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 …
India and Norway are to sign a billion-dollar hydel power project later this week when Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg arrives here on an official visit. This will be one of the largest joint venture power projects to be announced in recent years.The project will be located in Savalkot in …
The game of notices and counter-notices continues. The Enron-promoted Dabhol Power Company (DPC) has fired a fresh salvo at the Maharashtra government by slapping another arbitration notice. This time it is for not honouring the state government guarantee for the January 2001 and December 2000 bills.
Malaysia on Monday officially launched the burning of crude palm oil (CPO) as an energy source in a move to support prices and ease stocks. "This project has been formulated as a safety net for the Malaysian palm oil industry during low prices so that farmers and others involved in …
German authorities said last week they had approved the shipment of six cargoes of nuclear waste from a power plant in the western state of Hesse to a reprocessing plant at Sellafield in northwest England.
As many as 17 key coal projects, including the World Bank-funded Central Coal-fields Ltd's project at Parej are facing cost overruns of Rs 10.325 crore against the original Rs 9.170 crore.
Prime Minister Shiekh Hasina inaugurated 360 MW, Haripur Power Plant at Narayanganj with the optimism that the Bangladesh government's pragmatic policy for the Energy Sector would help ensure power for all by the year 2020.
U.S. oil firm Conoco sought on Tuesday to calm market jitters about supplies after an explosion ripped through its biggest European refinery, injuring two people and all but closing the plant down. News of the blast at the refinery in northern England helped boost NYMEX crude oil futures early in …
Keen to tackle the constant problem of power scarcity, the government of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh have agreed in principle to float a joint venture power generation company to tap the hydro potential of Himachal Pradesh, according to a senior official.
With the expiry of the deadline for issue of special permits yesterday, the Delhi government has issued permits to over 26,000 non-CNG public transport vehicles which will be liable to ply on the Capital's roads till September 30, following which only CNG vehicles will be allowed to operate.
The Chairman of the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB), Mr. G.S. Sohal, has said that fears regarding radioactivity affecting the people in its vicinity if the nuclear power plant was set up in the State, were entirely baseless, as the latest and modern six tier safety technology was proposed to …
The Delhi government ran out of time today to issue special permits to transport operators who had booked either new CNG vehicles or booked for converting existing vehicles. The shortfall is expected to be around 900 for buses. For autorickshaws (TSR), the shortfall was not exactly known as permits were …
The aborting of the maiden launch of the Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicles (GSLV) has come as a providential wake up call to the Indian Space Research Organisation. With no damage to the rocket hardware or the launch facilities, the GSLV launch has been rescheduled for April 18.
The cycle of claims and counter-claims between the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) and the Dabhol Power Company (DPC) has reached a point where the only way the imbroglio can be resolved is by renegotiations.The process of both parties slapping claims on the each other helps neither even as it …
The Maharashtra government has decided not to give escrow cover or guarantee to any independent power project that wants to come to the state. The decision is bound to have an adverse effect on the Ispat group's 1,082 mw Bhadravati project and Reliance's 447 mw Patalganga project.
The Gujarat State Energy Generation Ltd (GSEG), the 156 MW combined cycle power project promoted by Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation Ltd (GSPC), has gone in for the necessary approvals to enhance its capacity by another 200 MW by 2004.
A petition seeking that the parameters such as tariff and techno-economic clearance of the Dabhol power project be declared illegal has been filed in the Mumbai High Court.
NTPC's 100 MW Simhadri power projeect at Visakhapatnam is on the right track, in spite of the delay in release of the second tranche of loan by the Japanese Bank of International Commerce (JBIC) by over a year.
The Government is planning to hold informal talks with the Dabhol Power Company (DPC) to de-escalate the crisis arising over the non-payment of the outstanding dues of Rs 102 crore for November 2000, owed by the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) to the company.
The Godbole Committee report has suggested detailed 'alternative uses" for Enron's LNG facility. One such recommendation being, marketing the re-gasification facility to other gas marketers and importers such as Petronet LNG Ltd and trading of LNG on the spot market.
In a major shift from its earlier approach of 'hands-off' on Esnron issue, the Centre has asked for a copy of the Godbole committee report from the Maharashtra Government to take appropriate steps to resolve the impasse between Enron and Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB).
