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 …
State officials said yesterday that mini-power plants they planned to build around New York City this year might not be as temporary as had been characterized, that they might be sold to private owners and that there was a chance more were on the way next year.
The spill caused when the world's biggest oil rig sank off Brazil's coast has been contained and environmental damage "is relatively small," the offshore platform's owners said on Wednesday. The 40-story rig, owned by Brazil's state oil giant Petrobras, was damaged by a series of blasts last Thursday that killed …
There were differences among state governments on four issues regarding the national watery policy, Parliament has been informed. According to Water Resources Minister Arjun Sethi, these issues were: formulation of guidelines for water allocation of inter-state water disputes Act, establishing appropriate river basin organisation with statutory powers and legislation for …
The United Nations Foundation has announced that it is to invest over $4 million in a successful renewable energy initiative in Africa and in the commencement of a similar project in Brazil.
A public consultation on the future of British Nuclear Fuels' controversial Mox plant is to be announced by ministers in the next few weeks in a move which spells further uncertainty for the troubled state-owned company.
The development partners expressed satisfaction at the overall progress in the energy sector and urged the Bangladesh government to speed up the implementation of its commitments, including passage of appropriate electricity and gas reform bills.
Vice President Dick Cheney has revealed that his energy policy team is considering possible additional future nuclear power in the US and has rubbished the Kyoto Protocol, two weeks after the government announced it would implement the legislation.
Blackouts rippled across California for the second consecutive day yesterday as officials unplugged almost half a million homes and business in an effort to cope with a severe electricity shortage.
National Bank for Agriculture & Rural Development (Nabard) has sanctioned Rs 135 crore from the Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) to West Bengal Rural Energy Development Corporation (WBREDC) for the State's electrification programme, Dr Sujan Chakraborty, CMD of WEREDC, said that West Bengal happened to be the first State to …
The Kalpakkam-based Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) achieved a major milestone when the fast-breeder test reactor (FBTR) was synchronised with the Tamil Nadu grid and was in continuous operation at full power capacity for 53 days from October 28 to December 21, 2000.
The Philippines Government said on Wednesday it was droping earlier plans to divert 10,000 tonnes of coconut oil each month this year for use in local power generating plants."That's unsustainable," the Agriculture Secretary, Mr leonardo Montemayor, told a news conference, adding the programme would entail a Government subsidy of one …
The Kalpakkam-based Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) achieved a major milestone when the fast-breeder test reactor (FBTR) was synchronised with the Tamil Nadu grid and was in continuous operation at full power capacity for 53 days from October 28 to December 21, 2000. It was actually synchronised with …
The work in the Indira Sagar Hydel power project, which is the life line of Madhya Pradesh is getting affected due to the slow rehabilitation of the villages that are coming in the submergence area. At least 27 villages need to be rehabilitated urgently but the work in this direction …
But instead of confronting rolling blackouts like those imposed elsewhere in California, the Imperial county is facing financial troubles arising from the energy crisis. The CalEnergy Operating Corporation, a renewable energy provider with geothermal plants in the county and its largest taxpayer, said it would not be able to make …
The big power demand-supply gap in UP, created by the neglect of the sector for many years, has turned into a bliss with the world gas majors vying to set up gas-based power facilities.The state government has signed three memorandums of understading with global gas majors Shell International, the West …
The Orissa government has allayed fears of uncertainty over setting up of the refinery by Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) at Paradeep and asserted that the ongoing tussle with the company over grant of sales tax concession to the Rs 8,312 crore project will be sorted out in next couple of …
Two hydroelectric power projects will be set up in north Bengal with a capacity of 232 mw. The West Bengal government has assigned the work of Teesta low dam projects stage III (100 mw) and Teesta low dam HE project stage IV (132 mw) to National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC).
A crippled Brazilian oil platform sank into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Rio de Janeiro and started spilling oil on Tuesday, five days after explosions on the giant rig killed 10 workers and damaged the finances and image of Brazil's state oil company. Despite efforts to save the …
