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 government is in the process of implementing around 29 different wind power projects as per its plan to enhance power production in the country. Among these projects, two wind power projects with capacity of 106.4MW have achieved commercial operation and are supplying electricity to the national grid. Besides, three …
India’s ambitious target of doubling renewable energy capacity to 55,000 MW by 2017 needs a shift in policies for these projects to become viable, according to a study by the Climate Policy Initiative and the Bharti Institute of Public Policy at the Indian School of Business. “Long-term, debt-related policies are …
For wind energy, reducing debt cost to 5.9% and extending tenor by 10 years can cut the cost of total government support by up to 78% India's wind and solar energy financing policies are not as cost-effective as they could be, according to a joint study conducted by US-based think-tank …
Projects may become unviable as ministry has got just a third of the budgeted . 1,521 crore for 2013-14 Solar and wind energy companies are waiting for the government to clear subsidies amounting to more than . 1,000 crore as they stare at potentially unviable projects which they had launched …
The U.K. awarded 4.6 million pounds ($7.6 million) of grants to four companies to help cut the cost of offshore wind power. 2-B Energy BV won 2.8 million pounds to develop a two-blade turbine seeking to reduce the cost of offshore wind by as much as 35 percent, the Department …
The government is in process of implementing around 29 different wind power projects as per its plan to enhance power production in the country. Among these projects, two wind power projects with capacity of 106.4 MW have achieved commercial operation and are supplying electricity to national grid. Besides, three projects, …
Noted environmentalist Sunita Narain has said the West cannot ask India to stop using coal while they were still "addicted" to it. "You need to get rid of hypocracy. You cannot tell me that India cannot go coal when Australia, Germany, US and lot of other countries are still addicted …
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India has offered to provide assistance for developing renewable energy resources in Sudan. The talks between the two countries focused on the areas of possible cooperation especially in the development of wind energy, solar energy, biomass and small hydro resources. It was also agreed that Ministry of New & Renewable …
Around 3 wind power projects of 150 MW capacities in total are under construction and will be completed by June 2014. Besides, 13 wind power projects having a cumulative capacity of 680 MW electricity are at advance stages, ready to achieve financial closing in 2014. In total, 33 wind power …
The system will create a framework to define and assess how green the company is and highlight the way forward on how to turn greener With GreenCo Rating System, an initiative of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Green Building Centre, is eying 100 companies by end of 2015 in …
Thiruvananthapuram: The ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF), on Monday submitted the draft notification on Kasturirangan-led High level Working Group committee (HLWG) report to the law department for final ratification of the report. Senior officials said the amended notification will not have any major changes other than include a specific …
Huge reserves of India’s natural resources going unutilized Modern technology should be used effectively to attract the youth to farming, K. Narayana Gowda, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Agricultural Sciences, Bangalore, has said. He was addressing a seminar on “Information technology and agriculture” held on Monday at ‘Agrifiesta 2014’, an …
Like Tata and Adani, seek higher rates for coal, wind & solar electricity The sun is not shining as brightly as we thought; the wind is not blowing as fast as it was supposed to; and coal is more costly than we imagined. So raise our tariffs just as you …
The state government amended the Wind Power Policy 2012 with an aim of attracting more investors and giving boost to renewable energy in the state. The government wants to ensure easy process for allocation of land and other formalities for setting up wind power projects in the state.
The years since the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) was signed in 1992 have been marked by rising concern about the climate problem, given that emissions have continued to rise and atmospheric concentrations have continued to build up to a level where the likelihood of avoiding dangerous climate …
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has created a line of publications aimed at offering focused guidance on the development of national strategies and roadmaps that can help accelerate the deployment of low carbon technologies. The first issue deals with wind energy. The publication is titled “Technology Roadmaps: How2Guide for Wind …
The Government of India has set ambitious targets for renewable energy — a doubling of existing renew- able energy capacity to 55,000 MW by 2017. However, unsubsidized renewable energy is still 52-129% more expensive than conventional power, and requires policy support. This policy support is currently provided through a combination …
The western state of Gujarat currently has the largest amount of solar capacity of any Indian state, with over 855 megawatts direct current (MWDC) among plants above 1 MWDC in size. Combined with over 3,240 megawatts (MW) of wind, variable generation renewables comprise nearly 18% of the electric-generating capacity in …
Now in its 13th annual edition the Clean Energy Trends report has become a must-read in the clean-tech industry. The report includes tracking, forecasting and market sizing of the global solar, wind, and biofuels markets, analysis on solar PV pricing, public market performance, venture capital investments, and energy capacity additions, …
