Renewable Energy

Households are now blocked from disposing used vegetable oils into sinks, sewers, the sea, soil or other receiving environments and must deliver them to municipal or designated collection points. Municipalities and sales points are required to collect and transfer collected oils only to licensed biorefineries or transfer facilities for biodiesel and sustainable aviation fuel, and food-service businesses must contract with processors.

The long-term offtake obligates construction of a green hydrogen production facility at Numaligarh and integration of renewable generation with advanced storage. The arrangement requires the JV to deliver reliable, round-the-clock hydrogen supply and constrains the refinery's hydrogen sourcing to the contracted supplier. Commercial operations are scheduled to begin in 2028.

The requirement covers about 7% of England’s land, roughly two-and-a-half times the size of Cornwall. An estimated 1% of land is identified for solar, wind and other renewable energy installations. Peatland restoration is designated a high priority, with farmers to be advised if land is better used for peatland, wetland or forestry restoration. The assessment maps current land use to guide decisions between housing development and nature protection and excludes increased water and energy needs from new AI datacentres.

The scheme allocates Rs 2,585 crore to support development of 1,500 MW of small hydro capacity. Projects will be implemented as run-of-river installations without constructing dams or displacing people. Individual projects will range from 1 MW to 25 MW. Implementation is scheduled for five years through 2030–31. Identified potential is 7,133 sites totaling 21,000 MW, with 5,100 MW currently operational at 1,196 sites.

A division bench of Justices Dinesh Mehta and Vinod Kumar rejected a public interest litigation filed by advocate Ravi Sharma. The petitioner sought to set aside the December 2023 power purchase agreement reallocating about 2.33 GW from Azure Power to Adani Green and requested investigative agency probes. The bench declined to undertake an investigation or a 'fishing and roving' enquiry on the allegations. The court held that grievances over the bidding process must be raised by a bidder who participated in the competitive process and that any loss would lie with a competitive or prospective bidder.

The Department of Commerce issued preliminary affirmative CVD determinations on crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells and modules from India, Indonesia and Laos. The determinations conclude producers in those countries benefited from government subsidies. A final determination in the CVD investigations is scheduled for July 6. Solar imports from India in 2024 were valued at $792.6 million, more than nine times the 2022 value. Some Indian manufacturers began reducing shipments after the investigation was initiated in August, and share prices of major Indian solar manufacturers fell following the announcement.

Preliminary ad valorem duties were set at 126% for solar-module imports from India. Initial duties were set between 86% and 143% for Indonesia and at 81% for Laos. The duty rates follow a determination that foreign subsidies allowed exporters from those countries to undercut US domestic solar producers. A final determination on the subsidy investigation is scheduled for July 6. A concurrent antidumping duty probe covers solar cells imported from India, Indonesia and Laos.

The levy is charged per ticket and varies by trip distance and cabin class. The lowest charge is 1 Singapore dollar for economy flights within Southeast Asia and the highest is 41.60 Singapore dollars for premium‑cabin flights to the Americas. The surcharge funds sustainable aviation fuel, which is often produced from used cooking oil or agricultural waste. The levy applies to tickets sold from April 1 and to flights departing Changi on or after Oct. 1. Singapore hosts the region's largest SAF plant and is beginning construction of a next‑generation facility this year with supply agreements including JetBlue and Singapore Airlines.

Companies building each of the five offshore wind projects filed suits after the Department of the Interior announced a classified national-security justification for blocking turbine installation. Filings occurred in three different federal courts and were heard by four judges. Each court granted a temporary injunction that prevents the administration's installation halt from being enforced against those specific projects. The injunctions apply to all five projects that were under construction and remain temporary while the litigation continues.

The board approved a Joint Venture Agreement on 15 January 2026 to incorporate a 50:50 Joint Venture Company with GAIL (India) Ltd for undertaking renewable energy projects. Incorporation and project activity are subject to approvals from the Ministry of Power, DIPAM and other applicable statutory authorities. NTPC Green Energy is a subsidiary of NTPC and serves as the umbrella for NTPC's green business initiatives. NTPC Green Energy undertakes projects through organic and inorganic routes and targets 60 GW by FY32.

The transaction valued Vibrant Energy’s equity at $200 million. Vibrant’s portfolio totals 1.3 GW, of which 800 MW is operational. The portfolio carries long-term power purchase agreements with global commercial and industrial customers, weighted average tenure 20 years. Projects are located across Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Inox Clean has installed-capacity targets of 3 GW by FY26-end and 10 GW by FY28.

Unit 2 has a capacity of 250 MW within the Subansiri Lower Hydroelectric Project, which totals 2,000 MW across eight 250 MW units. The project is a run-of-river plant with water storage on the Subansiri, located near North Lakhimpur on the Arunachal Pradesh–Assam border. Project construction cost is around Rs 27,000 crore and NHPC operates under the Ministry of Power. NHPC declared unit 2 commercially operational from 00:00 hours on 23 December 2025.