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 …
The production of natural gas from the West Natuna project off the coast of Indonesia ahead of schedule spells good news for Singapore. Singapore utilities conglomerate SembGas received its first imports of pipelined natural gas six months ahead of schedule on Jan. 3.
Prem Kumar doesn't consider himself a thief, but he steals electricity every day-as do each of his 3,500 neighbors in a south Delhi shantytown. Pilfering electricity from the state power company is practically a hobby in Delhi. It's no wonder Delhi-and all of India-suffers a power crisis.
Hundreds of workers are struggling in two 10-hour-a-day shifts to build a huge power-generating plant in the nation's largest state, which has not built a major energy plant in more than a decade. Several such mammoth construction projects are under way in California, and energy analysts say they are essential …
France's state-owned nuclear fuel company, said two armed ships carrying uranium and plutonium mixed oxide (MOX) fuel bound for Japan left the northwestern French port of Cherbourg on Friday.The two British-flagged vessels-the 5,087-ton Pacific Pintail and the 4,648-ton Pacific Teal-are carrying Cogema fuel bound for Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa …
The Cochin corporation will go for a power project using Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) as soon as it comes across a technically, financially and ecologically viable proposal, Kochi Mayor C M Dinesh Mani said.
The government today formally decided not to provide any guarantee for the mega-power projects. The three mega-power projects in the pipeline include the Reliance-SEAP promoted 3,960 mw Hirma project, 1,000 mw Aditya Birla-promoted Ennore project and the 2,000 mw Pipavav project.
The Central Electricity Authority has accorded techno-economic clearance to 150 mw Balimela Extension hydro-electric project in the Malkangiri district of Orissa.
ADB : The losses incurred by Wapda and the KESC on account of power theft during 1999 in Pakistan amounted to $850 million (Rs53.55 billion), an Asian Development Bank (ADB) report revealed.
The sixth meeting of Nepal-India Power Exchange Committee concluded in Kathmandu, with officials agreeing to upgrade existing power exchange limit and deciding to review the price of electricity exchanged by the two countries.
Trial in the 'Ramar Pillai-Herbal Fuel' case commenced today with an IIT Professor deposing that after a demonstration of Mr. Pillai's product under controlled conditions, scientists concluded that he did not produce any 'herbal fuel' as claimed by him.
California's electricity shortage looked set to become George W. Bush's first presidential crisis as concerns mounted in Washington that the entire country would be caught up in the emergency.
A Japanese anti-nuclear group, which last year unveiled a data falsification scandal that shook the Japanese and British nuclear industries, has cast doubt on quality checks of a shipment of nuclear fuel that leaves France for Japan.
The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries' decision to cut production by 1.5m barrels a day is bad news for European gas consumers. In spite of the European Union gas directive, liberalisation of the gas industry has not yet decoupled the price of gas from that of oil.(editorial)
Germany further increased its wind capacity in 2000, to almost treble the output of the world's second wind producer, the US.The German Wind Energy Association (BWE) announced on 15 January that capacity rose by over 1,600 MG in 2000 to a total of 6,100 MG.
The Government on Thursday said that it was considering a series of measures aimed at giving an impetus to electrify 80,000 villages in the country as part of rural electrification programme.
In a complete reversal of its earlier stance, the government has decided against issuance of sovereign guarantees to mega power projects and has now proposed to limit its exposure in these projects to a maximum of Rs 5,000 crore.
US Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said on Wednesday the government would build the country's second-largest power facility near Las Vegas, a move that will boost energy supplies in Nevada and neighboring California.
The Karnataka Government has dropped the ambitious plan of using liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel for projects targeted for capacity additions. The State had proposed to convert the 500 MW thermal power project in Vijaynagar to be fired by LNG and had raised the capacity to 720 MW.
There is a proposal to convert partially depleted gas fields of the Cambay Basin, some 60 km off Vadodara, into a mega underground gas storage (UGS) station. The three billion cubic metre gas fields, discovered by the Oil and Naturgal Gas Corporation (ONGC) in 1958, are said to be depleted …
Brazil's state oil giant Petrobras, which saw its image marred in 2000 by a series of oil spills and is still under heavy fire from environmentalists, has announced investment plans to clean up Rio de Janeiro's scenic bay.A company spokesman said on Thursday that Petrobras would invest 232 million reais …
