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 …
Austria’s largest state said Thursday that 100 percent of its electricity is now generated using renewable sources of energy. “We have invested heavily to boost energy efficiency and to expand renewables,” said Erwin Proell, premier of 1.65m-strong Lower Austria. Analysis Argentina to generate 8% of energy from renewable sources by …
CHENNAI: Gamesa India, a renewable energy company, has entered into a twin agreement with Ostro Energy for turnkey supply and erection and commissioning of wind energy projects at its Amba site in Madhya Pradesh and Nimbagallu site in Andhra Pradesh. While a 100 MW project in Madhya Pradesh will be …
The shine is coming off once bright prospects for natural gas as the future fossil fuel of choice in Asia as power companies in India and Southeast Asia tap abundant and cheap domestic coal resources to generate electricity. Asian loyalty to coal is shrinking the space available for natural gas …
Renewable energy is making inroads in Argentina. Last week, after much negotiation, the chamber of deputies approved a new law decreeing that, by 2017, the country must generate 8% of its electricity from wind, solar or small-scale hydro power, among other energy sources. The bill also calls for this percentage …
An £18m wind farm, rejected by councillors, has been approved by the environment minister after the decision was reviewed by his department. The plan for six wind turbines at Cam Burn, near Coleraine, was voted down at a council meeting in September. But now Mark H Durkan has told the …
Solar and wind power are the sunrise industries CARBON security means ensuring safety of both energy and the environment. They are two sides of the same coin. Natural resources are invaluable, so it is critically important to conserve them for use, not just for us and our children, but for …
The Scottish government has granted consent for the world’s largest floating offshore windfarm to be developed off the coast of Peterhead. Oil and gas giant Statoil will build a 135GWh pilot park consisting of five floating 6MW turbines, which could power nearly 20,000 homes. The project will be the UK’s …
The future is renewable and it will be worldwide. These are the main conclusions of the latest report by the World Association of Wind Energy (WWEA), which states that in 2050 nearly 100% of electricity generation will be produced by renewable energy, and wind will be the first choice in …
Large scale integration of Renewable Energy (RE) into a power system poses multiple technical and commercial challenges to the stake holders of the system. It is critical to address these challenges for large scale integration of RE into the power system. This section of the report describes the major techno-commercial …
Permission has been granted today (29 October) to put steel in water for what will be the world's biggest offshore wind farm off the coast of Cumbria. Danish utilities DONG Energy has received the final investment decision from authorities to construct the 660MW Walney Extension Offshore Wind Farm in the …
The government plans to cut tax reliefs for community energy schemes to build new renewable power capacity such as solar and wind in a move that will deal a further blow to the UK's embattled renewables sector, green campaigners have warned. The Treasury is to remove tax reliefs of 30% …
The rising cost of funding renewable energy means utility EDF and other French power providers face an 11 percent rise next year in a surcharge they pay that is used to subsidise the renewable sector, the energy watchdog said on Thursday. That is less than the 17 percent rise this …
Abu Dhabi Investment Authority Joins Goldman Sachs, Global Environment Fund in Current Funding Round Renew Power, on Tuesday said it has raised $265 million in new equity from a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Goldman Sachs and Global Environment Fund, as the renewable energy company aims to spend more …
CHENNAI: A conference on Sustainable environment through Renewable Energy was conducted at the Accord Metropolitan Hotel on Tuesday. Experts at the conference said that Swarnabhoomi Energy conservation and energy audits are the needs of the hour. With the launch of the Indian Solar Atlas in June this year, several entrepreneurs …
A global program backed by the World Bank aimed at studying and determining renewable energy potential across the world will now focus on three African countries. Under the Energy Sector Management Assessment Program (ESMAP), DNV GL is working to determine wind energy potential in Zambia, Tanzania, and the Maldives. The …
NEW DELHI: India's energy landscape is poised for a dramatic change as fresh investments in wind and solar projects will overtake those in fossil fuel-based plants, and the government is confident of wiping out state distribution companies' losses by 2019, removing the power sector's most stubborn bottleneck. "Already, we are …
In December, national delegations from almost 200 nations will meet in Paris to hammer out an agreement on greenhouse gas emission (GHG) reductions. Like Kyoto (1997) and Copenhagen (2009) before it, Paris 2015 will rely on GHG emission reduction pledges to achieve their climate goals, this time to limit global …
The move is taken to 'reduce litigation and improve ease of doing business in the important sector of non-conventional energy' In a bid to attract investments into the wind energy sector, the government has exempted parts and components used in wind- operated electricity generators - tower, rotor and blades - …
P&G; is teaming up with EDF Renewable Energy to build a wind farm in Texas that it says will power all of its North American plants hat manufacture home care and fabric products Procter & Gamble has found a new source for making Tide detergent: wind. The global consumer products …
India has committed that 40 per cent of its total power capacity by 2030 will be based on renewable sources. As things stand today, that will be a tall order At 37,000 Mw, renewable energy accounts for close to 15 per cent of the total power capacity in the country. …
