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 …
Rural Electrification Authority Chairman Dr Simon Gicharu Work on a Sh12.8 billion solar power plant in Garissa County will start soon. Rural Electrification Authority Chairman Simon Gicharu said the final design works will be approved in two weeks. "All bottlenecks to the Garissa solar plant, which is the biggest in …
Mounting debt across the Adani Group suggests that the Indian conglomerate’s Carmichael mine proposal for northeast Australia has become an increasingly precarious house of cards, according to new report by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). The report—“Adani: Remote Prospect: Carmichael Status Update 2017”—notes that Adani Enterprise …
Work on Kenya's modest solar energy power plant being built at a cost of sh 12.8 billion in Garissa County is set to start in due course. In an interview with Standard Digital, Rural Electrification Authority (REA) board of directors’ chairman, Simon Gicharu said that final design works for the …
Pretoria - Eskom has invested millions in renewable power, specifically in research in this ever expanding field. The power utility has funded research work done by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) and Stellenbosch University, which has ostensibly benefitted research in the renewables space. The power utility is …
South African state-run power utility, Eskom, has confirmed its long-term investment in renewables research, which has been supported by the CSIR and Stellenbosch University. Eskom divisional executive for corporate affairs, Chose Choeu, emphasised that these partnerships are long-term and are fundamental to ensure that a sustainable legacy for the people …
In North Africa, Egypt has secured a future 400MW of solar power through a 25-year power purchase agreement with several partners. The agreement was signed earlier this month with the Egyptian Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Dr. Mohamed Shaker El-Markabi and the Ambassador of Norway Mr. Sten Arne Rosnes …
BHOPAL: The Rewa Ultra Mega Solar (RUMS) park could turn out to be a game-changer in renewable energy in India. Soon after bids were cleared for the 750MW project, the railways approached the MP government to set up a Rewa-type solar plant, and even Coal India and oil firms are …
GOVERNMENT is expected to sign a statutory instrument (SI) to compel shopping malls and housing units being constructed to install solar systems to cushion the power deficit. Ministry of energy David Mabumba said the SI process will only come into effect upon Cabinet approval. Mr Mabumba said recently that it …
Solar tariff touched a new low last week as the final levelised tariff for a 250 MW solar project in Andhra Pradesh was discovered to be Rs 3.15 per unit. In a bid to encourage the use of rooftop solar power, the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has …
A decision to this effect was taken by the Haryana Cabinet, which met under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, in Chandigarh. The Haryana government on Tuesday exempted solar equipment and parts used in installation of solar power projects from value added tax (VAT). A decision to this …
दिल्ली सिख गुरुद्वारा प्रबंधक कमिटी (DSGPC) के इतिहास में पहली बार करीब 119 करोड़ रुपये का बजट तैयार किया गया है। इसमें गुरुद्वारों के रेनोवेशन से लेकर लंगर बनाने के तरीके को एनवायरनमेंट फ्रेंडली बनाने का बजट शामिल है। इसके अलावा इस बार करीब 100 करोड़ रुपये सरकारी फीस माफी …
Chinese solar major, JA Solar Holdings has exported solar modules with a total capacity of 1,000 mw into India. “The 1GW of modules shipped to India represents electricity generation capacity of approximately 1.7billion units, which can reduce carbon emissions by 1.47 million tons annually. The company's shipments to India in …
BIPV’s potential to seamlessly integrate into the building envelope can help the government achieve its solar targets. BUILDING INTEGRATED photovoltaic has a much wider application than rooftop solar alone. The government has set up an ambitious target to develop 175 GW renewable energy by 2022, comprising of 100 GW Solar, …
By participating in talks on an environmental goods agreement, India can reduce prospects of non-tariff barriers being used At the last meeting of the Environmental Goods Agreement in Geneva, in December 2016, participants were unable to close their differences on trade liberalisation of environmental goods (EG). The WTO defines EG …
Kenya’s shift to renewable energy sources presents a lucrative and expanding market for solar equipment. This is according to Shenzhen Power Solution Limited Vice-President Susan Lee, who spoke to Xinhua news at an energy and power expo, held in Nairobi. "Our main focus [is] in household solar solutions that are …
MUHANYA Solar Limited has launched a ‘pay-as-you-go’ 30 KW mini-grid solar system in Sinda at a cost of US$133,700. The pilot project is aimed at building a business case that will attract large- scale private investment in rural areas so that the application of this system can be scaled up …
BHOPAL: Delhi Metro Railways Corporation and Madhya Pradesh Power Management Company will sign a power purchase agreements with Rewa Ultra Mega Solar Limited, the implementing agency for the "world's largest single-site solar project", here on Monday. The 750 MW solar park that will produce cheapest solar power has recently completed …
HYDERABAD: Telangana got its largest solar farm with a capacity of 143MW at Dichpally in Nizamabad district on Saturday. It was commissioned by Gurugram-based renewable energy producer ReNew Power Ventures Pvt Ltd. The independent power producer (IPP) is eyeing an installed capacity of 510MW in Telangana with a total investment …
NAGPUR: Change in norms by Maharashtra Energy Development Agency (MEDA) has deprived over 300 solar power consumers of central government subsidy. Solar consumers have demanded that MEDA and state energy ministry should take a sympathetic view of their cases and sanction the subsidy. A solar power consumer, on the condition …
-- A team from University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has used resource mapping tools and assessed the potential for large solar and wind farms in 21 countries in southern and eastern Africa, concluding that renewable energy has robust future in much of Africa. The countries studied, …
