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 …
The exploration unit of Royal Dutch/Shell in the Philippines is demanding government guarantees on planned investments of at least US$600m before developing an undersea oil field in its Malampaya gas project.
Two days after the Supreme Court order on conversion of Delhi's public transport vehicles to CNG took effect, it is painfully evident that the denizens of the capital have been denied justice. They are being made to pay a price for what, by no reckoning, is their fault. The apex …
The constituents of the Eastern Regional Electricity Board (EREB) have refused to submit to the conditionality being set by the Union Power Ministry for their getting power from the Tala hydro electric project coming up in Bhutan.
Calpine Corp, is the rare power generator nowadays admired not only by investors but by regulators and environmentalists as well. The San Jose, California independent power producer has become a juggernaut propelled by opportunities created by rising U.S. demand for electricity and its ability to construct plants that burn 30% …
India's government, unable to get big power projects launched is pushing to promote small plants supplying electricity to single customers. And that means foreign companies with small-engine technologies could gain an edge on power giants in one of the world's hungriest electricity markets.
The Union Law Ministry has decided to hedge on the issue of settlement of Dabhol Power Company's outstanding power bills. Sidestepping the key issue of validity of the claims put forth by Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) and Dabhol Power Company (DPC), the Law Ministry has mainly visited the billing …
Establishment of nuclear power plants, insisting for financial closure within six months by IPPs to reduce production cost, metering of agricultural consumption are some of the recommendations made by the House Committee on power tariff.
The present proven reserve of natural gas will be consumed by the year 2017 if further gas is not found through new exploration and discovery in Bangladesh. This was observed in a report of Petrobangla on demand and supply of natural gas for the next 50 years.
The Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Limited (KPTCL) today entered into a power purchase agreement (PPA) with eight developers of non-conventional energy projects at a rate of Rs 3.01 per unit.
Malaysia assured a skeptical palm oil market on Thursday that a plan to use crude palm oil as fuel was realistic and that the country's largest power generator had already started to do so.
Faced with strong opposition in Congress to his plans for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, President George W. Bush said that he was prepared to exploit oil and gas resources elsewhere in the nation on land that was not federally protected.
With the energy, and economic, crisis in the country, Thailand is desperately looking for alternate fuels. Ford Motor recently signed a contract with the state-owned petroleum authority of Thailand to collaborate on a research-project to use bio-ethanol fuels for diesel vehicles.
The Maharashtra Government and the Enron-sponsored Dabhol Power Company have now come round to the view that unless the Centre gets involved and helps find a way to sell the power from the independent producer, a solution cannot be found. But both the entities have so far not been able …
Three US petroleum refiners have agreed to cut emissions by 60,000 tonnes per year, resolving a dispute over alleged violations of waste and toxics laws. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced that, together with the Justice Department, the states of Louisiana and Delaware and the Northwest Air Pollution …
A report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects that world energy demand will grow by nearly 60 percent over the next two decades, with one-half of the growth expected to occur in developing countries.
According to Greenpeace, Turkey's Energy Ministry is promoting the use of expensive mobile and floating fuel-oil fired plants supporting installation of a new plant in the southwestern tourist region of Dalaman.
Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) has awarded a contract to construct a $119-million generator at a gas-fired power plant to France's Alstom and Japan's Marubeni Corp, official media reported.
Malaysia assured a sceptical palm oil market on Thursday that a plan to use crude palm oil as fuel was realistic and that the country's largest power generator had already started to do so. "Yes...since the last few days, but slowly," Primary Industries Minister Lim Keng Yaik told reporters when …
