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 …
Canada's wind power companies are getting a lift from rising oil prices, a healthier economy and energy-friendly government policies, even as tight capital markets continue to curb the recovery of the fledgling sector. A C$654 million ($611 million) takeover bid by TransAlta Corp for Canadian Hydro Developers, the country's biggest …
Major developing nations have announced steps over the past year to curb their growing greenhouse emissions as the world tries to negotiate a broader, and tougher, U.N. pact to slow the pace of climate change. Rich nations have demanded China, India, Brazil and others to set binding emissions reduction targets …
Denmark on Thursday inaugurated the world's biggest offshore wind farm in time to serve as a showcase of its green technological prowess before a global climate conference in Copenhagen in December. The 91-turbine Horns Rev 2 wind farm off the west coast of Jutland in the North Sea will generate …
A U.N. climate deal to in Copenhagen in December will also be vital to guide trade and development policies, Denmark's Prime Minister said on Thursday. Lars Lokke Rasmussen told Reuters he hoped that a summit of world leaders at U.N. headquarters on September 22 would be a "tipping point" to …
The European Union's executive will next month publish its strategy for promoting hi-tech solutions to climate change, aiming to give European businesses a head start as the world switches to low-carbon energy. A draft document obtained by Reuters gives insight into the European Commission's priorities. Billions of euros will be …
Germany's cabinet on Wednesday adopted a plan to speed along the construction of offshore wind parks in the North Sea, paving the way for a targeted 25,000 megawatts of capacity to come on line by 2030. Germany, one of the leading onshore wind power nations, aims to move turbines out …
South African industry needs to tap its 2,000 MW co-generation potential to avoid another power crisis, but is facing pricing and regulatory hurdles, an industry official said on Wednesday. Dave Long, a former regional manager at paper maker Sappi, said that despite a battle lasting years the industry has not …
MP Energy Development Corporation Limited in cooperation with MP Electricity Regulatory Commission organised a workshop on energy efficiency in which Energy Minister Anup Mishra was present as chief guest. Energy Minister Anup Mishra appealed to the Electricity Regulatory Commission Chairman JL Bose that in case of wind energy there was …
Wind offers an important alternative to coal as a source of energy for generation of electricity in China with the potential for substantial savings in carbon dioxide emissions. Wind fields derived from assimilated meteorological data are used to assess the potential for wind-generated electricity in China subject to the existing …
Ford Motor Co is selling a closed plant near Detroit to two companies that plan a $725 million investment to develop a renewable energy park that could create up to 4,000 jobs, the carmaker said on Thursday. Terms of the sale to Xtreme Power and Clairvoyant Energy were not disclosed. …
Wind power could meet China's electricity demands through 2030 and cut carbon dioxide emissions in China by 30 percent, U.S. and Chinese researchers said on Thursday. China already is the world's chief emitter of carbon dioxide, a leading so-called greenhouse gas implicated by scientists in global climate change. China currently …
Dutch utility Essent expects to see one million electric vehicles on the roads in the Netherlands by 2020, its head of new energy said on Thursday. Alexandra van Huffelen said Essent was working with other Dutch companies to stimulate the industry, lobbying the government to speed up the introduction of …
Britain's first clean coal plant will miss a government deadline and its first new nuclear plant will not come on line before 2020, reflecting global climate policy uncertainty, a utility chief said on Thursday. Investments in many pricey, carbon-cutting technologies from wind to nuclear power depend on government support or …
India, which hopes to attract $16 billion in renewable energy investments by 2012, will soon announce new policies to cut the cost of investment in the green sector, the chief of India's renewables agency said on Thursday. Proposals include financial incentive models linked to units of green power generated and …
Government said yesterday said that an additional 500 mega watts will be added to the national grid within the next two years. Non conventional power generating sources will be utilized for this purpose. This will be done utilizing wind power Dendron and Bio gas projects. The Sri Lanka Sustainable Energy …
Prospects for a new U.N. climate pact in Copenhagen have brightened but negotiations must speed up to meet a December deadline, the head of the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat said on Tuesday. Yvo de Boer said moves by countries including Japan, China and India to curb greenhouse gases had helped …
Despite Washington's nearly single-minded focus on healthcare reform, the Obama administration still expects the U.S. Senate to pass climate change legislation, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Tuesday. "Right now we are focused on this crusade for healthcare reform for the country and that's where our time and energy will …
