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 …
Unless new, more prudent energy supply systems are employed worldwide, global carbon emissions will increase sharply, resulting in serious climate change implications, said Program on Science, at a July 25 Congressional hearing.
Growing public concern and increasing competition in the energy industry in Japan has prompted the government to step back from its nuclear power development schedule. A recent draft for the next stage of the nation's nuclear energy development plan, submitted to a council of the Atomic Energy Commission July 24, …
An advisory panel to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry has compiled a draft report calling for significant changes to Japan's energy policy. A subcommittee of the Petroleum Council proposed that Japan abandon the current resource development structure dominated by the profligate Japan National Oil Corp in favor of …
The Ministry of International Trade and Industry is considering requiring the nation's electric power utilities to generate a certain percentage of their total electricity output by wind, sun or other nonpolluting source.
In June Dr. Irvine-Halliday and his friends lit 54 homes and a Gompa of Thula Pokhara and Raje Danda villages in south eastern Kavrepalanchok district of Nepal. They were the world's first communities to be permanently and entirely lit by White Light Emitting Diode (WLED) lighting system. The environmentally lamps …
India ranks only behind Germany, the United States, Denmark and Spain, in the production of wind power.And the recent hike in Central budgetary suppot for the renewable energy sector has added more wind to the sails of this sector.The first Wind Test Centre in the country in Kayathar, in Thoothukudi …
US antitrust regulators will be able to sue OPEC for fixing prices and setting production levels of crude oil, under legislation approved by a US Senate subcommittee.
The American oil and gas giant Unocal Corp has discovered Bangladesh's largest single site of natural gas, holding up to six thousand billion cubic feet, officials said in Dhaka. The site is in Bibiyana in northeastern Sylhet district and will raise the country's proven recoverable gas reserves by almost 50 …
Two of the US's largest petroleum refiners - British Petroleum and the Koch Petroleum Group, have agreed to spend almost $600 million on eliminating almost 60,000 tonnes of nitrogen oxide, sulphur dioxide and other emissions.British Petroleum, (BP), the nation's second largest refiner, and Wichita based Koch Petroleum Group, which together …
All new residential and commercial buildings, as well as major renovations, will be subject to new energy efficiency measures being introduced into the Building Code of Australia.
Fifteen Australian power generators and retailers had signed-on to an internet-based market to trade the green value of renewable electricity generation, The Marketplace Co Ltd (M-co) said yesterday. The project coincides with the introduction of a range of government measures to boost use of environmentally-friendly energy to reduce Australia's greenhouse …
To tackle the problem of the frequent leakage of tubes of the boilers of the local Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant (GNDTP), the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) authorities have decided to use washed coal. To see the benefit of the use of washed coal in GNDTP, the PSEB authorities …
CII: The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) on Thursday suggested that the energy conservation bill should draw an enabling framework to accelerate energy efficiency in the system while adding that the bill should be made a marketable commodity which would be easily adopted by industry.
A campaign against the Thai-Malaysia gas pipeline project, or Joint Development Area (JDA) started yesterday in Hat Yai, Thailand.The event was a prelude to a peoples' forum on the controversial project.
Despite resistance and complaints of harassment, the single-meter scheme of Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB), aimed at providing power connection to the city slums, has made a considerable impact and brought this segment under legal billing system.
West Bengal's Marxist-led Government has run into resistance from environmentalists and one of its own coalition partners as it pursues efforts with the Central Government to build a nuclear power plant.
US oil company Unocal has struck Bangladesh's biggest ever gas reserve at Bibiyana in Sylhet, which has a proven reserve of over six trillion cubic feet (tcf) gas. Of this, the company expects a recoverable reserve of five tcf gas.
Mark Moody-Stuart, chairman of Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch/Shell Group , has been appointed co-chair of the G8 Renewable Energy Taskforce, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said yesterday. The taskforce will report to next year's G8 summit in Genoa.G8 heads of government agreed at their Okinawa summit last weekend to …
The Sindh and NWFP governments have expressed serious apprehensions over the proposed construction of Kalabagh dam and have asked the Pakistan government to consult them before taking a final decision about it. Official sources said on Wednesday that in the light of reservations expressed by the two provincial governments, the …
