Author: PPD Team Date: 11/12/2024
Adani Group has announced plans to invest over Rs 7 trillion in Rajasthan across multiple sectors, including renewable energy.
The investment includes developing 100 GW of renewable energy capacity, aiming to create the world’s largest integrated green energy ecosystem.
The projects are expected to be implemented over the next five years.
Author: PPD Team Date: 29/01/2025 The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) have signed an MoU to set up a Centre of Excellence for Energy Transition (CoEET) in Hyderabad. The centre will focus on research, innovation, and capacity-building in energy transition technologies and policies. Key areas include reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving energy efficiency, and promoting low-carbon technologies across industries, MSMEs, buildings, transport, power, and mining sectors. It will…
Author: PPD Team Date: 31/12/2024 Longroad Energy has signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Meta for the entire output of its 300 MWac 1000 Mile solar project in Yoakum County, Texas. The energy produced will be supplied to the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) grid and support Meta’s data center operations. The 1000 Mile solar project, Longroad’s first in the SPP region, is expected to commence commercial operations in 2026.
Author: PPD Team Date: 06/11/2024 TechnipFMC and Prysmian have entered into a partnership to deliver a comprehensive solution for floating offshore wind projects, integrating expertise from the seabed to the ocean surface. This collaboration combines TechnipFMC’s proficiency in dynamic offshore system design with Prysmian’s leadership in submarine power cable systems. The agreement aims to streamline project delivery through a full engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) model, optimizing mooring, anchoring, and both inter-array and export…
Author: PPD Team Date: 04/11/2024 Rachel Reeves, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivered Labour’s first budget in over a decade, confirming a rise in the headline tax rate for the oil and gas industry to 78%, one of the highest globally. This tax will also extend until 31 March 2030. The UK Offshore Energies Association (OEUK) warned in September that the tax would threaten jobs and disrupt progress toward net-zero targets, stressing the need…
Author: PPD Team Date: 05/06/2025 Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) has commissioned the Kathalguri (NEEPCO)–Namsai (POWERGRID) 220 kV double-circuit transmission line. The line is part of the System Strengthening Scheme for Eastern and North Eastern Regions and spans across Arunachal Pradesh and Assam. The project is being executed under two schemes: Eastern Region Strengthening Scheme-XXV (ERSS-XXV) Implemented at Banka in Bihar, this involves: Creation of a 220 kV GIS bus at Banka (POWERGRID)…
Author: PPD Team Date: 07/11/2024 Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) has joined hands with Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) to build a 40 tonnes-per-day biogas plant in Tirumala, aiming to promote sustainable energy and effective waste management. TTD’s Additional Executive Officer Ch. Venkaiah Chowdary laid the foundation stone for the project alongside IOCL’s Executive Director and State Head B. Anil Kumar. The biogas plant will use mixed waste, including banana leaves, food scraps, grass, dry leaves,…
Author: PPD Team Date: 29/01/2025 The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) have signed an MoU to set up a Centre of Excellence for Energy Transition (CoEET) in Hyderabad. The centre will focus on research, innovation, and capacity-building in energy transition technologies and policies. Key areas include reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving energy efficiency, and promoting low-carbon technologies across industries, MSMEs, buildings, transport, power, and mining sectors. It will…
Author: PPD Team Date: 31/12/2024 Longroad Energy has signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Meta for the entire output of its 300 MWac 1000 Mile solar project in Yoakum County, Texas. The energy produced will be supplied to the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) grid and support Meta’s data center operations. The 1000 Mile solar project, Longroad’s first in the SPP region, is expected to commence commercial operations in 2026.
Author: PPD Team Date: 06/11/2024 TechnipFMC and Prysmian have entered into a partnership to deliver a comprehensive solution for floating offshore wind projects, integrating expertise from the seabed to the ocean surface. This collaboration combines TechnipFMC’s proficiency in dynamic offshore system design with Prysmian’s leadership in submarine power cable systems. The agreement aims to streamline project delivery through a full engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) model, optimizing mooring, anchoring, and both inter-array and export…
Author: PPD Team Date: 04/11/2024 Rachel Reeves, the UK’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, delivered Labour’s first budget in over a decade, confirming a rise in the headline tax rate for the oil and gas industry to 78%, one of the highest globally. This tax will also extend until 31 March 2030. The UK Offshore Energies Association (OEUK) warned in September that the tax would threaten jobs and disrupt progress toward net-zero targets, stressing the need…
Author: PPD Team Date: 05/06/2025 Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (PGCIL) has commissioned the Kathalguri (NEEPCO)–Namsai (POWERGRID) 220 kV double-circuit transmission line. The line is part of the System Strengthening Scheme for Eastern and North Eastern Regions and spans across Arunachal Pradesh and Assam. The project is being executed under two schemes: Eastern Region Strengthening Scheme-XXV (ERSS-XXV) Implemented at Banka in Bihar, this involves: Creation of a 220 kV GIS bus at Banka (POWERGRID)…
Author: PPD Team Date: 07/11/2024 Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) has joined hands with Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams (TTD) to build a 40 tonnes-per-day biogas plant in Tirumala, aiming to promote sustainable energy and effective waste management. TTD’s Additional Executive Officer Ch. Venkaiah Chowdary laid the foundation stone for the project alongside IOCL’s Executive Director and State Head B. Anil Kumar. The biogas plant will use mixed waste, including banana leaves, food scraps, grass, dry leaves,…
Author: PPD Team Date: 29/01/2025 The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) have signed an MoU to set up a Centre of Excellence for Energy Transition (CoEET) in Hyderabad. The centre will focus on research, innovation, and capacity-building in energy transition technologies and policies. Key areas include reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving energy efficiency, and promoting low-carbon technologies across industries, MSMEs, buildings, transport, power, and mining sectors. It will…
Author: PPD Team Date: 31/12/2024 Longroad Energy has signed a long-term Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with Meta for the entire output of its 300 MWac 1000 Mile solar project in Yoakum County, Texas. The energy produced will be supplied to the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) grid and support Meta’s data center operations. The 1000 Mile solar project, Longroad’s first in the SPP region, is expected to commence commercial operations in 2026.