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 committee on reduction in the cost of power has suggested to rely more on the indigenous fuel and resources such as coal and hydro instead of naphtha or LNG while planning new projects. " LNG/Naphtha based power stations should have the lowest priority, and avoided to the extent possible," …
Lenders to the Dabhol Power Company (DPC) are a sharply divided lot. International lenders, in direct contrast to the stand taken by local ones led by the Industrial Development Bank of India (IDB), are categorical that additional assistance to DPC's phase-II will be held in abeyance despite the completion of …
The board of directors of Dabhol Power Company (DPC) has authorised the Managing Director, Mr Neil McGregor, to issue the notice of intent to terminate its power purchase agreement (PPA) with the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) "at an appropriate time".
The Board of Dabhol Power Company, a subsidiary of Houston-based Enron Corp, has decided to warn the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) that it intends to pull the plug on its Guhagar - based project.
Orissa power reforms go from euphoria to despair" read a headline din a national daily recently. Obituaries are already being written, even though Orissa is the first state to embark on path-breaking reforms, and they have just begun.
Hewing more to the idelogical position of U.S. President George W. Bush's administration than to the urgings of Gov. Gray Davis and other California politicians, a divided Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ordered limited price controls for the state's flawed electricity market.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh called an all-party meet here yesterday to discuss the power crisis and drought problem in the state, where he said checking power theft was the top priority of the government.
The Centre on Thursday refused to give 300 MW power supply to the city as demanded by the Delhi government and assured that it would provide only 150 MW power.
The country's power sector reforms tripped in anticipation of yet another crisis as the Enron-promoted Dabhol Power Co (DPC) board authorised the management to issue a termination notice to the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB).
The Enron sponsored Dabhol Power Company, which last night authorised its local management to issue a notice of termination of its Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the Maharashtra State Electricity Board, has decided to keep a stiff upper lip.
World energy consumption is expected to increase 59 percent from 1999 to 2020, according to the "International Energy Outlook 2001."More than half of the world's growth in energy demand is expected to be in developing countries--particularly in developing Asia and Central and South America, according to the report, released this …
Minister for Panchayat raj P Srinivas Reddy on Thursday said that the Andhra Pradesh government had prepared an action plan at a cost of Rs 5,400 crore for supplying drinking water to all villages in the state during the next five years.
The Chhatisgarh government is going to set up two thermal power stations of 500 MW capacity at Korba very soon. It also plans to upgrade its existing two thermal power stations.
Paleontologists have discovered in China a fossil dinosaur with what are reported to be clear traces of feathers from head to tail, the most persuasive evidence so far, scientists say, that feathers predated the origin of birds and that modern birds are descendants of dinosaurs.
The Chhattisgarh Government has decided to discontinue its scheme of free power supply to small farmers and poor domestic consumers. However, the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe farmers will continue to get the concession.
The Ministry of Power is formulating a plan for viable distribution of power as distribution losses are the main cause of the problems faced by the sector, the Union Power Minister, Mr Surest Parch, has said here.
The Godbole committee is likely to get the mandate as the "expert panel" for renegotiating the power purchase agreement (PPA) with Enron, according to sources in Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB).
Windmills may become as common as utility poles over the next 10 years in some areas of the country, as China takes steps to meet its growing demand for power. A report from the China Classification Society said the society is working to establish China's first certification system for wind …
Iraq's refineries, patched up after Gulf War bombing, are finding ways to process their polluting waste despite the constraints of United Nations sanctions, a senior oil official said yesterday. Ali Hamid, General Manager of the 400,000 barrels per day Northern Refineries Enterprise at Baiji, told Reuters the state-run enterprise produces …
