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 …
Renewable energy auctions have emerged as an important mechanism to drive the adoption of renewable sources for power generation. Like in other regions, auctions can help countries across sub-Saharan Africa achieve record-low prices for solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind power. Ghana, Mauritius, Uganda, South Africa and Zambia have all run …
With Tangedco’s shift to renewable energy, Kamarajar Port turns to other cargos The reliance on renewable energy (wind and solar power) by Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco) has reduced coal traffic at the Kamarajar port in Ennore and railway yards, according to officials. According to data from the …
The move is in line with the Centre's proposal to introduce flexibility in generation scheduling. It provides flexibility for substituting thermal by renewable power National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), the country's largest coal-based power generator, will back down thermal power at some of its units to blend with renewable energy …
Last year the Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) invited bids from interested contractors to carry out feasibility studies on three potential sites for wind farms; however, prices quoted by the bidders far exceeded the estimated high level budget. This was according to chief executive Eng Gloria Magombo, who spoke to …
Oil India Ltd has commissioned a 52.5-MW commercial wind energy project developed partly in Gujarat and partly in Madhya Pradesh. A company statement said that another 500-KW captive solar project in Jorhat, Assam has also been commissioned. The 52.5-MW project is split between a 27.3-MW capacity project operational at Kotiya …
Installs 11,754 MW against target of 14,450 MW The renewable energy sector has missed its capacity addition target for the second year in a row. Against the target of 14,450 MW for 2017-18, the new capacity addition from all major segments stood at 11,754 MW, effectively achieving only 81 per …
Transition to bid-based power purchase agreement regime is cited as the reason for low capacity addition in FY2018. The capacity addition in the wind power sector is expected to improve to about 3 gigawatts in FY 2019, after witnessing a weak performance in FY2018. The wind energy sector witnessed a …
Electrification, and renewable power are key drivers outlined in the report, with solar and wind capacity leading the energy transformation Increasing the speed of global renewable energy adoption by at least a factor of six — critical to meeting energy-related emission reduction needs of the Paris Climate Agreement — can …
Renewable energy major the Suzlon Group has commissioned 626 MW in FY18, the highest installations by any player during this fiscal. Suzlon has built about one third of the country’s wind energy capacity with about 11,900 MW cumulative installations, thus remaining No. 1 in India. According to Suzlon, it gained …
ZIMBABWE has put on hold plans to undertake a wind resource measurement exercise on three sites with highest energy potential, as the price bids received from companies that tendered to carry out the feasibility study were deemed too high. The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) last year invited bids from …
Achieves milestone of connecting 5,000 MW to the grid Wind turbine maker Siemens Gamesa is confident of regaining its market share, little over a third in annual capacity addition in India, even as the sector shows signs of revival. The revival comes after a lull caused by the shift last …
Surat: The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) produces nearly 40MW of green energy from wind, solar and biogas. Another 10MW of energy will be produced in the next 12 months. Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India, had said a couple of months ago that as far as …
The government has invited expression of interest for the country's first offshore wind energy project, in line with its aim of having 5 GW such capacities by 2022. The National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE), an autonomous body under the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), has called for …
Chennai: The data collected by the National Wind Institute show that Rameswaram and Kanyakumari could become two major hubs for offshore wind power generation in the country. These hubs can generate about 1GW of wind energy. The data is in sync with an IIT-Bombay study which said global warming could …
An assessment of monthly data shows that in 2017, OECD net electricity production grew by 0.8% compared to 2016. There was a significant increase, 16.7%, in Geothermal, Solar, Wind and Other renewables generation and a marginal increase of Hydro by 0.5%. Combustible Fuels and Nuclear fell by 1% and 0.8%, …
MUMBAI: Researchers at IIT-Bombay have suggested that global warming could be good news after all, for generating power using off-shore wind energy (from the sea bed). Debunking fears that the changing climate could have an adverse impact on power generation from offshore wind, researchers have concluded that Indian government should …
Coal requirement has been worked out considering 30% reduction in hydro generation due to failure of monsoon The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has revised the National Electricity Plan (NEP) after getting feedback from more than 30 state-owned and private institutions, mostly questioning the redundancy of coal. From retiring coal-based power …
BENGALURU: While the onset of wind auctions from early last year has led to greater transparency in the determination of wind tariffs, the transition has also sharply reduced wind capacity addition in 2017-18. The capacity added has only been 1,739.14 MW through the year against a target of 4,500 MW, …
South Africa signed long-delayed renewable energy contracts worth $4.7 billion with independent power producers on Wednesday, in the first major investment deal under President Cyril Ramaphosa. A man walks past eletricity pylons in Soweto, South Africa, March 5, 2018. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko The signing of power purchase agreements for the 27 …
The Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2018 report, published by UN Environment, the Frankfurt School-UNEP Collaborating Centre, and Bloomberg New Energy Finance, finds that falling costs for solar electricity, and to some extent wind power, is continuing to drive deployment. Last year was the eighth in a row in …
