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 …
Pacific Hydro Ltd said yesterday it planned to produce 140 to 150 megawatts of power from a A$250 million wind farm product in southwestern Victoria from 2003. The company said the project, which combines four wind farm sites based around Portland had been granted Major Project Facilitation status by the …
The Maharashtra State Electricity Board is pulling out of the 1,444mw, phase II power project of Enron-promoted Dabhol Power Company. MSEB's 30 per cent stake in the second phase of the project will be bought out by the US energy major through one of its Mauritis-based affiliates.
Even as the Maharashtra Industrial and Technical Consultancy Organisation Ltd (Mitcon) estimates that 10,000 mega watt (mw) of power will be generated from bio-mass based power projects by 2010, industry observers feel that the figure is rather over optimistic.
The 15-year-old anti-Narmada dam agitation finds itself politically isolated in the national capital, thanks largely to its intemperate rejection of the Supreme Court verdict last month favouring the dam's construction.After two days of a sit-in at Rajghat, some 2,000 Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA or Save Narmada Movement) activists have been …
The Rajasthan government has extended the deadline for submission of request for qualification (RFQ) bids for the unique Integrated Solar Combined Cycle Project (ISCC) to be set up in Mathania near Jodhpur from Decembr 4 to January 15, 2001.
Mumbai may become the first city in the country to get electricity and fertilisers from the garbage thanks to the efforts put forward by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and corporate sector. In fact, BMC has already issued a letter of intent(LOI) to Soundcraft Industries Ltd for its Rs 144 …
The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation(NHPC) will develop two hydel power projects at Darjeeling on Teesta river in the northern region of West Bengal.
Union Minister of State for Urban Development Bandaru Dattatreya today appealed to all the states and union territories to enact ground water legislations with a view to control and regulate usage of ground water judiciosly and called for proper pricing of water.
The Gujarat state government will consider providing drinking water to Dhoraji town by train if all existing sources in the Fofal dam are exhausted. Similarly, drinking water will be provided to Jetpur town by digging bores near Jetalsar village in the district.
Germany and france have failed in their latest attempt to resolve a row over nuclear transports that threatens to place a stranglehold around Germany's atomic power industry.Paris is refusing to allow the transport of german spent nuclear fuel rods for reprocessing in La Hague, France, until the Germans remvoe waste …
Convenience-stores chains in Japan are strengthening measures to reduce their power consumption in response to stricter environmental regulations and in hopes of cutting costs at the same time.
Some 50,000 anti-nuclear activists defied rains and marched through Taiwan's capital and southern Kaohsiung city in support of a government decision to scrap a partly built 5.6 billion US dollar nuclear power plant, officials said.
Richard G. Luthy has been awarded the Jack Edward McKee Medal for innovative research on the treatment of cyanide-contaminated groundwater. Luthy and his colleagues were recognized for developing a technique to remove iron cyanide from groundwater-a common pollutant found near aluminium smelters and at other industrial sites.
The Gujarat Major Irrigation and Narmada Development Minister, Mr. Jayanararyan Vyas, has said the Government has invited applications from financial institutions for raising Rs. 5,000 crores for the Sardar Sarovar project.
Goa becomes the first State to reduce taxes on petrol and diesel, making it cheapest in the country here, from November 15 midnight.Announcing it after its first Cabinet meeting, Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar said both the petroleum products are reduced by three per cent, making petrol cheaper by 73 to …
Petrol is getting cleaner. For mere 31 paise more a litre, Delhi is being supplied with petrol having 1 per cent benzene, thereby reducing the risk of Delhiities contracting leukemia or other lung diseases that are caused by this potential carcinogen. Mumbai will get low benzene petrol from January 1, …
The Tamil Nadu Fishworkers Union would take out a rally in Chennai on November 14 to protest the establishment of a nuclear power plant in Koodankulam near here. The union requested the Centre to abrogate the project as it was not "environmentally safe" and would displace many fishermen, farmers and …
The Tamil Nadu Government has decided to utilise the surplus power generation in 2001 to maintain free supply to agriculture, announced the Electricity Minister, Mr N. Veeraswami.
India is planning about the second round of bidding by December, under New Exploration Licensing Policy to explore oil and natural gas, especially in the unexplored blocks in the deep sea.
