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 …
As a last ditch attempt to avoid re-bidding of the Rs 6,000-crore Rihand and Ramagundam power projects, National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has asked Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (Bhel), the sole bidder for these two projects, to reduce its bid prices by around 10 per cent.
After years in the wilderness, the U.S. nuclear power industry is back on the march. Emboldened by statements from the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush that nuclear power is an essential part of the U.S. energy mix, proponents are examining new designs they believe could form the basis …
Though it continues to be a major embarrassment and a heavy draw on its finances, the Enron issue seems to have armed the Maharashtra Government with enough "expertise" to advise on similar projects elsewhere in the country.
India's power problem is back on the front burner because global generating giant Enron is threatening to turn off the lights at its Dabhol plant and walk away from a contract with the Maharashtra State Electricity Board. In an effort to collect $48 million owed for electricity already supplied, the …
Enron Corporation has no immediate plans to sell its stake in the troubled $2.9 billion Dabhol power project in Maharashtra, the energy giant's chairman said on Tuesday.
The Maharashtra Cabinet has quietly taken a decision to put on hold Reliance's 447-mw Patalganga power project and the Ispat group's 1082-mw Bhadravati project, proposed to set up in the state.
Chhatisgarh energy minister Dhanesh Patila on Wednesday said the state would provide 10 mw power to Delhi since Madhya Pradesh had not shown any interest in purchasing it.
Opening another front in California's war against electricity generators, the lieutenant governor and a state assemblywoman sued five of the largest ones today, charging that they had illegally gouged the state by billions of dollars.
The Pakistan government has approved 11 hydropower and 7 water projects worth 7004 million US dollars on top priority to overcome water scarcity and meet the rising need for inexpensive power countrywide.
A division bench of the Sindh High Court on Wednesday put the Indus River System Authority (IRSA), ministry of water and power and others on notice for May 22, in a petition directed against the water shortage in Sindh and improper and unjust exercise of power by them.
Much to the relief of growers and those concerned with the distribution of water among the provinces of Pakistan, the flow in the country's main rivers has risen to a satisfactory level, an Indus River System Authority official said. The data collected on Wednesday morning showed a combine flow of …
Rolling blackouts, record-high utility bills, bankrupt and nearly bankrupt power companies - as well as a state campaign that combines pleas with financial incentives to use less energy - are all creating a populace focused on saving energy.
President Bush is planning to order all federal facilities in California to keep thermostats at 78 degrees and shut down escalators during electricity shortages this summer, part of a broader effort by the administration to show that it is serious about addressing the state'spower crisis.
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, playing down the effectiveness of conservation, said the administration's new energy policy will focus mostly on the increased production of domestic oil, natural gas and nuclear power.
Coal and utility companies are lobbying the White House's energy task force to recommend easing a U.S. clean air regulation so that major upgrades of equipment can be made at electric power plants without triggering tough pollution controls and sanctions.
Consolidated Edison plans to restart the most polluting power plant in New York City, a small, dormant generator in Brooklyn. State regulators, eager to increase the city's power supply, have tentatively agreed to let it resume operation without an environmental review.
The Pakistan government has decided to increase power generation from Tarbela Dam by around 960 MW through installation of a new power plant. With this, total installed generation capacity of Tarbela would go up to 4,438 MW, or around 76 per cent of total hydel power generation, official sources told …
In a strategic move, Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation (GMDC) has decided to supply lignite to the 375 mw multi-fuel power project being developed by Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL) at Ghogha near Bhavnagar with the state-owned Gujarat Power Corporation Ltd (GPCL) as the nodal agency, according to Gujarat's energy minister Kaushik …
The Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) will file an affidavit before the Nagpur bench of the Bombay high court within eight weeks on its decision to defer the implementation of the 1,082 MW Bhadravati project in view of the ongoing Dabhol crisis.
Uttar Pradesh power reforms are on track after the unbundling of the loss-making state electricity board in January 2000. The state government has decided to divide the power distribution system into five separate corporate units, paving the way for privatisation of all those units in this financial year itself.
