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 …
DAR ES SALAAM, Sept 7 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Asteria Lymo saw her prepaid electricity meter was short of units, she grabbed her smartphone and bought some using Tigo Pesa, a local application that allows customers to pay their utility bills on their mobile phones. "I simply transferred the …
By 2050, 85% of global electricity needs and 44% of total energy needs will be met by renewables, according to the Energy Transition Outlook 2017 report. On Monday, Dutch quality assurance and risk management company DVL GL published the report, which only took into account solar photovoltaic (PV), onshore and …
The latest roadmap to a 100% renewable energy future from Stanford's Mark Z. Jacobson and 26 colleagues is the most specific global vision yet, outlining infrastructure changes that 139 countries can make to be entirely powered by wind, water, and sunlight by 2050 after electrification of all energy sectors. Such …
BRICS member state, China, has secured $307 million sovereign project loan from the New Development Bank (NDB) for the development of a 250MW offshore wind project. The bank, created by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) to support infrastructure and sustainable development initiatives in emerging economies, announced on …
The installed power capacity is 3,30,153 MW, of which thermal power comprises 1,94,432 MW and renewable energy 58,303 MW. Hyderabad: No new coal-based power plants will be allowed by the Centre, apart from the ones already under construction. This has been included in the national electricity plan. According to a …
Regen, Leap Green, NLC India bag 900-Mw projects, against a tender of 500 Mw in Tamil Nadu Six months after the first auction of projects, the second one has seen wind power tariff falling to a record low of Rs 3.42 per unit. The three companies that have qualified in …
In spite of the growth in short term open access (OA), the existing OA framework has not been implemented in the same spirit as envisaged in the Act and is thus is yet to realize its full potential, mainly on account of the resistance from DISCOMs. Given the rapidly falling …
The cost of wind power in Tamil Nadu has fallen to 3.42 per unit, the lowest in the country.The price now is 4 paise lower than that quoted in the Union renewable power ministry's wind power tender bid. CHENNAI: The cost of wind power in Tamil Nadu has fallen to …
Falling tariffs in the renewable energy sector are resulting in power purchasers looking to renegotiate earlier agreements they had committed to at higher tariffs, putting Rs 48,000 crore worth of projects at risk, according to Crisil. “In all, about 7 GW of solar projects tendered or awarded at tariffs of …
Offshore wind -- plentiful along the coast of southern India -- can be a potential source to meet the increasing energy demand in this region, scientists at the National Institute of Ocean Technology (NIOT) in Chennai report. After reviewing various wind resource maps along the 3,100-km coastline of Tamil Nadu, …
On Monday, the US Trade and Development Agency approved a $1.05 million grant to support a feasibility study and the related costs for Zambia's first wind power plant. The funding was awarded to renewable power project developer, Access Power, and its strategic partner, EREN Renewable Energy. The $275 million wind …
A Fitch Group Company BMI Research today revised upward the non-hydro renewable energy capacity in India to 155 GW from 130 GW by 2026 on the back of higher than expected solar installation and successful wind auctions. "Higher than expected solar installation rates and the successful implementation of wind energy …
CHENNAI: A team of 25 faculty members and students from the ocean engineering department in Indian Institute of Technology Madras have begun testing a prototype of a turbine they have developed which converts wave energy into electricity. The 'impulse' turbine works with a unidirectional rotor powered by a generator. The …
Abu Dhabi-based clean energy company, Masdar, has identified investment potential in Oman – the firm has signed an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with a global consortium to build a 50MW wind power project. Gulf Business news reported that once the plant reaches full operation, it is expected to …
For the first time in history, India added more renewable capacity than thermal power in FY17, but the latter regained the top slot in the first quarter of the current fiscal. For the first time in history, India added more renewable capacity than thermal power in FY17, but the latter …
Germany announced the results of its second onshore wind auction this week in which it was revealed a total of 1 gigawatt was awarded at an average cost 25% less than the average price recorded in the first onshore wind auction just a few months ago. Germany’s Federal Network Agency, …
CHENNAI: Wind power generation fell to 495MW on Monday night from nearly 3000MW a few days ago. Monday being a holiday due to Janmashtami, power demand in the state was less than 10,000MW, and with the help of standby thermal units, Tangedco was able to supply power. Wednesday could be …
In light of the fact that developers who were granted connectivity in existing sub-stations earlier did not go on to win any capacity in recent auctions, the renewable energy ministry in a missive to the CERC has made a pitch that winning players be accorded priority for getting grid connectivity. …
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany will increase its onshore wind energy capacity by more than 1 gigawatt, equal to that of a nuclear plant, under new licenses awarded on Tuesday, its network regulator said. The regulator introduced an auction system this year to award licenses, aiming to intensify competition among project …
Power sector experts believe that the country restored immense possibilities in the field of utilisation of renewable energy which could work wonders in especially in states like Jharkhand. However, most of them also believe that the political will-power and government’s extra-mile approach needed to take things forward. In an All …
