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 …
California signed long-term electricity contracts at prices higher than those available on the daily market, state officials said today as they prepared to release details of the pacts between the state and power generators.
Ireland said yesterday it was taking action against the British government over a controversial nuclear fuel manufacturing plant in northwest England which has yet to start operating. Joe Jacob, Ireland's minister responsible for nuclear safety, said he would take Britain to an arbitration panel for withholding information he says is …
With both parties vying for political mileage from consumer anger over costly fuel and electricity, Republicans on a House of Representatives panel yesterday rebuffed a bid by Democrats to boost money for energy efficiency and conservation programs by some $200 million in US.
The Bush administration delivered another slap in the face of California yesterday with a move to force the state to use a fuel additive that cold increase the cost of a gallon of petrol by 3 cents. The state, already stung by the highest motor fuel prices in the United …
ISO New England Inc., the operator of the region's electricity supply, said yesterday it urged Connecticut Governor John Rowland to veto legislation that would impose new emission standards on the state's older power plants.
The Delhi government seems to have gone back on its words. Barely a week after the chief minister and the transport minister declated that "CNG conversion is an unsafe option", the transport department issued letters to private bus operators encouraging them to go for conversion.
Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday trumpeted the Bush administration's plan to bolster domestic energy production and make the country more energy efficient, stressing the need to diversify supplies and expand nuclear power generation before plants get much older.
The US Energy Regulatory Commission is expected to approve a plan proposed by Congressional Republicans that would significantly expand the agency's efforts to limit electricity prices in California and other Western states.
Philippine financial markets barely registered a blip when Congress finally passed a long-awaited bill on June 4 to restructure the country's tottering power industry. Electricity rates in the Philippines are the highest in Asia, a definite switch-off for companies considering setting up shop there. Power cuts sporadically plunge Manila into …
The World Bank (WB) on Wednesday agreed to grant a $450 million loan to Powergrid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) for its second system development project estimated to cost $1.3 billion.
The northern Indian state of Punjab says it had no plans to build a nuclear power plant despite an acute energy shortage. "No nuclear plant will be established in the state - the government is not even contemplating such a move," State Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal told representatives of …
If Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh's comments are any indication to go by, then the Enron controversy is likely to get murkier. "The Congress' stand over the issue of announcing the judicial probe is very clear and we will abide by the decision co-ordination committee takes over the issue" Mr Deshmukh …
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal might be accused of strengthening his vote-bank when he announced at Patran in Patiala district on Tuesday that there was no proposal to set up a nuclear power plant at Droli, but his about-turn on th issue comes as relief to the punjabis in …
The Maharashtra Chief Minister, Mr Vilasrao Deshmukh, said on Wednesday that the Democratic Front (DF) co-ordination committee would take a decision on whether to order a judicial probe into various aspects of the Dabhol power project. The committee would take a decision is due course, the Minister said.
The government said today it was ready to consider laying a natural gas pipeline under the sea or overland from Iran, suggesting that it had dropped its objections to running the link through Pakistan.
To counter the power shortage, the Gujarat and the Chhatisgarh government have agreed to set up a 500 mw power project in the newly-created state. Gujarat has also proposed to purchase power from Chhatisgarh.
The Indo-Iran Committee on transfer of Iranian gas to India met in New Delhi on June 11 and 12 for the fourth round, a meeting that focused primarily on establishing long-term, cost effective and secure means of transportation of gas from Iran to India.
In keeping with the recommendation of the review committee, headed by Madhav Godbole, the Maharashtra government has decided to make public all documents of its agreement with Enron.The documents related to power purchase agreement and the relevant papers concerning the counter guarantee given by the Centre would be made available …
Patches of oil were still burning across the Andean hillside on Tuesday, the day after mudslides ruptured Ecuador's crude pipeline, spilling its black cargo near Papallacta and into rivers feeding the Amazon basin. For environmentalists the charred and polluted land-scape was a reminder of what they hoped to prevent by …
Financial institutions have proposed a further 6.2 per cent cut in Dabhol Power Company's tariff to Rs 3 per unit, which would bring the levy now down to almost 25 per cent from its first phase base level of Rs 3.97 per unit at a plant load factor of 90 …
