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 …
Germany's law on subsidising powre derived from renewable energies (EEG) is in line with European Union law, the European Court of Justice said. The landmark ruling secures renewable energy producers generous prices set by the state, but payable by utilities and their customers.
U.S. Senator Pete Domenici has introduced a bill promoting nuclear power as the best solution for a host of problems, ranging from energy shortages to global warming. But environmental groups and nuclear watchdog groups say that nuclear energy is still a risky proposition-far more so than renewable alternatives such as …
British Energy is drawing up firm plans to build a nuclear power plant at Hunterston in Ayrshire. The proposal prompted huge controversy, with environmentalists describing it as "expensive madness" which would generate public outrage.
Renewable energy, especially solar, is expected to grow dramatically in the next few years. The growth will be stimulated by better economic fundamentals, improved technology, scale effects, and higher comparative costs of fossil fuels, according to a report issued by Greg Haas, analyst with Raymond James & Associates.
Shell International Gas Ltd. signed a memorandum of understanding to invest more than $ 3 billion in a project to bring natural gas to India's most populous state, Uttar Pradesh.
A dispute between Enron Corp.'s flagship electricity project and the Indian industrial state of Maharashtra is growing increasingly bitter, casting a shadow over other power projects in a nation thirsting for juice.
A senior U.S. lawmaker Rep. Henry Hyde is urging the Bush administration not to permit the construction of power generating reactors in North Korea until it submits to inspection of its nuclear facilities.
The Los Angeles City Council approved on March 2nd the purchase of electricity produced from renewable energy to supply 10 per cent of the city government needs. The purchase, amounting to 50 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, is one of the largest U.S. purchases of so-called green power.
The Power ministry has asked the promoters of the Hirma power project in Orissa and the coal ministry to resolve all the outstanding issues related to the fuel supply agreement by the end of this month.
China plans to build several new nuclear power stations in coastal provinces over the next five years, the China Daily reported yesterday. The southern province of Guangdong had proposed adding two new generating units with a combined installed capacity of 2,000 megawatts to the Daya Bay nuclear plant and building …
The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO), the operator of the state's bulk power grid, said yesterday it was sponsoring a conference on incentives to reduce electric demand for the summer of 2001. Reducing electricity demand in New York State is especially important for this summer when power supplies are …
Germany's law on subsidising power derived from renewable energies (EEG) is in line with European Union law, the European Court of Justice said yesterday. The landmark ruling secures renewable energy producers generous prices set by the state, but payable by utilities and their customers.
British supermarket group J Sainsbury Plc will start using wind power at one of its Scottish distribution depots on March 30, in a move that could be duplicated at some of the store's other sites. "Renewable energy will play a growing part in Sainsbury's energy programme in the future" said …
One of the biggest international wind farm developers has just opened its first British project-a full seven years after establishing its world headquarters in the UK. The project is being seen as a symbol of alternative energy sources in the UK.
The energy source once known as "King's Coal" in the US has had more busts than booms since it was dethroned by environmental concerns. But the coal industry is hoping the latest US energy crisis will spur a long-awaited resurgence.
Sharply rising electricity and natural-gas prices in Washington state could cut disposable household income by as much as $1.7 billion a year, cost 43,000 jobs over the next three years and help push Washington's slowing economy into recession, state officials warn.
It's not easy being green. Or so BP Amoco PLC is discovering. Over the past few years, BP Amoco has broken with most of the oil industry and positioned itself as a leader on environmental issues. The company talked of efforts to build solar-power equipment, reduce its own carbon-dioxide emissions …
When European Union leaders met at the Lisbon summit a year ago and collectively rediscovered the Union's liberalising streak, they singled out the energy sector for special attention. Economically, energy is one of Europe's biggest sectors, with annual electricity production worth $140bn.
The Nagpur Bench of Bombay High Court has admitted five public interest litigations against the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) and its functioning including the power purchase agreement with Enron and its subsidiary Dabhol Power Corporation (DPC), load shedding, waiving of huge power arrears and related matters.
