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 …
France pledged yesterday to donate 1.5 million euros ($1.33 million) for the closure of the first unit of Lithuania's Ignalina nuclear plant, the Lithuanian government said yesterday. The government's press office said in a statement the French offering to the Ignalina decommissioning support fund brings the pledge total from Western …
Despite having "the best tidal resources in Europe", the need for approval from up to 14 agencies is still causing wave power projects to move abroad. The revelation has been made by John Hassard, CEO of innovative energy company RVco, whose first commercial power station will be built in Iceland …
The Bush Administration has approved standards requiring new clothes washers and water heaters to use less energy but decided to roll back an energy efficiency standard for central air conditioners.
Conoco has said that there is no risk to the environment after a major explosion at a Humberside refinery. When edie was published, news on the cause and effects of the explosion on 16 April at US petrol giant, Conoco's, Humber refinery at South Killingholme, was not fully available, and …
Water levels in the major reservoirs have receded to critically low levels, adversely affecting the hydro-power generation in the country. Sources said that the situation may lead to severe drought in some parts of the country besides a shortage of power in the next 4-5 months.
It implies the need for providing electricity, running potable water and increased food production for eradicating poverty. For achieving these objectives do we need to construct dams. Of late, there have been an intensive move globally, including in India, against constructing dams.
The inquiry report regarding the skeletons found on the dry river bed of the Sutlej near Ferozepur has supported the district administrations' assertion that these bones are the remains of those consigned to the river bed in accordance with religious rights. The report has suggested DNA testing and recommended that …
Union Minister for Water Resources Arjuncharan Sethi informed the House that in several districts of Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Maharashtra the level of salt, fluoride, nitrate is high in groundwater.
Energy prices in New York could be much higher in coming years than previously forecast unless the state moves swiftly to find sites for new power plants, according to study commissioned by the state's power grid operator.
UK-based PowerGen is planning to buy out the Gujarat government's 12 per cent stake in Gujarat PowerGen Energy Corporation (GPEC). The two sides are presently negotiating but no final decision has been made as yet. The Gujarat government holds the stake through Gujarat Power Corporation (GPCL).
Power plants are sprouting in the flat, rich cotton fields of Nutbush, Tennessee. While this may seem promising at a time of growing energy shortages, the new plants are part of a power clash that presents the Bush Administration and federal and state regulators with one of their knottiest problems …
The union petroleum ministry has today issued new marketing discipline guidelines to check adulteration and malpractices in the sale of petroleum products.
With Kathmandu's sources of drinking water fast drying up, Nepal Water Supply Corporation (NWSC), the state owned monopoly responsible for supplying water, is currently distributing water to the city dwellers on alternate days.
For six months, California's two largest utilities were roped together, sliding steadily toward bankruptcy with billions of dollars in electricity costs they could not recover from consumers.
Fire brigades are fighting flames at the gas field of Uch, believed to have gas reserves of more than 3,100 trillion cubic feet (TCF) near Sibi, Balochistan (Pakistan). According to reports here the fire broke out in two, 7 and 8 gas wells on Sunday night. Wind storm at the …
The bursting of certain CNG vehicles into flames while refuelling has put a fresh question mark on the safety of this little-tested fuel. Expects predict that buses retrofitted with CNG kits will give a lot of trouble as the summer comes up. (Editorial)
Washington state, faced with a severe drought, dwindling reservoirs and a looming electricity shortage, is calling on its cows for help. Clean-burning, environmentally friendly dung deposited by the state's 246,000 cows could be just the "green" fuel needed to fill the growing hydro-electric gap, state officials said.
The Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) has put on hold all its investment plans with Enron India Limited. Under the MoU signed between the two companies, about six months back, IOC had agreed to collaborate with Enron in a host of important areas including LNG, liquid fuels, international trading of petroleum …
They may be down but they're certainly not out of the reckoning. Following thwarting of their plans of gaining a major foothold in the power sector of Gujarat by the Hong Kong-based multinational China Light & Power, which piped them to the post in acquiring Powergen's 650 mw Pagathuan plant, …
