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 …
Renewable energy has long been used in South East Europe, whether as fuelwood for heating or in the form of hydroelectric power generation. More recently, governments from Slovenia to Ukraine have pledged to shift to renewables to replace ageing fossil-based energy installations and reduce carbon-dioxide emissions. Clean, sustainable power sources …
Focus should be on capabilities and track record, not just costs’ India’s tariff-based competitive bids for solar power contrasts greatly with similar forays in other countries, according to Adarsh Das, CEO and co-founder of SunSource Energy, a solar EPC firm. Speaking to BusinessLine, Das said: “India is an unnecessarily competitive …
PATNA: The final proposal of Patna for smart city contest will focus on river-front development, improvement of amenities around the railway stations and installation of solar panels on government buildings. This was decided at a meeting chaired by Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC) commissioner Abhishek Singh on Wednesday. At least 20 …
New investment in clean energy worldwide fell 18% last year to $287.5bn, despite a record year for offshore wind financings, according to the latest authoritative figures from research company Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The 2016 setback in global investment, signaled in advance by weak quarterly figures during the course of …
After remaining quiet for some time, the renewable energy sector in Gujarat is waiting to buzz again this Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit (VGGS). This is evident from renewable energy projects worth a massive Rs 1 lakh crore of memorandums of understanding (MoUs) that are expected to be signed. Several companies …
SECI will tie up long-term power purchase agreements of developers with non-windy states to whom power will be supplied through the central transmission utility. Wind tariff is likely to come in between Rs 4 and Rs 4.5 per unit — below the average of around Rs 5 — in the …
The main objective of this paper is to develop a three phase genetic algorithm to find the shortest path routing in solar poweredWireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), and thereby reducing the energy loss and the time consumed in the communication between various nodes (sensors) of the same. A three phase hybrid …
This paper presents comparative analysis of old, recycled and new PV modules. It is possible to recycle even very old products by modern standard processes in a value-conserving manner. About 90% of the materials recovered from solar panels can be recycled into useful products. Carbon emission and energy cost are …
Various organizations have published forecasts of the economic impacts of the Clean Power Plan (CPP), EPA’s regulation that limits carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, with studies arriving at markedly different conclusions about the effect of the policy on electricity affordability and the overall economy. In this working paper, WRI …
Ambitious national commitments, international agreements and rapid technological progress have prompted countries around the world to turn increasingly renewable energy to expand their power infrastructure. However, the variability of solar and wind energy – two key sources for renewable power generation – presents new challenges. Proactive energy planners will address …
Residential housing societies in India have one more reason to ditch diesel generators (DGs) and adopt rooftop solar for power backup. A new policy paper titled Solar Rooftop: Replacing Diesel Generators in Residential Societies by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) analysed five housing societies in India and found …
This Wind Solar Hybrid Power Policy-2017 aims to scale up installation of wind and solar hybrid power project in order to minimize the variability apart from optimally utilizing the infrastructure including land and transmission system and thus strengthening the energy security of the country.
Nagpur: Over 156 households have been connected to the solar mini-grid project in Ghatpendhri in the buffer zone of Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR) in Maharashtra. It is the first village in the buffer zone of any tiger reserve in the country to get a renewable energy project known as Kiran …
JAIPUR: If there is anything which matters since the conceptualisation of tiger reserves and 'Project Tiger', is tiger. For years, forest guards have worked as sentinels in remote areas of forest and underwent a strenuous life sans basic amenities, like electricity and water. But to make life easier and enjoyable …
ISA was launched jointly by the Prime Minister Modi and the France President on November 30 last year in Paris on the sidelines of the 21st Conference of the Parties (CoP) meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the ministry said. Government on Wednesday gave ex post …
East Africa's economies top countries in sub-Saharan Africa in injecting clean energy into their national grids, through new projects in wind and solar. The latest report of Climatescope, the clean energy country competitiveness index by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, shows that clean energy policies are becoming more widely adopted across …
Nagpur: The plans of Nagpur Metro Rail Corporation Limited (NMRCL) to meet 65% of its energy needs through solar power has hit a policy hurdle. The fate of the project now depends on Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC). NMRCL's petition will be heard by the Commission on January 17. Solarization …
As per Section 3 of the Electricity Act 2003, Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has been entrusted with the responsibility of preparing the National Electricity Plan in accordance with the National Electricity Policy and notify such plan once in five years. The Act provides that the draft of National Electricity Plan …
The city government of Las Vegas, Nevada, is now running entirely on renewable electricity, city officials have announced. The announcement marks the achievement of a nearly decade-long effort to embrace renewables and achieve the 100% goal. (Note that the achievement isn’t for “100% renewable energy” since transport isn’t included, and …
Green energy generation has reached a tipping point, the World Economic Forum, WEF, asserted in an investors handbook it released on Thursday, and called investors to shift towards more green energy investments, as investments remain below what is needed to reach the Paris Accord targets, despite the tipping point. The …
