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 …
With the stand-off between the government-both in Maharashtra and at the Centre-and Enron Corp's Dabhol Power Company (DPC) getting worse with each day, DPC invoked the don't blame us clause in its agreement. By invoking the Political Force Majeure Clause, DPC has essentially said that political events beyond its control …
Asserting that the Delhi Government was not "hoodwinking the people"' the Chief Minister, Ms. Sheila Dikshit, today said it was the duty of her government to air the grievance of the people in the transition from diesel to CNG mode.
Even as West Bengal began commercial generation of wind power, corporates have begun making enquiries about the project, as also possibilities of setting up similar projects elsewhere.
The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) is expected to unveil a new wind energy policy in the next few months. It is also not likely to entertain proposals for any new units from April 1, till the policy is in place, according to sources.
On March 15 a series of explosions racked the world's largest oil rig, 120 kilometres off the coast. On March 20, P36 sank, dragging with it the bodies of nine oil workers. In the end two more workers succumbed to injuries, raising the death toll to 11. Five days later …
Much noise is being made about convertng diesel-run public transport vehicles into the CNG-mode. Curiously, the light commercial vehicles used for transporting cylinders of this green fuel is run by the same old "polluting" diesel in Delhi.
In southern Punjab, the residents of twenty-five villages are up in arms against the government's proposal to build a nuclear power station on their farmland. The villagers say, they are concerned about unforeseen environmental and health hazards that are likely to follow the construction and operation of a nuclear power …
The Punjab government's resolve to go ahead with the nuclear power plant proposed to come up in Patiala district of Punjab. The farming community of the predominantly rural area falling in the exclusion and the sterilized zones of the project have a mutually dependent relationship with the commission agents.
After months of fighting "tooth and nail" against raising electric rates, Gov. Gray Davis said a rate increase is necessary "to keep our lights on and our economy strong."
Until recently, in-house power generation in Japan was limited to large office buildings and major manufacturing facilities, such as steel and chemical plants. However, the past few years have seen a sharp increase in the use of such generators among smaller businesses, such as supermarkets and convenience stores.
Pacific Gas & Electric turned to the courts for relief from California's deregulation debacle, becoming the biggest public utility in US history to file for bankruptcy.
The country's efforts towards power sector reforms received a serious setback on Saturday when the Orissa government, the first state to privatise power distribution, and since then experiencing tremendous pressure to reverse it, agreed to set up a high-power expert committee to review the pros and cons of the reforms …
The Dabhol Power Company (DPC), has taken a tough posture and given a 60 days deadline to the Centre for replying to a notice of conciliation and notice of arbitration over the non-payment of December bill of Rs 102 crore. The deadline period had commenced from April 4 when these …
As a follow-up to the explosion of a CNG cylinder in North-East Delhi on Friday, Indraprastha Gas Limited today deputed monitoring teams at all CNG filling stations in the Capital to detect presence of spurious cylinders in vehicles.
Mathura Refinery has commissioned a Rs.1040 crore hydrocracker unit to help reduce the sulphur-di-oxide content in its effluents with a view to control air pollution.
Resentment bordering on rebellion is building up against the Punjab government in some villages of Patiala district over a proposed nuclear power plant to be set up in the area.
A serious power crisis is in the offing following the increase in demand for agriculture in the ongoing Rabi season coupled with a fall in APGenco generation in Andhra Pradesh.
Serious lapses in the construction of Kurumurthy lift irrigation project in Mahbubnagar in Hyderabad have been brought to light recently. The ayacutdars of the projects took up the issue with Major Irrigation Minister Mandava Venkateswara Rao and Minor Irrigation Minister K E Prabhakar when they visited the construction site on …
Varied opinion on the use of CNG has confused the people at large. However, the immediate job at hand for the Delhi government is to strike a balance between pollution control, commercial viability and availability of a particular fuel.
The US energy "crisis" is likely to abate somewhat this year as slower economic growth reduces demand for fuel and quota "cheating" from Opec countries fails to slash supply, according to a US report.
