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 Tamil Nadu government which had supported the development of wind energy, will work for the development of renewable energy sources, according to the Public Works and Forests, Mr. Duraimurugan. He was speaking at the inauguration of the 'Sunergy 2000' conference in Chennai.
Non-governmental organisations yesterday joined in the attack against the Office of Atomic Energy for Peace for its handling of the radioactive waste leak in Samut Prakan. Protestors also demanded it scrap its plan to build a new research nuclear reactor in Nakhon Nayok. Led by the Alternative Energy Project for …
The Madhya Pradesh government plans to introduce a Bill for bringing curbs on the use of ground-water whose levels are falling alarmingly in some parts of the state, notably, 16 blocks of the Malwa region. In other areas, the Government would encourage judicious use of groundwater so that the Malwa …
NBA : Alleging that the official figures put Maheshwar project firm power production at 82 MW and not 400 and the cost of peaking power at Rs. 9.65 per kWh which would escalate to Rs. 15 by the time it reaches consumers, the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) will up the …
Goa has decided not to go for private power generation within as well as drawing nuclear power from across the border, both for one reason - the unaffordable price of it.
The 500mw lignite-based power plant to come up at Barsingsar in Rajasthan has finally been cleared by the Union power ministry, said sources in Jaipur. Cleared after a two-year wait, the project is now estimated cost Rs 2,500 crore.
The naphtha cracker plant of the Haldia petrochemicals project was comissioned today. Two other plants, including the captive power plant, were also commissioned.
In order to overcome the power problem in the Sunderban region in West Bengal, which is cut off from the mainland, the West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency (WBREDA) has undertaken a major programme to generate 8.5 mw electricity from non-conventional sources by 2003.
Public announcements were made as to how traffic policemen can breathe easy. The new solar green traffic booths were supposed to help them bear the brunt of Delhi's pollution day after day. Fifteen of these were installed in the city and then 50 more were to be installed in the …
Uttar Pradesh authorities have been chargined by the realisation that a Rs 4,500 crore World Bank loan to push power sector reforms will come with strings attached to prevent them from spending the money at their discretion.
A damning report by Britain's nuclear industry watchdog on British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) has sparked renewed calls in Japan for a shipment of plutonium-based nuclear fuel to be returned to the UK. Japan's Ministry of Internationaal Trade and Industry and Kansai Electric Power Company have demanded that Britain take back …
Tata Electric part of the Tata group of companies in India is expected to replace cogentrix, the US power group, in a 1,000MW power project in the southern state of karnataka. The US company walked out of the $1.3 bn project earlier this month, finally defeated by official delays and …
Revelations on Friday of lax safety standards at Britain's biggest nuclear facility prompted calls for the plutonium reprocessing plant to be shut down. The environmental pressure group Greenpeace said production of nuclear fuel rods at Sellafield, in North-western England, should be halted, while the Irish government challenged London to explain …
Nasa's Galileo spacecraft will attempt its third and closest flyby of Jupiter's fiery moon Io on Tuesday. The spacecraft will dip to 200 kilometres above Io - the most volcanic body in the solar system. Galileo had gathered a wealth of pictures and other scientific information during previous flybys of …
The Tata Electric Company will be the new partner of the CLP Power International Limited in the Mangalore Power Company that has proposed to set up a 1000 mw project in the coastal city. Tata Electric will replace the original promoter Cogentrix of the US which had withdrawn from the …
A number of Naga voluntary organisations such as the Naga People's Movement for the Human Rights (NPMHR), the Naga Women's Union, Manipur (NWUM), Zeliangrong Union(ZU) etc., have expressed their opposition to the proposed memorandum of understanding(MoU) to be signed between the Manipur Government and the North Eastern Electric Power Corporation(NEEPCO) …
Chinese scientists plant to clone an endangered dolphin whose habitat in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River is becoming increasingly polluted, the state run Xinhua News Agency said Wednesday.
The Rajasthan state government has approved a new policy for the setting up 100-mw wind power plant in the state. The new policy is the modified version of the non-conventional power generation policy adopted by the government last year.
