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 …
Spain plans to set the return earned by renewable energy at 7.4 per cent, moving to curb subsidies to an industry that got 50 billion euros ($77 billion) in the past decade, according to draft rules seen by Bloomberg News. The rate on investment for clean-power plants was based on …
The Environmental Protection Agency has just released its annual Climate Protection Partnerships report, and it indicates that the U.S. is in a strong position to achieve economic growth — in other words, job growth — as it transitions to safer, healthier and more sustainable forms of energy. The report comes …
Plant has capacity of 47.6 Mw As part of its diversification plans, National Aluminium Company (Nalco), a navratna PSU under Union mines ministry has commissioned its second wind power plant at Ludarva in Jaisalmer district of Rajasthan. The wind power project with a capacity of 47.6 Mw was commissioned on …
Governments the world over are facing an acute need for new or modernized infrastructure; the estimated shortfall in global infrastructure debt and equity investment is at least US$ 1 trillion per year. There is no fundamental scarcity of private capital – investors are frequently falling short of their target allocations. …
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The Global Wind Energy Council wants to partner with India for offshore wind development and has identified two states —Gujarat and Tamil Nadu — for special focus. The Council, a global trade body comprising over 1,500 members from 70 countries, is providing a grant of Euro 4 million from European …
Environment minister M Veerappa Moily will soon write to chief ministers of six states asking them to send their suggestions on the controversial Kasturirangan committee report which had recommended prohibiting certain activities like mining, setting up polluting industries and big constructions in around 60,000 sq km area across these states …
This project is an attempt to model the energy requirement (across power, transport, agriculture, industry, domestic and commercial sectors) of Kerala up to 2050 in order to assess the feasibility of meeting 100 per cent of the state’s energy demand with renewable sources. The central finding of the study is …
Dr Farooq Abdullah, Minister for New and Renewable Energy, expresses hope to see restoration of Accelerated Depreciation benefit for wind power producers Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) is planning to set up a National Offshore Wind Energy Agency to explore wind generation potential in the offshore areas, according …
The government will launch its first wind energy mission this year to give a boost to the renewable source and putting it in the same league as the high-profile solar mission. The ‘National Wind Energy Mission (NWEM), which would be launched around the middle of the year, would give incentives …
The Kerala government on Monday inked a memorandum of understanding with National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) for setting up an 82MW wind farm at Mannarcaud taluk in Palakkad district. As per the agreement, NHPC would set up wind power generating units on 500 acres of land at Mannarcaud on ‘build …
Kerala signed an agreement with National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) Ltd. on Monday to set up a wind farm in Palakkad district. The project will mark the corporation’s foray into the wind power sector. After the agreement was signed, Electricity Minister Aryadan Mohammed told presspersons that the plan was to …
Since October sightseers on the hills above Edinburgh have gawped at a brand new landmark. Across the Firth of Forth, on a test site, stands the biggest wind turbine in Britain. The tips of its blades rise 196m above sea level. Its rotor sweeps an area twice as large as …
A study report released by WWF India in association with Pune-based World Institute of Sustainable Energy (WISE) here has claimed that Kerala has the renewable energy potential to attain self-sustainability in energy sector by 2050. The report prepared by WISE is a sequeltothe global study ‘Theenergy report-100 per cent renewable …
Low-carbon innovation in industrial sectors in developing countries presents economic opportunities that can help realise sustainable development pathways. Under business-as-usual, industries being established in developing countries are likely to move along carbon-intensive or inefficient pathways, increasing greenhouse gas emissions in the short term and the likelihood of establishing high-carbon lock-in …
This report focuses on the wind and solar sectors in Germany. It reviews the German policy in support of raising the share of renewables in the energy mix within the context of multiple social, economic and technological objectives. Based on this analysis, the report concludes that the extent to which …
This paper investigates criteria and indicators used to evaluate renewable energy deployment policies. The focus is on application in lower income countries, and the report seeks to extend IRENA’s Policy Brief on the topic “Evaluating policies in support of the deployment of renewable power”. Key objectives are to explore the …
A sustainable, renewable-energy-based economy, where as much as 90 per cent of India’s total primary energy supply is based on renewable sources, could theoretically be achieved, according to a report released by WWF-India and TERI, at WWF-India, New Delhi. The study examines the possibility of a near 100% Renewable Energy …
The Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW), a wing of WWF-India, released a compendium on renewable energy here on Thursday. Titled ‘Renewable Energy beyond Electricity’, the study focuses on innovative renewable energy applications beyond power-generation. Creating awareness It aims to create awareness on the potential of renewable energy, particularly …
REpower Systems SE, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Suzlon Group – the world’s fifth-largest manufacturer of wind turbines, has concluded with GDF-SUEZ Futures Energies two contracts, totalling 40 MW, for the supply of twenty wind turbines MM92 and MM82 types with a nominal output of 2.05 megawatts (MW) each. …
