Energy

Punjab Green Hydrogen Policy

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 …

Chinese power plan should produce independent firms

China should divest State Power Corp. of most of its power plants and use those plants to form several independent power companies as the first step in reforming the industry, state media said.

Senate backs Philippine power bill

The Philippine Senate ratified a long-delayed bill that will restructure the country's dilapidated power industry. The passing of the Omnibus Power Bill after six years of wrangling marks an important turning point for President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and her four-month-old administration.

Conservation body concerned over oil, gas exploration in Kirthar National Park

"For over two years, we have tried to work co-operatively with the authorities and companies involved in the issue of exploration for oil and gas in the Kirthar National Park (KNP), but they have just ignored our efforts to agree on reasonable measures to safeguard Pakistan's priceless national heritage from …

The perils of abundance

Brazil confronts a dire energy shortage and an abrupt end to a culture of carefree waste : a report.

Foreign companies continue to pull out

If money is power, as we are sometimes told, then, presumably, a dearth of cash should imply a shortage of electricity. This is certainly the case in India. Lack of power, or India's inability to generate sufficient quantities, deliver it consistantly and then secure payment for it, is arguably, the …

KPCL may terminate pacts with KPTCL

The Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd (KPCL) has indicated that it would prefer termination of power purchase agreements (PPA) signed with the State-owned power transmission utility, once the distribution companies are in place.

NTPC to set up three plants in Chhattisgarh

The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) will set up three power plants with a capacity of 660 mw each at a cost of Rs 8,000 crore in Seepad in Chhattisgarh state within the next six years. Revealing this NTPC executive director (western region) R D Gupta said: "For the first …

8-hour power supply in villages from Sept.

The Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Ltd. (KPTCL) will provide uninterrupted "three-phase" power supply for eight hours in all villages by September, Mr. V.P. Baligar, Chairman and Managing Director, KPTCL, said here on Sunday.

No question of going back on litigation: MSEB

The Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB), in no uncertain terms, has told the domestic financial institutions that it would not be possible to keep the legal battle aside against Dabhol Power Company (DPC) despite 90 per cent completion of the phase-II project.

ONGC to double gas output in K-G basin

The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is going to increase its gas production by 11 million cubic metres in the next three years against its present production of about five million cubic metres per day in the Krishna-Godavari basin.

Petronet LNG Mulls raising Dahej capacity to 10mt

Petronet LNG Ltd (PLL) is considering doubling the capacity of its under construction Dehej terminal to 10 million tonne (mt) at an additional investment of $70 million. "We are considering a proposal of doubling the present five million tonne capacity of Dahej terminal to 10 million tonne at a low …

Radioactive water leaks in Czech n-plant

Several cubic metres of radioactive water leaked on Wednesday during reactor tests in the controversial Czech nuclear power plant at Temelin near the Austrian border, a spokesman said last week.

Exxon and Shell win top Saudi gas projects

Exxon Mobil Corp. has been chosen to lead a $17 billion gas development in Dutch/Shell Group heading the smaller Shaybah project.

Public input lacking on nuclear fuel issue

The government in Japan is bracing for repercussions from the rejection by local residents of a plan to use plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel, known as MOX fuel, at a nuclear power plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) in the Niigata Prefecture village of Kariwa about 220 km northwest …

Tepco puts MOX reactor on back burner after poll

Gov. Ikuo Hirayama of Niigta Prefecture (Japan) on June 1 asked Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) President Nobuya Minami to postpone the company's planned pluthermal nuclear power generation project. Minami who received the request from Hirayam by telephone said Tepco should now put the plan on hold.

Energy rationing set to drive down Brazil's industrial growth

The severity of the energy shortage in Brazil's most populated and industrialised regions has become clear only in recent weeks. The bleak prognosis has sharply altered the outlook for most businesses, which had been investing to meet growing demand amid an expanding economy.

ExxonMobil seals Saudi deal

ExxonMobil has beaten Royal Dutch/Shell to take the lead role in the $15bn South Ghawar gas development project.The project is the largest of the long term, upstream gas agreements that Prince Saud-l-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister, signed with international oil companies in Jeddah.

Anger grows over power cutbacks

Most Brazilians believe the government, not drought, is mainly to blame for the country's energy crisis, according to a poll published.

Political clashes likely on energy

Energy will be near the top of the agenda of the new Democratic-controlled Senate, which is set to clash with the Bush Administration on electricity price caps for California, drilling in a pristine Alaskan refuge and soaring petrol prices.

Opting for reliability

More households and businesses are purchasing their own small scale generators, which are becoming more cost efficient. Capstone Turbine, a US manufacturer of gas-fired micro-turbines, has seen its sales treble in the past year and now has a waiting list for its products.

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