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 long-suffering 2,1-million citizens of Nairobi face an acute water shortage that has spread to the central business district of East Africa's most important city. The government blames the water shortage on a three-year long drought, the worst in three decades and which has left hydroelectric dams, the main source …
Cairn Energy India Pty Ltd., the Indian subsidiary of the UK-based Cairn Energy plc, intends to drill 18 wells in the Cambay offshore block, CB-OS/2, where it has recently struck oil and gas.
Four years after obtaining techno-economic clearance, the fast-track 2x520 MW Hinduja power project at Visakhapatnam is yet to take off even as the promoter--the Hinduja National Power Corporation Limited -- expressed its readiness to declare the financial closure by June end this year.
As officials at the Leningrad Nuclear Power Station warn that, unless they receive a major injection of cash, the plant's reactors will have to shut down, experts who have gathered in St. Petersburg this week are looking at ways to make the country's nuclear industry more profitable.And state representatives played …
The Haleji lake in Pakistan is facing a double threat, on one hand the water level is going down and on the other its water surface is being covered up with weeds. The lake, which has been declared a wildlife sanctuary, is situated about 80 kilometres from the city of …
Ministers in UK are planning to pump an extra $38m into research into green energy projects such as offshore wind power. The funds to be spread over three years, will be drawn from an expected surplus on the government's proposed climate change levy on industry.
Orissa's Chilka lake and lagoon, which had been headed for a slow biological death, has found a new lifeline in a project that is in the pipeline to give it a new outlet to the sea.
A policy paper has been prepared in Assam for reforms and restructuring of the power sector in the state paving the way for corporatisation of the present ASEB and selective introduction of private participation in the generation of electricity.
Power from your garbage! Well, it may finally be a reality in the Capital if the municipal corporation approves a proposal to put the garbage to some use. The corporation , however, wants to make sure it does not burn its fingers trying to produce power from garbage. An incinerator …
Four years after obtaining techno-economic clearance, the fast-track 2x520 MW Hinduja power project at Visakhapatnam is yet to take off even as the promoter - the Hinduja National Power Corporation Limited - expressed its readiness to declare the financial closure by June end this year.
The construction of Ganges Barrage down to the river Gorai can save more than 25 million people living in greater Khulna, Jessore and Kushia and areas from the attack of increasing salinity and arsenic hazard and can boost agro-based economy by reviving at least one hundred large or small rivers …
At stake in the matter of Chief Victor Buffalo v. Her Majesty The Queen are not only billions of dollars that taxpayers may be ordered to hand over to a handful of Indian tribes, but fundamental questions about the obligation of a modern industrial country to protect the welfare of …
expert : The cure for a decade of economic stagnation may be the focal point of Sunday's general election, but Tetsunari Iida wants Japanese politicians to put energy and environment high on the political agenda as well."Compared with Europe, where the political agenda is balanced on the issues of environment, …
Bharat Heavy Electricals (Bhel) has approached the government for help to secure two power projects possibly in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka which would help the PSU giant qualify to bid for global power projects.
Taiwan's fledging green movement is up in arms over hints that a controversial $5.6 billion project nuclear power project, situated just 40 kilometres from Taipei, may not be scrapped after all-even though the new President belongs to the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), an environmentally friendly party with an antinuclear platform.
Honouring the Karnataka High Court's verdict, the S M Krishna ministry has decided to extend escrow cover for the Tanirbavi power project off Mangalore.
The proposal to increase the water tariff at shimla has been rejected by the Congress-controlled Shimla Municipal Corporation. The decision was taken at a meetings of the general house of the Municipal at Shimal yesterday.
Indian nuclear power plants achieved a record generation of 2,240 MW on Friday with all the 12 units operating at near their full capacity, a press release issued by the Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) has stated.
Space weather researchers from America, Europe and Japan at a meeting of the American Geophysical Union, have presented the first observations of the hot, charged gas slung towards earth by the sun actually breaching the planet's magnetic defences. These observations vindicated a theory about the interaction between the sun and …
