New MoEFCC notification on fly ash includes solar, wind power plants for reclamation

Manufacturers raise concern as price of fly ash bricks to be decided by CPWD’s schedule of rates

For border villages in Rajasthan, electricity remains elusive

While electricity poles have been installed in some villages, lines have not been laid

Heat content in oceans doubled in 10 years, finds study

Earth’s oceans have absorbed 90 per cent of the heat from global warming

Double standards of the world's green helmets

Fly-ash phoenix

Tax on fly ash

Power play

There is growing opposition to the setting up of a power plant in Madhya Pradesh

STRONG WARNING

PROTEST AGAINST POWER

Brickbats

Manufacturers won't mix fly ash in bricks; to go on strike

Deja vu

Coal based thermal power plants come back to haunt villages in Udupi district, Karnataka

Flawed yet needed

Murky science of comfort part 2: Why we feel suffocated in a building even when it is pleasant outside

Humans are built to get used to local environments but unfortunately industry interests have come to define what ‘comfortable’ room …

26 killed, 100 injured in Raebareli NTPC plant blast

NTPC, which is a public sector undertaking of the government, has ordered a detailed probe in the incident

Clinton scores over critics

A US appeals court ruled it could forward the North American Free Trade Agreement to Congress without an environmental impact statement.

No takers for clean technology

Developers of a new, clean and efficient process for coal-based power generation say it will not become popular unless the government enforces …

Solar energy is everybody's business

Solar mission is too important to let doubtful dealings hijack it

Free the air of mercury

Newly launched Minamata Convention weak on mercury released by thermal power plants

Stubble burning crisis: Why thermal power plants in Delhi-NCR have been slow in adopting biomass co-firing

Only three plants have reported higher quantities of biomass co-firing since December 2022 till August 2023

How about solar units on lakes if land is scarce?

It will prevent water loss through evaporation, while producing clean energy

Power plant resurrected

ASHES TO DUMP

BRAZIL

Lights out in Hong Kong to protest polluted air

Africa’s ambitious journey towards renewable energy – the ifs & buts

Sub-Saharan African countries have weak regulatory environments for RE growth as most of these policies are either very technology-specific or in …