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 …
Ananth Krishnan BEIJING: China spent almost twice as much as the United States on clean energy investments last year, and is now set to take the lead as the world's premier green energy power, according to a report released on Thursday. In 2009, China invested $34.6 billion on expanding its …
Govt Feels NTPC Should Focus On Other Avenues Such As Wind & Solar Energy THE power ministry has ruled out any possibility of allowing state-owned power major NTPC to sell power in the open market.
Sri Lanka Prime Minister Rathnasiri Wickramanayaka today ceremonially inaugurated the country's first ever commercial wind energy plant at Kalpitiya in Puttalam district in the North Western coast of the country. The 30-Megawatt plant operated by a private enterprise, Senok Wind Power is located on a five-kilometer long and one-kilometer wide …
KOCHI: With climate change and energy crisis fast becoming a reality, scientists all over the world have started looking for solutions to tide over the crisis. An Aluva-based company, Parasuram Power Project, has come up with a working model of wave power generation- cum-shore protection project which will soon move …
AIMING to produce 25% power from green sources by 2017, Tata Power plans to increase its wind and solar energy generation capacity to 2,000 MW and 250 MW, respectively, which could entail an investment of over Rs 13,000 crore.
FFC Energy Limited (FFCEL), on Wednesday finalised contracts of Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) and Operation and Maintenance (O&M;) with Nordex of Germany for development of 50 Megawatt Wind Power Project at Jhimpir, Sindh. FFCEL is a fully owned subsidiary of Fauji Fertiliser Company Limited (FFC), while Nordex AG is …
While the commercial and banking centre Dubai finds itself dealing with the aftermath of the economic crisis, the conservative neighbour Abu Dhabi is already pursuing ambitious targets-but the climate conditions in the desert states are not always ideal for the utilization of renewable energies.
While US clean energy and climate advocates rarely display any real swing time mode when looking at the Copenhagen Climate Talks and beyond into 2010, they definitely also do not play the blues. Quite to the contrary: The lack of any concrete international outcome at that point in time might …
African countries are making some important strides toward a green energy sector. According to the Global Renewables Status 2009, Northern Africa boasts more than 500 MW of installed wind power, while Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania are all planning their first wind farms. Mauritius, Uganda, Kenya, and South Africa have all …
California - the top wind producer in the US since the 1980s lost its lead in 2008 in the face of intense competition from other states. But backed by strong financial and political support from the government, California's wind energy sector is slowly making a comeback.
In the UK, 2010 got off to a superb start for the wind power industry. Crown Estate has announced the nine successful bidder consortia for Round 3 of the offshore wind farm licencing. As administrative body for Crown property, it is also the official agency for awarding offshore projects.
Following one of the worst years in economic history, signs of hope have begun to emerge for the clean-tech sector, with clean energy becoming a driving force for global economic recovery from Beijing to Seoul, and Washington D.C. to Brussels. The Clean Energy Trends report includes growth projections for the …
This paper examines in detail the way in which additionality is determined in the Chinese wind power market and draws out broader implications for the design of effective global carbon offset policy. While this paper focuses on the specific challenges of additionality assessment in China, which has by far the …
Wind turbine manufacturer Suzlon Energy today said it had received its first ever order from a subsidiary of Larsen and Toubro (L&T;) to set up a 8.7-MW wind energy project in Tamil Nadu. The company has bagged an order from L&T; Infrastructure Development Projects Ltd, a subsidiary of L&T;, to …
PEAK oil has been around for a while now. Energy specialists in India, specially those working in the renewable energy space, are now talking the same about coal: not quite peak coal but an increasing likelihood that coal will not always be available to run power plants. Will this mean …
RASHME SEHGALI How can wind energy in India achieve 20 per cent grid penetration by 2020? Wind experts believe massive growth in the Indian market can be achieved if a unified grid policy is promulgated for the whole country. Lack of a unified policy has seen India slip to the …
Pakistan and a Korean consortium of Hyundai have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) under which the companies would invest on 50 MW Green Energy Yuna Wind Power Project in Jhimpir, Sindh. According to a statement issued by the Board of Investment (BoI) here on Saturday, the Korean consortium of …
NEW DELHI: Siemens on Tuesday announced its plans to invest Rs. 1,600 crore in India over the next three years for its wind turbine manufacturing venture and for expanding its existing production capacity. Of the total investment, Rs. 500 crore would be used for setting up a high-end technology wind …
