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 Assam State Electricity Board (ASEB) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a private firm for utilizing about 350 tonnes of garbage daily accumulating in Guwahati and some nearby towns for generating 20 MW of power.
The World Bank Resident Director in Dhaka told delegates at a recent seminar that over the past fifteen years the power/electric sector has been missing all opportunities of development. Given the fact that 80% of the population and 90% of the villages have no access to electricity it indeed seems …
Until as recently as 1997, Bhoyare Khurd was an unregarded speck on the map of Maharashtra. But two years ago, it managed to qualify for the Indo-German Watershed Development Programme (IGWDP), and life has never been the same again. While NABARD is putting Rs 100 crore into the watershed development …
Over the last two years, energy prices have tripled again, but one would hardly know it from looking at America's roads. Few people have sharply cut back on their driving or have begun shopping for cars based primarily on fuel efficiency, according to interviews around the country and data from …
Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, which have been at logger-heads over the construction of a dam on the Narmada river,have joined hands to counter opposition to the project.
Oil company BP took out a restraining order against 25 people on board the Greenpeace ship, the MV Arctic Sunrise to stop them protecting the climate. The Arctic Sunrise was blockading a 130-metre sea barge to prevent it docking at BP's controversial Arctic oil project, Northstar.
The Inter-American Development Bank said yesterday it approved $457 million in loans, the most ever for a private sector project, to pay for a natural gas-fuelled power plant in Monterrey, Mexico. The 1,000 megawatt plant and related facilities will be operated by a unit of the Spanish electricity company Iberdrola …
Green activist Toxics Link, a Delhi-based NGO, has said certain multinational are dumping obsolete technologies in India for generating electricity from wastes because their home markets are refusing to accept them.
The recoverable gas reserve in Bangladesh may go up to 48 Trillion Cubic Feet (TCF) if effective exploration drive can be taken, according to the World Energy Assessment of the United States Geological Survey (USGS).
The West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency (WBREDA) would set up a large photovoltaic unit in Mousini islands, near Sagar in south 24 Parganas district, as part of ambitious plans for generation and distribution of Solar power in the area.
Behind the hills next to the Pygmy village of Mabolo, Cameroon in the Central African rain forest, a pipeline is to be built in a few years to carry oil to the Atlantic coast, where it will be shipped to the West. The pipeline, which the World Bank endorsed in …
Like other German motorists, Andreas Foerster has something of a love affair going with his car. But after years of stoically paying $70 or more to fill up the tank, Foerster is fed up and not going to take it anymore. He has joined a fast-growing protest movement called Jetzt …
Large spreads of open land frequently separate the homes on the Navajo Reservation reservation, which covers an area of 4.8 million acres.The rambling expanses make hooking into the power grid eye-poppingly expensive. Stringing power lines costs roughly $30,000 per mile. By comparison, a one-kilowatt solar generator, which can provide for …
The reforms in Orissa's power sector have not brought about any improvement in the management of the utilities. At least that is what has become evident from the recent report of the CAG . The report has pointed out that the Orissa government-owned transmission company. Gridco, has suffered financial losses …
The government is contemplating estblishing a separate grid for wind energy and other non-conventional energy sources without disturbing the existing power grid, power minister Rangarajan Kumaramangalam said at Tiruchirapalli on Sunday.
The federal government on Thursday banned most home uses of the pesticide Dursban - the most widely used pesticide in the nation found in some 20 million homes - due to neurological health risks including blurred vision and memory loss.
Report: Farmers in the US are finding a new way of compensating for the low returns from their grain crops by investing in wind energy generation, according to the Worldwatch Institute.
The Chief Executive, Mr. Tung Chee-Hwa, said teh Government would introduce sweeping measures to fight air pollution and pledged the territory's air would be as clean as that in New York and London by 2005, local radio reported Tuesday.
European Union countries will today be asked to increase by up to six-fold the proportion of electricity generated from renewable sources including solar and wind power as part of a drive to meet targets for reducing global warming.
