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 …
Safety and maintenance go hand-in-hand when one talks about Compressed Natural Gas. With Delhi's entire commercial vehicle fleet being converted to the CNG mode, safety concerns need to be addressed on priority.
European Union countries are to push for higher compensation levels to cover oil tanker accidents, diplomats at a transport ministers' meeting said yesterday. The ministers will finalise a negotiating stance when they next meet in June in order to be ready for International Oil Pollution Fund (IOPF) negotiations in October, …
Bowing to the inevitable, Gov. Gray Davis of California tonight dropped his longstanding opposition to higher electricity rates, proposing increases of up to 46 percent for the largest users and warning in a statewide televised speech that only aggressive conservation and increased generating capacity could solve the state's long- term …
The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has pulled up Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB) for high system losses and serious short-comings in tariff rationalisation and billing. Central Electricity Authority (CEA), the power sector regulator has fixed an upper limit of 15.5 per cent for system losses.
The finance ministry has begun consultations with the ministries of law and power over the appointment of an arbitrator on behalf of the Centre. This fellows the arbitration notice served by the Dabhol Power Company (DPC) to the Union government on Wednesday for not honouring the Centre's counter-guarantee invoked by …
A scientist has constructed a flying wind turbine which he hopes to send into the jet stream in fleets to create an airborne power station. Professor Bryan Roberts, from the University of Western Sydney, has spent 20 years planning the concept of flying clusters of his 'gyromill', which looks like …
The state of California has tentatively secured $4.125 billion in bridge financing to help it purchase wholesale electricity in anticipation of plans to float the largest issue of revenue bonds in US history, Treasurer Phil Angelides said.
Britain cleared the way yesterday for a 1.6 billion pound ($2.3 billion) offshore wind power investment, the first large scale British attempt to tap the clean energy source.
As the city reels under a severe power crisis even before a peak summer, the Delhi government is finally making efforts to meet the shortage. The government has stuck a deal with Himachal Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to buy an additional 270 megawatts.
Maharashtra chief minister Vilasrao Deshmukh on Friday expressed optimism that the dispute between his government and international power giant Enron over the pricing of electricity supplied by the Dabhol Power Corporation(DPC) to the state would be resolved.
A federal judge ruling in a price-fixing lawsuit filed against OPEC by an Alabama service station barred the oil cartel from controlling West Asia crude-oil production.
The Bush administration said yesterday that U.S. energy companies, which paid nearly $8 billion to the government for oil and natural gas production on federal lands last year, have been unfairly villainized as polluters.
The Government has launched sale of petrol with low benzene content in the National Capital Region (NCR) of Delhi with effect from April 1. All retail outlets in the region have already begun sale of petrol with maximum one per cent benzene content.
The long-running feud between the US energy major Enron and the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) is finally heading for international arbitration. Enron today issued a notice of arbitration to the Union government.
Oil industry has asked the Pakistan government to increase the prices of compressed natural gas (CNG) with a view to arresting a growing fall in the consumption of petrol, official sources told Dawn.
A federal rule to prevent roads from being built on millions of acres of government land may not curb domestic natural gas exploration, a top U.S. Forest Service official said yesterday. Energy firms have strongly protested the rule issued by the Clinton administration to prohibit road construction on 58.5 million …
The Andhra Pradesh power generation corporation limited (AP Genco) with a track record of excellent performance of its thermal power plants for many years has achieved the highest ever plant load factor (PLF) of 85.1 per cent during 2001-01. It stood first among all the power utilities in the country …
The Pakistan government has opened negotiations with the provincial authorities and representatives of tribal belt to start oil and gas exploration activities in the restricted areas of Balochistan, sources have said. The government is keen on opening up the restricted areas for exploration as it feels that Balochistan has great …
Intrusion of saline water into the groundwater table coupled with water scarcity has hit residents in and around Adikesava Perumal temple in Mylapore in Tamil Nadu.
World-wide energy consumption is projected to grow by 59 percent over the next two decades, according to "International Energy Outlook 2001" (IEO2001), released on March 28, 2001 by the Energy Information Administration (EIA), USA. One-half of the projected growth is expected to occur in the developing nations of Asia (including …
