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 global maintenance expenditure on wind turbines - vital to productivity - is expected rise from $9.25bn in 2014 to $17bn in 2020. That's according to a new report from consultancy firm GlobalData, which says the growth is driven by increasing numbers of installations and aging turbines. GlobalData power analyst …
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has asked all states to come out with a solar policy, a move that will help the Centre meet its clean energy target. "The Ministry has requested all states to come out with solar policy. A draft model solar energy policy has …
The report contains major market development trends, policy development in China in the year 2014. It also contains information about wind OEM and developers, as well as provincial/regional breakdown of the wind development.
Wind power could provide more than a third of the country’s electricity by 2050 while yielding a net savings in energy costs paid by consumers, the Energy Department reported in a major study released Thursday. Continued growth of wind energy—which has tripled since 2000 and now supplies nearly 5 percent …
Nyandarua leaders have struck a deal with Kinangop residents, allowing the demarcation of land for the construction of a wind-mill project. During a meeting held at Mwendandu market in Magumu ward on Friday, it was agreed that surveyors demarcate the land earmarked for the Sh13 billion project from today. Those …
THE government is planning to spend more than 132 million US dollars for the construction of wind power project in Singida, expected to produce 50-megawatts. National Development Corporation (NDC) Head of Energy and Infrastructure development, Pascal Malesa said the project is expected to start production of power by next year. …
The French government's energy bill was approved by the opposition-controlled upper house of parliament on Tuesday in a watered-down version that ditches key nuclear reduction targets and is likely to be changed again before its final adoption. The energy bill passed by the Socialist-controlled lower house last October included a …
The Nigeria-Germany Energy partnership under the Nigeria Energy Support Programme (NESP), an initiative signed between President Goodluck Jonathan and his German counterpart, Chancellor Angela Merkel, recorded a sound achievement as the Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo commissioned a 25KW Hybrid solar PV/ wind demonstration power plant. The plant is …
The UK public believes that wind power subsidies paid by consumers are many times higher than they actually are, according to polling for the industry. A survey questioned 2,000 people for industry body RenewableUK about what they thought payments for wind farms added to fuel bills, and found the average …
As India sets ambitious targets and turns the handle on market reform to attract foreign investment, opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa are being unlocked as public and private sectors work together to break down barriers. This issue’s special features explore the dynamics of the energy revolutions currently underway in India and …
The Kinangop wind park project in Nyandarua will proceed, despite opposition from farmers. On Monday and Tuesday more than 1,000 farmers opposed to the project held demonstration in Nyandarua. One person was killed, scores injured and property worth thousands of shillings destroyed. A meeting in Kinangop chaired by Energy PS …
More than a dozen windfarms and five solar farms are among first projects to receive financial support under contracts for difference More than a dozen new onshore wind farms are to receive financial backing through the coalition government’s reformed renewable incentive scheme, along with two offshore wind projects and five …
Bulgaria's parliament scrapped preferential prices for new renewable energy installations on Thursday as the country is struggling to cut deficits in the energy sector and keep a lid on consumers' utility bills. Wind power farms and photovoltaic parks mushroomed in 2011, after Bulgaria introduced generous subsidies for renewable energy, guaranteed …
GROUND was broken yesterday for the 36.3 megawatt wind farm at Malvern, St Elizabeth which government and investors say forms part of a concerted push to reduce Jamaica's US$2-billion oil bill through the use of renewable energy. The project, located close to Munro College, at one of the highest and …
One of the world’s most iconic sites has become the latest high profile venue to embrace renewable energy, after the installation of two vertical axis wind turbines as part of the Eiffel tower’s high profile renovation project. US-based onsite renewables specialist Urban Green Energy (UGE) announced on Tuesday that it …
Orient Green Power Company (OGPL) informed BSE it has divested the entire equity stake in its non-operative subsidiary Theta Wind Energy Private Ltd. According to company officials, Theta Wind Energy is a non-operating subsidiary and was holding licence to set up a 200-300 Mw wind unit in Andhra Pradesh. The …
The Global Atlas for Renewable Energy (Global Atlas) aims to close the gap between countries with access to the datasets, expertise and financial support to evaluate their renewable energy potential, and those lacking such elements. As of January 2015, a total of 67 countries and more than 50 institutes and …
The government is spending far too little money on energy research, putting at risk the long-term goals of reducing carbon emissions and alleviating energy poverty, some of the country’s top business leaders found in a new report. The American Energy Innovation Council, a group of six executives that includes the …
UBM India, host of the annual Renewable Energy India (REI) expositions in the country, announced its first ever India-Sri Lanka Renewable Energy Growth Forum, to showcase the business opportunities that exist in both the countries in the field of renewable energy. Exclusively supported by the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, this …
International wind turbine manufacturers saw a record-breaking year for global installations in 2014, but this is "disguising underlying challenges facing the industry", according global business advisory firm FTI consulting. According to Global Wind Market Update: Demand and Supply 2014 - a report by FTI Consulting due to be published in …
