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 …
Consumers who are not entitled to the AAP government's 50% subsidy on power bills may benefit in the long run by investing in solar rooftop projects. About 15% of Delhi's consumers don't get the subsidy as they consume more than 400 units per month. According to Delhi Citizen's Handbook 2016, …
India is at a critical juncture in scaling renewable energy to provide energy access to growing cities and vast rural communities. Financing is one of the principal barriers to the rapid expansion of India’s clean energy market needed to meet the ambitious national target of 175 gigawatts (GW) of solar, …
KOLKATA: NTPC, India's largest electricity generator, is tweaking its expansion plan to become the biggest renewable energy company in the next 10 years. The stateowned company's Rs 5 lakh crore capital expenditure plan will be skewed towards adding renewable energy capacity instead of setting up more thermal units. NTPC has …
Union Minister Giriraj Singh today said the MSME Ministry is exploring the possibility of using solar power for operating charkha. The efforts of the ministry are on to develop a technology which will enable operation of charkha with the help of solar energy,” the Minister of State for Micro, Small …
Haryana government would spend an amount of about Rs 27 crore on renewable energy and energy conservation programmes. In order to encourage farmers to use renewable energy, Haryana government on Wednesday announced that 3,050 solar water pumps will be installed in current financial year in the state with 90 per …
Mangaluru: Karnataka Bank on Tuesday donated over 60 solar lights worth Rs 18 lakh to Kadri Park, managed by department of horticulture. Kadri Park is, incidentally, the city's major lung space, frequented by people who come here for exercise or walk. The installation of solar light will come as a …
Tata Power Solar, one of the largest integrated solar company, has successfully commissioned a 100 MW solar project for NTPC in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh. "This is the biggest solar project commissioned using domestically manufactured solar cells and modules. The plant is expected to generate nearly 160 million units of energy …
A CSR initiative of KBL; 60 solar lamps installed at a cost of Rs 18 lakh Next time, if you want to take a stroll at Kadri Park even after dusk, you can do so, without bothering of power cut. On Tuesday, it was equipped with 60 solar lamps that …
Tata Power acquires Welspun's renewable energy assets To ensure viability of its ultra mega solar energy park at Rewa, the Madhya Pradesh government will extend a state guarantee to the flagship project. Billed as the world’s largest contiguous solar park, the project entails an investment of Rs 7,500 crore. The …
Governments around the world have taken different approaches to establish green banks. While each green bank has been set up in a unique context with differing obstacles and circumstances, certain steps are common to establishing either a new institution or transforming an existing institution to a green bank. This paper …
PANAJI: Minister for power Milind Naik told Goa Legislative Assembly on Thursday that Goa has limitations in developing solar energy. Goa does not have large tracks of flat land that is needed for developing solar power. "The problem is the availability of land," said power minister while replying to a …
Dave said if India could get success in the research on solar power, the country can end the burning of wood forever. India is planning to start extensive research on the use of solar power to bring about a “revolution” in this field, Environment Minister Anil Madhav Dave said today. …
Carmel High School is now a green school. Generating 66KW of power per day, a solar plant is fulfilling the institution's electricity needs. Set up at the school in Basaveshwarnagar, the plant was inaugurated by Fr Eric Rodrigues, president of the Carmel Education Society, on July 16. School administrator Roshan …
In a first for any urban body in the country, BMC will harness solar energy to pump water from Upper Lake. 40% of the city relies for drinking water from the Upper Lake. BMC commissioner Chhavi Bhardwaj said BMC has tied up with a leading solar solutions company that will …
People, who installed units, are facing teething problems The ambitious rooftop solar initiative of Andhra Pradesh Eastern Power Distribution Company Limited (APEDPCL) appears to have not clicked as desired. And more importantly the people who have installed the solar units are facing a number of teething problems including the billing …
In India, Prime Minister Modi has set an ambitious target of installing 100 GW (100,000 MW) of solar power capacity by 2022. The current solar capacity in India stands at 8 GW as on July end, 2016. Thus, the target of moving from 8 GW in July 2016 to 100 …
Government of Andhra Pradesh is keen to harness the huge solar and wind potential of the State. Several initiatives such as investor friendly solar and wind power policies, large scale solar park(s) development, green corridor investment for power evacuation and power procurement through PPA’s with APDISCOMs have been undertaken to …
Government of Andhra Pradesh is keen to harness the huge solar and wind potential of the State. Several initiatives such as investor friendly solar and wind power policies, large scale solar park(s) development, green corridor investment for power evacuation and power procurement through PPA’s with APDISCOMs have been undertaken to …
Villagers in Thailand are using an unlikely alternative source of energy: cow poop. Thailand is known to be one of the big consumers of fossil fuels in Southeast Asia. But the residents of Pa Deng village, which is nestled in one of Thailand's rural forests far from electrical grids, are …
Advisory follows ‘back down’ complaint by solar power producers The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has asked power regulators to favour solar power over thermal power in situations of back downs. This comes after some solar power developers complained about back downs for various reasons in certain States, …
