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 legislators approved a $10 billion rescue plan Wednesday, in an attempt to save utility companies pushed to the brink of bankruptcy by California's deregulation law.Some of the same politicians who supported deregulating the energy industry in California five years ago voted to put the state in the business of …
California has already burned through its $400 million energy emergency fund, officials announced on Monday - forcing Gov. Gray Davis to order more public money made available to keep electricity flowing to the nation's most populous state.
President George W. Bush named Dick Cheney, his vice-president, to head a taskforce on national energy policy but continued to insist there was a limited federal role in the continuing power shortage in California.
Concern about climate change has given fresh impetus to the alternative power industry. The European Union wants a fifth of its power to come from 'renewable' sources by 2010.
The residents of the areas across the Koshi river in the district of Kavre (Nepal) have been able to get their homes lighted without electricity connections - thanks to the affordability of the solar power. The solar power is increasingly getting popular in Kavre at the initiative of Rural Energy …
The Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) has agreed to make public details of the power purchase agreements with Dabhol power project (Phase I and II), the Reliance Project at Patalganga and the Bhadravati project of the Ispat group.
Finland's electricity consumption rose by almost 2.0 percent to 79.1 terawatt hours in 2000 compared to the previous year despite mild weather, the Finnish Energy Industries Federation Finergy said on Tuesday.
The Tata Electric Company is moving into the area of bagasse-based cogeneration power plants in the sugar cooperative sector of Maharashtra in a major way.
Officials in the new US administration of President George W. Bush will meet to discuss developing a national energy policy to prevent power crises such as that in California.
If politicians set the price of a commodity below the cost of bringing in new supplies, shortages are sure to persist. California's public utilities commission has been holding the average retail price of electricity to about half the wholesale price. The predictable result is rolling power cuts and near bankruptcy …
PacifiCorp and FPL Energy said they had entered an agreement to develop and market power from the world's largest single wind energy development. FPL Energy will build, own and operate the new wind farm along the Washington-Oregon border.
Officials of the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and its principal arm the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) heaved a sigh of relief as their inbuilt safety measures the Kakrapar atomic power plant withstood Friday's devastating quake in Gujarat.
Transport entrepreneurs, organized a street rally demanding with the Nepal government to roll back its decision to ban 20-year old vehicles and two-stroke three wheelers from Kathmandu.
The World Bank has given nod to the Chennai State Government for taking up additional schemes, costing about Rs.157 crores, under the Water Resources Consolidation Project (WRCP). rehabilitation and modernisation of 620 rain-fed tank systems in Palar, Tamiraparani and Vagai basins are among the works that are going to be …
The Karnataka government is in talks with the Andhra Pradesh government to seek assistance for promoting oilpalm as an alternative fuel. This is being done with a view to make oilpalm cultivation a viable proposition for farmers in both Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh.
The leading US oil refiners association has announced that it will sue the Environmental Protection Agency over new rules concerning the level of sulphur in diesel.The National Petrochemical & Refiners Association (NPRA) said on 23 January that it will challenge the outgoing EPA's final diesel sulphur rule in federal court …
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) US published its final standards for discharges into water from oil and gas drilling operations using synthetic-based fluids (SBFs) on 22 January, which, it says, will save oil companies $48.9 million per year through increased efficiency.
