Sustainability Outlook Headlines

Solar companies protest Tamil Nadu’s move to not pay for excess power

Solar developers are up in arms over Tamil Nadu’s decision not to pay for power they produce by achieving higher efficiencies, which they claim has already cost them over Rs 100 crore.

In a memorandum to the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Co (Tangedco), the National Solar Energy Federation of India (NSEFI) has protested its decision not to pay for the excess power generated by any solar plant which... Read more..

BASIC nations bat for finances, technology to fight climate change

Batting for adequate financial and technology resources to assist the developing world, BASIC countries, including India, on Tuesday emphasised the need for openness, transparency and the country-driven nature of negotiations at the ongoing UN Climate Change conference.

Ministers underlined the importance to prepare the ground towards completing the work on implementing of the 2015 Paris Climate Change... Read more..

Zero-waste drive in Kochi gathers pace

The government has plans to implement the zero-waste initiative across Ernakulam in a phased manner.

The project, which aims at making the district garbage free, has been launched in North Paravur and Perumbavoor municipalities in the first phase. Already, door-to-door collection is being carried out in these regions to ensure proper and scientific waste management.

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KREDL retenders 200 MW Pavagada Solar Park

The 200 MW Solar park at Pavagada, located in Tumakuru District in Karnataka is once again for the grasps. KREDL, Karnataka’s renewable energy implementing agency has issued a tender for the park to be developed. The deadline for the same is January 3, 2018.

The tender was first issued in July 2017; it was an EPC tender but later withdrawn in August 2017. Now once again the bids are open, and the scope of... Read more..

Apex court notice to Centre, states on plea to curb pollution in Delhi-NCR

The Supreme Court today sought a response from the Centre and the Uttar Pradesh, Haryana and Punjab state governments on a plea seeking to curb rising pollution in Delhi and the national capital region (NCR).

A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A. M. Khanwilkar and D. Y. Chandrachud said there won’t be any stay on matters pertaining to pollution which are going on before any other court... Read more..

Punjab Government has plan in place to provide cheaper power

Under fire for the hike in power tariff, the state government has come up with a roadmap for providing cheaper electricity. Punjab will sell its surplus power, buying cheaper electricity from other generators, besides producing more electricity through hydro, solar and wind power at low rates by setting these power projects outside Punjab.

The Power Department has made this plan to reduce the total cost of... Read more..

China to resolve renewable energy waste problem by 2020 -NEA

China aims to resolve the problem of wasted power in its renewable energy sector by 2020, the country's National Energy Administration (NEA) said in a statement on Monday.

Power generated from wind, solar and hydro power plants is often wasted as there is not enough transmission capacity to absorb the electricity, leading to high curtailment rates, especially in northwestern part of the country.... Read more..

Telangana government considering power generation from Garbage

As part of its move to tap renewable energy sources, the State government would consider how best to utilize huge quantity of garbage into energy to supplement the power requirements in the State.

Replying to a supplementary question in the Assembly on Monday, Power Minister Jagadeeshwar Reddy said with the support and coordination of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, the scope of producing power... Read more..

Yogi Adityanath assures electricity will be available at cheaper rates

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath inspected Anpara Power Plant in Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra district and said that the state government aims to make electricity available to citizens at cheaper rates.

Speaking to media here, Adityanath said, "The inspection programme was chalked out to see the style of working and to know the problems, so that incident like one in Unchahar does not occur here."... Read more..

Karnataka government, regulator spar over wind power tariffs

In a new development, the Karnataka government and its power regulator exchanged letters sticking to their positions in a dispute over whether power from wind projects commissioned before March 31 this year should be paid Rs 4.50 per unit or Rs 3.74.

While the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC), in its letter of November 9, invoked high court judgments to maintain that the state government... Read more..

Eighteen firms bid to supply wind power in Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL) auction

Gujarat Urja Vikas Nigam Limited (GUVNL) has received bids from 18 companies for the supply of 500 MW wind power to the state-run power utility. The Gujarat high court in its recent order allowed GUVNL to continue with the bidding process. The technical bids were opened few days back and the financial bids will be opened on November 15.

“A total 18 bids have been received from wind power developers from... Read more..

Battle for odd-even: NGT says Delhi government yet to file review petition

On a heavily polluted Monday morning when children coughed their way to schools, the Supreme Court-appointed National Green Tribunal (NGT) said that it was still awaiting a review petition on the odd-even plan from the Delhi government.

The odd-even traffic management plan was scheduled for five days in Delhi starting Monday before being shelved by the Arvind Kejriwal government because of exemptions given.... Read more..