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 …
Large areas of the European Union's famland could be turned over to the production of alternative fuels, whose use would become compulsory by 2005, under plans being drawn up by the European Commission.
With President George W. Bush continuing to oppose international or domestic restrictions linked to global warming, among the losers are energy companies that favor government action and have already spent millions on voluntary efforts to cut emissions.
The much hyped NABARD sponsored Rs. 230 crore project to install one lakh shallow tube wells(STWs) to bring about a green revolution in Assam is likely to end in a whimper as a sizable number of STWs are found to have been smuggled to Bangladesh and various places of North …
Remote Inuvik, which is as far north of Vancouver as Mexico is south, is suddenly feeling the long reach of North America's growing desire for future supplies of natural gas. Emerging as the logistical hub for natural gas exploration and for future pipeline construction in the Canadian Arctic, Inuvik has …
Davis outlined his initial steps today to deal with California's energy problems, but consumer advocates said he did little to provide a reasonable solution for them. In a letter addressed to James Hoecker, chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Governor Davis asked the commission to order retroactive refunds to …
Maharashtra is in a classic Catch-22 situation. Buying power priced at an exorbitant rate from US energy major Enron would mean an unsustainable financial burden for the state electricity board.
Goa, situated in one of the highest annual rainfall zones in the country, today is struggling to cope with among the lowest per capita freshwater availability nation-wide.
The Democratic Front government in Maharashtra has finally asked the loss-making Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) to review the Dabhol power project and find out the whether there is a possibility of scrapping its phase -II (1,444mw) under the present circumstances.
The tribal Students' Federation, an umbrella organisation of 14 native students' unions on Thursday rejected the Lepetkatta site for the proposed Assam Gas Cracker complex. Their contention is that the Lepetkatta site would affect a substantial native population, and hence demands that another site be selected for the mega industry.
The Public Undertakings Committee of the Maharashtra Legislature has severely rapped the State Government in its report for the controversial Enron project - Dabhol Power Corporation at Ghughar - and strongy recommended that while approving any large-scale foreign equity project, the Government should first ensure that it did not become …
Rajya Sabha members today demanded that the Centre expedite its efforts to sign a treaty with Nepal so that the waters flowing into Bihar and leading to floods could be channelised.
The electricity act of the Kingdom of Bhutan,2001 passed by the 79th session of the National Assembly,has provided a firm legal footing for the exploitation of Bhutan's huge hydro-power resources.
Utility company ScottishPower Plc unveiled plans to build Britain's largest windfarm yesterday, capable of generating enough electricity to power 150,000 homes.
German utility EnBW said yesterday it plans to invest 9.5 million marks in building three 1.5 megawatt wind power plants in the Schwabian mountain area. The firm will carry out the project with Albwerk Energieversorgung from the ski resort town of Geislingen in southwest Germany.
U.S. President George W. Bush signed an executive order yesterday directing the federal government to stop using equipment that wastes energy. With the order, Bush was taking aim at so-called "vampire devices" like cellular phone chargers that still consume energy when plugged in even if they are not in use.
The City of Port Phillip (Australia) has installed street lights without bulbs to cut greenhouse gas emissions, landfill waste and to save ratepayers more than $36,000 a year. The council is among the first in the world to use the lights that use wafers, called a dio, found in silicon …
More than 20,000 older, inefficient room air conditioners in New York have been exchanged for more efficient, Energy Star-rated air conditioners under New York Governor George Pataki's Keep Cool program.
President George W. Bush has spent much of the year warning the U.S. about its energy problem. Now, he is about to find out how big a political problem energy has become for him. As the House of Representatives prepares to heed Mr Bush's request to act on his plans …
A report released by the National Academies' National Research Council (NRC), which advises Congress on scientific issues, finds that federal fuel economy standards have reduced U.S. dependence on foreign oil, but changes to the program could achieve more.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the start of the Green Power Partnership, a new voluntary program "aimed at boosting the market for power alternatives that reduce the environmental and health risks of conventional electricity generation."
