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 …
Germany's solar industry has a bright future despite opposition from the European Union to subsidies for the sector and calls by the government to cut the research budget for renewable energy, say solar companies and environmentalists.
A newly-uncovered leak at Brazil's only nuclear plant has raised fears over plans to add another reactor to the complex. The Brazilian news magazine, Epoca, has uncovered a leak at one of two reactors at the nation's only nuclear plant, Angra 1 & 2, increasing fears over the plans of …
Federal agencies can and should be doing more to encourage farmers to reduce use of toxic pesticides on U.S. crops and farmland, according to the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress. The agency's report finds that despite federal promises to slash agricultural pesticide use, pesticide use has risen …
Across the world's hottest nations from Latin America to the Far East, most business men are required to wear suits throughout working hours, leading to an increased need for air conditioning. However, now, at least in Thailand Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has said that wearing Western suits in a tropical …
A Swiss-based investment company is to offset its carbon dioxide emissions by sponsoring a project in rural India converting diesel-powered generators to run on biomass. The amount of carbon dioxide that is being produced by Sustainable Asset Management (SAM) during its day-to-day operations, is calculated by the carbon neutral consultancy …
Africa's reclusive forest elephants and the herds that trundle across its savannas are as genetically distinct as leopards are from lions, and thus should be reclassified as separate species, geneticists say. The finding, described in the current issue of Science, could prompt a rethinking of elephant conservation strategies, which have …
SHC issues notices to govt, oil firms : A division bench of the Sindh High court has put the Pakistan and provincial governments and Premier and Shell Pakistan B.V. Holland on notice for Jan 4, in a petition praying for the cancellation of oil and gas exploration concession and laying …
Union Power Minister Suresh Prabhu has said that 50 mega watt(MW) power from the Rana Pratap Atomic Power Plant in Rajasthan will be diverted to Delhi.
The Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) will recognize four companies next week with its 2001 "Award for Solar Program Achievement." The awards will be presented at the 6th annual conference of the Solar Electric Power Association, a partnership of electric utilities, energy service providers and companies which produce solar electric …
There is concern within the European electricity industry over the lack of funding to be designated specifically for energy research and development within the draft Sixth Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration which is currently being scrutinised by the European Parliament and member states, according to an electricity …
The Enron chief, Mr. Kenneth Lay, today asserted that he had not asked the US Government to consider imposing sanctions against India and said their approach was to settle the issue amicably by selling its stake. In an interview to The Financial Times, Mr. Lay was reported to have threatened …
The Philippines Government will soon introduce a Bill calling for the mandatory use of coconut diesel in an effort to increase domestic consumption of coconut oil, thus improving farmers' income, a senior official has said.The Philippine Coconut Authority Administrator, Mr Danilo Coronaction, said the bill would shortly be introduced at …
In holding out the threat of US sanctions against India over the Dabhol imbroglio, Mr Kenneth Lay, chairman of Enron, the energy conglomerate that owns DPC, has displayed por tactical fitnesse. For neither the substance of the threat (sanctions) nor the circumstances warranting their imposition have little application, at least …
Latest reports of the ministry of Non-conventional Energy has placed Arunachal Pradesh in first in terms of generation of non-conventional renewable energy sources through small hydropower projects in the world with a globally installed capacity of 50,000 MW.
The UK-base Cairn energy, operating in India as Cairn energy India limited (CEIL), is likely to commence by early 2004, the production of hydrocarbons from the 'KG-dwn-98/2' deepwater block in the Krishna-Godavari basin of the east coast of India, where it struck a gold-mine of oil and gas reserves in …
The Madhya Pradesh Electricity Board (MPSEB) assured Madhya Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission that from October month, efforts would be made to regulate power supply and more power would be provided to the consumers.
The Korean firm Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has offered to set up a diesel power plant at Dumka in Jharkhand. Mr Lalchand Mahto, the Jharkhand Energy Minister, told Business Line that HHI had offered to set up a 120 MW diesel power plant on a turnkey basis at a cost …
Any faint hopes about the murky Dabhol Power Project crisis being sorted out by the contracting parties - the Enron Corporation, the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB), the State Government and the Centre which provided the sovereign guarantee in favour of Dabhol Power Company - now appear to have been …
The centre is willing to give concessions to Dabhol Power Company after an agreement on the sale of foreign equity is close to finalisation. Top government officials said DPC had already held the first round of discussions with two private power companies including Tata Power.
The U.S. Senate Environment Committee approved legislation this week that bans the use of MTBE in gasoline within four years and allows states to opt out of a federal program that requires polluted areas to use clean burning gasoline with oxygen-boosting fuel additives.
