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 state-owned Karnataka Power Corporation Limited has bagged the "management excellence award" for its management values from Bangalore Management Association.
If the new economy, the last Big Thing, failed to separate your from your last penny, then Mark Howdle, a European equity strategist at Schroder Saloman Smith Barney Inc., would like to propose for consideration the Next Big Thing : Eco-tech. "The concept is quite simple," Mr. Howdle wrote in …
More than 300 rural households in Lhuentse, Zhemgang and Chukha (Bhutan) will be provided with electricity through the extension of grid and installation of photovoltaic systems by the end of 2002.
Even as the Pooyamkutty Hydroelectric Project continues to hang fire, the road ahead for the Karappara-Kuriyakutty project - the second multi-purpose project promised to Kerala in lieu of the Silent Valley Project - appears to have been almost cleared of the hurdles that have delayed it all this while.
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Housing appointed by the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, Mr. Miloon Kothari, has called for immediate moratorium to any further increase in the height of the Sardar Sarovar Project in Gujarat in view of the violations of the rights of those displaced by the …
Reprocessing spent nuclear fuel is expensive. It creates a risk to the environment. And it is unpopular. Those are three reasons why the British government may want to refuse permission for the mixed oxide (Mox) plant at Sellafield to start operation. (Editorial)
Madhya Pradesh has plunged into an unprecedented power crisis which has sparked demonstrations, bandhs, gheraos and road blockades across the state over the last few days.
Chennai Petroleum Corporation Ltd (CPCL) expects to get a grant of Rs 4-5 crore from the US Trade and Development Agency for preparing a detailed project report on the power project using refinery residue as fuel.
Dabhol Power Company (DPC) has dismissed the Maharashtra State Electricity Board's (MSEB) charges of DPC power being expensive as "grossly misleading".
The Joint Front of Contract Bus Associations has written to the Delhi transport minister, Mr Pervez Hashmi, for waving the penalties imposed on Kilometer scheme buses following the CNG strike last month.
All power plants in the country will eventually have to comply with the ISO 14000 norms of environmental safety and protection. To adopt the right approach for proper environmental protection, the Ministry of Power has set up a research and development (R&D;) committee which will recommend appropriate steps for introducing …
The West Bengal Government will disconnect power supply of all industrial units, including state and Central public sector undertakings, that have huge outstanding dues.
Darkness looms large over the five states of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Goa, Maharashtra and Chattisgarh as the western region faces a severe power crisis with the shortfall touching 3,500 mw.
The contentious multicore thermal power project of Enron's Dabhol Power Company (DPC) in Maharashtra's Konkan region is in the eye of astorm yet again. It as on the eve of the winter legislative session in Nagpur last fortnight that Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh was buttonholes by his Democratic Frint (DF) …
Asia's largest 400 kv sub-station in coming up at Visakhapatnam at an estimated cost of Rs 70 crore and will be ready for commissioning by December 2001.
Wind power producers in Tamil Nadu have threatened legal action against the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) if their dues, amountin to crores of rupees, are not settled quickly.
The failure of United Nations global warming talks on Nov. 25 comes as the U.S. faces serious energy problems at home. The country remains perilously dependent on foreign oil. Price oil and gasoline are sky-high. And the nation's aging power grid is crumbling under the strain of rising demand.
Power purchase made by the Gujarat State Electricity Board from the Essar promoted Hazira project is to touch Rs 31 per unit of the fiscal 2000-01, making it the most expensive power in the entire country.
A new twist has emerged in the tussle between the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) and ministry of coal over the proposal for mandatory switch-over to environment-friendly coal for thermal power plants (TPPs) with the former calling for a clear-cut government policy on the issue.
Three workers died on Wednesday in an explosion at one of Europe's biggest gas-fired power stations at Teesside, northern England.US energy group Enron, the plant's owner, said two other workers were seriously injured in the blast and subsequent fire at the plant on an industrial complex in the Grandgetown district …
