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 …
According to the report funded by WB’s International Finance Corporation (IFC), the market is largely dominated by low quality solar products. IFC’s Resident Representative in Tanzania, Uganda and South Sudan Mr Dan Kasirye said the study in general underscores low consumer awareness and knowledge of quality products facing the country …
A new programme in Seychelles focusing on energy efficiency in state buildings and street lighting will soon launch. Called 'Smart Energy in Public Spaces,' the new programme will include the installation of 10,000 LED streets lamps by 2020 across the three main islands of Seychelles: Mahe, Praslin and La Digue. …
A joint World Bank-IFC programme and innovation, Lighting Africa, has announced the launch of a two-year consumer education campaign in Tanzania to promote solar off-grid lighting and energy products in off-grid communities. The global financier underlined in a statement that solar energy and lighting products are seeing increased demand in …
BIJNOR: Government's efforts to encourage farmers to switch over to alternate forms of energy has hit a roadblock as the cost of the solar water pumps has increased from Rs 23,000 to Rs 51,000. Despite the high demand for solar power pumps, government has reduced the subsidy on them. The …
Buoyed by record production of wind energy compared to last year Tamil Nadu’s share of renewable energy (wind, solar, biomass and small hydro) in its total energy mix hit 20% in the first five months (April-August) of fiscal 2017, according to a report by research firm Elara Capital. The share …
Renewable energy sources in the United States grew by another 10% in the first half of 2017, according to new figures published by the country’s Energy Information Administration and highlighted by Ken Bossong’s Sun Day Campaign. US Energy Consumption by Source Source 1st Half 2017 1st Half 2016 1st Half …
The expansion of mini-grids in Tanzania, enabled by bold and adaptive energy policies, is bridging the gap for the population lacking access to electricity. Area covered by the mini-grids project. Credit:World Resources Institute. This is according to a new report compiled by the Tanzania Traditional Energy Development Organisation (TaTEDO) and …
The forecast – a significant upwards revision of the IEA’s renewables projections last year – is largely driven by increasing expansion of solar energy in China and India, says the Paris-based organisation. The global dynamics of renewables expansion will also shift over this five-year period, with capacity growth in India …
As world energy markets transform at an unprecedented rate, India is at the forefront of the shift towards profitable renewables given that the country's solar belt has the potential of 749 GW for power generation. As shown by a new IEEFA (Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis) analysis, accelerating …
Ghana’s presidency, Flagstaff House and its lawmaking chamber will soon be depending on solar energy as a source of power. Local media portal, Starrfm quotes the Energy Minister, Boakye Agyarko, as confirming the move saying it was the right signal to the rest of the nation. His comments follow the …
Solar power was the fastest-growing source of new energy worldwide last year, outstripping the growth in all other forms of power generation for the first time and leading experts to hail a “new era”. Renewable energy accounted for two-thirds of new power added to the world’s grids in 2016, the …
The US National Resources Defense Council claims that the country’s solar energy capacity increased by 4,500% between 2006 and 2016, while the country’s wind capacity increased by 350%. The National Resources Defense Council’s (NRDC) fifth annual energy report, America’s Clean Energy Revolution, was published this week, confirming that the country …
Solar power developers seem to be having a rethink on the aggressive approach to bag contracts as this had whittled down tariffs to unprofitably low levels. Solar power developers seem to be having a rethink on the aggressive approach to bag contracts as this had whittled down tariffs to unprofitably …
BENGALURU: Tamil Nadu has cancelled an auction it held in January-February to allot 500 MW of solar projects, because the state-run power distributor found the winning bid of Rs 4.40 per kwH too high, one of the developers said. The developer, who had won a contract in the January-February auction, …
Despite headway made in recent years, the decentralised renewable energy sector is still at an early stage and investing in this sector presents the significant challenge of matching the type and scale of finance offered by investors with the finance needs of small-scale energy access for unelectrified households. In response …
The Chambers of Industrial and Commercial Undertakings (CICU) in association with the United Nation Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO) organised a workshop to promote concentrating solar thermal (CST) technologies for the industrial sector. The workshop was organised with cooperation of the Punjab Energy Development of Agency (PEDA) and the Ministry of …
PE flows into wind and solar power jumped 47 per cent to $920 million The renewable energy sector in India has witnessed a spike in private equity (PE) flows in 2017, despite facing challenges like plunging tariffs and policy modifications. PE flows into wind and solar power jumped 47 per …
HYDERABAD: Telangana is now the largest producer of solar energy in the country, after toppling its role model Gujarat. Gujarat was number one in the country in generating this form of renewable energy, but now has been relegated to the sixth spot. Statistics available in September show that Telangana, generating …
Chandigarh: Chandigarh is the only city where solar rooftops have been installed on all government buildings, informed UT home secretary Anurag Agarwal on Tuesday. Sharing the progress made by Chandigarh in promotion of solar power, at a conference organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Agarwal said Chandigarh achieved …
Chennai: The Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday signed memorandums of understanding with four solar power companies, which won contracts for 1500 MW. A total of 16 companies, awarded contracts, will invest Rs 9,000 crore in the coming year at the rate of Rs 6 crore per MW of solar power. …
