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Delhi air turns foul again as pollution crosses ‘severe’ mark on ChristmasChristmas morning in Delhi was a foggy, cold affair this year, with air quality plunging to the ‘severe’ category of pollution. The 24-hour rolling average of PM10 and PM2.5 were recorded at 430 and 290µg/m3 on Sunday, according to the ministry of earth science’s System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR). The acceptable levels of PM 2.5 and PM10 are 60 and 100 microgram per cubic... Read more.. |
Fighting climate change turned into a profitable business: WEFGreen energy generation has reached a tipping point, the World Economic Forum, WEF, asserted in an investors handbook it released on Thursday, and called investors to shift towards more green energy investments, as investments remain below what is needed to reach the Paris Accord targets, despite the tipping point. The cost of generating energy through solar and wind sources has dropped to the point of being... Read more.. |
China to levy new taxes in bid to strengthen fight against pollutionChina's largely rubber-stamp parliament passed a law on Sunday that will levy specific environmental protection taxes on industry for the first time from 2018, as part of a renewed focus on fighting the country's pollution woes. Anger has risen in the world's second-largest economy at the government's repeated failure to tackle land, water and air pollution, with large parts of northern China enveloped in... Read more.. |
India to invest $1.8 billion on lines to transmit solar powerIndia will invest Rs127 billion on lines to transmit power from solar parks to enable Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s goal of boosting clean energy capacity to 175 gigawatts by 2022. The dedicated transmission lines, part of the so-called green corridor project, will transmit 20 gigawatts of power capacity from 34 solar parks across 21 states, the government said Wednesday in a series of reports commissioned... Read more.. |
Haryana Government Makes Energy Conservation Building Code Implementation MandatoryHaryana government has made implementation of Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) mandatory in stakeholder departments and different organisations. These organizations are Architecture Department, Public Works (Building and Roads), Town and Country Department, Haryana Urban Development Authority, Housing Board, Police Housing Corporation, Urban Local Bodies Department and Municipal Corporations.... Read more.. |
Third-Party rooftop solar units cost 40% cheaper than DiscomsRooftop solar units installed on industrial and corporate establishments by third parties are offering power 30-40% cheaper than the rates offered by the state's power distribution companies. This gap is expected to widen further as thermal power companies would need to increase tariffs to accommodate inflationary measures and solar modules prices fall further. The model - popularly called Opex model,... Read more.. |
World's first solar panel road opens in Normandy village, FranceFrance has opened what it claims to be the world’s first solar panel road, in a Normandy village. A 1km (0.6-mile) route in the small village of Tourouvre-au-Perche covered with 2,800 sq m of electricity-generating panels, was inaugurated on Thursday by the ecology minister, Ségolène Royal. It cost €5m (£4.... Read more.. |
Rice stubble based Rs 2500 crore projects to yield cleaner fuel, check pollution in North IndiaRice stubble, a cause of air pollution due to open field burning, is set to catalyze investment of Rs 2400 crore in a string of biomass based energy projects and ethanol manufacturing facilities in Haryana and Punjab. While domestic oil marketing companies, Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited and Indian Oil Corporation Limited, are setting up bio-ethanol manufacturing facilities in Punjab and Haryana respectively, Germany based, bio fuel firm Verbio AG has proposed $ 15 million investment to set up bio-... Read more.. |
NGT bans waste burning in open areas across IndiaIn a significant order, the NGT on Thursday imposed a complete ban on burning of waste in open places across the country and announced a fine of Rs 25,000 on each incident of bulk waste burning. “We specifically direct that there shall be complete prohibition on open burning of waste on lands, including at the landfill sites. For each such incident, violators including project proponent, concessionaire, any person or body responsible for such burning, shall be liable to pay environmental compensation of Rs 5,... Read more.. |
Thane Municipal Corporation starts installation of 200 dust pollution control machines in the city to purify airWhile cities like Delhi, Mumbai are already battling air pollution, the TMC has already started taking steps to minimize its impact. Starting from Wednesday, the TMC has started installation of 200 dust pollution controller machines at various locations in the city. Now Thane residents can forward to pure air and better health in the coming days. On December 21 the TMC (Thane municipal corporation) installed... Read more.. |
Climate change could have devastating impact on global fisheriesIf climate change continues unchecked and the global temperature increases by more than the Paris agreement target of 1.5 C, it is certain to have a dire impact on fish catches, a new study has found. Fishing is a major commercial industry and source of food for many people around the world, particularly in temperate regions. However, as more carbon dioxide is pumped into the atmosphere, it causes the... Read more.. |
Suzlon, AMP Solar form joint venture for 15 megawatt project in TelanganaRenewable energy firm Suzlon Group today announced a joint venture with AMP Solar for development and construction of a 15-MW solar PV project at Achampet, Mahaboobnagar district in Telangana. According to the contract signed on December 21, 2016, AMP Solar shall acquire a 49 per cent stake in Rudra Solarfarms Ltd, a special purpose vehicle (SPV) set-up by Suzlon for executing this project, Suzlon Group said... Read more.. |
