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 …
engineers in New Zealand have developed a wind turbine that utilises maximum wind power and converts it into energy. The device has been found to be far efficient than the presently used wind turbines. With this exciting breakthrough, engineers have shown hope that wind power may soon become a potential …
The wind in Bangladesh's coastal belts is the object of a current study which seeks to determine the potential of wind energy. The Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies is conducting the study alongwith local government engineering departments, with the British Overseas Development Agency providing the financial backing. The pre-feasibility study …
clean drink: With California Pure, a US-based company, all set to lease 400 mini water purification and treatment plants for the Indian market, the mineral water industry at home is awaiting a revolution. The president of California Pure, Shanti Dewan, stated the plants will be available for lease for a …
Electricity generated by British wind farms increased by 10 per cent last year to more than 348 gigawatt hours. The year also saw the commissioning of six new wind farms. The British Wind Energy Association said that the latest annual output of the country's 29 wind farms met the electricity …
GREEN CHILL: Indian refrigerators I would go green, thanks to Godrej GE Appliances andVoltas Allwyn deciding to use eco-frieQdly elements instead of the ozone-d(pleting chlo, rofluorocarbons (CFCs). The companies will instead use a hydrocarbon, cyclopentane, in their proposed foaming plants. The companies will be spending US $3.7 million for the …
GREEN POWER: The greening of the Rs 300 crore Venkatesbwara Hatcheries (VH) has begun. The company's first windfarm with four 225 kw mills started whirring in power from September. This windfarm will provide 'the entire one mw power required for its Tamil Nadu units, and protect it from future power …
WIND power has been used for centuries to lift water in farms, especially in countries like Australia and the us. Some problems inherent in the existing windpump designs - high initial cost, difficulty in local manufacturing, and the need for regular maintenance - have rendered this age-old technology nonviable in …
An electricity generating wind turbine system for installation on roofs of urban homes has been designed by UK energy consultant Derek Taylor (Wind Power Monthly, Vol 11, No 7). Developed by Taylor's company Altechnica, this roof wind energy system is like a roof venting system in appearance and takes advantage …
AFTER developing an unusual wind turbine with no external blades, Sambrabec Inc., in Canada is all set to develop a new scaled up version. The much acclaimed Catavent 500 w self-regulating, ducted wind turbine developed by Louis Beaulieu, is being scaled up to 150 KW which could mean a significant …
Negotiations are in the final stages between the Union ministry of nonconventional energy sources (MNES) and the Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) to establish a Wind Energy Centre at Kayathar in Tamil Nadu. MNES secretary 8 R Prabhakara says that Tamil Nadu is the ideal location as it accounts for …
A SET-UP which will test and certify wind turbines is likely to come up at Kayathar in Chidambaranar district, Tamil Nadu. The first of its kind in the country, it will also standardize the functioning of windmills. The Danish International Development Agency will help the ministry of no n- conventional …
You can't tilt against these windmills. A good wind has literally swept into the lives of the inhabitants of Chile's Coquimbo region as 31 windmills have been set spinning to pump water. Some of the ranchers in this drought-stricken area spend more than 8 hours a day drawing up the …
• Madras-based NEPC-Micon Ltd (a collaboration between Natural Energy Processing Co and Micon of Denmark), the largest suppliers of wind energy generators in India, expects to double its turnover of about Rs 153 crore in 1993-94 by mid-"95. NEPC-Micon has orders to supply 280 wind energy generators, valued at about …
ONE of the more remarkable and result-oriented activities of the Union Ministry of Non-conventional energy Sources (MNES) has been its wind energy-schemes. The objective of this programme- to create an installed electricity generation capacity of 800 mw by 1998 - is eminently laudable. Whether it is part of a comprehensive …
UNION MINISTRY OF NON-CONVENTIONAL ENERGY SOURCES Block No 14, CGO Complex Lodhi Road New Deihi 110 003 INDIAN RENEWABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AGENCY LTD 3, Ring Road Kilokri New Delhi 110 014 WIND ENERGY SOCIETY OF INDIA D-409, Defence Colony New Delhi 110 024 BHEL CORPORATE R&D; COMPLEX Vikas Nagar Hyderabad …
ENERGY from wind would make conventional sources of energy as obsolete "as typewriters or model 'T' Fords", according to Power Surge: Guide to the Coming Energy Revolution, a Worldwatch Institute report. Nicholas Lenssen, coauthor of the report, observes, "India could become the largest producer of wind energy." With a potential …
Windmills installed by the Union ministry of non-conventional energy in the Amritsar district of Punjab to pump water for irrigation have turned a last dance. According to G S Dhillon of the Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology at Amritsar, who recently evaluated the windmills and presented his report to …
THE FUTURE of the windmill industry in Britain appears bleak now that Taylor Woodrow, the proprietor of the Wind Energy Group (WEG), plans to withdraw. Woodrow, one of the leading players in this sector, is reportedly considering selling the business. The company, which had jointly owned WEG with British Aerospace …
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has entered into a technical collaboration with Nordex A/S of Denmark in a major effort to expand its wind-powered electricity generation equipment. BHEL has its eye on the plans of the Union ministry of non-conventional energy resources to install 800 MW of wind-generated electricity in …
