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 …
More lucrative British incentives to produce energy from rotting and gasified waste are driving a push to biogas, following a wider European trend. More farmers aim to use crop waste to generate electricity from burning biogas while big business is considering the same for industrial waste, after Britain introduced more …
Pattern Energy Group LP said on Thursday that it finished more than $100 million in financing for a 101.2-megawatt wind project in California, citing an easing in the marketplace. Six banks joined in the debt funding for construction costs, which converts to a term financing facility upon commercial operation. The …
AMERICA wants one. So do Australia, Brazil, Britain, China, Germany, Italy and Japan, to name a few. Even Malta is building one. Big utilities, such as Electricit
The long-awaited "smart grid" for U.S. power could play a major role in rolling out renewable energy like wind and solar, the top U.S. power regulator said on Wednesday. Demand response, the heart of the "smart grid" concept of a power system that can respond immediately to changes in supply …
Prashant Rupera | TNN Vadodara/Anand: You might have heard of terrace gardens in flats and pent houses. But ever heard of a wind and solar farm on any terrace? A terrace of a cold storage in Vadodara is now equipped with a unique micro wind solar hybrid farm that not …
M. Soundariya Preetha COIMBATORE: Wind energy generation during the wind season this year (May to October) in the State is almost 15 per cent more than last year, according to K. Kasthurirangaian, chairman of the Indian Wind Power Association. He told The?Hindu here on Wednesday that the installed capacity of …
This report provides a list of recommendations to the policy makers in China on improving the effectiveness of renewable energy policies domestically. This report was commissioned by REN21 and produced in collaboration with the Chinese Renewable Energy Industry Association (CREIA) and technology experts from various Chinese research institutions and the …
An enormous offshore wind farm in the North Sea, a large geothermal power plant near Hanover and a 400-billion-euro project to generate solar electricity in the desert
The European Union and the United States are holding talks on forging a pact with OECD countries and China to eliminate duties on green goods as part of incentives to Beijing in a potential global climate deal. EU diplomats told Reuters that under a plan being discussed by Brussels and …
Spain's top energy official said on Monday the country had enough spare generating capacity to phase out nuclear power stations in the medium term, in line with government policy. In recent years, Spain has subsidized renewable energy in order to cut its heavy dependence on fuel imports and reduce greenhouse …
Italy will have to double its renewable energy capacity and invest 50 billion euros ($73.29 billion) to meet the European Union's climate change targets for 2020, chairman of Italy's renewable energy body said on Monday. EU leaders agreed in December 2008 that their countries would make 20 percent of energy …
The head of BP Plc's Americas business said on Thursday the United States could sharply reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by expanding its use of natural gas over fuels such as coal. "Natural gas has the greatest potential to provide the largest carbon reductions at the lowest cost using technology …
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wants to make Los Angeles the "cleanest, greenest big city" in the United States, but a key project to bring renewable energy across the desert to the city could change under pressure from environmental groups. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the largest U.S. municipal utility …
The German army has identified a series of wind park projects as a threat to national security and blocked investments worth 1.5 billion euros because it fears spinning wind turbines will interfere with its radar systems. The Bundeswehr has launched an investigation into the impact of the wind turbines planned …
The U.S. government on Tuesday awarded $550 million in grants to develop renewable energy projects to help double U.S. renewable energy production over the next few years, an Obama administration goal. The grants will pay cash to companies in lieu of tax credits to support solar, wind, biomass and other …
The Canadian Wind Energy Association is holding its annual conference and trade show in Toronto this week. It is expected to draw more than 2,000 attendees, 200 exhibitors and more than 100 speakers. Below are facts about wind power in Canada: * Canada has 2,854 megawatts of installed wind energy …
Lake Turkana Wind Power (LTWP), a firm planning to build a 300 MW windfarm in Kenya, said on Tuesday it had signed an exclusivity deal with Denmark's Vestas and would be signing a final agreement in October. LTWP intends to erect at least 353 wind turbines, each with a capacity …
Poking out of the ground near the smokestacks of the Mountaineer power plant here are two wells that look much like those that draw natural gas to the surface. But these are about to do something new: inject a power plant
