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 …
Gov. Gray Davis signed a law Thursday letting the state borrow $13.4 billion to pay for electricity for three cash-starved utilities. Davis couldn't guarantee the 15-year bond will be enough to cover the state's electricity purchases. But he said the $13.4 billion price tag represents "the best thinking of our …
According to expert opinion in Gandhinagar two fundamental changes will have to be effected in under a month's time to offset the rush of huge quantities of monsoon water expected from Madhya Pradesh in the first week of June.
Republicans in the White House and around the country are increasingly nervous that surging gas prices and rolling blackouts will pose a colossal political problem for President Bush because they are matters that he has limited control over but that touch people in their daily lives.
A White House energy plan due next week will favor oil, nuclear and coal interests instead of addressing electricity shortages and soaring gasoline prices that directly affect many U.S. consumers, environmental groups said yesterday.
The White House said yesterday giving the federal government authority to seize private land to build transmission lines, like it currently has for natural gas pipelines, would make it easier to ship electricity to California and other regions that need it.
Despite US government efforts to prevent underground petroleum storage tanks from leaking, almost a third of the tanks are not properly operated or maintained, according to government report released yesterday. In 1984, Congress passed legislation to monitor the 2 million underground tanks operating at the time and prevent them from …
A broad White House proposal to promote more oil and gas drilling will also back more funding for biofuels, which are made from crop and animal waste, the head of the US Senate Agriculture Committee said yesterday. The recommendation, part of a plan to trim U.S. imports of oil, will …
Japan aims to promote more use of natural gas and reduce coal usage by 2010 to curb carbon dioxide emissions, an official with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) said yesterday. "A draft plan compiled on Tuesday for the long-term energy supply plan suggests that Japan will promote …
US vice president Richard Cheney's energy plan is coming under mounting attack from Democrats and a wide range of other critics even though it will not be released until next week.
This month, the first of more than 100 nations will sign the Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, which seeks to ban the production and use of 12 chemicals called the "dirty dozen" including PCBs and dioxin. One hard-won exception is for the continued public health use of DDT, principally against …
Foreign lenders to Dabhol Power Company (DPC) have sought the intervention of the ministries of finance and power to quickly resolve the ongoing impasse over non-payment of dues by Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB), as DPC has sought their consent to issue a preliminary termination notice to the state electricity …
Dedicating the world's longest LPG pipeline from Kandla in Gujarat to Loni in Uttar Pradesh to the nation, Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said that the demand-supply scenario on LPG has taken a u-turn. Earlier there was huge demand for LPG but the supply was restricted, but now the supply …
Duke Energy executives defended this week a plan to use mixed-oxide fuel at two North Carolina nuclear power plants and said the project's impact on the company's costs and profits would be "inconsequential".
Top tribal leaders have agreed to allow local and multinational companies to start exploration activities in Balochistan provided Islamabad launched through them a multi- million dollar development package , official sources told Dawn.
The Andhra Pradesh Government has embarked upon an ambitious plan to augment its power generation to 36,000 MW by 2020, according to the State Energy Secretary, Mr V.S. Sampath.
The Rural Electrification Board has spent over 1 billion US dollars since its inception in 1978, but hardly 24 per cent of the village people in Bangladesh have access to electricity for various constraints.
Buffeted by the possibility of a default in Argentina and the slowdown in the US, the Brazilian economy is facing a new threat-an energy crisis at home.
Bush Administration officials have begun warning Republicans on Capitol Hill that the energy policy to be released next week will do little the help with gasoline prices or California blackouts this summer.
The Upper Lake in Bhopal has given indications of the serious water crisis to follow. At present 17 mgd of water is being dispersed from the Upper Lake daily and five to six mgd of water is getting evaporated daily by the intense heat.
