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 …
A law aimed at prevention and better handling of accidents at nuclear power facilities in Japan went into force Friday.The law states that the central government must take the lead in dealing with nuclear accidents. Local governments in areas where nuclear power facilities are located have long been demanding such …
In a significant development, Germany has decided to shut down its nuclear power programme, lock, stock and barrel in the coming two decades. One may immediately attribute the 'credit' to the Greens in the coalition government of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. A more credible reason is the growing conviction the world …
Metropolis Gas Pvt Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Enron Corp, and Rashtriya Chemicals and Fertilizers Ltd (RCF), a Government of India undertaking announced that they have signed the Gas Sales Agreement (GSA) under which Enron will supply gas to RCF's plant in Thal, Maharashtra.
Use of bio-gas in household work has increased considerably in the district of Shariatpur, Bangladesh. So far a total of 33 bio-gas plants has been installed in different upazilas of the district.
Steel Authority of India Ltd's (SAIL) turn around package through diverstment of non-crore activities has received a severe jolt with Nationa Thermal Power Corporation(NTPC) assessing the former's captive power plants as unviable and not bereft of labour problems.
Germany's government and electricity industry agreed on a plan on Tuesday aimed at launching the fastest wholesale shutdown of nuclear power ever undertaken by a major industrial country.
Wind power technology that makes wind farms competitive with conventional large power plants has been unveiled by Asea Brown Boveri (ABB). The Windformer is claimed to increase power output by up to 20% and to cut lifetime maintenance costs in half.
National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), is adopting Super critical boilers Techlonogy for the proposed 3x6-60 MW.Super thermal Project at Sipat in Bilaspur District of Madhya Pradesh.
Japan will stick to its nuclear power program despite a German decision to shut down the country's 19 nuclear power stations, a government official who declined to be named said. "We will study Germany's decision, but it will not directly affect our nuclear power programme," said the official from the …
German nuclear plants could start shutting in 2002 following an agreement by the government and the power industry to end the country's use of atomic energy, the environment minister said. A deal reached by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and nuclear power plant officials earlier in the day after more than a …
George Ryan, the Republican governor of Illinois, has called on the US government to suspend environmental rules mandating cleaner-burning gasoline, which he blamed for driving pump prices in parts of the Midwest above $2 a gallon, the highest in the United States.
Jurgen Trittin, Germany's Green environment minister, described Berlin's deal to shut down the country's 19 nuclear power stations, struck in the early hours, as "a difficult but defensible compromise". Jurgen Trittin has been criticised for conceding too much in his plan to close 19 atomic stations.
On the face of it, the German nuclear industry has done well in postponing for many years the threatened closure of its power plants. The 32-year old limit agreed with Chancellor Gerhard Schroder was less than the industry wanted but much more than the coalition government of Social Democrats and …
Twenty-five years ago, Nirmal N Saigal, inventor-technocrat, approached the government to formulate a policy on ethanol as an alternative fuel. Since then, most countries have woken up to the virtues of ethanol. But the government is yet to come up with a policy.
While the destruction of the Western Ghats forest region is going on unhindered, its threatened condition and ecological richness have once agin been acknowledged internationally through inclusion in the 25 biodiversity 'hotspots' of the world.
The State Cabinet today decided to provide escrow facility to the 220 MW barge-mounted Tannirbhavi power project near Mangalore following a Karnataka High Court judgement. The government decided not to file an appeal against the judgement, Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister D B Chandre Gowda said at Bangalore today.
The Bangladesh Energy Ministry has finally backed out of approving the Western Region Intergrated Project (WRIP) and decided that Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited (BAPEX) will develop the Shahbazpur gas field while Rural Electrification Board (REB) will construct a 20-mw power plant at Bhola.
The Bangladesh government will launch a two-year Air Quality Management Project in the Capital city of Dhaka and two other cities of the country by the end of the current year to reduce the level of air pollution mostly caused by two stroke engines and the diesel run vehicles. The …
Ram naik: Petroleum minister Ram Naik says there is a degree of extremism among environmentalists who have been demonstrating against the ongoing 16th World Petroleum Congress in the Canadian city of Calgary.
