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 …
Generation of electricity from wind power has picked up in Tamil Nadu. On Wednesday, it reached a high of 41.32 million units, taking the total generation in the first sixteen days of this month to 558 million units. This was markedly higher than the target of 374 million units for …
The project, which will cost about $225 million, will be set up in about 18 months Welspun Group, the country's largest solar power developer, has won a 125 MW solar photovoltaic project in Madhya Pradesh, a top company official said today. "We bid Rs 8.05 per unit to bag the …
Organisation calls for promoting renewable energy as substitute for atomic power The Kerala Sastra Sahitya Parishad (KSSP) has urged the State government to turn down the State's share of power from the Kudankulam atomic power plant. A resolution adopted at the 49th State conference of KSSP called on the State …
Renewable Energy Ministry Eyes OilMin’s Model For Awarding Blocks New Delhi: The government has initiated the process of putting in place a policy to auction, or award, offshore wind farms in a way that could be similar to the auction of oil and gas blocks. The ministry of new and …
Started in August 2001, the Jaisalmer based facility crossed 1,000 Mw capacity to achieve this milestone The Jaisalmer Wind Park being developed by the Suzlon Group has crossed 1,000 Mw of installed capacity and has reached 1,064 Mw (one gigawatt) on April 1. This makes the wind park, the largest …
Centre for Wind Energy Technology (C-Wet), an autonomous R&D; institution under the renewable energy ministry, has launched another phase of its wind assessment project. This phase of the project will measure the potential of wind energy at a height of 100 meters in 75 locations and at 120 meters height …
Suzlon Group said the installed wind capacity at Jaisalmer Wind Park in Rajasthan had crossed 1,000 MW. The park comprises a cluster of wind farm sites within the Jaisalmer district, including Amarsagar, Badabaug, Baramsar, Tejuva and Soda Mada. It houses projects of some of Suzlon’s key customers such as Mytrah …
German utility RWE started construction of its fourth wind farm in Poland on Thursday as part of a renewable energy development plan, even though the government aims to cut the amount of state support for wind by a quarter. Poland, which must meet tough European Union renewable targets by 2020, …
Tiny Pacific nations which are most at threat from rising seas have vowed to dump diesel and other dirty expensive fuels blamed for causing global warming and replace them with clean sources. Using coconut biofuel and solar panels, Tokelau — which consists of three island dots half way between New …
Swedish utility Vattenfall has been cleared to build a 299 megawatt wind farm at an active coal mine in south Wales, the government said on Tuesday. The 76 turbine Pen Y Cyomedd development, which will have the highest generating capacity of any onshore wind farm in England or Wales, will …
KOCHI: The 110 kV hybrid sub-station at the Cochin International Airport Limited (CIAL) was inaugurated by Power Minister Aryadan Mohammed on Monday. Excise Minister K Babu, who is also the director of CIAL, said that the hybrid sub-station will ensure uninterrupted power supply to the airport. In the wake of …
Beta had earlier planned to set up the proposed farms in Tirunelveli, Tuticorin and Theni Beta Wind Farm Pvt Ltd is planning to invest Rs 1,857 crore to set up a wind energy farm each in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat, according to the subsidiary of Orient Green Power …
Temporary suspension of load-shedding during ‘dog days' has city smiling On Sunday afternoon, at 3.30 p.m., S. Naresh of Royapettah switched on the television to watch his favourite film. Even though he enjoyed the movie, he kept an eye on the time, anticipating the regular load-shedding of power from 4 …
ReNew Power commissions its first wind project, reaffirming its commitment towards Clean Power for India. In keeping with its commitment to become the leading renewable energy producer in India, ReNew Wind Power Pvt. Ltd., an independent power producer, commissioned its first wind farm project at Jasdan, Rajkot district, Gujarat. Hon’ble …
China’s biggest energy producers and grid companies will be given minimum requirements for use of renewable sources that will equal 6.5 percent of China’s total electricity supply, national media reported Friday. Power generators with an installed capacity of more than 5 GW will be required to use renewables to generate …
A new report by the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) highlights the dramatic roll-out of onshore wind turbines and calls on the Government to do more to protect the countryside. The campaign group says that in many cases these are damaging valued landscapes and intruding into some of the …
Power generation from wind mills over the last few days has enabled the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board to ensure uninterrupted power supply to the immense relief of industries in the region. Industries, particularly ancillaries of BHEL, Tiruchi, hope that the power situation will smoothen in the near future with the …
Generation touched almost 2,000 MW on Monday and Tuesday Residents of the city and suburbs came in for a pleasant surprise on Tuesday with electricity authorities not carrying out the scheduled two-hour load shedding. C.R. Ramakanthan, a resident of Baba Nagar at Villivakkam, said that from Tuesday the new timing …
Large wind farms can substantially influence local climate, most notably by boosting nighttime temperatures, a new study suggests. Utilizing the same analytical techniques used to discern temperature trends in urban heat islands, researchers scrutinized satellite images of a 10,000-square-kilometer area of west-central Texas, home to four of the world's largest …
Wind power producers Britain and Denmark are studying options to build a power cable between them to import and export renewable energy and increase market competition, the countries' grid operators said on Monday. Britain's National Grid and Denmark's Energinet.dk will publish an initial interconnector study by the end of this …
