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 World Bank, the Government of India and Coal India Ltd (CIL) have agreed to cancel the undisbursed amount of $250 millions of an original loan of $530 millions for the India Coal Sector Rehabilitation Project (CSRP).
The Union Power Ministry and the Jammu and Kashmir Government have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for implementation of seven hydroelectric power projects in the state. The total generating capacity of these seven projects would be 2,798 MW.
Greater Mysore Chamber of Industry (GMCI) has opposed the proposed Energy Conservation Bill 2000, claiming that there was no need for it. It also decried the creation of a body called Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) with its headquarters in Delhi and offices at other places.
The Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources (MNES) has agreed to fund the project for the world's first solar crematorium. The project ran into rough weather because of the skyrocketing cost of the solar concentrator that would reflect the sun's rays on a specially constructed coffin, and the last minute doubts …
Eurelectric, the European electricity industry association, is warning that in the rush for EU energy liberalisation, environmental protection issues such as climate change and air quality, will put unnecessary burdens on the electricity industry. Excessive assistance for renewable energy sources (RES) could actually hamper their development, says Eurelectric.
The Rajasthan Chief Minister, Mr Ashok Gehlot, today said the newly created five power corporations after dividing the state electricity board to initiated reform in the power sector, would remain under "government control" for two years. Efforts would be made to hand over the two companies dealing with transmission and …
Industries can now come down to Goa to avail facilities of fiver-year income tax holiday and 10-year sales tax exemption, if they can generate the captive power of their own, without going in for the state-supplied electricity.
More than 40 experts, many of them internationally - renowned authorities, will participate in a three-day conference on 'Global challenges for sustainable energy in the new millennium' here from August 17 to 19.
Scientists have reported radioactive storm runoff in a fire-denuded area above the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory.The first significant thunderstorm to hit Los Alamos after a fire burned through the area this spring flushed higher-than-average levels of radiation down Los Alamos Canyon early last month, the lab reported Tuesday.
AES Corporation of the US is preparing to sue the Hungarian authorities in a dispute over a new $250m power station, ordered when AES invested in Hungary in 1996 but later cancelled by the Hungarian side.
In France, 60,000 people are supplied with elecrticity produced by power stations wich run exclusively on biogaS, a gas resulting from the decomposition of household waste.
Panipat refinery of Indian Oil has been certified with occupational health and safety management system series (OHSAS -18001) by leading certifying body M/S Det Norske Veritas(DNV), the Netherlands.
The World Bank has given Cameroon a loan of 3.7 billion CFA francs ($5.3 million) to help it manage environmental aspects of a controversial oil pipeline project, official daily Cameroon Tribune said yesterday. The loan will help fund phase-by-phase observation of the project to ensure that the executing consortium lives …
About 30 people were feared killed in an oil pipeline explosion on the premises of a refinery in Nigeria's southern oil city of Warri on Monday, local officials said.
A few simple tricks have enabled enabled Californian researchers to "rear" algae, enabling them to produce greater quantities of hydrogen as an energy source. The scientists found that a green alga of the Chlamydomonas Genus switches its metabolism to producing huge amounts of hydrogen when deprived of sulphur and oxygen. …
Rural energy which can be generated with a small investment and locally available resources and technical expertise, seems to be very effective to achieve the goal of poverty alleviation and conservation of natural environment through the promotion of community managed rural energy systems. Started in 1996 by Rural Energy Development …
More than half a million tonnes of garbage and solid waste annually generated in Punjab's three biggest cities - Ludhiana, Amritsar and Jalandhar - will be used to generate additional electricity in the state.
Today's giant coal and nuclear power plants are failing to provide the high-quality, reliable electricity needed to power the new digital economy, according to a new report from the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington, DC-based research organization. Power interruptions due to the vulnerability of central power plants and transmission lines cost …
America's problem isn't an oil shortage. It's the country's insatiable appetite. The U.S. is not headed for a repeat of the energy crisis of the 1970s, but these are warning signs. By default, Democrats and Republicans alike have adopted an energy policy that depends on limitless supplis to satiate a …
