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 Western Region Electricity Board (WREB) is concerned over numerous cases of violation of operational discipline in terms of overdrawal and underdrawal by some of its constituents.
A government energy task force has recommend forcing power companies to use wind, solar or other alternative power sources for a certain portion of the power they sell, The Nihon Keizei Shimbun reported. The Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry panel aims to promote alternative energy sources despite their …
India's nuclear power sector may be tiny compared to that of many western nations, but last year the country was the star as it had the largest number of new reactors starting operations. The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency says out of the six nuclear power reactors that went operational …
Officials of the State Government, Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) and members of the Madhav Godbole committee, which recently submitted its review on the Dabhol Power Project, met here on Saturday. The meeting was to "chart the agenda for renegotiation with Enron officials," a senior MSEB official said.
GE Capital, the American industrial and financial services giant, is poised to launch a new operation, GE Digital Energy, in Great Britain and Europe in a bid to enter the $30 bn-a-year market for enhanced power supply.
At least 15 energy experts from four SAARC countries will arrive in Dhaka to share experiences of the country's Rural Electrification Board a press release said.
The World Bank has approved a loan of $450 million for India's second power grid system, making a departure from its practice of disallowing such infrastructure projects in the wake of the nuclear related economic sanctions.
For the first time in the country, a consortium producing natural gas will enter into direct sales agreement with consumers. Hitherto, the producers were required to sell the gas only to government nominees.
In befitting memory of the nation's best known freedom fighter, Shaheed Bhagat Singh's village, Khatkar Kalan, will be the site of India's largest stand-alone solar photo voltaic power station.
In an unusual departure from normal practice, the Maharashtra government has allowed the Reliance Group to sell power generated by its 447-mw Patalganga power project directly to third parties if the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSRB) does not lift power. The project's power purchase agreement (PPA) has a clause to …
Now that the Enron-sponsored Dabhol Power Company (DPC) has termed the Godbole Committee's guidelines for re-negotiations as "not an acceptable basis for further discussions," has the effort at re-working the deal been derailed even before it got moving.
Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) on its Internet site has a small section on environment. It says how the company is committed to a clean environment and then goes on to talk about how ecological parks have been developed near its refineries. But there is little reference to IOC's Gujarat Refinery …
The European Commission plans to take France to court over its failure to introduce legislation to liberalise its gas markets, in the latest of a series of conflicts over opening Europe's energy sector.
President George W. Bush announced measures to conserve energy in federal buildings in California, in the latest indication of Washington's concern about the political fallout from looming power shortages.
The United States is "running out of energy" and that is why it is important to improve the infrastructure for finding new supplies and delivering the supplies to where they are needed, President Bush said following a meeting at the White House with his energy advisors.
Aviation authorities said yesterday they will soon issue the most comprehensive rules ever on aircraft fuel tank safety, which will affect thousands of commercial aircraft in the US.
California energy regulators approved measures yesterday aimed at promoting electricity conservation during a summer that is expected to stretch the state's grid to near breaking point. The California Public Utility Commission (PUC) ordered the state's utilities to put into place Gov. Gray Davis' "20/20 rebate program," a program that would …
Pakistan is planning to hold an international petroleum conference in New York by June-July this year to attract foreign investment in the petroleum sector of the country, official sources said here on Thursday. "The schedule of the conference is yet to be finalised but it would definitely be held during …
The Enron-promoted Dabhol Power Company (DPC) has virtually ruled out negotiations with the Maharashtra government-appointed Godbole committee to renegotiate the tariff for the power project-- and perhaps set the stage for terminating the controversial $3-billion power project.
