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 US Government has said that a reactor on the nation's most contaminated nuclear site should remain permanently shut down.The Department of Energy (DoE) said that the Hanford test reactor in Washington State, which has remained dormant since 1992, should not be reopened for the production of medical isotopes or …
A leaked Austrian government study describes the two reactors, built to replace Chernobyl and supply the Ukraine with power, are "particularly hazardous". Greenpeace, who released the Vienna University report prepared for Austria's Government on 30 November, called on directors of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) to delay …
Iceland intends to be the first country to convert its energy economy to hydrogen power, and expects to gain complete freedom from dependence on oil or coal by 2030, reports environmental thinktank Worldwatch.
A broad coalition of Tibet, human rights and environmental groups turned up the heat on British oil giant BP Amoco on Friday over its investment in a Chinese oil firm building a pipeline on traditional Tibetan land. The coalition of 54 groups, including Friends of the Earth, the Sierra Club, …
Island nations - Mauritius, Seychelles and Maldives - have sought India's expertise in the setting up of ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) plants. The Secretary, Union Department of Ocean Development (DOD), Dr. Harsh K. Gupta, said these countries have been sensitised to India's efforts at setting up a 1 MW …
Even as they reap record profits, oil and gas companies in US are on the verge of another unexpected windfall: as much as $15 billion in tax cuts over the next decade from Congress.
The gas pipeline being laid from Mangalore to Bangalore via Hassan to supply LPG is likely to be commissioned in about four months, Karnataka transport minister C R Sageer Ahmed said.
The Godbole Committee, set up by the Maharashtra government to review and re-negotiate the Enron project, has recommended the tariff paid by Maharashtra State Electricity Board to the Dabhol Power Company be slashed to Rs 2.40 per unit.
The Minister for Water Resources, Mr. Arjun Charan Sethi, on Thursday said the procedure for clearance to the major/medium and multipurpose irrigation projects had been simplified.
Prabhu: The fourth bi-ennial Energy Summit organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry began here on Wednesday with the Union Power Minister, Mr Suresh Prabhu, empahsising the need for the power sector to focus on environmental issues.
E Power Japan, a Japanese power venture set up by Houston-based Enron Corp and Orix Corp, plans to build a large-scale thermal power plant in the Aomori prefecture in the northern part of Japan's main island, an official at the venture said Wednesday.
The Vriksha-Laksha Andolan Karnataka (VLAK), today apppealed to the government not to go ahead with the proposed Kodsalli Dam across the river Kali near Dandeli in Uttar Kannada district.
Contaminated and diluted petrol is being sold to motorists from service stations across Melbourne, State Government tests have found.Poor-quality oil byproducts are being added to petrol or unleaded petrol mixed with leaded petrol to avoid tax. Heating oil is also being added to diesel fuel, according to a series of …
A World Bank team, comprising Mr Alastair Mckechnie and Mr Samir Shukla, visited Shahabad to oversee the progress undertaken by the Haryana Power Utilities under the World Bank assistance programme.
A formal meeting of Dabhol Power Company's (DPC) lenders is on the cards. The triggrer point for this meeting is the slippage on the part of the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) in paying for the power offtake from the DPC since the beginning of this calender year.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC) has proposed to invest Rs 4,162 crore for exploration of crude oil and natural gas for the two-year period ending March 2002. The company's board has approved the investment plans.
A joint venture of Taiwan's state-owned Chinese Petroleum Corp. is in talks with Siemens AG of Germany to build a natural-gas-fired power plant, a Chinese Petroleum executive said.
The European Union is like Gulliver, an economic giant tied down by its increasing dependence on foreign energy sources. So said Loyola de Palacio, the EU commissioner, as she published her green discussion paper on energy security.(editorial)
Though the enormous potential for small hydropower (SHP) projects in Kerala had been discussed and written about for 15 years now, the radical plunge from theory to social practice was made only in the last five years. That, too, by a few individuals who dared to challenge the hegemony of …
Norway will approve construction on Wednesday of a new gas-fired power plant, putting Norway behind many nations in a drive to curb greenhouse gases, Norwegian media said on Tuesday.The daily Aftenposten and NRK radio said the go-ahead will be given for the new plant in central Norway, and related carbon …
