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 …
India and Russia are scheduled to sign the agreement for the Sakhalin oil deal in Moscow on February 10. The deal was originally scheduled for signing today, but was postponed as some formalities were not completed.
Ten more gas wells in Krishna-Godavari (K-G) project of Oil and natural gas corporation (ONGC), in Andhra Pradesh will be put into production by May 2001, to yield about 10 lakh cubic meters of additional gas per day.
Spencer Abraham, the US energy secretary, rejected a plea from several Western governors today for the federal government to impose temporary price caps on wholesale electricity, after listening to their concerns that"exorbitant" and "out-of- control" electricity costs were spreading economic havoc across the region.
Less than a year since he was elected, Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian and his government this week were given another lesson in where power lies in this fractious democracy.Yesterday the government and opposition agreed to resolve a four-month dispute over the building of the island's fourth nuclear power plant by …
The Enron-sponsored Dabhol Power Company (DPC) has deferred invoking of the Central Government's counter guarantee for the Phase-I power project, seeking to elicit opinion of its shareholders and international lenders.
Mukhi: Blaming the Delhi government for the expected chaos on the city's roads in the event of non-availability of CNG-operated buses after March 31 this year, Leader of the Opposition Prof Jagdish Mukhi has said that he had forewarned the transport minister on the issue.
The Maharashtra State Electricity Board made it clear to the government that it would not be able to buy power from Phase II of Enron's Dabhol project in view of low demand for consumption, high cost of the power and poor financial conditions of the board.
California faces a serious risk of an electricity crisis this summer with bigger, more frequent blackouts because a severe drought in the Pacific Northwest is draining hydroelectric power resources, energy analysts and company officials have told a Senate committee.
The New York Public Service Commission (PSC) has decided to provide $47.5 million in funding over five years for development of large-scale wind farms and encourage the use of small wind turbines on farms and rural homesteads, resulting in the expected construction of over 200 megawatts of wind turbine generating …
The European Parliament voted on 1 February to approve a Commission proposal for the introduction of a labelling scheme promoting energy efficiency in office and communications technology equipment.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has "temporarily" relaxed a series of federal clean air regulations in a bid to ease the lingering electricity shortage plaguing California.
Plans for two new US wind plants, generating enough power to serve more than half a million people, have been announced.The two plants, one to be installed on the Oregon-Washington boundary and the other intended for the US Department of Energy's (DOE) Nevada Test Site, will have a total capacity …
Iran's top environmental official has warned that severe pollution is threatening the Persian Gulf and calls for an international patrol force."The Persian Gulf is facing severe ecological pollution as a result of oil extraction as well as other economic activities," Iranian Vice-President and Head of the Department of the Environment, …
Environmental groups in Pakistan have begun court proceedings against Shell and PremierOil over plans to explore for oil and gas in a legally protected national park.Pakistani environmental groups have filed a petition against Anglo-Dutch Shell and UK-based PremierOil in Karachi over its plans to drill for oil in the country's …
US president George W Bush believes that California's energy crisis has given him the hot hand for rolling back environmental standards and pressing his short sighted campaign to open the 1.5 million acre coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration. (editorial)
Taiwan's political stalemate hardened as the country's legislature voted to reverse a decision by President Chen Shuibian to scrap a partialy built nuclear power plant.
The long powercuts in Gurgaon may soon be cut short. The Haryana government is chalking out a plan to strengthen the transmission and distribution system in Gurgaon district. The plan would cost Rs 60 crore.
The task force formed on July 20 to submit a report along with a plan of action suggesting as to what kinds of measures the Nepal government should take to regulate electricity tariff without causing burden to the general public presented its report to Prime Minister and Minister for Water …
The German environment movement fought pitched battles with police to halt transport of nuclear waste. But now Green Party ministers are coming to the industry's rescue.
