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 Dabhol Power Company (DPC), which has come under severe attack for its mindboggling tariff, on Thursday offered to amend the power purchase agreement with the loss-making Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB), keep the Dabhol phase-II idle for six months or a year, relax the take-or-pay condition, cut the internal …
Implementation of new marketing plan, customer satisfaction and environmental safety will be the new parameters of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed here between Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd (IPCL) and the department of chemicals and petrochemicals for 2001-02.
Maharashtra's multi-party coalition Government has asked the Centre to "go beyong politics" and take the burden off its shoulder by taking the responsibility of buying and selling power from the controversial Enron-sponsored Dabhol Power Company" and find a solution".
The Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) has decided to provide some respite to the induction furnaces and mini steel plants in the state by shifting the burden of power shortage to all the industries and not only steel industry.
Despite scepticism about the viability of converting palm oil into fuel oil, Tenaga Nasional Bhd, Malaysia's national utility, has begun burning crude palm oil (CPO), traders said.
Japan has agreed to extend Official Development Assistance (ODA) amounting to Yen 18.93 billion (about Rs 720 crore) for Simhadri Thermal Power Station Phase-II and Delhi Mass Rapid Transport System Project Phase-II.
New Delhi's measures to clean up its polluted atmosphere came under attack yesterday as a one-day strike by taxi drivers disrupted the city.More than half the drivers of the city's 15,000 taxis and 50,000 three-wheeled "auto-rickshaws" stayed off the streets in protest at government plans to force them to convert …
With no power stations under construction, or even on the drawing board, and with demand outstripping supply, Indonesia is running out of power and the private money to help halt the slide.
The European Commission said yesterday it had approved a planned solar energy joint venture between Germany engineering group Siemens AG , German power company E.ON Energie AG and oil major Royal Dutch/Shell .
German green energy company Umweltkontor Renewable Energy yesterday posted 2000 net profit of 3.8 million euros ($3.39 million) from 0.25 million in 1999 as sales rose five-fold to 90.8 million euros. Umweltkontor, which manages wind power fields and is also active in biomass and solar energy, said earnings before interest …
Origin Energy Ltd said yesterday it would use a A$16 million Australian government grant, made under a Programme to reduce greenhouse gase emissions, to develop a portfolio of small-scale co-generation power plants.
Lebanon began pumping water on Wednesday from the Hasbani River, a natural border it shares with Israel, despite its neighbour's opposition to the project. Israeli soldiers watched as Lebanese officials opened a pumping station on the river, which starts in south Lebanon and flows south towards Israel, where it feeds …
Plans by Britain to exempt greener energies from a new ecological tax do not breach EU rules on state aid, the European Commission said yesterday. Britain's so-called climate change levy which comes into force in April is a tax on the industrial consumption of energy. The policy is aimed at …
An energy-parched United States would like to drop a large straw into the deep fuel reserves in Northern Canada, President George W. Bush said Thursday. The lights are going out across California in rolling blackouts. The faltering American economy desperately needs to find new sources of fuel, Bush told reporters …
The Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources has proposed to the Centre that the Energy Act should be amended to provide for 10 per cent of energy to be produced by the Government and private sector through non-conventional sources, Mr. M. Kannappan, Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy …
When oil companies announced the discovery of a new reserve in the south of war torn Sudan, Wall Street analysts took notice. So did the villagers who lived nearby. Forces of the Sudanese government, whose oil company is a partner in the consortium, had attacked their village and razed their …
The Rajasthan Governor, Justice Mr. Anshuman Singh, today said the positive outcome of power sector reforms launched in the State would be visible in a couple of years and hoped that the proposed expenditure of Rs.2,000 crores under various World Bank and Central and State Government schemes would considerably improve …
The Madhya Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister, Mrs. Jamuna Devi, announced today that a huge rally will be organised to give a "befitting reply'" to the activists of Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) who are opposing the Maan Project in the State.
Enron, the US-based multinational energy and communications major and the promoter of the naphtha-based Dabhol power project, is making a foray into wind power in India.
