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 …
This one would have turned the table in favour of Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB), only if the Centre had not opposed it. Even before the Dabhol Power Company (DPC) board meeting that took place in London on April 25, MSEB was readying with a termination notice intended to be …
Two of USA's bellwether states for energy deregulation are debating increasingly punitive approaches to prevent electricity generators from charging what the states consider to be excessively high prices.
Black holes, those voracious drains in space, may also spin as they gobble--dragging the fabric of the cosmos around with them, NASA scientists said on Monday. This is the first time astronomers have found evidence that black holes might spin too. Their gravitational pull is so great that nothing, not …
Duke Energy, a power-generating company accused of overcharging customers millions of dollars during California's year-old energy crisis, has secretly offered Gov. Gray Davis a deal that it hopes will solve its legal problems while helping to calm the state's chaotic electricity markets.
Efforts to combat climate change could boost prospects for nuclear power which had looked set to decline in industrialised countries because of environmental concerns, said the West's energy watchdog the International Energy Agency.
A multi-crore power scam has come to light in Uttar Pradesh even as the state reels under the impact of soaring temperatures, drying taps, long hours of power cuts. For several months now, power officials in Uttar Pradesh have done the unimaginable by feeding boulders and stones instead of coal …
The liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) companies were asked to come forward to preserve Azad Kashmir forests by introducing LPG cylinders at subsidized rates to people in rural areas.
Shares in Danish wind turbine makers Vestas Wind Systems and NEG Micon soared yesterday on a media report that the windpower industry would become a major contributor to Denmark's economy.
Vice President Cheney says a new U.S. national energy strategy, to be announced in a few weeks, will call for increased domestic production of oil and greater use of coal for electricity generation.
A technical snag has led to the closure of Anpara and Rihand power plants, further deepening the power crisis that the state is experiencing for the past one week, affecting both the industry and general consumers.
It's public posturing notwithstanding, the US energy major Enron has shown willingness to renegotiate the power purchase agreement with the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB), according to state government officials. Meanwhile, the Madhav Godbole panel has been asked to negotiate with Dabhol Power Company (DPC) for the separation of its …
The on-going legal wranglings between the Esnron-sponsored Dabhol Power Company and Maharashtra State Electricity Board over payment of dues notwithstanding, the Democratic Front government today set up a high-level committee to renegotiate power tariff with the DPC.
The Maharashtra government has announced the setting up of a negotiating team under the chairmanship of former Union home secretary Madhav Godbole for carrying out discussions with the Dabhol Power Company (DPC) with a view to reduce the power tariffs as well as to explore sales of DPC power to …
Delhiites have to brace up for a summer full of power cuts with the state administration admittedly in a position to provide only 2,300 - 2,350 MW of power, as against a peak demand of around 3,000 MW.
The State Chief Minister, Mr S.M. Krishna, on Monday expressed displeasure over 'repeated efforts' ny Andhra Pradesh to 'violate' the Bacchawat Tribunal award on sharing of Krishna river water and appealed to the neighbouring State to desist from activities that would lead to 'souring' of inter-State relations.
The controversy between Enron Power Company and the Maharashtra Government over the supply and tariff for power produced at Dabhol have forced the State and Central Governments into a corner from where no line of retreat is visible. (Editorial)
Two of the U.S.'s bellwether states for energy deregulation are debating increasingly punitive approaches to prevent electricity generators from charging what the states regard as excessively high prices.
Southeast Asian countries are finally putting behind them the devastating currency/financial crisis that began in 1997. But as economic activity heats up, the region is once again facing the prospect of disruptive electricity shortages.
After doggedly pressuring Enron over the past five months, the Congress-led coalition of Vilasrao Deshmukh was evidently taken aback by the threat held out by Enron, the promoter of the Dabhol Power Company (DPC), to withdraw from the contentious project. Riled by the pressures building up against it, culminating in …
