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 …
In what can be termed as the largest investment in India's renewable energy sector, ReNew Wind Power, a renewable energy independent power producer (IPP), has announced that it had secured an equity investment of Rs.1,000 crore from Goldman Sachs, a leading global investment bank and active investor in alternative energy/clean …
New Delhi Fossil fuel-based power generators like NTPC, Reliance Power and Lanco Power, and energy majors such as Indian Oil Corporation, Bharat Petroleum, Hindustan Petroleum and GAIL, are warming up to renewable power in a big way as India moves to control its fast-expanding carbon footprint as part of the …
In May 2011, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presented its report on potential of renewable energy (RE) which emphasizes significant future role of RE in cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and powering sustainable development. A global team of technological experts and scientists reviewed over 160 scenarios on the …
Hooking up the UK’s electricity system to neighbouring countries through a European “supergrid” could bring a host of economic and environmental benefits, but there are “tremendous uncertainties” about the overall value because of the very high costs involved, MPs have reported. The idea of a supergrid, long espoused by renewable …
Ministry intends to revise guidelines for installation of wind turbine models in India. The underlying objective of this exercise is to reinvigorate wind power development in the country by creating a facilitative environment that promote healthy business, ensures safety standards and spur technological growth.
Goldwind Science and Technology Co. said Monday that it will build a $200 million wind farm in Illinois. "As the largest and most competitive market in the world, the United States is a key component of Goldwind's international growth," Goldwind Chairman and CEO Wu Gang said. "Goldwind has generated a …
The companies working on the Long Island-New York City offshore wind farm, which could generate up to 700 megawatts (MW), said on Thursday they had applied for a lease to build the facility in federal waters. The companies comprise a unit of New York power company Consolidated Edison, state-owned Long …
Marking a milestone in renewable energy, Sri Lanka, has commissioned its first solar power plant. It will add 500 kilowatt to the National Grid and generate 2,300 units of electricity daily. The power plant located in Hambantota in southern Sri Lanka will cater to electricity needs of over 3,000 rural …
A new report from the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory shows that electric vehicles could aid in expanding renewable energy sources like wind in the Pacific Northwest. This region of the United States is increasingly looking at wind power to satisfy their growing energy demands. The report found …
Indian wind turbine maker Suzlon Energy Ltd. is planning to partner with Chinese utilities to help them invest in wind-power projects abroad, Chairman Tulsi Tanti said Wednesday. Wind turbines stand at the Suzlon Energy wind farm in Satara, India. Suzlon already has mandates from Chinese state-owned utilities to look for …
The outlook for renewable energy may be cloudy as governments scramble for solutions to a faltering global economy and financial markets suffer from uncertainty, but it is not bleak, analysts said in two separate reports on Friday. Renewable energy sectors have lagged fossil fuel energy and wider global stocks over …
In this article, an attempt is made to answer the question: Can renewable energy sources eventually supply India’s electricity needs in the future? The estimates made here indicate that even with a frugal per capita electricity need of 2000 kWh/annum and a stabilized population of 1700 million by 2070, India …
REpower, a subsidiary of wind turbine maker Suzlon Energy, has received a contract to deliver turbines for seven wind farms. “REpower Systems SE has concluded contracts with seven communities in Northern Friesland (Germany) to deliver 47 turbines,” the company informed the Bombay Stock Exchange today. Northern Friesland is the stronghold …
JAISALMER: The Centre will shortly be making an atlas of the many windmills that are fast being built in this desert district. The atlas will not only help regulate the growth of windmills here but will also keep a track of areas where windmills are being set up. In a …
Japan's new prime minister has made clear he sees nuclear power playing a part in energy supply for decades -- so one of his first challenges is to convince a skeptical public to allow shut reactors to restart. Yoshihiko Noda inherits a country with no cohesive energy policy after the …
In an attempt to hedge against future rising energy prices, Volkswagen announced last week that it will invest up to one billion Euros (US$1.45 billion) in renewable energy. The announcement follows the company's decisions earlier this year to invest in other clean energy projects as well as to launch new …
Marubeni Corporation, a Japanese conglomerate, has paid £200m to become co-owner of a UK wind farm, marking the first equity investment by an Asian enterprise in this sector of Britain’s renewable energy industry. The agreement was concluded with Dong Energy, the Danish company specialising in renewable energy, on Thursday. Marubeni …
The bankruptcies of three American solar power companies in the last month, including Solyndra of California on Wednesday, have left China’s industry with a dominant sales position — almost three-fifths of the world’s production capacity — and rapidly declining costs. Solar panel inspection at a factory in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. …
Anil Ambani-led Reliance Group firm RPower has got a Rs 400-crore loan from the US Emport-Import Bank for a 40-MW solar plant being set up in Rajasthan. The company is developing the country’s largest solar photo voltaic (PV) project with 40-MW generation capacity, which is scheduled for commissioning by March …
Melbourne Suzlon Energy, Asia’s third-largest maker of wind turbines, plans to develop a A$1.3 billion ($1.4 billion) wind farm in South Australia, according to the state government. The 600-megawatt project would produce enough electricity to power more than 2,00,000 homes a year, Mike Rann, premier of the Australian state, said …
