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 …
ITC, Yes Bank, HCL, Infosys, ONGC. More and more businesses are now realising there are long-term benefits in going green. Nothing shakes businesses as much as resource scarcity. With certain sectors like cement, steel and it being energy and water-intensive, the fear of climate change impacting the very resources that …
There's a wizened figure hunched over a chulha in rural Uttar Pradesh. She stokes the fiery coals, coughs intermittently, and her eyes stream with the exertion of cooking over coal night after night. The same image is replicated across most parts of India with minor alterations. According to a 2012 …
Wind, power project face hurdles in getting bank finance With huge investments targets for renewable energy projects including solar and wind power, the government wants the public sector banks to consider separate limits to improve fund flow to this sector. Bank loans to power sector have shown consistent growth. But …
The National Energy Administration approved the third group of wind power projects with a combined capacity of 28.72 megawatts, according to an announcement on the NEA's website on March 11. A total of 491 wind power projects were approved by the administration with a combined capacity of 27.97 megawatts, while …
AHMEDABAD: Not just humans, even animals prefer flowing water. The drought-like situation in the Gir area has shown that water holes filled by wind or solar powered pumps attract more animals than those artificially filled by tankers. Officials said stagnant water is less preferred. At a watering spot with flowing …
JAISALMER: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is expected to inaugurate two 50 megawatt solar projects at Phalodi in Jodhpur district by the end of this week. A detailed itinerary of his visit is yet to come but after his approval the state as well as district administration has begun preparations. The …
GANDHINAGAR: Having successfully established a solar power generation park in north Gujarat and a series of wind power plants with private companies, Gujarat government is now focusing on tapping offshore wind power generation potential along its coastline. Following a positive study report prepared by UK based Atlantis Resources Corporation, the …
These meters will replace the existing ones The Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco) will have to install fresh meters for domestic consumers who opt for rooftop solar power units. Giving this direction, the Tamil Nadu Electricity Regulatory Commission (TNERC), in its order a few days ago, stated that …
JAIPUR: In the financial year 2013-14, the state government has set a target to provide 75,000 new connections and increase power production capacity to 900MW in the public sector and 660MW in the private sector. It has also estimated that power production from wind energy products in the state would …
In a couple of years, rows of gleaming solar panels are expected to stretch across the desert outside Morocco's southern city of Ouarzazate, part of the country's plans to meet its energy deficit with power from the sun and wind. Morocco is one of the world's most energy-poor countries, importing …
The minimum investment ceiling of Rs. 100 crore should also be removed The Indian Wind Power Association has appealed to the Union Government to extend the investment allowance, announced in the Union Budget this year, to micro, small and medium-scale wind energy projects that are less than Rs. 100 crore. …
A huge wind turbine built in the Pacific Ocean near Tokyo, the largest of its kind in Japan, began to generate power Monday. The 126-meter-high turbine mast, with three propellers forming a spinning diameter of 92 meters, is located about 3 km off Choshi, Chiba Prefecture, and is capable of …
The prime minister's residence is named as the building that has made the most year-on-year improvement in the UK scheme David Cameron may have been mocked for his failure to put up a wind turbine at his Notting Hill home, but his green efforts at the office seem to have …
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has set a target of generating 15,000 Mega Watt of wind power during the 12th Plan period. In a statement released here, the Ministry said the capital expenditure for setting up one MW wind power project is approximately Rs six crore. A total …
Is the wind favourable or unfavourable? Experts are divided on the long-term benefits of re-introduction of generation-based incentive (GBI) for wind energy, announced in the Union budget, on the State’s wind sector. New wind mills of 1,084 MW capacity were commissioned last year, which was one third of what the …
The latest Energy Infrastructure Update released yesterday by the Office of Energy Projects at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission reports that the US had 1,231 megawatts (MW) of new in-service generating capacity come online in January of 2013 — all of it from renewable sources including wind, solar and biomass. …
PPP projects to improve coal production, sops for wind power producers Finance Minister P Chidambaram today proposed fresh incentives for the power industry, which is struggling to cope with fuel constraints as well as poor financial conditions of distribution utilities. Chidambaram has announced public-private partnership (PPP) projects in the coal …
Generation Based Incentive is back; Ministry to get Rs.800-crore One of the major gainers of the Union budget is the wind energy sector, with Finance Minister P. Chidambaram announcing the reintroduction of the Generation Based Incentive (GBI). A sum of Rs. 800 crore is to be provided to the Ministry …
Excerpts from the detailed report that highlight an approach to effective integration, operation and management of the Indian Grid with increased variable RE penetration. This report bases its principal conclusions on the analysis of experiences in Tamil Nadu (one of the Southern states of India) and in the Southern Grid …
The paper ‘Challenges and Approaches to Electricity Grids Operations and Planning with Increased Amounts of Variable Renewable Generation: Emerging Lessons from Selected Operational Experiences and Desktop Studies’ focuses on analyzing the impacts of variable renewable energy on the operation and planning of the the power system (mostly, generation system). It …
