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 …
Long-term data on hourly wind speed from 70 meteorological centres of India Meteorological Department have been collected. The daily gust wind data have been processed for annual maximum wind speed (in kmph) for each site. Using the Gumbel probability paper approach the extreme value quantiles have been derived. A design …
Abhijit Lele / Mumbai April 10, 2009, 0:02 IST International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank arm that provides funding for the private sector in developing countries, is planning to invest up to $140 million in the Tanti group
The wind power plant is expected to generate 25.9 million units annually, which will offset the total annual energy requirement of 25 million units of ICF INTEGRAL Coach factory (ICF), under the Ministry of Railways, has launched the first green energy project of the Indian Railways by installing a 10.5 …
Chatting with a visitor about energy issues in the back of the Greater Mount Carmel Baptist Church here, a group of women exploded in laughter at the idea that their electric rates were among the lowest in the nation. One of the 21 coal-fired power plants in Missouri that emit …
Mobile phone equipment makers are taking steps to clean up their act and tackle a goal of powering nearly 120,000 base stations in developing countries by cleaner energy sources by 2012, players in the industry say. The GSM Association, which represents 750 mobile operators worldwide, has said it aims to …
T. Ramakrishnan But capacity addition was marginally higher than in 2007-2008 CHENNAI: The just-concluded financial year of 2008-2009 saw fewer wind mills installed in the State compared to previous years though capacity addition last year was marginally higher than in 2007-2008. The declining trend in capacity addition was acknowledged by …
Green Infra Ltd, promoted by IDFC Private Equity fund, is set to invest over Rs 3,000 crore in renewable power generation projects in India by the end of the current Plan period (2012).
U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Thursday he expects his department to finalize rules for offshore renewable energy in a few months. "I expect that because we have done so much work on these rules that a good time horizon is within the next couple of months that we …
U.S. environmental groups on Wednesday published online maps of the American West with vast areas that they said should be off-limits for renewable energy projects begun by the Obama administration. President Barack Obama's plan to ramp up the country's renewable energy infrastructure has sparked some concerns among environmentalists who fear …
Emissions of CO2 and other greenhouse gases can be reduced significantly using existing technologies, but stabilizing concentrations will require a technological revolution because it will require fundamental change, achieved within a relatively short period of time. Inspiration for a climate technology revolution is often drawn from the Apollo space program …
Kerala lags behind other states in wind power generation. However, the state which relies heavily on hydroelectric power, is now gearing up to generate power from its wind energy resource. According to the data available (December 2008) with the Centre for Wind Energy Technology (C-WET), the gross wind potential for …
In the Indian context, the utilisation of renewable energy resources for electricity generation is not new. Particularly the wind sector presents a success story where India is one of the global players. However, considering the technical and geographical potential of wind power, a vast amount of the resource still lies …
It keeps on growing and growing - the installed capacity for renewable energy sources. Some regions in Europe are doing especially well out of the renewable energy industry.
The US wind power market has put on a breathtaking turn of speed in the last few years. And now, the incentives have been improved and the supply chain strengthened.
Turkish investors are keen to invest in alternative energy projects and a Turkish company, Zorlu Energi, will invest some $500 million in windmill project, said Fethi Etem, Consul General of Turkey. Addressing the launching ceremony of advisory service of Escorts Investment Bank Limited of Turkey in Karachi, he said that …
