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 …
Delhi is the middle of a power crisis with the shortfall on Tuesday evening reaching 150 Mw. As a result, the Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB) resorted to rotational load-shedding in the Trans-Yamuna area.
The Delhi Government said it would approach the Maharashtra government to secure power from the Dabhol Power Corporation (DPC) to tide over the power situation in Delhi.
Bulgaria's Kozloduy nuclear power plant said yesterday a reactor had been switched off automatically due to a failure of its electricity system. No radioactive material was involved in the incident which affected one of the four oldest 440-megawatt reactors, said a statement from the plant published by state news agency …
Canada should use the upcoming Summit of the Americas in Quebec City to hammer home its opposition to U.S. plans to open up Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling, the World Wildlife Fund said yesterday. The WWF said any development in the 19-million-acre (7.7-million-hectare) refuge would harm the …
The Maharashtra government has decided to accord high priority to hydro-electric projects as they could be more effective than thermal stations in the grid system.
Enron has raised a protective wall around itself to contain the damage flowing from the Madhav Godbole report and to hit back at the MSEB's punitive rebate demand of Rs 402 crore. If the board's action was ridiculous, so is the power plant's counter-attack. (Editorial)
The Neyveli Lignite Corporation has planned to set up power stations in Rajasthan and Gujarat, according to its chairman-cum-managing director, Mr. A.K. Sahay.
A New company, perhaps styled Koodangulam Corporation Ltd, is to be formed to implement the 2,000 MW nuclear power project, Mr V K. Chaturvedi, Chairman and Managing Directior, Nuclear Power Corporation Ltd.
Pakistan's Ministry of Water and Power has informed the World Bank that Wapda and KESC were willing to switch over their furnace oil-powered plants to gas, provided supply of gas is ensured without disruption, it is learnt. A four-member World Bank "gas pipeline mission" that arrived here on Monday held …
A review by Bush administration officials that could lead them to relax a new efficiency standard for central air-conditioners has been dealt a blow by an unlikely source: the nation's second-largest air-conditioner manufacturer. The company, Goodman Manufacturing, which owns Amana and several less prominent brands, has sent a letter to …
The Madhav Godbole Committee, which reviewed the Enron-sponsored Dabhol Power Company project in Maharashtra, has not recommended its scrapping--either in its entirety or the 1,444 mw phase II -- but has suggested many ways to bring down the costs to enable a cheaper tariff for supplies to the Maharashtra Electricity …
The United States is headed for another summer of energy woes, experts agree, from rolling blackouts in California to the threat of electricity price spikes in New York City and higher gasoline prices in the Midwest.
Governor Gray Davis has announced an agreement with Southern California Edison, the state's second-largest utility, intended to restore the company's financial health.
Only three days after California was rocked by the bankruptcy law filing of its biggest utility, its second biggest power company, Southern California Edison Co., announced an agreement with Gov. Gray Davis that the two sides said moved Edision closer to being restored to financial health.
The White House is putting together an energy strategy that emphasizes nuclear power, increased drilling and pipeline construction for natural gas, and opening more land for electricity-generating plants.
When Pacific Gas & Electric Co. filed for bankruptcy protection amid the energy crisis in California, a shudder swept through corporate suites across the United States.
Gov. Gray Davis announced today that he had signed an agreement with Southern California Edison, the state's second-largest utility, that is intended to restore the troubled utility to financial health. For months the governor has been negotiating with the state's three largest utilities to buy their transmission lines, giving them …
The Indian Atomic Energy programme embarks on a technologically challenging journey when the first step toward building the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) will be taken at Kalpakkam on Tuesday.
The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) will commence offshore drilling in the Kerala-Konkan coast later this year after the South-West monsoon recedes. The drilling will be carried out to a depth of 700 metres by its Sagar Vijay which will be anchored at an ocean site from which it …
Five people were charred to death when the CNG cylinder of a Maruti van exploded in the Amba Ghat section of Ratnagiri district, about 80 km from Kolhapur, early on Monday morning.
