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 Dabhol Power Company (DPC), which has yet to recover from the shock following the Maharashtra government's announcement to review the phase-II (1,444 mw), expects a cost over run of $227 million over the budgeted $1,868 million.
The chief executive of German power utility E.ON on Tuesday rejected calls for the industry to halt imports of so-called "dirty power" from eastern Europe."I understand the thinking behind the idea, but believe it will be absolutely impossible to agree to a voluntary self restraint on power imports, as demanded …
The Maharashtra state electricity board (MSEB) will have to pay Rs 20,000 crore to Enron as compensation and penalties if the state government scraps the entire power purchase agreement (PPA) for the first and second phases of the Dabhol project.
The European Union can only meet its climate change goals and avoid risky dependence on foreign oil and gas if it takes drastic measures to curb energy consumption while keeping nuclear power options open.
The steep rise in energy prices has created an expectation in some quarters that interest rates will be raised, possibly quite soon, in the US and Europe. This belief, whether or not it turns out to be correct, represents outdated thinking.
Thieves and vandals have placed Nigeria's electricity supply network in danger of total collapse, Jerry Gana, the government spokesman said. Whole cities and towns including Lagos, the commercial capital, have been blacked out. Industries have been running on costly standby generators run on diesel, which itself is hard to find …
If the fictional Don Quixote were alive today, he would be buying shares in windmills instead of tilting at them. The combination of escalating oil prices and increasing concern about the environmental hazards of fossil fuels has triggered a wave of investor interest in alternative sources of energy.
The geological affinity between Africa and Asia - which formed a common land mass some 200 million years ago - was reflected at the three-day 5th international conference and exhibition on 'petroleum geochemistry and exploration in the Afro-Asian countries,' which ended here on Monday.
A few North-Eastern States will not only be power surplus States soon but also be capable of supplying power to neighbouring Bangladesh and other parts of the country.
Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant was shut down early Monday after an ice-covered power line broke and caused an electricity shortage, officials said.Reactor No. 3, the plant's only working reactor, was closed down by its automatic safety system and workers plan to restart it on Saturday, a plant spokesman said.
The Bhopal Municipal Council approved the much awaited proposal of Rs 350 crores to bring Narmada water in the city through Mardanpur, Kolar with in order to find a permanent solution to the water problem.
Trial in the 'Ramar Pillai-herbal fuel case' will begin in the court of the X Metropolitan Magistrate, Egmore, on January 17. The Magistrate, Mr. R. Krishnamurthy, fixed the date for the trial after framing charges against the five accused on Monday.
Been there, doing that : Higher fuel prices, but in many industries, saving is business as usual.In 1970, it took 24 units of energy to make $1 worth of industrial goods in US. Now it takes only 16 units.
The Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) today reiterated its demand that the State and Central Government accept the recommendations of the World Commission of Dams(WCD). The NBA also urged the Government to put a moratorium on construction of all large dams, provide reparations to those already displaced, and implement the water …
Decks have been cleared for the first stage of the Aditya Birla grop's Rs 2,300 crore 'green power project' at Mangalore.The project to generate 450 MW in the first phase will be based on vis broken tar, a residue generated in group company Mangalore Refineries and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL)'s refinery …
The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation officials - battling the clock to prepare the project report for the Subansiri (Lower) hydel project - that calm has been shattered by the constant threat from the locals.Whether they are from Arunachal Pradesh across the river, or from Assam's Dhemaji district on the Brahmaputra's …
Tibetan herdsman are lighting up their tents with solar energy lamps instead of "ghee"- a special cream used in temples for lighting-to maximize the vast amount of sunlight in the rooftop of the world, state media said. Solar energy has become widely used for lighting and cooking in Tibet as …
Bangaldesh's minister for energy and mineral resources Prof. Rafiqul Islam said the government has a plan to set up more one hundred CNG filling stations by the year 2004.
For the Indian industry the theme song is on 'convergence'. After the summit on convergence in the media, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) is preparing to hold its Energy Summit-2000 on the theme of convergence in the field of energy and environment. Though CII holds energy summits every alternate …
