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 …
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For the fifth consecutive month, electricity prices in countries neighboring Germany have decreased, recently released Platts data reveals, due in large part to increased solar and wind generation in Germany. The Platts Continental Power Index (CONT), described as a "demand-weighted base load average of day-ahead contracts assessed in Germany, Switzerland, …
U.S. greenhouse gas emissions fell nearly 10 percent from 2005 to 2012, more than halfway toward the United States' 2020 target pledged at United Nations climate talks, according to the latest national emissions inventory. The report showed that emissions dropped 3.4 percent from 2012 to 2011, mostly due to a …
Global 'clean energy' investment increased 14% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2014, according to the latest research. The research, carried out by data analyst firm Clean Energy Pipeline, showed the sector totalled $61bn (£36bn) in the first quarter of 2014, up from the $53.4bn invested in the corresponding period …
In the last two years, wind mills of a mere 282 MW were commissioned Is the end of Tamil Nadu’s wind power “growth story” in sight? In a State that witnessed an unprecedented growth in the sector of wind energy not long ago, capacity addition during the just-concluded financial year …
Vadodara: Former vice-chancellor of M S University (MSU) Anil Kane has bagged the World Wing Energy Award 2014 that recognizes his contributions as one of the pioneers of wind power in India, Asia and worldwide. The board of the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA) had decided to confer the award …
GWEC's Global Wind Report - Annual Market Update on the status of the global wind industry is the authoritative source of information on wind power markets around the world. This year’s edition includes insights of the most important wind power markets worldwide, future trends with market projections for 2014-2018, an …
Wind was responsible for 4.8 percent of America’s electricity used in January. That’s the highest January total ever, breaking the record from last January, which broke the record for the January before that, and so on. The chart below shows the latest data from the U.S. Energy Information Association. America’s …
Clean Energy Council says uncertainty over the renewable energy target is hindering investment, letting other countries take the lead The clean energy industry has warned that Australia could fall further behind other nations after a report showed the country is ranked ninth in the world for investment in renewables. Research …
The German government will give its blessing on Tuesday to a sweeping reform of renewable energy laws designed to slow cost increases as Europe's largest economy moves to nearly double its green power share to 45 percent by 2025. Chancellor Angela Merkel's cabinet will adopt reforms to put the 'Energiewende', …
Climate Central — Don’t let all those Texas wind farms and massive installations of solar panels in California fool you. The U.S. is not the world leader in clean energy investment. China is. For the second year, an annual Pew Charitable Trusts report, “Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race?”, shows …
According to official statistics from Eurobserv’ER, 23.4 percent of the electricity in the European Union came from renewable energy sources in 2012. The total output for 2012 has been estimated at 763.5 TW. This represents an important increase from 2011, when these energy sources brought "only" 20.4 percent of total …
The latest edition of this authoritative annual report tells the story of the latest developments, signs and signals in the financing of renewable power and fuels. Packed full of statistics, charts and illuminating narrative, it explores the issues affecting each type of investment, technology, region. According to Global Trends in …
Today the Pew Charitable Trust released its annual ranking of how countries are faring against one another in the clean energy race, and China has for the fourth time in the past five years overtaken the United States as the global leader in clean energy investment. On one level, the …
Climate change risks dramatically increase the more Earth warms, but reducing greenhouse gas emissions lowers the risk of the most unwelcome consequences, according to the latest report from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). “We have assessed impacts as they are happening on the natural and human …
Co to go slow on capacity addition due to poor health of discoms, fuel shortage and regulatory hurdles Adani Power, which overtook Tata Power as the nation’s largest private-sector electricity producer, plans to go slow on capacity addition as uncertainties over fuel supply, weak financial health of state distributors and …
It hopes to sell the Big Sky wind park to pay off some of its debt Suzlon Energy has taken over a wind farm in the US to recover $208 million it said was outstanding from client Edison Mission Energy, which had withheld the payment accusing the Indian wind-turbine maker …
The Congress has tried to make a virtue of the inevitable by packaging the Supreme Court’s orders for setting up a national environment regulator as a commitment in its Lok Sabha election manifesto released on Wednesday. The party promises to bring in “a Bill to set up a National Environmental …
India can save up to 78 per cent in subsidies provided to the green energy sector by making adjustments to its renewable energy policies, according to a new study. As per this joint study from Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and the Bharti Institute of Public Policy at the Indian School …
The State, which had experienced unscheduled load-shedding in many parts late last week, recorded an all-time high consumption of around 271 million units (MU) on Monday, thanks to substantial improvement in the supply position. The previous high was 269.65 MU, which was registered on October 1 last year. The basic …
