Governments and firms around the world are racing to define their place in the clean energy economy, which is growing quickly as policy makers develop new industrial strategies that also bolster energy
Says A.P.J. Abdul Kalam at the 9th Annual Nehru Memorial Lecture at JNU “India will go for nuclear power; there are 542 nuclear power plants all over the world and nuclear energy is a clean energy….Compare this to other forms of energy.…people riding motorbikes release an enormous amount of carbon dioxide for every litre that is used…” – thus replied former President A.P.J Abdul Kalam when questioned by students of Jawaharlal Nehru University here on Wednesday about his stand on the controversial Kudankulam nuclear power plant.
The ‘Kidagamparambu model’ of waste management could be the answer to the growing garbage menace in the State. Over 100 biogas plants have been set up in Kidagamparambu ward comprising 850 houses. Nearly 300 houses are treating waste at the source, with each biogas plant capable of treating the waste generated in five houses. The plant produces biogas which can be used as fuel for cooking, saving plant owners the money spent on buying cooking gas. The initiative with the slogan, ‘Clean house, clean city’ was conceptualised by T.M. Thomas Isaac, MLA.
The Climate Parliament India, a group of young Parliamentarians, will write to the Prime Minister, seeking a review of the policy on usage of the National Clean Energy Fund (NCEF). The NCEF has an estimated corpus of Rs 3,000 crore and a large part of it remains unutilised. Since “at least 80 per cent of the corpus currently remains unutilised” the Group wants creation of a corpus under NCEF focused on providing risk guarantees for all renewable energy projects, irrespective of the technology used and supported by the Centre and States. The Prime Minister may also be asked to consider viability gap funding for clean energy projects.
This report provides an overview of UNDP-GEF’s extensive work supporting the development of national renewable energy regimes based around feed-in tariffs. In these activities UNDP-GEF assists developing
Indian industry expects a way forward in liability issue With Barack Obama re-elected the President of the US, the Indian nuclear industry and the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) officials hope the continuity in the administration would boost nuclear cooperation between the two countries. Nuclear Power Corp of India Ltd (NPCIL) is already in talks with US companies such as GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy and Westinghouse Electric Co for the supply of nuclear reactors for India’s ongoing nuclear capacity addition programme. The status quo in Washington will boost these talks as well, say industry officials.
The Centre on Wednesday maintained in the Supreme Court that for establishment of a desalination plant for Units 1 and 2 of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project, no fresh environmental clearance was required. Additional Solicitor General Mohan Parasaran made this submission before a Bench of Justices K.S. Radhakrishnan and Dipak Misra, hearing the Kudankulam case.
The TN govt has announced its new Solar Energy Policy, which envisages generation of around 3,000 Mw of solar power within 2015 Nissan Automotive India Pvt Ltd and Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt Ltd have said they planned to use solar energy to power some of their requirements in future. This comes on the back of the state government’s new Solar Energy Policy, which it announced on October 21 envisaging generation of around 3,000 Mw of solar power within 2015 in the state.
The application of renewable energy technologies can reduce greenhouse gas emissions and pollution using energy sources such as wind, solar, hydroelectric, tidal, geothermal, and biomass. These renewable
Moser Baer’s Rs. 100- crore 5-MW solar grid interactive photovoltaic (SPV) plant in Sivaganga has technology suited specifically for Indian climate Located in the hinterland is a project that proved to be a trump card for those advocating solar power as a solution to the power crisis in the State. Spread across 65 acres in Rettai Pillai Ayyanarkoil, a tiny hamlet near Muthupatti in Sivaganga district, the 5-MW solar grid interactive photovoltaic (SPV) plant has exceeded the targets set in the planning stages, according to government and company officials.
Against the backdrop of long hours of power cut and growing demand for power in the State, Tamil Nadu has come out with “Solar Energy Policy 2012.” The policy envisages 3,000 mega watt of solar power in the State in three years. Several industrial and commercial consumers are already going in for solar energy generation. For instance, the RVS group of educational institutions here plans to install 600 kilo watt solar systems in six of its colleges. The Solar Energy Policy will now boost solar power generation in all segments and at different scales of generation – roof tops to large capacity plants.
