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 country's oil planners have come a cropper. While they had predicted that India's oil reserve would last till 2011-12, the latest figures show that there is sufficient crude in the country for another 22 years-till 2023-24.
Moves to begin oil exploration just 30 miles east of the Great Barrier Reef were condemned as "grotesque" by environmentalists yesterday. The Australian government has called for an environmental impact assessment of seismic oil exploration by the US-based company TGS-NOPEC Geophysical. If the search gains approval, laws automatically permit extraction …
The process of private sector participation in power transmission has picked up with the public sector Powergrid Corporation of India Limited (PCIL) successfully attracting at least 15 expressions of interest for setting up transmission systems in the country. The offers received are from private Indian companies as well as from …
The Union Cabinet has cleared the Electricity Bill, 2001 to be tabled in the current Monsoon Session of Parliament. The Bill, cleared at the Cabinet's meeting on Thursday, seeks to free power generation from licensing, while allowing captive power plants to sell their surplus power directly to bulk consumers without …
Hungary revealed plans to open up its electricity sector to competition, beginning with a 33 per cent market opening from 2003 and complete liberalisation by 2010.
By mid September the ozone hole that develops each year over Antarctica was about the same size as those of the past several years, scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA say. Last year, the geographic area covered by the ozone hole was one of the …
The UP government and the Power Finance Corporation of India (PFC) signed a Rs 2320-crore memorandum of understanding (MoU) to improve the power situation in the election-bound state.
The Enron-promoted Dabhol Power Company (DPC) has slapped two more preliminary termination notices (PTNs) on its estranged partner Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) for non-payment of dues and 'abrogation' of the power purchase agreement (PPA).
The Madhya Pradesh department of Energy has tried to justify the scheduled one hour power cut every night across the State on the plea that there has been a sharp drop in the power generation capacity due to low water level in Gandhi Sagar, Pench and other reservoirs as a …
Maharashtra power minister Padmasinh Patil, who is under severe attack from the constituents of the Democratic Front government is ruling out the possibility of "reconsideration" of Dabhol phase-II but for favouring its "review", called upon Enron to give the much-needed tariff relief through reduction in the rate of return and …
The Japan Coast Guard has decided to combine solar energy and wind power to generate electricity for four lighthouses across Japan, Coast Guard officials said.They said Saturday that the hybrid system, which they described as unique in the world, would be launched sometime next year. Lighthouses that operate solely on …
Pakistan and the sponsors of the country's largest foreign investment, the Karachi based Hub Power Company (Hubco), resolved a three-year dispute that had threatened the project and damaged the country's reputation among foreign investors.
Vietnam and a multinational consortium led by BP Amoco, the Anglo-American group, have signed three long-awaited agreements for a $1.5bn intergrated gas project that will help Vietnam meet a significant portion of its future energy needs.
In Japan, the government has yet to give full support to the promotion of wind power research and use. Now would seem the ideal time for Japan to position wind power generation as an alternative energy source in a medium-to-long-term energy policy, and to introduce measures to promote applications.
Fate of the Indo-Iran gas pipeline project seems to have entered deeper waters over bureaucratic and political wrangling even though India, Iran and Pakistan showed eagerness towards the project.
To resolve all outstanding issues pertaining to the Enron-promoted Dabhol Power Company (DPC), the Centre will begin its first round of conciliation process on Saturday even though Union Power Secretary A K Basu categorically stated that the later will not take over the private power project.The Centre has also made …
Cairn Energy of UK has chalked out a $300 million oil and gas exploration programme for its most recent hydrocarbon find in deep waters of Krishna Godavari basin, in offshore Andhra Pradesh, during the next four years.
A town assembly panel in Miyama, Mie Prefecture (Japan), is expected to discuss next week whether it should hold a plebiscite on hosting a nuclear power plant that other prefectural towns have rejected, assembly officials said Thursday.
The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) has successfully synchronised two generating units of 15 MW each of the Kurichu hydel project in Bhutan to the domestic power grid at Salakati in Assam.
