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 West Bengal government and the Calcutta Municipal Corporation have jointly taken up projects to solve the water crisis in the city on war footing, mayor-in-council (water), Mr Sovan Chatterjee, said at a press conference.
ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch/Shell are the favourites to lead two of Saudi Arabia's multi-billion dollar upstream gas projects to be opened to foreign companies, according to the industry observers in the Middle East.
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 yesterday.
Daimlerchrysler and Singapore authorities today announced a joint programme to step up the development of hydrogen as a fume-free alternative fuel source for vehicles. Testing will begin in 2004, the same year the German-US auto giant experts to begin commercial production of noiseless and non-polluting "green" cars. However, the company …
An inter-disciplinary research for using coconut oil as lubricant and fuel in automobiles has been launched by the Anna University here. The university, which has the oldest automobile engineering departments in the region, and also the internationally recognised studies in energy systems, has taken up the research following a request …
The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) is planning to set up two 1,000 ME plus coal-based power plants in Vidarbha and Konkan areas of Maharashtra with an investment of more than Rs 4,000 crore each.
In a last ditch effort to break the DPC-MSEB logjam, the government today proposed that power deficient states can buy directly from DPC, in effect clearing third party sale by the company.
Energy-starved Brazil should restrict electricity rationing to power-heavy industries like aluminum instead of spreading the onus of an electricity saving drive across consumers and companies, says a Washington-based energy activist. Howard Geller, former executive director of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy (ACEEE), argues that selective shutdowns of …
Enron today updated Indian Ienders about the status of the project and discussed ways for resolution of the current crisis. According to sources, Enron showed a willingness to continue with the project even after all the problems.Mr Wade Cline, Managing Director, is understood to have told the lenders that even …
The National Thermal Power Corporation Ltd has floated global tenders to set up a power project in Sipat in Chhattisgarh. The 3x 660 MW, coal-based project would employ "super critical technology" which reduces fuel consumption, according to Mt R.D. Gupta, Executive Director, Western region, NTPC.
Serious differences have emerged between Enron, the main promoter of the Dabhol Power Company, and its domestic and international lenders over the manner in which the dispute with the Maharashtra State Electricity Board is being handled.
To turn around the West Bengal State Electricity Board and rejuvenate the state power sector, a MoU has been signed by senior Union Power ministry officials and state power department functionaries for five years. To be reviewed annually, the onus of implementing the nine-point reform programme lies mainly with the …
In a brainstorming session that took place in Mantralaya on Wednesday, senior officials of the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) and the state government including a battery of lawyers from both sides took stock of the situation after the rescission notice slapped on Enron. It is learnt that the state …
International energy consortium OCP Ecuador SA is confident it will build a heavy crude pipeline in Ecuador along the proposed route, because otherwise it would have to review the project, an OCP executive said yesterday.
U.S. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham yesterday ordered a review of Energy Department research programs that promote renewable fuels to find out which ones are most effective. The review was called for under the Bush administration's new national energy plan, and will be conducted concurrently with a review announced last week …
El Paso Merchant Energy said Wednesday it is moving forward with plans to build a natural gas-fired, simple-cycle power plant in Augusta Township, Michigan. The 340-megawatt peaking facility will supply electricity to the wholesale market during high-demand periods to supplement the power generation of base load facilities, the El Paso …
Exxon Mobil Corp. shareholders yesterday defeated a raft of activist proposals, including ones to bolster renewable energy development and gay rights, in the latest in a series of contentious annual meetings at the world's largest non-state-owned oil company.
President George W. Bush, visiting California for the first time since the November elections, declared his most pointed opposition yet to mandating federal caps on wholesale electricity prices, saying they "will make the (power) shortage worse."
The seismic shift in the US Senate from Republican to Democratic control has put at risk key elements of the Bush Administration's much promoted energy plan.
