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 Aditya Birla Group-PowerGen promoted 578-mw Bina power project in Madhya Pradesh has tied up with financial institutions to part-finance the ongoing power project.
British Nuclear Fuels, the crisis-hit atomic services group, is expected to call for an urgent public debate to be opened on the future of nuclear power generation in the UK.
The Pollution Control Board, Assam has given its no objection certificate to reliance Assam Petrochemicals Limited to set up the gas cracker project at Lepetkatta near Dibrugarh.
Whoever gets to inhabit the White House must face up to the fact that he will have to address problems not just in oil but in the natural gas sectors, compounded by the cut-off of Iraqi crude oil.
Preparatory works for the installation of the country's first Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor (PFBR) are in full swing at the Indira Gandhi centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) in Kalpakkam near Chennai.
As the Govt. of Brazil tries to preserve its credibility with foreign investors and extract Brazil from an energy crises one outcome seems inevitable consumers will have to pay more for electricity.
In the search for clean diesel, fuels, dimethyl ether (DME) seems like a good choice with good ignition quality and very low emissions, but mixing DME with diesel fuel to run these engines is more complicated than simply combining the two fuels, according to Penn State researchers.
Nuclear fuel complex, which manufactures fuel stacks for the country's nuclear power programme, will undertake an expansion project to meet the growing nuclear fuel requirements, according to the Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. Anil Kakodkar.
Petronas, the national petroleum corporation of Malaysia, has discovered gas estimated at 25.6 MMSCFD near Sukkur, which is the first such discovery by the company in Pakistan, an official announcement said on Tuesday. It said that Petroleum Minister Usman Aminuddin has congratulated the company and its joint venture partners, Lasmo …
European Union Competition Commissioner Mario Monti is due to launch action against German subsidy laws for so-called green energies, according to an article in Focus magazine. Monti would move against the laws in mid-September following several weeks of investigation, the weekly said, citing its own sources.
World Bank's Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) has proposed private participation in urban water supply and sanitation (UWSS) in India. This follows the World Bank identifying the sector as a key sector. This was discussed at 'Aquatech 2001" a seminar on opportunities and technologies in water and waste water management, organised …
West Bengal and Bihar will be among the six states that are likely to issue bonds to clear the dues that their state electrify boards owe public sector utilities like National Thermal Power Corporation.
California residents can use solar energy to reduce their electrical needs, and as of a couple weeks ago, they have a new place to turn to for solar energy systems. Green Mountain Energy Company (GMEC) announced last month that it is now offering solar electric systems with capacities ranging from …
A recent study by the California Energy Commission (CEC) finds that the U.S. ethanol industry is growing rapidly, apparently in preparation to meet the state's significant needs for ethanol. Starting in 2003, California will need as much as 950 million gallons of ethanol annually to replace the fuel additive MTBE …
Minnesota Power, an Allete company, announced in mid-August that it will build a 225-megawatt power plant in cooperation with Blandin Paper Company. The plant will be fueled with a combination of biomass (mostly wood waste), low-sulfur coal, and natural gas.
The Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC) may become the first transport corporation fleet in the country to switch to compressed natural gas (CNG) from the costly and fast-diminishing diesel. There is no dearth of natural gas to run the 9,000-strong fleet. The GSRTC is only awaiting completion of the …
"If things go at this rate, it would take 800 years for all villages in Bihar to be electrified." This shocking statement was made by Power Minister Suresh Prabhu in the Lok Sabha on Monday.
Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu reportedly instructed the officials to condemn 3,000 government vehicles of more than 15 years of service in the twin cities, as part of controlling automobile pollution.
Kerala has recorded a significant drop in the off take of diesel, much to the surprise of the oil industry. And, the reason is not hike in its price, but a host of other factors. The general recession seems to have taken its toll on the fishing sector as well …
British oil exploration group Cairn Energy Plc has said it has made a third oil/gas discovery off India's east coast.The company said exploration well DWN-P-1 on its 100 percent owned Block KG-DWN-98/2 offshore Andhra Pradesh encountered two hydrocarbon bearing units but further appraisal was needed.
