Sustainability Outlook Headlines

Apportionment study to find source of pollution in Bhopal: Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board (MPPCB)

Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board (MPPCB) will conduct Sources Apportionment Study of five cities to find out source of air pollution.

The study will cover pollution from vehicles, construction work, industrial, housing and other activities. The cities to be studied are Bhopal, Indore, Ujjain, Dewas and Sagar. MPPCB officials said these five cities have been identified for carrying out the Sources... Read more..

Trichy to get first food waste to biogas plant

The National Institute of Technology, Trichy (NIT-T), will set up a biogas plant, NISARGRUNA, to produce bio-gas out of food waste, in collaboration with Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) Mumbai.

NIT-T, is the first institution in the state which has signed an MOU for jointly establishing the DAE Technologies Display and Dissemination Facility (DTDDF) center at NIT-T and promoting various technologies... Read more..

India solar power tariffs hit new low of Rs 4 per unit

It's not just oil that is on a slide. While globally crude has slid some 70% in the last year-and-a-half, solar power tariffs too have sank to a new low in India at Rs 4.34 per unit - a third of the going rates a few years back - for a project in Rajasthan.

The new low came in during the online bidding for a 750 mw solar power park being set up at Badhla near Jodhpur with viability gap funding (VGF) from... Read more..

Tarrif capped at Rs 4/unit for 750 MW of solar projects in Rajasthan

Solar Energy Corporation of India Ltd. (SECI), the central nodal agency for tendering solar power projects has capped tariff at Rs 4/unit for 750 MW of projects in Rajasthan under the National Solar Mission (NSM) Phase-II, Batch-IV.

The bidding is called under the VGF scheme of the government. This would be the reference price for solar power projects, over and above of which the companies would bid for ‘... Read more..

Punjab Gets Its Largest Solar Power Plant

Punjab's Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal on Tuesday inaugurated the state's largest solar power plant of 100 MW set up near here the Adani Group subsidiary Adani Green Energy Ltd at an investment of around Rs 640 crore.

Badal said the plant would prove to be a game changer not only for 232 farmers who have given their land on lease for the project but would also act as a catalyst for others to... Read more..

Pune Cantonment Board set for exploring waste segregation in Pune

Faced with a mounting garbage disposal problem, the Pune Cantonment Board will trial a waste segregation system at source. The PCB had last attempted this 15 years ago.

There is a massive garbage disposal problem at the board's Hadapsar trenching grounds. Due to a dispute with the Pune Municipal Corporation over waste management, all kinds of waste has been piling up for months at these grounds. Residents... Read more..

COP22 Climate Talks: Delhi calls for global action to curb emissions before 2020

As poor air quality chokes Delhi, India has called for global action to reduce carbon pollution immediately rather than waiting for 2020 in Marrakech where countries have gathered to prepare rules and regulations for implementing the Paris climate change agreement.

India on Monday called on countries to step up carbon emission curbing actions, particularly by industrialised countries, for the four-year period up to 2020, and said the Marrakech talks must also focus on increased efforts by industrialised countries to... Read more..

Poor implementation of net-metering policies poses a major challenge for rooftop solar: Bridge to India

Grid interconnection regulations and processes remain challenging in most parts of India despite almost all states announcing net- and gross-metering policies for rooftop solar. 

This is despite, India’s rooftop solar market growing rapidly with the country adding more capacity in the past 12 months than all previous years put together. 

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NTPC aims to be the lowest emitter of greenhouse gases

NTPC, globally the third largest power company in terms of coal based power generation capacity, intends to ensure minimum impact on environment from its power stations. 

It intends to become a low cost and low emission coal burner to maintain its position as a leader in the sector. NTPC is creating additional carbon sinks by planting one crore saplings during this financial year and the upcoming Telengana... Read more..

More Indian companies eyeing to raise money through masala bonds

After HDFC and NTPC, several other Indian entities including Indian Railway Finance Corporation are looking at raising funds through rupee-dominated masala bonds in London Stock Exchange. 

Three other Indian companies -- National Agri Authority of India, Energy Efficiency Services Ltd and Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Ltd -- are also planning to raise funds through masala bonds in London. ... Read more..

India to push agenda of sustainable lifestyle at global climate meet

India will push the agenda of sustainable lifestyle at the upcoming global climate conference at Marrakech in Morocco, apart from focussing on the issue of mobilising finances, which has been its "overriding" concern, to tackle climate change.

At the Marrakech Climate Change Conference scheduled to be held from November 7 to 18, nations will continue their work on strengthening the global response to the... Read more..

NITI Aayog to devise carbon cut plan sans growth cut

With the Paris agreement on climate change coming into effect on Friday, NITI Aayog has begun laying the road-map to cap the  carbon emission commitment without compromising its high growth objectives.

The 15-year vision document is being prepared by a panel of think tanks under the close watch of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and  will substantially address India’s commitments on climate change as well as... Read more..