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 …
A Swedish company will invest $40 million in Pakistan for producing electricity from the wind along the seacoast in Balochistan and Sindh. According to Pakistan Television, two pilot wind turbine units of 20-mw each will be set up at Pasni, Hawkesbay and Keti Bander.
British motor fuels remain the dearest in Europe, and probably the world, despite cuts in excise duties announced in the annual British budget on Wednesday. "British petrol and diesel prices are still comfortably the highest in Europe, diesel by a mile," said Peter Regnier of London's Oil Price Assessments Limited …
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown on Wednesday offered tax relief to companies investing in green energy technologies in a move warmly welcomed by environmental groups. Brown told parliament that companies that invest in energy saving technologies and in innovative clean energy will be able to claim tax relief …
Alaska Governor Tony Knowles said on Wednesday he would push for his state to get a larger share of the royalty revenue from any oil found in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). Knowles' position puts him at odds with Alaska Senator Frank Murkowksi, who has introduced legislation opening up …
Japan's Economy, Trade and Industry Minister Takeo Hiranuma announced Wednesday plans to draft a new law requiring power companies to purchase electricity generated from new energy sources, including solar and wind power.
The stage has been set for opening up the nuclear power sector for private participation with the Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) mandating the Power Finance Corporation (PFC) to suggest changes in the Atomic Energy Act of 1962 and find a joint venture partner for the Rs 3,800-crore Kaiga atomic power …
Enron has invoked the Central Government counter-guarantee for the second time. This time, the guarantee has been invoked to recover Rs 102 crore due to Dabhol Power Company (DPC) against the December bill for power lifted by the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB). Enron had first invoked the counter-guarantee on …
The Government of Madya Pradesh has amended the Captive Power Plant Policy of Madhya Pradesh Electricity Board (MPEB). According to the amended policy the right to set up a Captive Power Plant is only to those MPEB customers who have cleared all their dues to the Board.
British Energy has said that it wants a debate on the inclusion of nuclear power as a major source of UK fuel, as it is the "only realistic alternative to fossil fuels", and that there is "no reason" for the life of existing plants not to be extended further. A …
U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat, has asked the Energy Department to fight against proposed cuts in the agency's fiscal 2002 budget for efficiency and renewable fuels programs, saying conservation efforts would aid the nation and her state in ensuring power supplies.
French national electricity company, Electricite de France , plans to reduce nuclear production costs by 13 percent by the end of 2002, a spokesman said yesterday. "We had a cost reduction objective of 20 percent from 1998 to 2002, we've cut cost by seven percent already. We need to go …
German energy giant RWE said this week it was confident the government would eventually drop plans to use quotas to boost the use of energy-efficient combined heat and power plants. At a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Green party Environment Minister Juergen Trittin is expected to push for a quota system …
Since 1959, a single pipeline that runs overland from South Texas has supplied every last bit of the natural gas that Florida consumes. But in the American stampede for gas, that pipeline is no longer enough. Florida's appetite for natural gas is expected to double in the next eight years, …
Slowly rising from the Northern Territory of Australia, a massive NASA balloon will again try to begin a journey that will take it around the world on the fringes of space. NASA has given the go ahead for the second test flight of the Ultra Long Duration Balloon.
Wind powered energy potential is very high in the mountainous northern parts of Nepal which are unlikely to be connected with the National Power Grid in foreseeable future, energy experts said in Kathmandu, calling on the government to harness the vast green energy potential.
Renewable energy certificates will start physical trading in Britain from April as part of an experimental scheme involving six countries that began this year, the scheme's organisers said yesterday. Peter Niermeijer, secretary-general of the Renewable Energy Certificates System (RECS) told the Eurelectric Renewables Energy conference that the 18-month experiment, which …
Tripura Government expects to sell 26 million units of power to Mizoram, said Power Minister Badal Choudhury who also holds the Finance portfolio in his Budget speech yesterday at the State Assembly.
Britain's decision to spend 100 million pounds ($146.7 million) developing renewable energy should trigger enough private investment for the UK to meet its green electricity targets, environmentalists said yesterday. The money will help Britain catch up with the rest of Europe where green energy plays a bigger role, they said.
