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 …
Japan is reconsidering plans to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by 25% by 2020 due to a rethinking of its energy future, and the country is worried that it is spending too much on carbon-credit programs, a senior government official said on Wednesday. Japan currently plans to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by 25% …
Renewable energy has created a "gold rush" atmosphere in Germany's depressed north-east, giving the country's poorhouse good jobs and great promise. The natural resources attracting investors and industry are of a simple variety: wind, sunshine, agricultural products and farm waste such as liquid manure. The rush to tap green resources …
Government grants huge tax exemptions to industries for installing pollution control equipment. This is done to achieve certain social, economic and environmental goals. But it has failed to monitor the working of this subsidy regime. While many industries do achieve the desired pollution control results, many others blatantly flout norms. …
Plans for large commercial-scale wind farms have been on the table for years, but constantly held up by environmental permitting issues, financing concerns, or local objections based on aesthetics. States like New Jersey, Rhode Island, Delaware, and Massachusetts all have offshore wind projects that have yet to commence. At the …
The technical standard for the first global consumer label for companies to buy wind power and other clean renewable energy has been launched today. The program is backed by companies including WWF, Vestas Wind Systems, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), the LEGO Group, Bloomberg and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Effective from today, …
Pune Wind turbine manufacturer, Suzlon Energy (SEL), has concluded the sale of its 26.06% stake in Hansen Transmissions International NV to ZF Friedrichshafen AG and exited the company. The completion of the deal will see Suzlon raising R890 crore from this sale. Tulsi R Tanti, CMD, Suzlon Group, says the …
Romania's centrist coalition government late on Wednesday approved a much awaited support scheme for renewable energy producers which would lead to a 2.5 percent rise in electricity tariffs for household consumers next year, it said in a statement. The support scheme, which is based on green certificates and has been …
Sri Lanka's wind power generator, Senok has placed an order for 10 units of wind turbine generators from the Wind turbine manufacturer Suzlon Energy Ltd. to provide 21 MW of wind power capacity, Suzlon said in a press release today. Suzlon Energy, based in Pune, India, has won a repeat …
Independent power producer Greenko Group plc and GE Energy Financial Services today announced plans to form a new venture to develop wind energy projects in India. While the London-listed Greenko has committed $65 million (around Rs 300 crore) to the new venture, to be known as Greenko Wind Project Private …
Suzlon Energy Ltd has secured a repeat order from Senok, Sri Lanka, to supply 10 units of Suzlon's S88 - 2.1 MW wind turbine generators, aggregating 21 MW of wind power capacity. The project will be commissioned in two phases and completed by May 2012. Suzlon had earlier supplied a …
GE will invest $50 million in its maiden project in renewable energy in India with Greenko Group, a green energy developer. GE Energy Financial Services and Greenko will take up the development of wind energy projects up to 500 MW. Greenko has committed $65 million for the venture. It has …
REpower, in which Suzlon Energy Ltd holds nearly 95 per cent stake, has concluded a contract with La Campagnie du Vent, GDF SUEZ group, to supply 23 wind turbines. The wind turbines are to be installed in two wind farm projects in the French Burgundy region. The wind farms will …
The average household will be in “fuel poverty” by the next election in 2015 if energy bills, which have almost doubled as a share of median income since 2004, stay on their current path. A steady rise in electricity and gas charges could force the government to reconsider its energy …
London-listed clean energy producer Greenko said a $50 million investment by a unit of GE will put it on track to achieve 1 gigawatt (GW) of operational wind capacity by 2017. A division of GE Energy Financial Services will invest the cash to support development of 500 megawatt (MW) of …
Nova Scotia is a small, picturesque province on Canada's Atlantic Coast but its appetite for green energy is big and aggressive as it moves to wean itself away from coal, and wins plaudits for its efforts. Last month, the province, Canada's second-smallest, unveiled the highest tariff in North America for …
Should there be a financial cost to the services provided by mountain ecosystems? Experts gathered under the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) believe any “financial valuation” of the huge contributions made by mountain communities in areas of water, forestry, mining and generation of hydro and wind-power must benefit …
A forest generated by residents in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district is being destroyed to set up windmills. For two decades people from eight villages in Kalpavalli region in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district laboured hard to turn a vast expanse of wasteland into a forest. But the effort seems to have …
Gujarat is rich in renewable energy sources predominantly in solar, wind and bio energy. It has already taken the lead over other states in renewable energy initiatives, particularly in solar power generation. The state of Gujarat endeavours to become the leader in terms of capacity and introduction of new technologies …
This paper deals with two methods of obtaining 50Hz sinusoidal voltage waveform of constant amplitude same as the amplitude of grid voltage from a variable amplitude variable frequency sinusoidal voltage waveform so that a variable speed wind turbine generator can be joined to grid.
Wind power plants are most productive when nothing blocks their access to the wind. But turbines often take wind away from each other. Repowering and the allocation of new priority sites are aggravating the problems the most.
