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 …
AP Genco, Andhra Pradesh power generation undertaking, is close to achieving financial closure for a Rs. 475-crore project finance package for refurbishment of its Kothagudem Thermal Power Station.
Report : An epidemiological study has given a clean chit to the Kakrapar Atomic Power Station (KAPS) revealing that there was no prevalence of cancer amongst the workers or their family members . The study said Kakrapar station was as safe as the other two at Tarapur and Rajasthan. The …
About ten per cent of UK industry's electricity bill comes from generating compressed air, but many companies don't even know how much air they need, let alone how much they are generating. Compressed air is used in almost every industrial sector. "Some people call it the fourth utility," a spokesperson …
Rajkot municipal corporation authorities have started spraying chemicals on the water in the Bhadar dam to prevent its evaporation. This is being done to preserve as much water as possible as most sources of water for Rajkot city have dried up. However, according to some RMC sources this is a …
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) has postponed the use of a new nuclear fuel at a plant in Fukushima Prefecture because of forged inspection documents on similar fuel by a British company,and growing concerns about nuclear safety, officials said today. TEPCO President Nobuya Minami this morning told Fukushima Governor Eisaku …
The Thai Oil refinery, which has been shut since Dec.3 because of an explosion and fire will start operations around Jan. 15-17, said Chulchit Bunyaketu, Thai Oil Managing director.
Tokyo Electric Power Co Inc said on Thursday it has started to shut down a nuclear reactor on the Japan Sea coast after a small amount of radiation was detected in a leaked pool of water.
India will expand the development of renewable energy projects and private sector energy efficienty investment with the help of $130 million in financing from the World Bank and a $5 million grant from the global environment facility.
Norway's Oil and Energy Ministry proposed yesterday to set up a new agency for energy conservation and to stimulate more efficient energy production. The Ministry said in a statement it aimed to upgrade Norwegian energy administration and to focus more on energy conservation.
Undaunted by having been a scapegoat for skyrocketing gasoline prices in U.S. this month, the ethanol industry is producing record rates of the mainly corn based fuel additive and setting its sights on new markets. Red Cavaney, president of oil industry group the American Petroleum Institute, blamed this summer's record …
Australia's biggest wind-powered electricity generating system will be built near Albany on the south coast of Western Australia by state-owned utility Western Power, state Energy Minister Colin Barnett said yesterday. Costing A$45 million, the windfarm will come on line next July. It will contain 12 turbines on 65 metre towers …
A group of Republican state legislators in Wisconsin sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today over clean-air regulations that they said had brought high gasoline prices to southern Wisconsin. The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court here, asserts that the agency failed to consider the price consequences of requirements for …
A wildfire raged today across atleast 190,000 arid acres on and around the U.S. Hanford Nuclear Reservation and burned across three radioactive waste sites. No radiation releases had been detected by state or federal air-monitoring devices, Julie Erickson, a Department of Energy spokeswoman, said at an afternoon news briefing.
India and Britain will increase their cooperation in the field of power and other infrastructural sectors. A memorandum of understanding between thw two countries will cover the areas of regulatory mechanism, advanced transmission technologies, utilities management, and fly ash products and disposal. P.P. Kumaramangalam, power minister, met trade and industry …
MP to focus on power : Lacking, as it does, the wherewithal to finance the Rs 5,000-crore Indira Sagar project on Narmada, the Madhya Pradesh govenrment has decided to concentrate only on the powoer component of the multipurpose project. The government will seek loan from Power Finance Corporation for the …
Royal Dutch/Shell, the Anglo-Dutch energy group, and Pertamina, Indonesia's state oil company, are in talks that could lead to the construction of the world's biggest plant to convert natural gas to high-quality transportation fuels and chemical feed stocks.
The company that helped create dollythe sheep said yesterday that it had cloned two lambs from genetically modified cells in a technique that could prove a major step in animal-to-human organ transplants. The company, PPL Therapeutics P.L.C., which is based in Edinburgh, inserted new DNA in a specific place in …
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has planned as many as 70 satellite mission over the next 10 years, about 20 per cent of which will have a mandate to study specific processes related to the earth.
Gas production in the Krishna-Godavari basin would be doubled in a year from the current four million cubic metres a day to eight millin cubic metres and many more gas-based units can come up in the area, according to Mr. E. Pannuswamy, Union Minister of State of Petroleum and Natural …
