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 …
California and the federal government on Tuesday released an ambitious plan to combat climate change by accelerating the building of large renewable energy projects in the state’s sun-soaked desert while setting aside millions of acres for conservation. The goal of the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan is to identify areas …
Hyderabad: With the AP government focusing on renewable sources of energy and planning massive increase in wind power capacity, the latest APERC order has not allowed a tariff hike as contested by developers. In fact, wind power generation has been riddled with issues like developers not maintaining separate accounts and …
Though the State has nearly 7,300 MW of installed wind energy capacity and the winds continue to be good, wind energy generation is stopped for 10 hours to 15 hours a day, says one of the leading wind energy producers here. Wind energy generated on Saturday morning was 2,473 MW …
Mexico will invest more than $20 billion over the next decade in wind-power projects, according to the local newspaper El Economista, citing U.S. government data. Mexico has a 40 gigawatts of potential wind energy and is about to become one of the fastest growing wind-energy producers in the world, said …
Pune, India: Suzlon Group, the world’s fifth largest* wind turbine maker, today announced that it has successfully completed the production of its first blade for its best in class S111 2.1 MW turbine. The S111 is a technologically advanced product of the S88 and S97 2.1 MW family. This product …
Chile’s government will fund the early development of renewable energy projects totaling 740 megawatts. The country’s Renewable Energy Center, known as CER, is offering $1.3 million to 51 projects with a capacity of as much as 50 megawatts each, the government said on its website. The projects include 15 small …
OSLO/LONDON - Investments to help fight climate change can also spur economic growth, rather than slow it as widely feared, but time is running short for a trillion-dollar shift to transform cities and energy use, an international report said on Tuesday. The study, by former heads of government, business leaders, …
The Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Index (RECAI), conducted by Ernst & Young, reveals that the UK has failed to attract a sufficient number of renewable energy investors, meaning a drop to seventh place on the index, owing to a number of domestic and international factors. Ernst & Young's environmental finance …
Plans for what could be the highest wind turbines in England and Wales have been submitted in Hartlepool, Teesside. Permission is being sought for three single turbines over 200m (655ft) high at Graythorp Industrial Estate, Brenda Road West Industrial Estate and Tofts Road West. The Department of Energy and Climate …
Of all the developed nations, few have pushed harder than Germany to find a solution to global warming. And towering symbols of that drive are appearing in the middle of the North Sea. They are wind turbines, standing as far as 60 miles from the mainland, stretching as high as …
Offshore wind power provides a valuable source of renewable energy that can help reduce carbon emissions. Technological advances are allowing higher capacity turbines to be installed and in deeper water, but there is still much that is unknown about the effects on the environment. Here we describe the lessons learned …
Energy: The country’s 600kw (kilowatt) pilot wind power project at Rubesa, Wangdue should be up and ready by February 2016, generating 1.21 million units of energy and earning a revenue of about Nu 2.5M a year. After the Komaihaltec inc., a Japanese company, was selected from three bidders, a contract …
A media workshop on climate change and environment reporting and discussion on changing trend in media ownership and its impact on coverage of environmental issue was organized by the Centre for Environment, Social and Policy Research (CESPR), in association with Indian Network on Ethics and Climate Change, at Guwahati on …
Divergent tax policies mean Norway risks missing out on most of a $6 billion wind-power boom while neighboring Sweden benefits. Norway, which aims to triple wind capacity by the end of the decade, has erected one turbine for every seven installed in Sweden since the countries signed a pact to …
The UK is leading the way when it comes to offshore wind power, with a 52% share of the international market last year, according to new figures. GlobalData has today (4 September) released a new report which reveals that the UK's cumulative offshore wind power installed capacity increased from 0.3GW …
The British summer may be over but it has ended on a high for the renewables sector, with new records set and wind generation levels exceeding both nuclear and coal. According to official National Grid statistics, wind overtook coal-fired power plants for generation on five separate occasions in August - …
Plans to set up over 80 MW of wind and solar energy projects As part of its entry into green energy generation, lignite-based power producer Neyveli Lignite Corporation has lined up renewable energy projects worth Rs 500 crore to set up wind and solar energy projects of 80 Mw. The …
Islamic debt could become a source of funding for wind turbines and high-speed trains as Britain cements its position as the first sukuk market in a non-Muslim nation. Investors including DAR Capital see scope for the U.K. to issue Shariah-compliant bonds with varying maturities after the Debt Management Office attracted …
Investments in new clean-energy capacity will total $1.61 trillion through 2020 even as the expansion of renewables is expected to slow, the International Energy Agency said. Funding for power generation from wind, solar radiation and biomass will average $230 billion a year from $250 billion in 2013 as technology costs …
