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 …
The cost of producing electricity from renewable sources like solar and wind has dropped significantly during the past five years, while rising for power generated from natural gas, coal and nuclear, according to the International Energy Agency “The cost of renewable technologies -- in particular solar photovoltaic -- have declined …
CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu has the enviable status of being one of the largest wind power-producing states; it also possesses more around 7,800MW installed capacity of this renewable power. Now to reap the most of this resource, the state is utilising a new wind power forecasting service. The output of wind …
Policy body calls for ‘heroic efforts’ to conserve energy India’s demand for energy could increase more than four-fold in the next three-and-a-half decades if no efforts are made on the conservation front. But, “heroic efforts’’ made to contain demand, could cut down the increase by almost half. These estimates have …
Ludhiana, which is already in a race for 'Smart City' project, will get a boost of solar power as the Union government has included the industrial capital of Punjab among 50 cities to be developed as solar cities. With a view that urbanization is leading to a rapid rise in …
Chennai: Leading share bourse National Stock Exchange (NSE) became India`s first stock exchange to invest in wind power with a 6.25 MW project, said Suzlon Group on Tuesday. In a statement, Suzlon Group said it was NSE`s technical partner for supply and commissioning of the 6.25 MW project. "The project …
Clean development mechanism (CDM) was included in the Kyoto protocol to support sustainable development in developing countries through technology transfer from developed countries along with the mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. More than 1000 projects which were registered under CDM from India in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Principal Bench, New Delhi) in the matter of Kallpavalli Vrishka Pempakamdarula & Others Vs Union of India & Others dated 25/08/2015 regarding the adverse effects both long term and short term of the windmills project, Kallpavalli area, Ananthapur District of Andhra Pradesh.
Britain is thinking of using an EU loophole to dodge the impact of its own subsidy cuts on renewable energy and escape fines for missing 2020 European renewable targets. Under EU rules Britain could use the loophole, termed statistical transfer, which would see it pay other, greener, EU countries overshooting …
Wind turbines are under construction everywhere. In the coming months they will be unmissable along Flemish roads, as an unprecedented building boom breaks out, a survey by De Standaard and green power companies reveals. The result of the boom has been a sharp increase in wind power capacity in Flanders. …
New figures have revealed the massive amount of small-scale renewable projects deployed in Scotland, but industry figures warned that further development could be crippled by recent subsidy cuts. Scotland is now home to around 660,000 250W solar panels, 2,557 small wind projects, 204 hydro-electric schemes and three anaerobic digesters, according …
Uganda is endowed with a wide variety of natural energy resources like biomass, water and compost, as well as favourable conditions for solar, wind and geothermal power generation. Considering all the energy sources in the country, hydropower and biomass are the ones that currently contribute most of the population's energy …
Renewable electricity generation outpaced natural gas this month to become the second largest source of electricity worldwide, according to the International Energy Agency. Globally, coal remained king with 9,613TWh of electricity produced, around 41% of global electricity production compared to 5,130TWh (22%) from renewable energy sources. In OECD economic zone …
A second independent study by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) found that renewable energy from South Africa's first wind and solar (photovoltaic) projects created R4 billion more financial benefits to the country than they cost during the first six months of 2015. The study is an update …
Of the total energy generated in the State on Tuesday evening, 32 per cent was from the wind mills, said K. Kasthurirangaian, president of the Indian Wind Power Association. The wind mills did not face any evacuation or grid shutdown problem on Tuesday evening and the wind energy generation of …
Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan is merely one of the ways that will help it fulfill an existing pledge to reduce overall greenhouse gas emissions by 26-28% by 2025 from 2005 levels. “The biggest, most important step we have ever taken to combat climate change”. That is how President Barack …
International Finance Corporation (IFC) has big plans to invest in India's renewable energy space as the sector is evolving with competitive commercial bidding unlike the subsidy-driven growth in the West, a top executive at the World Bank's investment arm said. IFC joins other global players such as Goldman Sachs, SoftBank …
A new survey has found overwhelming support for renewable energy coming just days after a Government poll suggested a fall in support for shale gas. The Good Energy survey found just 4% of the public opposed solar farms while only 8% opposed onshore wind farms. The poll also found only …
France has launched a tender for several floating offshore wind turbine projects in what is set to be the first attempt to test this new technology on an industrial scale. French environment agency ADEME on Wednesday posted a tender document inviting companies to submit proposals to build floating wind farms …
Solar and wind energy in the United States is likely to have a secure future thanks to President Barack Obama's plan to cut carbon emissions by forcing utilities to use renewable sources to produce electricity, the industry said on Monday. With its 2030 deadline, Obama's Clean Power Plan offers a …
The Abbott government should draw up national rules restricting how wind farms are built and operated and punish states that do not accept them, a Senate committee has urged. In its final report published on Monday evening, the committee puts forward a range a measures to curb wind farms, including …
