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 …
A recent World Economic Forum report reveals that in 2016 solar power became the same price or cheaper than fossil fuels for the first time. The December report charts how much the cost of renewable technologies has plummeted. A decade ago, generating electricity through solar cost $600 per megawatt-hour. Five …
There is considerable uncertainty over the effect of wind power on the operation of power systems, and the consequent greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions displacement; this is used to project emissions reductions that inform energy policy. Currently, it is approximated as the average emissions of the whole system, despite an acknowledgement …
India has attained the fourth position globally in installed wind power capacity after China, U.S. and Germany as a result of various steps in the “right” direction, the Economic Survey said today. With the legal framework in place for the International Solar Alliance (ISA), the brainchild of Prime Minister Narendra …
The Lake Turkana Wind Power Project (LTWP), currently under construction, will add 310 megawatts (MW) of wind power capacity to Kenya’s national grid. A new case study from the Low Emission Development Strategies Global Platform (LEDS GP) assesses the development benefits of the project and some of the measures the …
The utility is saving hydel resources for March-May season With the summer just a couple of months away, the Bengaluru Electricity Supply Company Ltd (Bescom) is laying thrust on solar energy. It wants government buildings to generate and consume solar energy so as to reduce the power demand in the …
Tamil Nadu has received bids for setting up 1,794 MW of wind projects or 69 per cent of total bids, in India’s first ever competitive bidding for wind projects. The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) had rolled out the tender for procuring 1000 MW of wind power under competitive …
The Ministry approved Wind Data Sharing Policy proposed by National Institute of Wind Energy. The Wind Power development programme in India was initiated at the end of Sixth Five Year Plan, in 1983-84. In order to identify wind farmable sites in the country, the Government of India launched a national …
Renewable energy has long been used in South East Europe, whether as fuelwood for heating or in the form of hydroelectric power generation. More recently, governments from Slovenia to Ukraine have pledged to shift to renewables to replace ageing fossil-based energy installations and reduce carbon-dioxide emissions. Clean, sustainable power sources …
Renewable energy player Suzlon Group on Wednesday announced that it has bagged a 226.8 MW wind power project from an independent power producer (IPP) at Anantapur in Andhra Pradesh. The project is scheduled for completion by March 2017. The project has the potential to provide power to over 1.2 lakh …
New investment in clean energy worldwide fell 18% last year to $287.5bn, despite a record year for offshore wind financings, according to the latest authoritative figures from research company Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The 2016 setback in global investment, signaled in advance by weak quarterly figures during the course of …
After remaining quiet for some time, the renewable energy sector in Gujarat is waiting to buzz again this Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit (VGGS). This is evident from renewable energy projects worth a massive Rs 1 lakh crore of memorandums of understanding (MoUs) that are expected to be signed. Several companies …
SECI will tie up long-term power purchase agreements of developers with non-windy states to whom power will be supplied through the central transmission utility. Wind tariff is likely to come in between Rs 4 and Rs 4.5 per unit — below the average of around Rs 5 — in the …
Various organizations have published forecasts of the economic impacts of the Clean Power Plan (CPP), EPA’s regulation that limits carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, with studies arriving at markedly different conclusions about the effect of the policy on electricity affordability and the overall economy. In this working paper, WRI …
Ambitious national commitments, international agreements and rapid technological progress have prompted countries around the world to turn increasingly renewable energy to expand their power infrastructure. However, the variability of solar and wind energy – two key sources for renewable power generation – presents new challenges. Proactive energy planners will address …
This Wind Solar Hybrid Power Policy-2017 aims to scale up installation of wind and solar hybrid power project in order to minimize the variability apart from optimally utilizing the infrastructure including land and transmission system and thus strengthening the energy security of the country.
East Africa's economies top countries in sub-Saharan Africa in injecting clean energy into their national grids, through new projects in wind and solar. The latest report of Climatescope, the clean energy country competitiveness index by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, shows that clean energy policies are becoming more widely adopted across …
As per Section 3 of the Electricity Act 2003, Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has been entrusted with the responsibility of preparing the National Electricity Plan in accordance with the National Electricity Policy and notify such plan once in five years. The Act provides that the draft of National Electricity Plan …
Green energy generation has reached a tipping point, the World Economic Forum, WEF, asserted in an investors handbook it released on Thursday, and called investors to shift towards more green energy investments, as investments remain below what is needed to reach the Paris Accord targets, despite the tipping point. The …
President-elect bombarded Alex Salmond with letters in an attempt to block offshore wind project near Trump's golf resort US President-elect Donald Trump spent years hounding the former Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond over plans to build an offshore wind farm near the businessman's golf resort in Aberdeenshire, leaked letters have …
One of the most important challenges for institutional investors in the next several years is dealing with an environment of low-yielding opportunities combined with the rising need to deploy large amounts of capital and meet growing liabilities. At the same time, one of the most important challenges for the world …
