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 "most likely longer-term solution" to U.S. sugar surpluses could involve converting the sugar to ethanol in the United States and Mexico, a U.S. sugar industry group said yesterday. "The U.S. sugar industry recognises that significant change must occur within the industry, or with the policy, or both, to sustain …
In the largest agreement ever reached with oil refiners for clean air violations, BP Amoco and privately-held Koch Petroleum Group will pay $14.5 million in fines and spend $580 million in facility upgrades, the U.S.Environmental Protection Agency said. The agreement will cut air pollution by 60,000 tons a year in …
The Thai-Malaysian joint venture gas development project will put Thailand at a disadvantage and expose local residents and their property to danger, according to a research study.Local people living in 44 villages on the pipeline route will be at risk if the project is carried out.The research on the government's …
Almost one thousand Chana district (Thailand) residents yesterday gathered to show their support for the Thai-Malay gas pipeline and refinery project, which they believe will bring prosperity to this southern province.More than 800 local leaders, fishermen, housewives and rubber planters gathered outside the district office and submitted open letters to …
Opponents of two coal-fired power plants in Prachuap Khiri Khan called on the Japan Bank for International Co-operation yesterday not to support the projects.Three representatives of the opponents, accompanied by 300 villagers, met Katsumi Sasaki, the bank's senior representative in Bangkok, to express their concern.
Like their European counterparts, Indian scientists have also commenced work on a new way of tapping nuclear energy, terminating chain reaction at a sub-critical level, according to Dr. S.S. Kapoor, director of Physics Group of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre here.
Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc(TEPCO) said yesterday it has started to manually shut down a 1.1 gigawatt(gW) nuclear reactor after detecting an increase in iodine in water inside the reactor.
Russia flexed its muscles in the Caspian Sea as three of its largest oil and gas companies formed a consortium to explore for oil. A significant Caspian oil discovery was also announced.
Turkey has decided to drop a controversial multibillion dollar project for the country's first nuclear power plant, Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit announced, citing financial shortages.
The Venezuelan government said Wednesdayit will allow private companies to drill for oil in the Essequibo territory-the latest move in an escalating dispute over the mineral-rich region claimed by both Venezuela and Guyana. "We're going to grant oil concessions in that area ... just as Guyana does,"foreign minister Jose Vicente …
A dispute between Russia and Poland over construction of a natural gas pipeline to western Europe deepened as Viktor Khristenko, Russia's deputy prime minister, complained that Polish opposition to the pipeline could endanger Europe's energy security.
A draft of the next long-term plan for the study, development and use of nuclear energy in Japan, which calls for more private-sector involvement and government commitment to the issue of radioactive waste disposal, was submitted Monday by the Atomic Energy Commission to its internal council. The draft plan strongly …
Japan's Atomic Energy Commission on Monday proposed resuming the operations of Monju, a prototype fast-breeder reactor that was mothballed after an accident in 1995.The proposal by Japan's highest decision-making body on nuclear power was included in the draft of a new long-term nuclear power generation program.
The Centre h as decided to undertake a pilot scheme for solar photovoltaic (SPV) electrification of select 100 unelectrified villages in the current year.
As the Bangladesh government is not favouring gas export, some International Oil Companies (IOCs) are now considering to produce petroleum by using natural gas, one of the best option of ensuring optimum use of the country's hydrocarbon resource.
The Paris-based Unesco has decided to extend its global project on 'Wise Coastal Practices for Sustainable Human Development' to the Alang and Sosia Ship-Breaking Yard (ASSBY). This yard is the biggest in the world and lies on the 1,600 km long Gujarat coastline.
A Rs 12-crore 1 mw project to generate power from cattle/dairy waste on a pilot basis is to be put up at the Haebowal dairy complex in Ludhiana. The Haebowal complex which boasts of 1.5 lakh cattle waste daily which can be used for generating over 10 MW power.
The United States was on a collision course with the rest of the world on Friday after saying that its economic boom has been so great that it cannot achieve its commitment to tackle global warming under the 1997 Kyoto Treaty by cutting fuel use.
The rural electrification project that is being blamed for possible hike in electricity tariff in Nepal is hitting new controversies with reports of irregularities while appointing a consultant for the Detailed Design Survey.
The Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu on Friday announced that the government will draw up an action plan to promote usage of solar energy in view of prevailing crisis in the power sector.
