an estimated 4,000 residents. This announcement was made by Malam Imam Imam, the Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the Governor, in a statement on Sunday. The Guardian reported that the …
Rooftop solar provider, Off Grid Electric, in partnership with EDF, will expand their off-grid solar solutions offering to households in Ghana. To support continued expansion and new product development, Off Grid Electric has secured the largest venture equity investment worth $55 million in Series D funding led by Helios with …
Gov. Aminu Tambuwal of Sokoto State has inaugurated the 80kw solar mini-grid electricity project which will provide uninterrupted power supply to Kurdula community in Gudu Local Government Area. Malam Imam Imam, the Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to the Governor, said this in a statement issued in Sokoto on …
We previously wrote about an interesting project called the Lightyear One, a fully solar-powered electric car. The project just recently won the prestigious Climate Change Award at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). We’ve heard plenty of rumors about solar-powered cars. They are the holy grail of the electric vehicle (EV) …
Nine companies submit Letters of Intentions for solar projects In order to kick-start fund mobilisation under the International Solar Alliance (ISA), the central government will set up a $350-million solar development fund. Nine companies and banks have agreed to develop and finance various solar projects, which include a $1-billion partnership …
Minister confident of achieving 175 GW of installed capacity well before 2020 India will set up a $350 million fund to finance solar projects, Power Minister R.K. Singh said, as the country steps up efforts to achieve its ambitious target of adding 175 gigawatts (GW) in renewable energy by 2022. …
According to CRISIL, the solar power projects under implementation, are worth over Rs 12,000 crore, are at risk. Hyderabad: The Centre’s proposal to impose a 70 per cent safeguard duty on imported solar cells and modules from China and Malaysia would affect its solar power production target and also burden …
Maseno, Kenya — Armed with a solar-powered water pump for irrigation and a quarter-acre piece of borrowed land, widow Hakima Mohammed has become a Western Kenya tree tycoon. Since 2013, she has sold at least 1.5 million seedling trees, mainly to local small-scale farmers, who are planting them as a …
YES Bank on Wednesday said it will mobilise $1 billion till 2023 and $5 billion till 2030 towards financing solar energy projects in India. The private sector bank made this announcement at the International Solar Alliance (ISA) conference organised at the World Future Energy Summit 2018 in Abu Dhabi. As …
The solar power sector continues to drive the addition of renewable energy capacity in the country. Also, rooftop solar capacity is in the verge of crossing the 1GW mark during this fiscal. In the first nine months of this fiscal, the renewable energy sector added 5,603MW of new capacity, of …
NEW DELHI: The National Solar Mission may have set a target of 20 million m2 (metre square) solar thermal capacity with 'Make in India' panels, but the government's proposed incentives package has left this segment of the domestic solar industry out in the cold even though it is getting swamped …
The PMC is also trying to identify more civic buildings to generate additional 176 KWP to achieve its target of 1 MW of solar energy via rooftop solar panels. The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) is going to sign an agreement with the Solar Energy Corporation of India to generate 824 …
Solar-powered irrigation systems (SPIS) offer significant opportunities to facilitate irrigation access in an environmentally-sustainable manner. In India, with a substantial government support in form of capital subsidies, over 100,000 solar pumps had been installed by December 2016. But a subsidy-led approach would be fiscally unviable to achieve deployment of SPISs …
Decision will help India's Solar Mission become WTO compliant As India faces heat at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for giving preference to domestic solar manufacturers in its renewable energy programme, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has made changes to the content sourcing policy. This comes at …
Chennai: Metro rail will be installing solar street lights at their staff quarter premises at Koyambedu in an effort to maximise the use of renewable energy. It has invited tenders to supply and install 50watt solar street lights. This will be in addition to the solar street lights installed at …
For new projects commissioned in 2017, electricity costs from renewable power generation have continued to fall significantly compared to the fossil fuels, according to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). It estimates onshore wind is now routinely commissioned for $4 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh). The …
Bids to purchase 1000 MW solar power have been invited at Rs 3 per unit, an Energy department official said. In a move to boost solar energy production in Maharashtra, Mahavitaran, the power transmission company of the state government, is planning to purchase 1000 MW solar power this year. Bids …
