India will set a target of adding 34.5 GW of hydro-power generation capacity in the next ten years, according to power ministry sources. “The target for the 13th plan has been set at 13.31 GW and that for the 14th plan will be 21.15 GW,” said a power ministry official. This will take India’s total […]
The home ministry has written back to the National Human Rights Commission that non-governmental organizations cannot be allowed to work against India’s strategic or economic interest. In it’s response to the NHRC, the home ministry said it cannot allow organizations that take money from outside India to conduct “activities detrimental to national interest ,including security, strategic, […]
After missing its targets by wide margins in the previous two five-year plans, India is all set to comfortably meet or exceed all its power sector targets for the 12th five-year plan that ends this month. Five-year plans, borrowed from the Soviet Union, are a legacy of Nehruvian policy of setting development targets every five […]
India is planning to increase its nuclear power generation capacity to 44,628 megawatt, about eight times the current capacity of 5,780 MW, the Prime Ministers’ Office said today. At present, India has seven nuclear power plants. However, given that most of these were set up decades ago, most of these facilities contain individual units of […]
ABB, one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of large electrical equipment, said it crossed the 4.5 GW milestone in terms of sales of wind power generators in India, and that the country is likely to add 4 GW of capacity this year. India has a target of having 60 Gigawatt of wind-power capacity and 220 […]
After having met its solar power installation target for last financial year with relative ease, India could end up missing its target for the year ending March 2017. India had around 6 GW of installed solar power generation capacity at the end of March 2016, and by this year, it was supposed to rise to […]
Government of India’s Ujala LED light conversion program has got off to a good start, but the equivalent program for public lighting is lagging behind, going by data from the power ministry. The two programs were launched two years ago and are expected to be complete by 2019. With almost half the prescribed time over, […]
Air pollution, particularly levels of Nitrogen Dioxide and Sulfur Dioxide, rose sharply in towns and cities in Western Maharashtra in 2016, according to data from the National Air Quality Monitoring Programme of India. Though 2016 saw a worsening of air quality across the country, the deterioration was marked and noticeable in Western Maharashtra. Arranged by […]
Viviana Mall in Mumbai has installed one of the largest single-site solar plants in India. The mall, located in Thane, has constructed a 900,000 volt-ampere rooftop solar power plant, which the company said was the biggest in India. 900,000 volt-ampere refers to the peak capacity of the power plant. It implies that at full power […]
L&T Technology Services, the information technology company of the L&T group, said it has partnered with Microsoft Corporation to offer a solution to lower energy bills and cost of maintenance. L&T Technology Service’s Integrated Building Energy Management Systems (iBEMS) framework will be available on Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform enabling enterprises to deploy and manage energy […]
The government of India will introduce a star rating for mines by next month and start monitoring mining activity using satellite, said mining secretary Balvinder Kumar said at an ASSOCHAM event held in New Delhi today. “If (mines)y don’t get 4 or 5 star rating they will get 2-3 years to comply. By end of […]
The government has approved the setting up of National Mission for Clean Ganga in the place of the existing National Ganga River Basin Authority to fast track rejuvenation projects. The authority will have powers to issue directions and also to exercise the powers under the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 to enable it to carry out […]
Wonderla amusement park had set up a solar plant with an installed capacity of 500kW at it´s newly opened unit in Hyderabad. The installed solar plant will generate 2000 units of power daily and it is expected cater to 25 percent of Wonderla’s daily power requirement. The capacity can be enhanced to 1000kW. By this […]
Many international lighting companies are displaying double standards by challenging India’s new mercury recycling rules, said environmental NGO Toxics Link. The NGO said these companies are resisting India’s new e-waste rules while conforming to them in other countries. ¨However, the same companies for long have been fulfilling their commitments under the waste of electrical and electronic […]
Ducon Infratechnologies, a technology company providing solutions in the digital and infrastructure space, signed an agreement with Zhejiang Hailiang Ecological Materials of China to market and distribute DeNOx catalyst — used to reduce nitrogen oxide emissions from thermal power plants. Ducon’s DeNOx systems uses catalysis technology and control engineering for easy erection in new and […]
Tata Power said it had saved enough energy through an awareness program in New Delhi to light up thousands of homes in the city. The company said it saved around 9.5 lakh units of power. It did this by creating energy conservation clubs in 25 schools across the city. Tata Power said its Club Enerji […]
After autorickshaws, cars and buses, the government is now targeting the two-wheelers for CNG conversion. A pilot CNG-program under GAIL and Indraprastha Gas will test the suitability of CNG as a fuel for two-wheelers. Typically, natural gas is not considered an ideal fuel for smaller vehicles. However, given its low pollution footprint, the fuel was […]
Indraprastha Gas Limited said it opened 72 outlets of compressed natural gas in the national capital region in the last four months and another 18 will be opened this month. These have been opened at the fuel outlets of Indian Oil, BPCL and HPCL. “While 51 out of these 72 CNG fuelling facilities are located […]
Responding to widespread news that its low-priced quadricycle Qute has got a European safety ranking of just 1 out of 5 in crash tests, Bajaj Auto today said the rank is still better than that of many popular cars. “In a recent Euro NCAP report, the Bajaj Qute was accorded a 1 star rating, superior […]
India is set to nearly double its solar power generation capacity in the ongoing financial year and comfortably exceed its target of adding 1.8 GW of extra capacity during the year. According to numbers obtained from various government sources, the country is all set to end the current financial year with a total solar power generation capacity of about […]
