The Punjab Energy Development Agency has released a draft green hydrogen policy aiming to achieve a green hydrogen and ammonia production capacity of 100 kilo tonnes per annum by 2030. The policy proposes extending incentives under the existing “Punjab Industrial and Business Development Policy 2022” to new green hydrogen and …
Farmers and residents living near two water waterways on the outskirts of the town have been complaining of unsafe drinking water and are in fear of being struck by an endemic problem. The Manjal Neer Channel (MNC) has its origin in Dhamal and runs seven km across the town. The …
Once known as a "town of ponds", Raipur may soon see them disappear if steps are not taken to save these waterbodies. While the government talks of water harvesting and is paying people to dig ponds across Chhatisgarh, not much attention is being given to the already existing ponds, particularly …
Of all the rivers in India today, only Brahmaputra is in surplus, and will cease to be if the Three Gorges dams get underway upstream, in China. These are just some of the stats that Intach's water specialist Manu Bhatnagar jolts people with - into thinking seriously about the precious …
Once again, the Delhi government has gone back on its words. Barely a week after the chief minister and the transport minister declared that CNG conversion was an unsafe option and the transporters should not opt for it, the transport department issued letters to private bus operators encouraging them to …
Farmers and ranchers in the United States are discovering that they own not only land but also the wind rights that go with that land. A farmer in Iowa who leases a quarter acre of cropland to the local utility as a site for a wind turbine can typically earn …
Of the 22 power projects that were approved by the government in the state, five have been dropped over the last two years. The total capacity of the projects that have been dropped is 955 MW. This is excluding the 500-MW Savli power project of Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), which …
Exactly while chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu was laying foundation stone for a massive project across river Godavari at Devadula in Warangal district on Saturday forenoon, members of the world Commission on dams and some environmentalists were insisting at a national workshop here that the 'contributing participants' such as displaced …
Karnataka has offered to buy Enron power if it is made available at a reasonable tariff. The reaction comes in response to the Central Electricity Authority's (CEA) exercise to make the Enron venture workable. Karnataka, however, has conveyed that it will buypower only if the Dabhol Power Company (DPC) can …
The Central Government has sanctioned several projects worth Rs.90 crores under the Accelerated Power Development Programme in four districts of Rajasthan--Alwar, Jhunjhunu, Jodhpur and Jalore. The projects will be executed through the respective power distribution corporations.
CNG is environment friendly but is it user friendly too? the answer has to be sought in the long queues, visible at the filling stations like Sarai Kale Khan; Majnu Ka Tila and minor stations like the Sundar Nagar Service Station. the stranded autos and buses, making a cursive line …
Global power giant AES Corporation is interested in taking over the Enron-promoted Dabhol Power Company. The $6.69 billion power major has already held discussions with the lenders of the project on the modalities of the takeover, top AES executives told Business Standard. Sources said the AES brass in US is …
Switch on a light somewhere in US and the odds are one in two that it will be powered not by oil, natural gas, uranium, water, wind or anything else but by coal, that Industrial Revolution-era fuel that seems, at least for now, to have reclaimed a 21st-century future.
Aides to Gov. Gray Davis today released details of the $43 billion in contracts that California has signed with 18 companies to supply much of its power over the next decade, prompting a debate over whether the contracts have managed to stabilize the state's electricity market or whether Mr. Davis …
In a change of stance, Dabhol Power Company of Friday urged the Maharashtra State Electricity Board to resume power offtake and also agreed to accept the board's under protest bills. DPC president Neil McCregor along with representatives of the multinational, both domestic and foreign lenders, met MSEB chief Vinay Bansal …
When the American Wind Energy Association held its annual meeting in Washington last week attendance was up by a third from last year and exhibitors were turned away for lack of space. There was, joked David Garman, an assistant US energy secretary, "excitement in the air". At least 40 projects …
Even as the $2-billion Dabhol power project of US energy major Enron hags fire, another US-based power firm, CMS Energy, has threatened to pull out of the $1.4 - billion, 1,600 mw Ennore power plant project, citing lack of "co-operation and support".
The Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) and Dabhol Power Company (DPC), which have entered into a legal battle, have initiated conciliatory efforts to find out an amicable solution to the raging imbroglio.As part of this exercise, a secret meeting was held between MSEB chairman Vinay Bansal and Enron India managing …
The energy review committee, headed by Madhav Godbole, is working on a set of recommendations for unbundling of the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) and its possible privatization thereafter. The panel is due to submit its report in July.
The reported decision to make public all contracts relating to the Dabhol Power Company is welcome, but there is growing confusion about the status of the re-negotiation of the power purchase agreement between the Maharashtra electricity board and the company.Similar public disclosure of the material facts should be made about …
