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 …
The technology may be not long off the drawing board, but Japan's oil giants are already investing large amounts of money and hope in fuel cells, which promise pollution-free power for everything from cars to fridges. High development costs and technological difficulties mean the strategy is not without risks, but …
The Centre's initiative towards facilitating sale of power from the Enron-promoted Dabhol project in Maharashtra to other states is likely to come a cropper. Sources told Business standard that the states would in no way be able to purchase power from Dabhol Power Company (DPC) as it would be difficult …
Lenders to the Dabhol Power project have mandated their engineer, Stone and Webster, to do a costing study on the implications of moth-balling the second phase of the project. The issue is whether to close it now or wait till the civil work on the project is over.
Even after purchasing environment-friendly clean fuel CNG buses, the private operators have refused to ply them under the KM Scheme of the Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC). Instead, they continue to operate their old polluting diesel buses simultaneously on the city roads.
The Madhya Pradesh Minister for Rural Development, Mr Ajay Singh, has said that over two lakh water conservation works have been carried out at a cost of over Rs 198 crore in the State.
The Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) has initiated a study to determine the impact of the proposed removal of administered price mechanism (APM) on fuels with effect from April ,1 2002. Mr Seshasayee told newspersons during an informal interface here that the choice of fuel in the post-APM regime …
The Russian parliament passed a bill this week that is likely to open Russia to imports of spent nuclear fuel, a project environmentalists say will turn the country into a dangerous nuclear dump. The lower house, the State Duma, voted 243 to 125 in favour of the bill, which advocates …
Tougher pollution laws on sulphur in fuel oil that will come into effect from July could lead to lower exports as it pushes refineries to change their crude slates, traders and refiners said yesterday. From July 1, sulphur in fuel oil will be cut to 0.3 percent from 0.5 percent …
In a major boost to the power sector reforms being carried out in the state, the Rural Electrification Corporation L:td (REC) has almost doubled the disbursement amount to Andhra Pradesh to undertake rural electrification programme in the current year. Under its lending programme for Andhra Pradesh, the corporation has decided …
The ongoing efforts to renegotiate the power purchase agreement (PPA) with the Enron-promoted Dabhol Power Corporation (DPC) seemed to be in trouble today, with the state government-appointed renegotiation panel chief, Mr Madhav Godbole, charging DPC with the "adopting a dual stand," on the issue.
The White House and environmentalists agreed this week to seek more renewable energy sources but stayed divided on other green issues that have battered President George W. Bush's popularity. After a meeting of representatives of four major environmental organizations with Vice President Dick Cheney, both sides emerged to say that …
The Dabhol Power Company could continue billing the Maharashtra Electricity Board from its second phase, which was due to start operations on June 7. Source close to DPC told Business Standard: "If MSEB had cooperated with DPC, commercial production could have begun tomorrow. Under the PPA, they would have been …
Dabhol Power Company (DPC) is reportedly ready to extend the period for conciliation till August. This is a good idea. Nobody, least of all Enron, which own the majority stake in DPC, gains from terminating a costly project suddenly. India is desperately short of electricity, whether or not Maharashtra claims …
Even while claiming to reach a base-load surplus by 2006 and declining to give the necessary security packages to two IPPs pursuing their projects, the Karnataka Government has approached the National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd for setting up a 2,000 MW power project based on either coal or liquefied natural …
In a State like Karnataka a demand for over 8000 MW of power on a daily basis is not unusual. As of today only 4800 MW has been tapped by the power sector. This power sector has tapped as much as it is providing today. There is not much of …
US energy major Enron's Dabhol Power Company (DPC) on Wednesday filed a writ petition in the Mumbai High Court, challenging the May 29 order of the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC) that had restrained the multinational firm form activating the escrow account. Sources said neither MSEB nor the State Government …
Brazil's state oil giant Petrobras has said it would present a plan next week to hasten power plant and pipeline construction after finding a new natural gas reserve off the coast of the south-east state of Espirito Santo.
The most 'disquieting feature' of the present Indian agriculture scenario, particularly in the Gujarat region, is the unwise water management in irrigation, said Dr M.H. Mehta, Vice Chancellor of Gujarat Agriculture University (GAU). He told reporters here that with depleting traditional water resources as well and natural resources including water …
Check dams constructed by the Delhi Development Authority on the hilly terrain next to the Nelson Mandela Marg a year ago have reportedly started leaking. Experts allege that DDA's faulty construction is the reason. The check dam project was a result of an initiative taken by Leo Environment, an NGO. …
Karnataka is on the verge of being sucked into a water-war with its neighbours Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu in the coming few days unless the three southern states move cautiously to avoid a bitter row, involving the contentious Krishna and Cauvery rivers.
