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 Karnataka Government has given in-principle clearance to the 220-MW thermal power project promoted by Euro India Power Canara Ltd rejecting the objections raised by the Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Ltd (KPTCL).State Government sources said here that clearance has been given by treating Euro India project an as "extension of …
Lenders to the Dabhol Power Company (DPC) seem to be trying to pave the way for smooth tariff renegotiations to be carried out by the Godbole committee on May 11. Both international and domestic lenders are now moving towards slashing interest rates for the second phase of the 2,184 MW …
Tucked away in the Western Ghats 90 kms from Mangalore is a tribe that's giving the term empowerment an all new spin. Ignored by the Government and tired of living for years without electricity, the Male Kudis hill tribe of Kodyadi has developed a method of generating its own electricity. …
The Maharashtra government and the state electricity board (MSEB) have firmly refused to adhere to 'any conditions," including providing escrow cover and raising the limit under the letter of credit of Enron's Dabhol Power Company, as per the latest demand by its global and domestic lenders.
Indian lenders to Dabhol Power Company (DPC) will not hesitate to drag all parties concerned - DPC, MSEB and the Governments - to the court if the stalemate continues.
In an effort to reduce the cost of electricity, the government is considering a 'control mechanism' proposal for fuel prices of the power projects. Sources said that the inter-disciplinary committee on reducing the cost of power constituted by power minister Suresh Prabhu, has recommended this step and the suggestion is …
Swadeshi Jagaran Manch (SJM) had medmanded constitution of a high-level judicial inquiry against politicians and bureacrats who were involved in the signing of the power purchase agreement (PPA) with the US energy major Enron Power Corporation, in 1993.
Maharashtra Government and the State Electricity Board (MSEB) have firmly refused to adhere to "any conditions", including providing an escrow cover and raising the limit under Letter of Credit to Enron's Dabhol Power Company (dpc) as per the latest demand by its global and domestic lenders.
The scientists at the national laboratories in the United States have projected enormous energy savings if the government takes aggressive steps to encourage energy conservation in homes, factories, offices, appliances, cars and power plants.
California will need to borrow billions of dollars more than previously has been acknowledged to continue purchasing electricity during the next 10 months, according to a top finance official.
American firm AES and Bangladesh Power Development Board are expected to sign a contract under which the private-sector power producers will deliver 235mw electricity from its simple-cycle Haripur plant.
The axe seems to have finally fallen on the much-delayed Reliance Industries-promoted Patalganga and Ispat Industries' Bhadravati power projects in Maharashtra as the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) has firmly told the Government that "there is no need of these projects nor their power".
In a longish room, young men and women are bent over large panels, preparing inverters which will be fitted into solar lamps. In a corner, Phansi, who is from Kumaon, conducts quality-checks on solar lamps. Angmo is from Lahaul Spiti. "It's so hot here, I'm going back soon," she says, …
Amul's creative directors may have gone back to ad-libbing 'Enron or Enr-off' but for the big kahuna at the American utility, Dabhol is still a worthwhile project.
The United Mission Youth Centre is two blocks north of what one prominent environmentalist calls the worst toxic-waste site in North America. A scientist recently hired by Canada government to assess the danger of contaminated dirt found just doors away from the after-school program suggested recently he wouldn't let his …
Faced with the daunting prospect of mobilising resources to the tune of Rs.8,00,000 crores over the next 10 years to meet the expected demand, the Union Minister for Power, Mr. Suresh Prabhu, has reworked the power strategy.
The Russian Soyuz capsule carrying the world's first paying space tourist landed successfully in the central Asian steppe on Sunday, ending Dennis Tito's multi-million dollar cosmos adventure.
The state-run National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has zeroed on the coastal Jaigarh and Redi in Maharashtra for the setting up of 2,000 mw thermal power project with an investment of Rs 8,540 crore.
State media committee chairman Bharat Pandya criticised the GPCCs Dilip Parikh Committee report which had alleged that several villages around Dhandhuka had not yet received Narmada water which was now being supplied through the Pariyej water supply scheme to Saurashtra.
Indian Oil Corporation has carried out the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) study for the extension of its Salaya-Mathura pipeline project during summer-monsoon season, which is violative of the legal provisions for EIA, claimed the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ).
