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 …
Energy utility Innogy Plc and Greenpeace have launched a scheme providing renewable energy to all UK users at no additional cost. Through its retail arm, npower, Innogy Plc. will enable all UK electricity users to choose to receive their bills under a new renewable brand called Juice, which will feed …
Countries such as Germany, Japan and Iceland are already ahead in the international race for supremacy in the future hydrogen economy, and will gain substantial political, commercial and environmental benefits, says a new report. According to Hydrogen Futures: Towards a Sustainable Energy System, published by the Washington-based environmental think-tank, the …
The New Zealand government announced on 30 July that it is to take the lead in averting an energy crisis predicted to occur later on in the year with proposals for a 15% electricity savings target for the public sector, and an allocation of NZ$2.25 million (US$942,000) for the scheme.
Despite heavily criticising the US over its anti-Kyoto stance, the European Commission proposed on 25 July an extension to its coal industry subsidy programme for a further eight years, designed to cut Europe's dependence on outside sources of energy.
Euroheat and Power, the European association for combined heat and power (CHP), is calling for the European Commission to adopt a CHP directive to aid the Community's 18% CHP target by 2010 which, the organisation says, is unachievable under current market mechanisms.
Alaska and the oil industry which hopes to drill in the state applauded a decision by the House of Representatives to open the Arctic Refuge to drilling. But they were aware that doubts remained over whether the legislation would get through the senate.
China is aiming for annual economic growth of more than 7% in the early years of the 21st century. To reach this target the nation will require an enormous and steady energy supply. Lacking natural resources,China will soon rival the U.S. as the biggest importer of crude oil and is …
The privatization of a state owned power utility in the Philippines has got underway as the country's parliament enacted legislation calling for reforms of the country's power industry. Japanese and U.S. power producers welcome the new law, which paves the way for them to expand operations in the Philippine market.
The West Bengal State Electricity Board (WBSEB) has moved the Supreme Court over its ongoing tussle with the CESC Ltd on the admissibility of the cost of RPG company's 2X250 MW thermal power project.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee will inaugurate an Indo-Russian energy forum which will prospect for oil and gas across the globe during his visit to Moscow later this year.
The ongoing Enron crisis is likely to have a long-term effect on the economy, leading to restricted flow of foreign investment to the country, global consultancy firm Ernst & Young said.
Marubenl corp. and Tsukishima Kikal Co. plan to jointly build and sell biomass plant facilities in Japan and Southeast Asia using U.S. technology,The Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported. The firms have obtained from U.S. venture company BC International Corp. the exclusive right to use and sell the start-up's biomass technology, which …
The number of jobs gained from oil drilling in the Arctic national Wildlife Refuge would be far fewer than the 750000 many unions have said the drilling would create, according to a study issued Sunday by environmental groups.
Recent reports relating to the Dabhol Power Company's (DPC) power project in Maharashtra are both disquieting and even if predictable show the growing intractability of the problem.Controversial right from its inception in the early 1990s, the inability of Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) and the State Government to honour their …
The House voted Wednesday to open an Alaskan wildlife refuge to oil drilling and to beat back efforts to significantly raise the fuel efficiency of sport-utility vehicles, as lawmakers moved toward approving the most sweeping energy legislation in a decade. An attempt to ban drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife …
Britain's advertising watchdog gave the country's fledgling wind power industry a morale boost yesterday in ordering a Scottish community group to stop running misleading ads about the impact of wind farms. The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said that a regional press ad by a pressure group against building the Glens …
In a big win for automakers, the U.S. House of Representatives refused to require sport utility vehicles to meet the same higher gasoline mileage requirements as passenger cars in six years. The fuel efficiency provision was part of broad-ranging energy legislation wrapped into one package to implement much of the …
In a major legislative victory for Republicans and the White House, the House voted Wednesday night to allow drilling in an Alaskan refuge as it passed a sweeping energy plan that would encourage energy production, promote conservation and modestly raise fuel efficiency standards.
The US House of Representatives begins debate on Wednesday on a comprehensive energy bill that could doom attempts to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, destroying a key part of the Bush administration's plan to boost domestic energy supplies and reduce American dependence on foreign oil.
Japan Nuclear Fuel Ltd. is set to ask the village of Rokkasho, Aomori Prefecture, and the prefectural government for permission to build a plant there to produce mixed uranium and plutonium oxide (MOX) fuel, JNFL officials said.
