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 …
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) announced framework for Renewable Energy Certificates (REC) on 14th January 2010. With the emergence of this new mechanism, a new market segment is expected to be created for renewable energy generation. This paper attempts to give brief background, legal framework and description of this …
New Delhi With four times the population of the US, an economy growing 8-9% a year and surging energy demand, India’s race to become an economic power has propelled it to No 3 in the list of top carbon polluters. India’s greenhouse gas emissions will keep rising as it tries …
The thought of wind power brings visions of giant turbines, high-altitude kites and graceful sailboats to mind. But the breeze has a more sinister side, full of turbulence that can wreak havoc with bridges and other structures. Now Hyung-Jo Jung and Seung-Woo Lee at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science …
Governments, investors and individuals are pumping money into cleantech to stoke innovation and find solutions to issues such as the increasing demand for energy. According to one estimate, oil demand may peak as early as 2020 due to more stringent CO2 reduction policies, higher fossil fuel prices and declining clean …
Norway wants to channel billions of dollars to renewable energies in developing nations, building on a scheme to protect tropical forests to which Oslo has been the biggest donor, officials said. With cash to spare as the world's number six oil exporter, Norway wants governments and private investors to join …
A 310 megawatt (MW) Kenyan wind power project has received approval to earn carbon emissions credits under the United Nations' Clean Development Mechanism, a senior company executive said on Tuesday. Construction on the 617 million euro ($873.7 million) Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP) project is expected to start by December …
A total of $6 billion worth of investment is expected from the South Koreans in various energy projects in the province, said Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah here on Sunday. "Korean Southern Power Company (KOSPO) has signed a MoU with Sindh Board of Investment (SBI) to establish wind power …
TWO months after the explosions and radiation leaks at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, the prime minister, Naoto Kan, has announced that the country will not build any new reactors. If Kan really means it, the government will have to abandon the plans for expanding nuclear power …
The draft of new alternate energy policy, which included other renewable resources, is ready and will be launched in June this year. This was stated by the CEO Alternate Energy Development Board (AEDB) Arif Alauddin while talking to media persons on the 3rd and concluding day of POGEE Conference 2011 …
COIMBATORE: Most parts of the Coimbatore saw an additional half-an-hour load shedding on Monday and Tuesday as wind energy generation dropped. An official of the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation said that apart from the three hours load shedding, half-an-hour additional load shedding was implemented as wind energy generation …
Gamesa Corp Tecnologica agreed to supply about $2 billion of wind turbines to Indian renewable- energy developer Caparo Energy (CEL) in what may be the country
Wind energy has been the poster child of India’s renewable energy programme. Data released by the government shows the staggering pace at which wind farms have been added across the country. But most of them deliver only a fraction of their generation potential, according to the Union Ministry of New …
COIMBATORE: Stakeholders of the wind energy sector will meet here on Wednesday to discuss the main issue faced by the sector: payment of dues by the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (TANGEDCO) for wind energy supplied to the grid and the need for total evacuation of the wind energy …
Close to 80 percent of the world‘s energy supply could be met by renewables by mid-century if backed by the right enabling public policies says this new report by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Close to 80 percent of the world‘s energy supply could be met by renewables by mid-century …
Renewable sources such as solar, wind and hydropower could fulfill almost 80 percent of the world's energy demand by 2050 with the right policies, according to a U.N. report which won backing from governments on Monday. The 26-page study, by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), broadly matched …
The state government is contemplating a comprehensive solar power policy as a large of solar power projects are in the pipeline in Andhra Pradesh. A study team that recently toured Gujarat, Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu, said that consultants will now be appointed to give recommendations for the policy. Officials from …
European firms tap into the wind farm equipment replacement market Four new windmills made by Gamesa Tecnologica whirl beside a banana grove in Kammalapatti, Tamil Nadu, driven by a breeze that is too soft to spin a group of older turbines standing idle nearby. The Spanish manufacturer replaced 10 older …
Since nuclear and biofuel extract environmental cost, renewable energy is our best green bet Recently, ET organised a workshop, Energy India 2011: Energy security, climate change and economic development, where it was stressed, inter-alia, that our government is facing tough challenges in meeting energy requirements in an environmentally-sustainable manner. This …
Lack of prior experience and equity in the capital-intensive solar power sector is driving the Indian investors and EPC contractors to join hands with experienced cashrich foreign players. The National Solar Mission envisages installing 20,000 MW of generation capacity at an investment of about . 3 lakh crore in next …
