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 …
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 …
K S ANANDAN CHENNAII The Rs 450 crore Numeric Power Systems Ltd, a leading player in power electronics and UPS systems in India, is implementing a forward integration project to add additional solar energy generation, entering into LED solution and precision air conditioning. The Chennai-based company will be setting up …
PARIS: Updating the waterwheel to generate electricity and compete with solar and wind As sources of green power go, generating electricity from hydropower, using a creek or stream on your local property, has a lot to recommend it. Provided you have a stream, that is, and it flows fast and …
ERODE: The Federation of All Trade Associations of Erode District, Erode, has urged the Union and State Governments to provide more incentive to encourage windmill installation. Subsidy In a release, the trade body says the Government has stopped the subsidy it gave to install windmills. It should come forward to …
In an ironic twist, the decidedly authoritarian government of China has received much praise of late from Western environmentalists, who tend to cast themselves as anti-authoritarian types. China has indeed made laudable efforts in many fields, ranging from wind energy to vehicle-emission standards and pollution control. It has even outlawed …
Siddaiah Hiremath and Sacchidananda Kurgund write about the hundreds of windmills used for power generation in Gadag and Chitradurga districts respectively. Hundreds of windmills have mushroomed in Kappatagudda in Gadag district. The hill that spreads across 33,000 hectares is now shorn of all vegetation thanks to these windmills. It
Plans for a green stimulus in the US have focused on energy efficiency, an area in which the US historically lags behind the rest of the developed world, as low energy prices and taxes have given consumers little incentive to conserve power. Proposals envisage that more than $16bn will be …
A new study by the Energy Watch Group has predicted complete phasing out of conventional power within the first half of the 21st century. Titled, 'Wind Power in Context: A Clean Revolution in the Energy Sector', the report predicts that global non-renewable power generation would 'peak' in 2018 and could …
After an exhaustive consultative process initiated in July 2008, the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC) on 20 March 2009, announced a comprehensive order on wind energy tariff to be applicable from 19 September 2008.
Clean Edge, which has been tracking the growth of clean-tech markets for nearly a decade, reports that global revenues for solar photovoltaics, wind power, and biofuels expanded from $75.8 billion in 2007 to $115.9 billion in 2008. For the first time, one sector alone, wind, had revenues exceeding $50 billion. …
Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited (KPTCL) will soon place a new policy for the producers of non-conventional energy before the State Cabinet.
Date: 18-Feb-09 Country: BULGARIA Author: Irina Ivanova SOFIA - General Electric is considering investing up to 800 million euros ($1.01 billion) to build a wind energy park in Bulgaria, the economy ministry said on Tuesday. The U.S. energy giant had already explored the town of Mirkovo, some 60 km east …
MANGROVES NOT BIOSHIELDS: Coastal forests such as mangroves cannot protect communities from tsunamis, claims a new study to be published by the United Nations Environment Programme. Researchers from ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University, Australia, analyzed the pattern of damage that occurred during the …
Kate Galbraith WIND AND solar power have been growing at a blistering pace in recent years, and that growth seemed likely to accelerate under the green-minded Obama administration. But because of the credit crisis and the broader economic downturn, the opposite is happening: installation of wind and solar power is …
