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 …
Naveen Jindal-promoted Jindal Power Limited is setting up a 1,000 MW power plant with an investment of Rs 4,500 crore at Raigarh in Chattisgarh. The other company, Jindal Steel and Power limited is also investing Rs 1,900 crore in various projects like rail and universal beam mill, aluminum plant at …
The Madhav Godbole-led negotiation committee's meeting with Enron India managing director K Wade Cline and Dabhol Power Company (DPC) president and chief executive officer Neil McGregor on Wednesday will set the stage for the Maharashtra government and the Centre to thrash out the issue of 1444 mw power offtake, which …
Chhatisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi today said five states--Gujarat, Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Karnataka--have expressed their willingness to set up power plants in the state for generating cheap electricity. "We have abundance of natural resources like coal for the proposed power generating projects and we expect to increase the generation …
The general impression propagated by the critics of the Enron promoted power project, and often accepted by the man on the street, is that MSEB and, as a by-product, the citizens of Maharashtra, are victims of very high-cost power; that the agreements were signed at the behest of corrupt politicians; …
The Rajasthan Energy Development Agency (REDA) has created an all-time record by installing 9,900 solar photovoltaic lighting systems in the state during the financial year 2000-2001. These lights have been installed under the rural electrification programme and have covered all the districts of the state. This achievement has placed the …
Steel companies Jindal Steel & Power Ltd (JSPL) and Monnet Ispat Ltd on Monday announced investments totalling Rs 7600 crore in separate power and steel projects in Chhattisgarh state. JSPL has earmarked an investment of Rs 6400 crore in various projects over a period of seven years, including a 1000 …
More than 120 nations will formally sign a pact on Tuesday to outlaw or minimise the use of the "dirty dozen" toxic chemicals blamed for causing fatal diseases and birth defects among humans and animals. The chemicals, used in pesticides, in fire retardants in homes and in paints or plastics, …
After dithering for years, the government has finally decided to introduce gasohol as an alternative clean automobile fuel in a big way. A high-level delegation headed by petroleum minister Ram Nail will visit Brazil from May 24 to study the production and marketing of gasohol. Gasohol is a blend of …
The Dabhol Power Company (DPC) has put the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB), the government of Maharashtra and the central government on notice by asking for a termination of its power purchase agreement (PPA) with the Maharashtra utility. The writing has been on the wall for the past few months. …
A German builder has designed a rotating solar-powered house which follows the sun's movement. The Pond 133,000 home turns on a steel circle to attract the maximum amount of sunlight at all times. Ten families are already living in the houses designed by Ernst Osswald, from Zoltingen. He's received another …
California Governor Gray Davis surged President Georgre W Bush on Saturday "to stand up to your friends in the energy industry" by imposing temporary caps on wholesale electricity prices in western states. "Without short-terms price relief, the crisis here in California and the West will spill over and damage the …
The US president's energy plan released recently has, expectedly, generated a heated debate. Should we concentrate on providing for our immediate needs, or should we act as responsible custodians of the world's future? Environmentalists denounce Bush's energy proposal as pandering to the oil, coal and gas industries and as showing …
Undeterred by issuance of the preliminary termination notice by the Enron-promoted Dabhol Power Company, the Maharashtra State Electricity Board has decided to go ahead with its decision to slap yet another Rs 400-crore penalty on the US energy major. "In June first week, MSEB will slap a penalty of Rs …
A high-level delegation to Russia was hopeful of completing the "long overdue" final round of the techno-commercial offer (TCO) for two 1,000 MW Russian-made reactors for the proposed nuclear power plant at Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu by the end of June, according to the chairman and managing director of the …
Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) stormed into popular imagination as an agent of progressive change but, overtime, it has also served to show up the softer underbelly of transportation planning in the country. The Supreme Court's order to switch the Capital's public transport entirely to CNG by September 30 resulted in …
A high-level delegation from both Russia and India is expected to complete the 'long overdue' final round of techno-commercial offer (TCO) of the two 1000-MW Russian nuclear power plants for Koodangulam in Tamil Nadu by the end of June, the Chairman and Managing Director of the Nuclear Power Corporation of …
The Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC), which had suspended its oil exploratory activities in Nagaland in 1994, has decided to resume its operations with a view to augmenting the production of crude oil in the country. According to an official release, the ONGC has already established the high potentiality …
A advisory body to Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has approved the construction of a new nuclear power plant for the first time since September 1999 when Japan's worst nuclear accident occured.
The drive launched by the Bangalore traffic police against autorikshaw drivers who were using kerosene for the vehicles has come not a day too soon. The City police have booked cases against 200 autorikshaw drivers in this regard for contravention of the Essential Commodities Act. But it passes one's comprehension …
At least half of the 152 oil refineries in the United States are believed to be violating air-pollution laws, federal officials say. But with the refineries stretched near capacity, the Bush administration is debating how hard to crack down. Refinery capacity, Vice President Dick Cheney has said, is among the …
