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 state of Karnataka is bestowed with good wind energy potential. Of the 48,561 MW wind energy potential identified by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) for the country, 12,950 MW has been assessed for Karnataka. According to the Karnataka Renewable Energy Development Limited, the total wind power …
L. N. Revathy Much of the 40-km drive from Coimbatore to Sirumugai beyond Mettupalayam can be tedious as the road is not broad enough to take the traffic. Vehicle movement is particularly heavy because of the good number of industrial units on either side of Mettupalayam road. But take a …
As Governments Increase Spending and Support for Renewable Power, Even Fans Wonder If Aid Could Be More Efficient In frigid water four miles off England's east coast, a floating crane is installing the last of 48 wind turbines. The 40-story-tall pinwheels are driven by two plentiful resources: ocean breezes and …
The subject of energy and environment are attracting universal attention now. Though pollution existed even 150 years ago but at that time, the planet could absorb the undesirable emissions. Today, we have crossed the absorption capacity and, the very survival of the planet is at stake. In 1860, all had …
Building on its current strengths and a capacity of 2400MW Karnataka intends to establish a dynamic renewable sector with emphasis on different forms of generation-wind, mini hydro, biomass, cogeneration and solar. This renewable energy policy aims at systematic and faster development of Renewable Energy sources to achieve a capacity of …
Wind energy is a key solution in the fight against climate change, and the technology is on track to saving 10 bn tons of CO2 by 2020. This means that more than 65% of all emissions reductions pledges tabled by industrialised at the climate negotiations following the Copenhagen Accord could …
The Good Earth Subhash Arya's underground alternative to air-conditioning has fought cynicism and inertia and is nowbeating the heat. The office of the Commercial Taxes Department in Jaipur is the only building in the desert state of Rajasthan to have a earth tunnel cooling system. Constructed by the Rajasthan State …
Wind offers a reliable and carbon emission-free source of electricity and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing support to expand its use throughout remote communities in Asia, helping to alleviate poverty and improve lives. Wind power Technical assistance grants totalling $3.87 million from ADB
Mumbai: India will offer Rs 380 crore ($81 million) in incentives to wind power projects that feed into the national grid, the government said on Thursday, a move analysts believe will attract large companies. The country ranked fourth in the world after Germany, Spain and the US in grid-connected wind …
NEW DELHI: The Central Government on Thursday said it would give incentives worth Rs.380 crore to promote wind power generation. The government has launched a special programme to generate more wind power and attract investments, domestically as well as globally, to give boost to cleaner and renewable energy sector, Union …
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has announced an incentive of 50 paise per unit of wind power fed by independent power producers into the grid. The generation-based incentive (GBI) is aimed at attracting investment in the wind energy sector and increasing the quantum of grid-interactive renewable power.
Energy prices will have to rise if companies are to make the investments needed to cut carbon dioxide emissions, the head of the world's largest wind power company has said. Ignacio Gal
The Indian Wind Power Association has welcomed the formation of the Tamil Nadu Transmission Corporation (TANTRANSCO) as a separate entity under the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board. According to a press release from the association, the transmission company with its own Governing Board to administer transmission of all substations and lines …
The ministry of industries has issued directives to the State Engineering Corporation to take initiative for local manufacturing of windmill turbines in view of the prevailing energy crisis in the country. Federal Minister for Industries and Production Mian Manzur Watto asked the chairman of State Engineering to explore the possibility …
The UN body in charge of managing carbon trading has suspended approvals for dozens of Chinese wind farms amid questions over China's use of industrial policy to obtain money under the scheme. China has been by far the biggest beneficiary of the so-called Clean Development Mechanism, a carbon trading system …
