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 Bangladesh government is planning to introduce special motor from next year for use in the industrial, commercial and domestic electrical appliances to save some 460 megawatt electricity from the National Grid and reduce technical system loss, load shedding and power pilferage, sources said.
The government has decided to allow use of diesel as alternative fuel to naphtha for power generation. The power sector needs around 10 million kilo litres of diesel for 5,000 mw of power projects in the pipeline.
Collectors, recyclers, and users of waste oil in Australia are the target of a new initiative to reward oil re-use with a grant from the Government, it was announced on Tuesday."Australia currently uses around 520 megalitres of oil each year, of which up to 370 megalitres is unaccounted for," said …
The UK's wind farms are expected to be severely hit by the new legislation, known as New Electricity Trading Arrangements, or NETA, which requires a guaranteed output from all electricity suppliers - which is not the case at present.The proposals are forecast to become law in November and aim to …
A loan agreement of US $50 million for Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) was reached between the government of Nepal and Asian Development Bank (ADB). According to the loan conditionalities, the government is required to hike the price of electricity by 30 percent immediately and review it every six months.
A rare treat in store for star gazers who have a chance to see the longest total lunar eclipse in the last 150 years on July 16.The lunar eclipse - that will last for one hour 47 minutes - will begin at 5.27 pm and end at 9.24 pm.
Tuberculosis, congential deformities, rashes, skin cancer, night blindness, paralysis and other strange ailments afflict villagers living within a 16 km radius of Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (RAPS) overlooking the Aravalli ranges in Rawatbhata. Though 'nucleocrats' have given a clean chit to the plant, activists and villagers living aournd RAPS are …
National Thermal Power Corporation will adopt super critical boiler technology for its proposed super thermal power project at Sipat in Bilaspur district, Madhya Pradesh.These boilers will nave higher thermal efficiency and will result in lower pollution.
US-backed plans to build a network of oil and gas pipelines under the Caspian Sea are running into Russian environmental objections following announcements of a big oil discovery by Kazakhstan this month.
While locked in a string of disputes with the Clinton Administration, the oil industry has pumped more than $1.5 million into George W. Bush's campaign. A range of issues - from drilling in an Alaskan wildlife refuge to new rules setting the price of oil taken from federal land to …
The gas industry put forward a list for federal and state governments to urgently deal with greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a key world conference in November on global warming. The Australian Gas Association (AGA) has urged cabinet to adopt a 10-point national greenhouse energy policy to reduce emissions after …
Britain's struggling green energy industry will suffer further under government plans to introduce new electricity trading arrangements (NETA) in November, government officials and industry executives say. Wind farms, dependent on the vagaries of the British weather, will be among the worst hit as the new trading systems punishes generators which …
Over half of households in the United Kingdom, Germany and Sweden are willing to pay more for "green" energy, UK-based analysts Datamonitor said. In a new report, entitled "Marketing Green Energy in Europe", based on the results of interviews with 2000 households in the three countries, the agency concluded that …
-- Firefighters tried to douse burning pools of gasoline today in southern Nigeria, struggling to extinguish a pipeline fire as villagers hastily buried charred bodies. The cause of a fuel explosion on Monday near here is unclear. Oil company executives faulted a fuel-smuggling ring for puncturing the line to siphon …
The Pacific nations and green groups have criticised the decision by British Nuclear Fuels to take back a consignment of nuclear fuel that had been shipped to Japan with falsified quality records last year.
Japan and Britain agreed Tuesday on having tainted plutonium fuel manufactured by British Nuclear Fuels Corp. returned to Britain, Japanese officials said.Natural Resources and Energy Agency chief Hirobumi Kawano and Anna Walker, the Energy Bureau chief of Britain's Department of Trade and Industry, reached the agreement in their final talks …
The privatization of Ontario's nuclear power network surged into high gear yesterday with the announcement that a British energy giant has signed a long-term lease to operate the aging and often-troubled Bruce nuclear station. The deal, which has been rumoured for months, marks the first time a nuclear facility in …
NTPC will set up a RS 8,000 crore LNG fuelled power plant in Mangalore. Making the announcement yesterday after a revie wo fthe menorandum of agreement signed with the Karnataka government in January 2000, power minister, P R Kumaramangalam told reporters at Bangalore that the 2,000 MW unit will receive …
British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL) agreed on Tuesday to Japanese demands that it take back a shipment of nuclear fuel after it faked its data, but the return of the toxic matter could take as long as three years.
