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 European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is facing serious criticism over the quality of a a study of its biggest loan project-$159m loan to Ukraine to build two nuclear power plants. Greenpeace, the environmental pressure group, which studied an EBRD-commissioned report on the comparative costs of a planned nuclear …
Environmentalists are poised to sue a Kyonggi Province county in an effort to block the building of high-rise apartments they claim would pollute a key drinking water source for Seoul and nearby areas
A British nuclear submarine has sprung a leak in its reactor's cooling system and may have to be towed back to Britain from the colony of Gibraltar, the military said on Thursday.
The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) will create a special purpose vehicle (SPV) for environment protection and water management, the Rajya Sabha was informed.
With people reluctant to invest a substantial amount, the ambitious and novel energy conservation project of the New Delhi Municipal Council(NDMC) has not been able to make much headway so far.
The West Bengal government will shortly announces the details of its new policy inviting private participating in hydro- electric power genertion, power secretary R Bandopadhyaya said at Calcutta today.
The petroleum reserve found recently by a consortium of Western oil companies in the northern Caspian Sea may well be the largest oil discovery in 20 years, according to U.S. officials and industry sources.
China will build the world's largest environment-friendly power plant, one that will create no acid rain despite the fact that it will use poor-quality coal with high sulphur content. The two billion U.S. dollar plant, to be installed in the southwest China city of Neijiang in Sichuan Province, about 150 …
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on energy has criticised the Department of Atomic Energy for not using fully its budgetary allocations over the years. In a harshly worded declaration, the committee said this was "a serious lapse on the part of the department."
President Kim Dae-jung called on cabinet ministers to launch a massive energy conservation drive to contain the effects of rising oil prices on the nation's current account balance. Kim issued the instruction at a weekly cabinet meeting at Chong Wa Dae, in which he voiced concerns about the worsening account …
The Karnataka Government has turned down Enron's demand for conversion of the proposed joint venture Vijaynagar Themal Power Station into a gas-based station.
The European Commission will call for further measures to speed up liberalisation of the EU's electricity market. Ms Loyola de Palacio, the EU's energy commissioner, will stress the need for a cross-border energy market to help improve competitiveness.
Environmentalists are keeping their fingers crossed over the Chennai Corporation's move to set up an 'Autoclaving and pyrolysis gassifier' to generate electricity from garbage at the Perrungudi dumping ground.
Shell, the biggest oil company in Hong Kong, said last night it would not convert filling stations to offer cleaner liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) unless the Government put forward a better offer. In a response to government criticisms, company director Robert Young said officials had only offered to waive land …
A reactor at the Diablo Canyon nuclear center in San Luis Opispo, California released a cloud of potentially radioactive steam following a shut-down due to a power outage, the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission said today. The incident occurred at 5.15pm (AEST) Monday at one of the two reactors at Diablo …
Fresh avenues are opening up for entrepreneurs in India as technology is made available to convert thousands of acres of fly ash dumping grounds to rolling greens. Nowhere in the world has it ever been demonstrated that one can actually grow gladiolus and tuberoses, carnations and lilinum, and a variety …
The long-awaited bio-diversity Bill was introduced in the Lok Sabha yesterday seeking to bar mandatorily all foreigners, foreign companies and foreign research organisations from taking out any biodiversity material from India without the specific permission of the competent authority.
Cars and motorised two-wheelers vehicles in Ghaziabad are getting severely damaged because petrol is being adulterated with a solvent normally used for dry-cleaning. Garage owners and some authorised vehicle service centres say there has been a heavy and sudden spurt in the number of affected vehicles in the last three …
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited is to set up in Delhi the environment-frinedly 330 megawatt gas-based Pragati Power Project. The power generating unit will be the first of its kind in the country to have extremely low emission levels because of the use of dry low nitrogen oxide combustors in the …
