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 memorandum of understanding (MoU) for a Rs 15,000 crore gas pipeline project in Uttar Pradesh was signed here yesterday in the presence of Cheif Minister Rajnath Singh. The project, to be completed in four years, will provide natural gas for fertiliser and power plants in the state and adjoining …
The Sahara Group has appointed, global engineering major, Bechtel Corporation of the US and Australia-based Burchill Partners Pty Ltd as the project management consultants for the Rs 8,000 crore Sahara Ambi Valley Project, coming up in Maharashtra.
Toxic Links (TL), a network of environmental groups working on the issue of toxic pollution said that the waste-to-energy plant being set up at Perungudi near Chennai was both expensive and clearly not suited for the city's waste. According to a TL statement the project has gone in for a …
The Dabhol Power Company has asked the Maharashtra State Electricity Board and the state government to make the total payment of Rs 229 crore towards December and January power bills without further delays.
California's struggling utilities must be envious of their counterparts in New England. Several times during the past few years, New England utilities have stood on the brink of blackouts like those that have lately plagued California. Each time, however, New England was saved because it had already adopted aggressive energy-conservation …
Three leading members of the House of Representatives have urged President George W. Bush not to commit himself to a 1994 agreement that pledged U.S. support for the construction of nuclear power plants in North Korea.
The Japan government's plutonium thermal program-in which a mixture of plutonium extracted from spent fuel and uranium is used to fuel light-water reactors-is certain to be delayed now that Fukushima Prefecture Gov. Eisaku Sato said he will now allow Tokyo Electric Power Co. to use the mixed-oxide (MOX) fuel at …
The State Government is opposed to setting up of the controversial Ganga management board for canalizing the irrigation policy for Uttar Pradesh and the newly formed State, the State Minister for Power, Mr Bhagat Singh Koshiyari said.
Siemens Solar GmbH and Shell Renewables announced recently that they have reached an agreement to form a joint venture in their solar energy businesses.
Cielo Wind Power LLC, the largest wind power developer in Texas, said during the week that this summer it will begin building an 80-megawatt (MW) wind plant near White Deer, Texas, about 40 miles east of Amarillo.
A majority of Americans oppose a Republican-backed plan to allow oil and gas drilling in the pristine Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), according to a survey issued on Wednesday by a green group. The poll showed that 52 percent of those surveyed oppose changing the law to permit drilling in …
Russia's Ministry of Atomic Energy is lobbying parliament to approve legislation which would allow it to earn u p to $20bn over 10 years from imports of spent nuclear fuel.
A grant contract was signed between the Embassy of Japan and the Environment and Power Concern Group of Darchula for the rural electrification project in Darchula. According to the agreement reached between the Japanese Govt and EPCGD, a grant assistance amounting to three million and thirty nine thousand rupees will …
As expected President George W Bush has announced that drilling in Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a major part of his energy policy in his proposed budget for 2002, but the plan is already facing Congressional challenges.
Friends of the Earth has condemned what it calls the failed G8 policy on nuclear power plants in Central and Eastern Europe. Designed to coincide with this year's G8 summit in Trieste, Italy, beginning on 2 March, Friends of the Earth (FoE) has called on the organisation of the world's …
The European Commission's green paper on the security of energy supply needs to pay more attention to the benefits of Combined Heat and Power (CHP) if it is to successfully achieve its aim of increased efficiency within its long term energy strategy, in order to cater for climate change and …
Royal Dutch/Shell and Siemens Solar GmbH said yesterday they had reached an agreement to launch a joint venture in solar energy. The joint venture will be 34 percent owned by Siemens AG, 33 percent by Shell and 33 percent by utility E.ON Energie AG .
For alleged atrocities committed by Shell Petroleum Development Company, the Ijaw Aborigines of Bayelsa State have demanded $1,500,000,000 (one billion, five hundred million US dollars) as compensation to ameliorate their suffering spanning over 40 years.
