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 Singur-Haripal Rural Electricity Cooperative Society in West Bengal, an organisation of 157 people all local residents is the only one of its kind in the country that distributes power, much more efficiently and profitably than any state electricity board.
Toyota Motor corp. is planning to export its Prius hybrid car to Asian and Australian markets, President Fujio Cho said. The automaker began exporting the Prius, which has both a gasoline engine and an electric motor, to North America and Europe in mid-2000. Sales of the environment friendly vehicle have …
Indian's consumers would be more than happy to pay higher electricity bills in exchange for a guarantee that the lights would stay on, according to a survey published. Suresh Prabhu, India's power minister said the Confederation of Indian Industry survey showed that even farmers, who receive free or heavily subsidised …
Britain's first commercial fuel cell system, which produces clean electricity via electrochemical reaction, will soon be powering a local authority's leisure centre, its manufacturers said this week.
Contrary to earlier observations, the World Bank's (WB) visiting energy sector mission has shown satisfaction over the corporatisation and privatisation of power sector, sources in the Pakistan Ministry of Water and Power claimed. The Bank's mission, which held a two-hour meeting on Wednesday with the officials of the ministry and …
Enron Corp is willing to complete the second phase of the troubled Dabhol Power Project if the Indian government wants, a spokesman for its Indian subsidiary said.
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has been roped in as a mediator to resolve the ongoing impasse over Enron's exit from the Dahbol Project, with its director general Tarun Das having already held a number of meetings.
The Ministry of Power has identified 14 projects, including four mega projects of the National Thermal Power Corporation - the 2,60-mw North Karanpura and the 1,320-mw Kahalgaon stage-II projects - for providing a stimulus to the economy.
The first fast track power generation project in private sector in Andhra Pradesh has run into serious difficulties with the private promoters of the project now demanding double the cost per unit agreed upon when envisaged in 1991 and the audit report raising serious doubts about the claims of the …
The atomic energy commission has finalised a three stage nuclear power programme and has also decided to set up a new campus to establish a research-education linkage with a view to provide long-term energy security based on indigenous nuclear fuel resources, according to chairman Anil Kakodkar.
The Andhra Pradesh State government has decided against utilising the Nagarjuna Sagar water for power generation. Disclosing this to reporters, State major Irrigation Minister Manadava Venkateswara Rao said there had been no improvement in the water level in the reservoir due to lack of adequate rainfall this season
US power giant Enron has decided to increase its equity investment in Dabhol power project by 23.6 per cent from the existing $886.9 million to $1,119.9 million. The additional $233 million will be brought in during the second phase of the project, according to sources.
Initial hiccups, notwithstanding, mainly due to the Rajasthan government's failure to provide soft loans, as promised in the non-conventional energy policy, to the prospective entrepreneurs, Rajasthan State Power Corporation Limited (RSPCL) has succeeded in attracting private firms to tap wind for power generation.
The Gujarat Electricity Board (GEB) has started purchaisng power from Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) and the northern sector as its two hydro-based power stations have been shut down due to low level of water in reservoirs.
California electricity officials are urging consumers to conserve power in any way possible, including turning off their holiday lights for a few hours, to avert possible outrages as the state's power reserves drop to emergency levels.
A malfunction forced the only working reactor atUkraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant to be shut down today, nine days before the plant is to be closed for good.The No. 3 reactor was halted by a safety system after some fumes were registered in the reactor's forced circulation department, and workers …
For the second time in as many days, power companies today were forced to shut down electricity to customers statewide as California came the closest it has this season to running out of power, state officials said.As late as tonight, energy officials were concerned that they would be forced to …
