Sustainability Outlook Headlines

NLC India to aggressively bid for railways' solar projects: Piyush Goyal

Union minister Piyush Goyal today said state-owned NLC India plans to aggressively bid for Indian railways' solar projects. "Indian railways plans to have a bidding process to soon come out for expanding solar footprint of railways where NLC India Ltd is also having very aggressive plans and will be bidding very aggressively to try and get those contracts through the bidding process," the Railways Minister told... Read more..

Waste Management Guntur Municipal Corporation inks MoU with ITC

Guntur Municipal Corporation entered into an agreement with ITC to maintain zero level garbage in the 23 and 24 wards in Guntur city. At a programme held here on Monday, GMC commissioner Challa Anuradha entered an agreement with the ITC. The ITC has taken up the programme under Public Private Community Partnership Programme on solid waste management (SWM) under Mission Sunehra Kal Programme which will be in force... Read more..

Sunseap and InfraCo Asia partner on 168MW solar project in Vietnam

Singapore-based renewables firm Sunseap International has signed an agreement with InfraCo Asia Development to jointly develop a 168MW solar project in Vietnam, with negotiations for a PPA ongoing. Allard Nooy, CEO of InfraCo Asia, told PV Tech that this is the first utility-scale solar project in Vietnam to receive prime minister approval. The JV is currently in negotiations to get a bankable PPA in place and Nooy... Read more..

Railways to issue tenders for solar projects on its unused land

The Indian Railways will call tenders to award contracts to set up 3,000 mw of solar power projects on its unused land, rail and coal minister Piyush Goyal said.

State-run lignite miner and power producer NLC India will also bid aggressively for the contracts, the minister said while addressing the media on Tuesday.

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Wind auction bids stay on the lower side between Rs 2.47 and 2.65 per unit

The country’s largest ever wind auction of 2,000 MW has received bids ranging from Rs 2.47 to Rs 2.65 per unit, close to the record low ofRs 2.43, from major players in the sector. The auction, being conducted by Solar Corporation of India (SECI), began at 4.30 pm on Tuesday and was continuing at the time of going to press.

It had developers shortlisted, including many of the marquee names in the business,... Read more..

Advanced waste to energy plant will be set up at Njeliyanparamba in Kozhikode

Minister for Local Administration KT Jaleel here on Tuesday said that a private company has come forward to set up an advanced waste to energy plant in the limit of Kozhikode Corporation.

Addressing the gathering after commissioning the Plastic Recycling Plant and shredding unit set up by the Kozhikode Corporation at the West Hill Industrial estate, he said, the advanced plant which will produce electricity... Read more..

How Rajasthan is making rapid strides in power generation

Rajasthangovernment in its last Budget claimed that in the last four years, 6,700 MW of powerwas added to the state's power generation capacity. The state made rapid strides in the non-conventional energy sector with the generation of 3161 MW of power from solar power alone.

Due to the increase in the efficiency of the power production, coal per power unit has come down, it claimed.

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Already facing water scarcity, Gujarat will now battle power crisis

While the Gujarat government has publicly conceded that there will be a water crisis this summer, there is also now the possibility of a power crisis. The state government is already facing lot of issues and it is likely that power demand will go much higher in summer and the state will have to buy power from the open market to meet demand.

A key source close to the development said, "Power demand has... Read more..

New Science-Based Goals, Carbon Pricing Scheme to Help Heineken ‘Drop the C’

Heineken has unveiled a new sustainability strategy that will see the brewer increase renewable energy production, set science-based targets across distribution, cooling and packaging, and pilot an internal carbon pricing scheme.

Heineken’s Drop the C program aims to grow the company’s share of renewable thermal energy and electricity production from 14 to 70 percent by 2030. This implies an 80 percent... Read more..

First International Solar Alliance Summit in March

 India is preparing to host the mega inaugural International Solar Alliance Summit in Delhi on March 11 in the presence of more than a dozen leaders, including those from Asia, Pacific and South America, to set the ball rolling for the country's leadership in providing affordable renewable energy. 

The big draw at the summit will be the French President Emanuel Macron, who will be on a state visit to India... Read more..

Tamil Nadu set to harness more renewable energy

Tamil Nadu, which is a pioneer in renewable energy generation, will be adding an additional 9.5 giga watts (GW) by 2022, said Vikram Kapur, Principal Secretary in the Department of Energy, on Friday.

He was speaking at the grand finale of Carbon Zero Challenge-2018, a south India renewable energy innovation contest organised by the United States Consulate and IIT-Madras. The contest saw participation of 25... Read more..

Indian Electric Vehicle Market To Grow In Double Digits: Assocham

The Indian electric vehicles (EV) market is expected to grow at double digit rates till 2020, while the nascent telematics market is also poised to develop at a much faster rate, industry chamber Assocham said on Sunday. The EV industry in the country is at a nascent stage, comprising less than one per cent of total vehicle sales and is dominated at 95 per cent by two-wheelers, an Assocham study done with global advisory services firm EY said.
"Stricter emission norms, reducing battery prices and... Read more..