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 …
Land grabbing has today become a major issue across India and a central political faultline in Indian politics. Protests, resistance and conflicts have been growing as a result of attempts by people to assert their legal and customary rights in the face of state and corporate attempts to take over …
The state of Tamil Nadu is rich in renewable energy (RE) sources, especially wind and solar. Currently, approximately one-third of the country’s installed RE capacity exists in Tamil Nadu alone. The Action Plan for Comprehensive Renewable Energy Development in Tamil Nadu, aims to tap this abundant source of energy and …
Wind energy companies ReGen Powertech and Kenersys India, on Thursday, unveiled new products for the emerging multi-megawatt turbine market at the Wind Power India 2012 event here. Announcing the launch of Vensys 87 (V-87), a 1.5 MW turbine, Managing Director of ReGen Powertech Pvt. Ltd., Madhusudan Khemka, said it was …
As major economies grappling with financial slowdown and uncertainty over returns from green projects, private equity (PE) investments in clean technology projects have almost halved this year. The sector saw only 12 PE investments worth around $396 million this year, compared to $793 million in 2011. Venture Intelligence data reveals …
This new report by GWEC, IWTMA and WISE examines the current status of wind power development in India, assesses the potential for future growth, and highlights the socio-economic, environmental and energy security benefits. India Wind Energy Outlook 2012 is a joint publication by GWEC, IWTMA and WISE. The report examines …
British government support for low-carbon electricity generation will triple by 2020 after the energy and finance ministries on Friday reached a deal over costly reforms. The agreement is expected to boost the share of renewables in Britain's energy mix to 30 percent by 2020, outpacing European Union targets of 20 …
A fledgling market in clean energy certificates has crashed as state distribution utilities have failed to honour their purchase obligations, putting entrepreneurs and investors in the sunrise sector at risk and portending trouble for the larger cause of environment-friendly power. Prices of these renewable energy certificates, a tradable instrument each …
Veer Energy & Infrastructure Ltd, a Mumbai-based wind power developer, plans to invest Rs 500 crore to augment capacity on its existing projects and also to diversify into solar energy. The company has successfully completed a 200-Mw wind farm project and another 115-Mw project is currently in pipeline. The firm …
The Government is looking at adopting the viability gap funding model for the second phase of the National Solar Mission, said Gireesh B. Pradhan, Secretary, Ministry for New and Renewable Energy. Implementing this model would mean a developer will be asked to state the amount the company would require to …
The United States needs to update its energy policy to reflect the boom in natural gas and oil production that has boosted manufacturing jobs, said the top Democrat on the Senate energy committee on Thursday. Ron Wyden, who is in line to take over the panel's gavel in January, said …
Centralised France may lack the clout at local government level to ease its new shift to greener energy, contrasting with the regional and grass-roots power that helped push through the rise of renewables in Germany. France, the world's most nuclear reliant country, has vowed to cut its dependency on the …
An analysis from Frost & Sullivan, Annual Global Power Generation Forecasts 2012, finds that during the current decade, gas will see the highest growth rate among the major fuels. Nuclear power, despite some delays after the Fukushima disaster, will also expand strongly due to the large number of nuclear plants …
The fourth edition of the Global Wind Energy Outlook shows that wind power could supply up to 12% of global electricity by 2020, creating 1.4 million new jobs and reducing CO2 emissions by more than 1.5 billion tons per year, more than 5 times today’s level. By 2030, wind power …
LAHORE – The FFC Energy Limited (FFCEL) has developed Pakistan’s first 50-Megawatt wind power project at Jhimpir, District Thatta, in Sindh. Established with an investment of $134 million, the grid interconnection facilities for this project were energised on October 30, whereby the wind farm is now connected with the national …
FFC Energy Limited (FFCEL) has developed Pakistan’s first 50MW wind power project at Jhimpir, District Thatta, in Sindh. Established with an investment of $134 million, the grid interconnection facilities for this project were energised on Oct 30 whereby the wind farm is now connected with the national grid, says a …
Top 50 corporate and industrial majors and most of the electricity generation and distribution companies in the country belonging to various state governments may face punitive action for not meeting the solar power generation targets mandated under the renewable purchase obligations (RPO). According to the RPOs, every company generating, consuming …
The Government is offering funding of up to £10m to innovative projects that aim to reduce the cost of offshore wind energy. Up to £7m is available under the third round of the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) and the Technology Strategy Board's (TSB) component technologies development and …
Will invest Rs 1,000 crore for the proj, which is to be commenced in 2015 Welspun Energy today said it will invest Rs 1,000 crore in setting up a 100 MW solar power project in Chhattisgarh. Welspun Renewables Energy Ltd (WREL), a subsidiary of Welspun Energy, has inked an MoU …
The price of operation and maintenance contracts in the global wind sector has dropped 38% in the last four years, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. The organisation has compiled a wind operation and maintenance price index by analysing confidential contract data from 38 major developers, and the findings suggest …
Minister for Energy Shobha Karandlaje has said that the power generation in the State will increase by 4,000 megawatts (MW) by the end of 2014. The Minister was laying the foundation stone for the work of construction of 110 kV capacity power distribution station in Sanda industrial area near Shikaripur …
