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 …
AERB: The Atomic Energy Regulatory Bord (AERB) has clarified that radiation dose to workers in uranium mines at Jaduguda in Bihar as well any releae of radioactivity into the environment are well within prescribed limits.
Traditional sources and availability of energy for the consumption of Bangladesh's rural people are depleting day by day due to excessive and unplanned use of biomass fuel. Despite massive urban migration, a survey on rural energy systems in Asia-Pacific showed that in Bangladesh the percentage of population living in the …
A group of global organisations called on the World Bank for a moratorium on water privatisation projects, in the wake of killing of at least three people in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The demonstrators were demanding an end to the water privatisation, sponsored and financed by the World Bank, which had resulted …
The U.S. Government has reversed decades of denial and proposed paying at least $400 millions to thousands of ailing workers who were exposed to radiation while building the nation's nuclear arsenal.
Ontario Power Generation Inc. and a group of partners plan an $18-million pilot fuel cell project for delivering heat and electricity to buildings. The project, to develop what is billed as the largest precommercial solid oxide fuel cell in the world, could lead to a major advance in producing energy …
Accessibility, availability and acceptability of energy are the three fundamental goals to be achieved in the next century, according to the World Energy Congress statement, 2000 on 'Energy for Tomorrow's World-Acting Now'. Addressing these goals is fundamental to political stability worldwide, to the energy business strategy and for achieving a …
The World Bank has suspended the grant of further instalment of the sum it had sanctioned for the Haryana power reform programme some two years ago. Among other things, the Bank insisted that the Haryana State Electricity Board (HSEB) be wound up and it should be replaced by autonomous bodies …
As part of its efforts to further accelerate the pace of exploration of oil and gas, the government has signed production sharing contracts for 22 exploration blocks under the New Exploration Licensing Policy and for three blocks from earlier rounds.
At least 85 nuclear power stations must be built in Europe - including four in Britain - over the next 20 years if targets on emissions of carbon dioxide are to be met, according to a European Commisssion report. The report compiled by London-based consultancy ERM Energy so alarmed the …
Deep under the ocean floor and the Arctic permafrost are icelike deposits of frozen methane with energy potential equal to more than twice that of all other fossil fuels combined. US Congress is now ready to put up nearly $50 million to find out if this energy source can be …
Oil company Royal Dutch/Shell said it and Siemens Westinghouse Power Corp. plan to build a pilot-emission-free gas fired station in Norway. The new technology, which stops harmful gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen dioxide reaching the atmosphere, would mainly be used to generate power for offshore oil and …
German power suppliers are paying 80 percent more for eco-power following the introduction of the Renewable Energy Law on April 1, the Association of German Electricity Suppliers (VDEW) said. "German power suppliers are being forced to pay around 2.4 billion marks for non-competitive power from reneawable energy, which is a …
Legislators in the Philippines are to vote this week on a bill that would privatize the heavily indebted national power company, a process that the International Monetary Fund and other lenders have demanded before they will disburse urgently needed new loans.
UK ministers have taken the unprecedented step of asking Premier Oil to withdraw from its 27 per cent interest in Burma's Yetagun gas project in an attempt to increase pressure on Rangoon's military government. "The continuing presence of reputable companies in Burma is encouraging the regime ther to flout international …
The Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA), a public sector enterprise, has recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources (MNES) for 2000-2001 whereby it will sanction renewable energy and energy efficiency projects having a total loan commitment of Rs. 665 crores.
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has started work for the prepration of a national strategy and action plan to conserve the country's biodiversity. According to a copy of the detailed proposal, made available to Business Line, the national action plan will also include sub-plans made at the …
Windmill projects were enviornment friendly and economical and should be encouraged to reduce power crisis in the country, according to Mr. Madhur Bajaj, President of Bajaj Auto Ltd. He was speaking at the Bhoomi-Poojan function of the second phase of their windmill project at Vansukurde, Maharashtra.
Gerhard Schroder, German chancellor, has set a fresh deadline of mid-year for an agreement with the country's power utilities on an exit from nuclear power. His intervention follows the failure of negotiations - including confidential talks at the weekend - to end the stand-off between the government and the energy …
The donors funding the multi-million dollar Melamchi Drinking Water Supply Project may start sanctioning the loans from early 2001. Nepal officials and donor representatives who held review meetings said the outcomes were very much fruitful.
Swedish and Russian soldiers will next week start work on cleaning up a 15-year-old oil spill at a once-secret Russian nuclear missile base near the Baltic city of Ostrov. The project is being co-ordinated by the Green Cross, an international environmental group whose president is Mikhail Gorbachev, the former Soviet …
