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 …
France has opened what it claims to be the world’s first solar panel road, in a Normandy village. A 1km (0.6-mile) route in the small village of Tourouvre-au-Perche covered with 2,800 sq m of electricity-generating panels, was inaugurated on Thursday by the ecology minister, Ségolène Royal. It cost €5m (£4.2m) …
One of the most important challenges for institutional investors in the next several years is dealing with an environment of low-yielding opportunities combined with the rising need to deploy large amounts of capital and meet growing liabilities. At the same time, one of the most important challenges for the world …
Developing countries have made unprecedented pledges to consume more clean energy tomorrow even as they are leading the way today with record new wind and solar project completions, the latest edition of Climatescope concludes. Climatescope, the clean energy country competitiveness index and online tool supported by the UK and US …
Renewable power has seen a dramatic expansion in recent years thanks to sharply falling costs. But this growth has raised a new challenge for power-system operators and regulators: wind and solar PV have sometimes been deployed before the power system, including both policies and infrastructure, was ready to handle such …
Since the 1970s, installed solar photovoltaic capacity has grown tremendously to 230 gigawatt worldwide in 2015, with a growth rate between 1975 and 2015 of 45%. This rapid growth has led to concerns regarding the energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of photovoltaics production. We present a review of 40 …
Azure Power has started the construction of its 100-megawatt (MW) solar power plant in Andhra Pradesh and expects to complete it during the second quarter of 2017. The solar energy company has secured land and financing for this project. The project was auctioned by NTPC, designated under National Solar Mission …
This report focuses on integrated hybrid renewable energy projects consisting of wind and solar energy. Ministry of New and Renewable Energy directed National Institute of Wind Energy, Chennai to prepared a report on hybrid wind and solar energy production analysis. NIWE, has chosen 24 wind potential sites based on met-masts …
This report focuses on integrated hybrid renewable energy projects consisting of wind and solar energy. Ministry of New and Renewable Energy directed National Institute of Wind Energy, Chennai to prepared a report on hybrid wind and solar energy production analysis. NIWE, has chosen 24 wind potential sites based on met-masts …
Question raised in Lok Sabha on Cess on Coal, 01/12/2016. National Clean Energy Fund (NCEF) was created out of cess on Coal produced / imported (“polluter pays” principle) for the purposes of financing and promoting clean energy initiatives, funding research in the area of clean energy or for any other …
Europe’s policy and finance environment has enabled some of the fastest deployments of renewable assets globally. In 2016, it became the first region in the world to surpass 100GW of solar PV capacity, with 140GW of wind power installed. But policy and finance issues are now arguably at least as …
This briefing note examines the potential for mini-grids to complement grid-based electrification in southern Africa, and the conditions needed to support their successful development. Southern Africa faces a number of severe energy pressures. Power production falls far short of demand, grid development has been slow, and the electricity sector depends …
This briefing note examines the potential for mini-grids to complement grid-based electrification in southern Africa, and the conditions needed to support their successful development. Southern Africa faces a number of severe energy pressures. Power production falls far short of demand, grid development has been slow, and the electricity sector depends …
No big decisions were taken in Morocco earlier this month. But several important partnerships were stitched up. Compared to the several breakthrough developments around climate change in the last one year, including the landmark Paris Agreement, outcomes of the Marrakesh climate conference that ended earlier this month seem underwhelming. There …
The Dutch government on Wednesday proposed a 33 percent increase in its budget for renewable energy projects in 2017, as it attempts to catch up after lagging on its 2020 emission reduction targets. In a letter to parliament, Economic Affairs Minister Henk Kamp said the government plans to spend 12 …
Power generation from renewable energy sources like solar and wind has increased to 7.54 per of the total electricity generated in the country during April-September this fiscal, Parliament was informed today. During the period, out of total power generation of 631.84 billion units (BU), 47.62 BU was generated from renewable …
ReNew Power Ventures, a renewable energy development company, won bids for 5 MW solar installations across various locations for the Indian Railways. The company will be investing close to Rs 35 crore in these projects which will supply energy to Railways through a 25-year power purchase agreements. This is the …
In the scorching sun, Alphonce Abok keeps an eye on his fields of watermelons growing near the banks of the Sound River, one of the major channels feeding into Lake Victoria. “I hope with enough water this time around I will harvest my watermelons,” said the farmer from western Kenya. …
At COP22, 48 countries committed to “strive to meet 100% domestic renewable energy production as rapidly as possible while working to end energy poverty, protect water and food security, taking into consideration national circumstances”. They are among the most vulnerable countries and are united as the Climate Vulnerable Forum (CVF). …
A remote tropical island has catapulted itself headlong into the future by ditching diesel and powering all homes and businesses with the scorching South Pacific sun. Using more than 5,000 solar panels and 60 Tesla power packs the tiny island of Ta’u in American Samoa is now entirely self-sufficient for …
Having secured 36.1MW of projects across different states and under different models of financing, Re-New Power is the biggest winner among the hundreds of solar developers who have been allotted parts of the Solar Corporation of India's (SECI) mega tender of 500 MW of solar rooftop projects. Other major winners …
