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 …
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is planning a 210 billion-rupee ($3.1 billion) package of state aid for India’s solar panel manufacturing industry, according to two officials. The so-called Prayas initiative, short for for “ Pradhan Mantri Yojana for Augmenting Solar Manufacturing,” a central-government plan designed to lift India’s installed photovoltaic …
The Centre and the Delhi government had announced subsidies and incentives for solar rooftop installations last year. In the midst of all the buzz around lethal effects of global warming and enormously high pollution levels, small yet powerful initiatives taken up by residential units such as installing solar panels on …
Residents of Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, Puducherry and Uttarakhand will be able to buy solar power at Rs 3 per unit – the lowest tariff in India – from panels installed on their rooftops without having to shell out a penny. The solar panels will be set up by third parties, …
AURANGABAD: The Centre is keen to set up a solar power park in Marathwada if the state government provides land for it, Union minister of state for power Piyush Goyal said on Sunday. Stating that the region could be ideal for generating good amount of solar energy, he said the …
Developers who won an auction of solar project contracts in Jharkhand are still waiting for the state’s government-run electricity distributor to sign power purchase agreements (PPAs), six months after they emerged the successful bidders. The March auction, with contracts for 1,200 MW of projects in 45 places up for grabs, …
Indore: Aiming to promote use of renewable source of energy in Smart City, Indore municipal corporation (IMC) plans to set-up solar panels at multilevel parking and on rooftops to generate electricity. IMC commissioner Manish Singh said that they have proposed a minimum production of five to six megawatt of energy …
Indore: In order to motivate people to install solar panels in their homes, the state government has come up with a scheme of subsidies. People, who will apply for solar panel producing two kilowatt solar energy, will be provided a subsidy of Rs 45,000. The actual cost of the panel …
The Municipal Corporation (MC) is planning to install solar panels on unipoles for providing eco-friendly advertisement infrastructure in the city. Mayor Bakshi Ram Arora has instructed advertisement cell of the MC to prepare a proposal to get approval from the government. Officials of the MC are expecting that the government …
India and China have agreed to cooperate on sourcing energy from international markets, construction of high-speed railway and development of coastal manufacturing zones as the two fastest growing economies look to boost growth. The 4th India-China Strategic Economic Dialogue on October 7 agreed on a number of initiatives for mutually …
Solar projects in India secured major financing deals as corporate funding of such projects rebounded in the third quarter of the current financial year, rising to nearly $3 billion in 45 deals globally against $1.7 billion in 32 deals in the second quarter. Among the notable solar financing deals in …
A clutch of wind power units with a combined capacity of 600 MW that has never been put to use for the want of long-term buyers have been offered a ray of hope by the government, by allowing them to participate in the first ever auction for wind power. As …
The International Solar Alliance (ISA), a brainchild of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, announced at the climate conference in Paris (COP21), will be ratified at the forthcoming COP22 in Marrakech in November. The ISA’s objective is to bring together solar rich countries on a common platform to make joint efforts through …
Localisation vital for developing nations, says SA Minister South Africa has backed India’s local sourcing rules in solar equipment manufacturing, while calling for BRICS countries to come up with a joint strategy to work around regulations of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). “BRICS nations need to compare notes on how …
Net metering has caught the interest of Delhiites, with Reliance-owned BSES stating on Wednesday that its solar net metering connections had crossed the 200-mark. It added that it was the first discom in the country to do so. In a statement, BSES said that a total of 206 connections — …
NOIDA: The 29.7km Noida Metro corridor will be India's greenest when it becomes operational a little over a year from now with a capacity to generate enough solar power to run not only all 21 stations but also its offices and train depot. The practices being followed are similar to …
Anticipating a major electricity crisis in view of the Centre's new power policy, the state government is gearing up to generate an additional 1,008 MW of power in the next three years. The power thus generated will be mainly through renewable energy sources like solar and wind. Of this, 600 …
NITI Aayog, Chinese think-tank hold strategic economic dialogue Chinese investors have shown keen interest in investing in large solar park projects in cooperation with Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI). India offers huge investment opportunities in the renewable energy sector by way of participation through equity support, offsetting hedging cost, …
The Renewable Purchase Obligation mechanism and the trade of Renewable Energy Certificates were introduced to promote investment in renewable energy. However, the RPO requirement has not been met in many cases in India, which has resulted in low trading in RECs. While there are a few instances of state electricity …
KOLKATA: Green energy producers say state utilities that buy power from them for sale to retail and industrial consumers are imposing too many charges on them, hampering the shift toward cleaner sources amid rising pollution levels in India's cities. The utilities reject the accusation. A large number of states aren't …
NEW DELHI: State-run lignite mining and power generating company NLC India Ltd has abandoned plans to set up solar projects in Rajasthan as the state’s power distribution companies have refused to buy solar power at the rate it had estimated. NLC, earlier called Neyveli Lignite Corporation, had in January invited …
