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 …
Leading renewable energy power company Orient Green Power Company (OGPL) has commissioned a 18.7 MW wind farm project at Gudimangalam in Tiruppur district of Tamil Nadu. With this new addition, OGPL now has an operating capacity of 172 MW of wind energy in Tamil Nadu making it the leading wind …
Britain will exclude details of support for green energy under power market reform plans it is due to unveil next week, say sources familiar with the statement which may disappoint investors and developers. The proposals will center around a guaranteed purchase price for low carbon electricity, critically widening existing renewable …
After a series of blade damages in its wind farms over the past three years, Suzlon Energy is launching new wind turbines. The S 9X machines — an improved version of S-88 machines — will give better power output even at inconsistent wind speeds, John O’Halloran, president-technology and managing director …
With wind energy being the most realistic large-scale renewable energy source in the near future, we examine the target for wind energy penetration in India for 2020. Achieving the target set by the Indian Wind Power Association of 20% wind power grid penetration by 2020 will act as a lighthouse, …
KARACHI, July 6: The provincial chief secretary has emphasised the need to remove hurdles in the fast implementation and completion of wind power projects. Sindh chief secretary Raja Muhammad Abbas on Wednesday presided over a review meeting at which Sindh Board of Investment secretary M.Y. Dagha briefed the participants of …
JAISALMER: It's hard to miss the hundreds of wind mills just as one enters the Jaisalmer district. Winds mills not only make a beautiful view but have also brought a change to the district. Now, the wind mills stand tall as witnesses to the desert district fast developing into a …
California plans to get a third of its electricity from wind, solar and other renewable energy, but Governor "Moonbeam" Jerry Brown wants more. Soon. The feisty 73-year-old who brings a former seminarian's zeal to environmentalism sees green jobs reinvigorating the economy and restoring California's position as world leader in clean …
When it comes to sourcing power from renewables, it's placed only next to Gujarat. One of the exalted few to have set up a dedicated agency to promote RE, Maharashtra is clearly on the right track to sustainability.
At a time when fossil fuel prices are spiralling, the threat of irreversible climate change is on everyone’s minds and serious questions are being raised over the cost and safety of nuclear, wind energy is considered more widely than ever a key part of the answer. This updated edition of …
An uncontrolled renewable power expansion in Germany could threaten the stability of energy grids, the head of energy agency Dena told Reuters on Wednesday. Failure to connect new capacity near demand centers or near transport grids or storage facilities would waste assets or put at risk the grids' stability, said …
In a move to increase the State's green energy imprint, five State-owned Electricity supply companies(ESCOMS) signed an agreement with National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) on Wednesday to purchase wind power. A 100-Mega Watt (MW) wind energy project proposed at Guledagudda in Bagalkot district will supply power to ESCOMS at Bangalore …
In December 2009, just before the disastrous climate conference at Copenhagen, environment minister Jairam Ramesh announced a voluntary and unilateral emissions reduction target for the country. He committed a 20-25 per cent reduction in the emissions intensity of the country’s GDP by 2020 below the 2005 levels. A month later, …
Pakistan Economy Watch (PEW) on Sunday said that alternative forms of energy were becoming more cost-competitive with conventional fuels therefore government should accelerate the pace of its development. "Energy crisis is greatest bottleneck in the supply of resources to economy; it is biggest problem than terrorism," said Dr. Murtaza Mughal, …
The energy need of the populace is increasing by the day, whereas the conventional source of energy is insufficient to meet the rising demand, Thereby adversely affecting the environment as well. Therefore there is an urgent need to develop and exploit non-conventional and renewable sources of energy in the state. …
Bhutan Power corporation (BPC) will soon study the possibility of installing wind turbines inside the hollow of rocket shaped transmission towers that would dot the hillsides.
Thiruvananthapuram The Kerala government has mooted a business-model with tribals of Palakkad to rev up its green energy production with an 80-mw wind power plan. The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) will join hands with National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) for the proposal. According to the business plan, KSEB and …
Theni district will soon find one of the top places in the national map of wind energy, thanks to strong wind with high velocity and massive enthusiasm shown by multinational and national companies. The Electricity Board officials believe that number of units would be doubled by the year end. At …
Google Inc will finance $280 million of residential solar power systems through a deal with startup SolarCity that is the Internet search giant's largest single clean energy investment to date. The fund will enable thousands of homeowners who do not want to make a large upfront investment in a solar …
The future of alternative energy, particularly solar, is bright and the Asian Development Bank is betting big on it Hedge fund managers may feel, as some of them did at a gathering in New York in the last week of May, that alternative energy
Suzlon Energy Ltd, global wind turbine manufacturer, has secured a new order from National Aluminium Company Ltd (Nalco) to set up, operate and maintain 50.4 MW of wind energy project in Andhra Pradesh. The order comprises 24 units of Suzlon S88
