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 …
Solar, biomass and wind energy systems are popping up all over the country and feeding clean energy into the strained electrical grid The howling wind drives the turbines, their blades bent back from the force as they spin in the evening light and send electricity to local villages in South …
SunEdison eyes Continuum, values wind energy co at . 3,720-3,900 crore SunEdison, the largest renewable energy development company in the world by generation capacity, is negotiating with the promoters of Mumbai-based Continuum Wind Energy to buy them out. The move will significantly consolidate its India presence and, if the deal …
This paper presents viability study of integrated renewable power system for telecommunication applications. Rapid depletion of fossil fuel resources necessitated research on alternative energy sources. A wind solar integrated system is a reliable alternative energy source because it uses solar energy combined with wind energy to create a stand-alone power …
Government plans to curtail onshore wind subsidy scheme will see millions of pounds of investments written off and "massively damage" investor confidence, ScottishPower claims Government plans to curtail onshore wind farm subsidies will raise energy bills, “massively damage” investor confidence and could see hundreds of millions of pounds of investments …
A major barrier to deploying renewable energy in India is a shortage of debt at attractive terms. Domestic debt in India has high cost, short tenor, and variable interest rates, adding 30% to the cost of renewable energy. Currently foreign debt is as expensive as domestic debt because it requires …
A Path to Prosperity: Renewable Energy for Islands presents a compilation of case studies from small island developing states (SIDS) and development partners. These demonstrate real-life project viability, highlight innovative solutions and showcase successful partnerships, which together are advancing the deployment of renewable energy in SIDS. This second edition – …
Wind farms may be a vital source of green energy, but new research shows that the construction of off-shore wind farms could potentially be damaging the hearing of harbour seals and other marine life. Researchers at St. Andrews University in Scotland believe that there is cause for concern that human …
One of the world’s largest semiconductor chip manufacturers, Intel is used to being on the top. Now, the American company is swapping things around, by making a bold move on top of their own headquarters in Santa Clara, with the installation of one of the world’s largest arrays of micro-wind …
Uruguay’s renewable energy sector has received a major boost with two wind energy projects bagging substantial financial support. Uruguay FlagThe Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has announced substantial financial support in form of loans to two wind energy projects in Uruguay. The projects will have a generation capacity of 70 MW …
The engineer and economist Bernard Chabot has written an article explaining how wind power capacity factors for new wind turbines could increase from about 40% to 60%. The article is titled, “The fast shift towards the « silent wind power revolution » in USA and the related huge energy and …
By the end of this month, the government is expected to announce a national long-term energy plan for 2030 that will include a “best energy mix” scenario — the formula for the various ratios of oil, coal, LNG, nuclear power and renewable energy that will be powering Japan in 15 …
Multinational company GE announced the launch of its new Digital Wind Farm on Tuesday, “a dynamic, connected, and adaptable wind energy ecosystem” intended to boost a wind farm’s energy production by 20%. GE Digital Wind FarmAccording to GE, the Digital Wind Farm makes use of the industrial internet “to address …
Alaskans can attest, energy in The Last Frontier is expensive. The average residential electricity rate of more than 18 cents per kWh is a full 50 percent higher than the national average, ranking among the highest in the country. That’s in part because outside the 50 hydro plants throughout the …
New UK Energy Secretary Amber Rudd has confirmed the Conservative Party's controversial plans to stop subsidies for onshore wind farms, claiming it is top of her agenda at the Department for Energy & Climate Change (DECC). In an interview with the Sunday Times this week, Rudd reiterated the Tories' manifesto …
To meet the recently struck renewable energy target figure of 33,000 gigawatt hours 1,000 wind turbines would need to be built, a Senate inquiry has been told. The government and Labor reached a compromise on Monday on the 2020 target, dropping it from its original 41,000 GwH figure to 33,000. …
Six billion dollars in investment in wind and solar power will be lost as a result of a compromise deal on the renewable energy target, energy market analysts say. Bloomberg New Energy Finance says investment in Australian projects will fall from an expected $20.6 billion by 2020 to $14.7 billion …
Today’s wind turbines have colossal blades that spin at speeds of more than 200mph (320 km/h). While some might consider them majestic structures, others argue they are a threat to bird life and a noisy blight on the landscape. Now a Spanish company has come up with a solution to …
A free online tool has been launched to allow the wind industry to predict how technology upgrades could affect the cost of the electricity they can produce. The tool, known as Delphos, has been set up by European sustainable energy innovation organisation, KIC InnoEnergy. In practice, the tool could encourage …
To add 150 MWof wind power capacity this year Tata Power Renewable Energy, a subsidiary of Tata Power Ltd, is set to expand its wind power generation capacity by 150 MW this fiscal. This will take the company’s installed capacity to more than 700 MW. The company is looking to …
CHENNAI: Wind power producers in the state can look forward to selling much of the power they generate as TNEB is likely to consider evacuating it based on a forecasting system. Every year, there have been complaints from wind power generators about TNEB's inability to completely evacuate the power they …
