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 …
Australia’s third-biggest island could combine wind, solar, PV and battery storage to fuel own electricity needs – and set a blueprint for the rest of the country Kangaroo Island is one of the great icons of Australian tourism. As Andrew Boardman, the chief executive of the Kangaroo Island council, says: …
In Germany, people’s power has wrought a revolution. All over the country, citizens have formed co-operatives to build wind farms and solar arrays, in a grassroots push that has helped to make Germany a world leader in renewables. The change is most striking in places like Saerbeck, a village of …
The country can achieve as high as 50 per cent growth in electricity production up to 1.65 trillion units next year, Power Minister Piyush Goyal said today. "We need to double our power production. Given the infrastructure and generating capacity we have today...we have the ability to double our power …
China has became the world's top generator of solar energy and its 2015 coal consumption declined for the first time since 1998, according to new data released today by the oil company BP in its latest Statistical Review of World Energy. China overtook both Germany and the US to rank …
The Kochi Metro Rail Limited (KMRL) has signed a power purchase agreement with a private firm for 4 MW of solar power for the metro service which is scheduled for commissioning in the first half of next year. Solar panels having an installed capacity of 4 MW would be placed …
Pune-based Scorpius Trackers, promoted by entrepreneurs Shailesh Vaidya and Kiran Shah, has inked memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with three undisclosed entities, which are projected to put up a combined solar capacity of 1,250 MW. Under the agreements, the Pune-based company will provide tracker solutions to each one of them. Tracking …
BERLIN: India on Monday underlined the need for countries to take pre-2020 climate actions to curb emissions and sought cooperation among countries in finance and technology sectors to tackle climate change. "Cooperation is the key for taking (climate) actions. Every country is at a different stage of development. We need …
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: IF things pan out, solar power use in the state will be stronger by 71.3 megawatts (MW) this financial year itself. The Power Department intends to complete a bevy of big and mini projects in 2016-17 which will add to the rising solar power use in the state. Construction …
Adding to its solar energy generation capacity, Mumbai International Airport Ltd. (MIAL) has announced the commissioning of additional solar power of 410 kWp inside the airport premises. The solar panels, spread across five locations at the T2 and Cargo terminals, have been positioned on rooftops for optimum utilisation of space. …
Tulsi Tanti, chairman of Suzlon Group, one of the country’s largest wind turbine manufacturers, has welcomed the government’s move to award wind power projects through competitive bidding, but has cautioned that the sector would remain competitive only if the tariff remained above R5/unit. Tulsi Tanti, chairman of Suzlon Group, one …
Scientists from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered a possible secret to dramatically boosting the efficiency of perovskite solar cells hidden in the nanoscale peaks and valleys of the crystalline material. Solar cells made from compounds that have the crystal structure of the mineral …
India’s ambitious solar power program has received another major boost from the World Bank. The World Bank recently announced funding worth $1 billion for grid-connected and utility-scale solar power projects. The Bank has tied up with India’s largest bank — State Bank of India — for dispersal of the funds, …
Having a plan to invest up to 400 million euros in solar projects in India, Finnish firm Fortum is looking at greenfield plants to maximise its returns. "Our keenness is that we want to look at greenfield (new) projects. We want to look at National Solar Mission projects where counter …
The initiative is aimed at bringing down the money required for cross subsidy in agriculture. The state will try to bring the entire power supply feeder for agriculture on solar panels and install energy efficient pumps throughout the state. The initiative will bring down the money required for cross subsidy …
The SBI and the World Bank have signed an agreement worth $ 625 million (around Rs. 4,200 crore) to support India in order to meet the mammoth power requirement while protecting the environment. The World Bank will help the SBI in financing Grid Connected Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic (GRPV) projects at …
The UT Engineering Department in collaboration with the Chandigarh Renewal Energy Science and Technology Promotion Society (CREST) is planning to come up with 100Kwp rooftop grid tied solar photovoltic power plants at the three local stadiums. The rooftop grid is likely to be installed at the Sports Complex, Sector 42, …
As India takes baby steps in to world of clean energy, IIT Bombay is close to create history with their Project Solarise, a solar powered house that will compete amongst the 22 final entries in Solar Decathlon China where it will represent India. The 70-member team of IIT-B, Team Shunya, …
This is the bank’s largest financing of solar for any country in the world to date. The World Bank on Thursday announced $ 1 billion in support of India’s ambitious solar generation plans, its largest financing of solar projects for any country in the world. The projects now under preparation …
Coal India rose 0.71% at Rs 313.65 at 09:21 IST on BSE after the company announced signing two agreements with Solar Energy Corporation of India for implementation of solar power project in Madhya Pradesh. The announcement was made after market hours yesterday, 29 June 2016. Meanwhile, the S&P; BSE Sensex …
The state government on Wednesday signed a solar power agreement with Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) and 10 private companies to generate and supply 1,000 MW power in 15 months. Energy Minister D K Shivakumar told reporters that this is the first time such an agreement has been signed …
