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 …
For more than 40 years, Japan's long-term policy toward nuclear power has been outlined in what is known as the long-term program for research, development and utilization of nuclear energy, which has set forth a schedule of expansion based on the premise that nuclear power should be a main source …
The future of Japan's nuclear power program has become difficult to predict as a result of last year's criticality accident and the government's policy of liberalizing retail electricity sales. Meanwhile, Germany, Taiwan and Belgium are trying to rid themselves of nuclear power altogether, while the U.S. is re-evaluating it as …
The Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has endorsed a proposal that not only goes against its own earlier decision but also against the directives of the Parliamentary Finance Committee. NEA's Board agreed onto the "take or pay" term of the Butwal Power Company (BPC) agreeing to buy a total of 17 …
Chen Shui-bian, Taiwan president, moved to head off opposition efforts to topple him by apologising to the leader of the rival Nationalist Party over the timing of his cabinet's decision to scrap a nuclear power plant.
The Rashtriya Seva Samithi, a voluntary organisation working in Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, has undertaken the Swarnamukhi rejuvenation project at an outlay of Rs 30 crore in Chittoor and Nellore districts. The Rass has involved different government and non-governmental organisations also in the work.
Geo-scientists have still not been able to calculate the exact amount of energy released during the earthquake that rocked the entire Mahakaushal region last month but assumed it should equal energy released by explosion of 300 tonnes of trinitrotoluene (TNT) dynamite in fair assessment basis. According to Geological Survey of …
The state controlller of rationing has begun to take action against companies and depots selling petrex in Mumbai and Thane. The action against the illegal sale of petrex has been re-started after the high court recently rejected the petition of a petrex company seeking to halt seizure of their products.
The Kerala Government has given its green signal to the State owned Travancore Cochin Chemicals (TCC) Ltd for setting up captive hydel power project with a generating capacity of 21 MW as part of its programme to revitalise the ailing public sector.
UK ministers are confident of facing down the threat of renewed fuel protests as Gordon Brown, chancellor of the exchequer, prepares to put cuts in vehicle excise duty at the centre of modest concessions in his pre-Budget report.
The unit-4 of the Rajasthan Atomic Power Project (RAPP)) - a 220 MWe Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor (PWHR) - achieved criticality on November 3 at 3.53 pm, after regulatory clearance from the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB).
At first glance, Europe's energy liberalisation seems to be going well. It was less than two years ago, that the European Union adopted a directive requiring all member countries partly to liberalise electricity; a less ambitious one freeing up gas came up only this year. Look closer, though, and the …
India's desert state of Rajasthan is planning to set up a 140-MW integrated solar combined cycle (ISCC) power project in an effort to promote the use of solar energy in the region. "The ISCC project has been envisaged as the first step in a long-term programme for promoting solar thermal …
China is planning major reforms of its power industry in a move to encourage competition among electricity producers, industry executives said. A Singapore-based executive said China will soon disband the State Power Corp. and regroup it into three parts.
Angola plans to restrict oil output, as part of a new strategy to make its huge oil reserves last longer. "We have to define our maximum production in the coming years, and not just keep developing fields so they get exhausted as fast as possible," Botelho de Vasconcelos, oil minister, …
The Gujarat Energy Development Agency (GEDA), on representation from the solar water heater manufacturers, has decided to scrap the subsidies on solar water heaters.
The Danish Government has announced that it is to launch a compulsory green market for electricity which will help it fulfil its climate change obligations on time.The Danish Government has announced a new system of compulsory funding of renewable energies which will help it achieve a tough 21% reduction in …
A 130-megawatt wind farm has been announced for Western Texas, edging the oil-rich state towards meeting the nation's most ambitious goal for renewables seven years ahead of schedule.
An international trade union said yesterday it would launch a worldwide campaign for funds to help workers and local people dependent on Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power, which is due to close next month. Fred Higgs, secretary-general of the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions, told a …
Heads of government from the Czech Republic and Austria agreed that the controversial Temelin nuclear plant near the Austrian border would be subjected to the safety checks sponsored by the European Union.
With astonishing arrogance, the self-appointed representatives of road haulers and farmers gave the British government a choice : either cut fuel duties or face further blockades and economic chaos.The deadline is November 13, five days after Gordon Brown the finance minister, delivers his pre-budget report to Parliament. (editorial)
