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 …
This report presents key technology, market and economic aspects of wind energy in Europe and beyond. During 2014 the wind energy sector saw a new record in actual installations in a context of healthy manufacturer balance sheet and downward trend in prices. The global market reached 52.8 GW of installed …
With its falling cost and availability throughout the year, solar is emerging as a competitor to wind energy, a top Tamil Nadu government official said today. In his address to the 3-day 4th International Wind Conference and Exhibition here, Rajesh Lakhoni, Principal Secretary, Energy, Government of Tamil Nadu said that …
A huge floating wind turbine for an experimental offshore power generation project was unveiled Monday at Onahama port in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture. With an output capacity of 7,000 kilowatts, the turbine is the largest piece of offshore wind power generation equipment in the world. The project, commissioned by the Ministry …
Planned turbines said to be in jeopardy after government announces it will stop subsidies next April, a year earlier than set out under coalition government The Conservatives will end subsidies to onshore windfarms from 1 April 2016, a year earlier than set out in the previous Tory-Liberal Democrat coalition agreement. …
Expect Accelerated Depreciation market to cross 1 GW in 2015-16 Wind energy turbine manufacturers expect 3,500-Mw wind capacity addition in the country during the current financial year. Madhusudan Khemka, chairman of the Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Association (IWTA), said the country saw a total 2,310-Mw wind capacity addition in the …
For the first time in four decades, the world's gross domestic product (GDP) rose in 2014 without a coinciding rise in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, according to the Renewables 2015 Global Status Report. The report also finds that 2014 was a record year for wind and solar photovoltaic (PV) installations, …
US energy secretary announces new office of technology transitions to help facilitate financing by connecting would-be investors with clean-energy firms With $4bn and a new government office, the White House has unveiled its latest clean energy initiative and cast a subtle new role for the federal government: not only is …
The world's largest toymaker is to build a new Sustainable Materials Centre in its search for more environmentally-friendly materials to be used in its products and packaging. Lego will invest a billion Danish Krone (around £100m) into the research and development of new raw materials for its trademark Lego blocks. …
SunEdison, the world’s largest renewable energy development company, on Tuesday announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Continuum Wind Energy Limited, Singapore, with assets in India. Continuum owns and operates 242 MW wind power plants in Maharashtra and Gujarat, and 170 MW wind power plant is under construction …
Indonesia has announced a short-term target for increasing their share of renewable energy in the country’s energy mix. The south-east Asian country has announced a medium-term target for increasing the share of renewable energy in total energy use to 25% by 2025. The Indonesian government has now set a target …
BONN, Germany: Ethiopia on Wednesday became the latest country to present a plan to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions for a global climate pact that's supposed to be adopted in Paris later this year. Ethiopia's emissions are just a tiny fraction of the world total, but the African country said …
A 1940 clip of the Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge in the United States stretching like chewing gum in a gale captured the imagination of a Spanish engineering student who became obsessed with how he could turn that chaos into power. Twelve years later, David Yanez is part of a team …
In an enterprise which could bring hybrid renewable energy to Indian rooftops, WindStream Technologies, a U.S.-based renewable energy technologies manufacturer, has launched its trademark product – SolarMill, at its newly inaugurated facility in Maheshwaram mandal of Ranga Reddy district on Wednesday. The prototype of the portable device consists of three …
Thai electricity distributor Superblock PCL plans to invest 30 billion baht ($884 million) in 2015 on expanding its solar power business at home and abroad, it said on Monday. Superblock is one of several Thai companies shifting to solar power to benefit from a government drive to promote renewable energy …
The world's largest furniture retailer has today (4 June) pledged to spend €1bn on renewable energy and tacking climate change in the next five years. Swedish company announced on Thursday it will spend €500m on wind power, and around €100m on solar by 2020. Its charitable arm – the Ikea …
The Scottish energy minister has called for an “adult discussion” with the UK government over the future of windfarm subsidies, after writing to Amber Rudd to express his concern that Scotland is being shut out of discussions. In his letter to the secretary of state for energy and climate change, …
Renewable energy's share of how much electricity is produced in Australia fell in 2014, but the number of businesses connecting to solar power is booming, according to the peak body for the clean energy industry. The fall in the share of renewables was the first since 2008. A day after …
In an innovative move to overcome the resistance of locals for land acquisition and harness the state's solar energy potential to the optimum, Maharashtra's new renewable energy policy has paved the way for installation of solar panels on irrigation canals. The move will also reduce evaporation of water from the …
Maharashtra cabinet today approved the composite policy on renewable energy, in which it has set a target of achieving 14,400 MW of installed capacity in a period of five years and attracting an investment of Rs one lakh crore. "Maharashtra cabinet approved new and renewable energy policy worth Rs 4,156.43 …
The UK renewable energy industry has warned the government’s new climate secretary that she will face a legal challenge if she oversees the “wilful destruction” of the industry by retrospectively curtailing subsidies. Later this week, the Department of Energy and Climate Change will announce that the existing subsidy scheme for …
