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 …
Pune Troubled wind turbine maker, Suzlon Group, on Wednesday announced the sale of a block of wind assets for about R200 crore to repay its debt. These windfarms are located across India, with a majority of them located in Tamil Nadu. Suzlon’s foreign currency convertible bonds comes up for redemption …
With the Union Government removing the accelerated depreciation benefit for investors in wind mill projects from April 1, 2012, investment in the wind energy sector will not be attractive to the small captive investors, according to K. Kasthoorirangaian, Chairman of Indian Wind Power Association. Investors had the option to go …
Cos say capacity addition may fall to less than 1,000 MW against target of 3,000 MW The government has ended the tax break given to wind energy projects much against the wishes of industry players who argued that without the popular incentive, capacity addition in the sector could fall to …
JAISALMER: The desert state on Saturday achieved the glory of having the country's biggest solar power generation plant. The 40MW plant has been set up at Dhoodsar village near Pokhran in Jaisalmer district and the plant started power generation from Saturday. In a grand function organised at the village, Union …
Beijing will promote new energy sources but wants to control 'blind expansion' in the wind and solar industries, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao said in a speech in March 2012.
A year on from Fukushima, Japan is only gradually setting a course for renewable energies. Strong resistance from the nuclear lobby, inadequate infrastructure, and a lack of reforms in the energy market are hampering progress.
Kenya is finally starting to systematically exploit its vast geothermal resources. It is counting on renewables to help it upgrade to an emerging economy.
Windmills have been turning for millennia, but they have only been producing electricity for 125 years. Scotsman James Blyth is regarded as the inventor of the technology, He could not celebrate his success, as electric power was seen as the work of the devil.
Despite global economic slowdown and subsequent policy changes, renewable energies and particularly wind managed to attract substantial funds. Through the year there was hectic activity in the financial circles as new projects attracted funds, loans were given out to finish those in the pipeline and financial support was forwarded to …
The international energy studies department of the environmental energy technologies division of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has released a report that reassessed India's wind potential. The study results points to the scope for detailed research on evaluating the country's true potential in the sector.
With an installed renewable energy capacity of over 7,420 MW, Tamil Nadu occupies the top slot amongst all states in the sector. Wind power capacity, which accounts for more than 90 per cent of the state's installed capacity, has been the anchor of its renewable energy installations.
GWEC's annual market update on the status of the global wind industry is the authoritative source of information on wind power markets around the world. It provides with a comprehensive snapshot of the global industry, now present in about 75 countries, with 21 countries having more than 1000 MW installed. …
Green Growth examines the impact of wind energy on jobs and the economy in the EU. The wind energy industry increased its contribution to the EU’s gross domestic product (GDP) by 33% between 2007 and 2010. In 2010, the industry’s growth was twice that of the EU’s GDP overall, with …
A micro wind turbine provider has developed a 1-KW wind-solar hybrid system that can be installed in schools to generate captive power. The energy generated is sufficient to power a computer, a fan and LED lights for few hours a day, according to Mr C. Raghuraman, president of E-Hands Energy, …
With an ambitious energy agreement, Denmark takes a decisive step towards a society free of coal, oil and natural gas, says a press release issued on Friday. In 2020, half of the electricity consumption will come from wind power (today it's 25 per cent), and the energy consumption will decrease …
World's fifth largest wind turbine manufacturer Suzlon, along with China's CGN Wind Energy Co, will jointly develop 800 MW of domestic and international projects over the next three years. Suzlon group has entered into a global strategic partnership agreement for this with CGN Wind Energy Co, wholly owned subsidiary of …
World’s fifth largest wind turbine manufacturer, Suzlon, along with China’s CGN Wind Energy Co, will jointly develop 800 MW of domestic and international projects over the next three years. Suzlon Group has entered into a global partnership agreement with CGN Wind Energy Co, a wholly owned subsidiary of China Guangdong …
The real wind energy potential in India is well over 2 million MW, according to a recent study of the US based Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. After re-assessing the land that can be used for wind power development, so as to take into account previously excluded lands, Lawrence Berkeley has …
Dwindling supplies of metals, water and biomass could slow the deployment of clean energy technologies by 2035, a study by research organization the Stockholm Environment Institute and by business initiative 3C showed on Tuesday. Governments and companies are increasingly developing low-carbon technologies to reduce their dependency on fossil fuel-based energy …
Expanding cities threaten to eat up a swath of land the size of France, Germany and Spain combined in less than 20 years, putting the world under even more environmental pressure, experts said at a climate conference on Tuesday. Cities are growing to accommodate a rising global population and as …