Nagpur Municipal Corporation’s waste to energy project to finally take offAfter months of long wait, the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has finally reached an agreement with Essel Infraprojects and Hitachi Zosen India regarding the tipping charges for its waste to energy project. The project is all set to take off finally. NMC's solid waste management is presently being done by Hanjer Biotech, whose performance is not satisfactory. National Green Tribunal (NGT) had pulled up... Read more.. |
Waste-to-energy plant to come up at Ghazipur, New DelhiDelhi government has decided to set up a waste-to-energy plant at the Ghazipur poultry and fish wholesale market to convert about 10 tonnes of organic waste into biogas and compost. "We have decided to set up an eco-friendly waste management system at the mandi. The mandi produces about 10 tonnes of waste each day that finds its way to the Ghazipur landfill site. We had set up a committee last year, with... Read more.. |
Indian Oil Corporation to set up biomass-to-ethanol plant in PanipatTo reduce pollution arising from burning of agricultural waste, a biomass-to-ethanol plant is being set up by the Indian Oil Corporation in Panipat to prepare ethanol from agricultural and other residues, a top government official said. Expressing concern over the adverse impact of crop residue burning, Haryana Chief Secretary D S Dhesi urged scientists to develop affordable and easy-to-use technology for... Read more.. |
Green nod for Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation to lay waste pipelineWith the administrative approval in its kitty, MIDC is ready to float tenders to appoint a project management consultant for preparing a detailed project report for a 25km pipeline to discharge treated waste from industrial units in Dombivli, Ambernath and Badlapur. The project, which has been planned to comply with a 2015 National Green Tribunal order, will be executed at a cost of Rs 241 crore.... Read more.. |
PSUs, private sector companies can swap coal: Piyush GoyalThe government today approved swapping of coal supplies between public sector and private sector companies, a move that may help augment availability of fuel and reduce transportation charges. "Only today I have approved the proposal ... henceforth government and public sector companies can swap their coal with private companies also and I would like it to be across sectors," Coal and Power Minister Piyush... Read more.. |
SECI’s 100 MW Andhra Pradesh solar auction shared by Azure Power and Adani
A 100 MW auction for grid-connected solar built using domestic content has been evenly split between two of India’s largest solar developers. Adani and Azure Power won 50 MW each of the auction in the state of Andhra Pradesh. The Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) issued the tender for the development of the Ananthapuramu solar park under the Domestic Content Requirement (DCR) category of the... Read more.. |
Union Budget likely to introduce Viability gap funding for wind powerThe Union Budget is likely to introduce viability gap funding and an incentive scheme for power distribution companies procuring wind power. |
At Visakhapatnam, Steel secretary inaugurates 5 Mega Watt solar power plantSecretary, Ministry of Steel Dr Aruna Sharma inaugurated the 5 MW Solar Power Plant installed by the Rashtriya Ispat Nigam Limited (RINL) at a cost of Rs 33 crore here on Tuesday. Dr Aruna Sharma commended the RINL management for foraying into solar energy in tune with the government thrust to tap renewable energy sources and said the role of renewable energy has been assuming significance in recent times... Read more.. |
China launches satellite to monitor global carbon emissionsChina today launched a global carbon dioxide monitoring satellite to understand climate change, hours after it lifted nearly a week-long red alert for the worst smog that engulfed about 40 cities in the country. The 620-kg satellite TanSat was put into orbit by Long March-2D rocket from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre in northwest Chinas Gobi Desert early this morning, state-run Xinhua news agency reported... Read more.. |
Scientists devise way to collect leftover paddy strawBurning of agriculture waste and paddy straw is one of the main reasons behind rising levels of pollution. To resolve this issue, scientists in Chhattisgarh have devised a way to collect leftover paddy straw from the fields by using a steel-mesh attached to a tractor. With the use of this low-cost steel net, one can collect up to seven quintals of paddy husk from an acre without the help of human hands.... Read more.. |
NGT slams Chhattisgarh over negligence in waste disposalThe National Green Tribunal (NGT) has slammed the Chhattisgarh government for gross negligence in the disposal of biomedical waste. It has said that the “non-compliance of rules and law in the state of Chhattisgarh is writ large”. The NGT directed Chhattisgarh to institute a Chief Secretary-led panel and to send a report to it after preparing an action plan for the implementation of biomedical waste disposal rules. ... Read more.. |
BRICS bank approves USD 75 million loan for solar project in ChinaThe New Development Bank, jointly founded by the BRICS countries including India, today approved USD 75 million loan for a solar project in China. The loan was given to Shanghai Lingang Distributed Solar Power Project with a maturity length of 17 years under an agreement signed between New Development Bank (NDB), the Ministry of Finance and the Shanghai municipal government, an Asian Development Bank (ADB)... Read more.. |
Waste-based power plant to come up at TirupatiThe proposed waste-fuelled power plant by Jindal Company gathered momentum with the allotment of land for the project at Thatikona, 30 km from here. Land measuring 16.22 acres has been allotted by the government to Jindal Urban Waste Management (Tirupati) Limited (JUWM) in the village where the site office is expected to be opened by the December-end for preparing the ground for the innovative project taken... Read more.. |
