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 state government has sanctioned Rs 3,40,000 to Madya Pradesh Solar Energy Development Corporation (MPSEDC) for starting electrification works through solar energy in village Khala.
More than 1,600 tons of nuclear weapons parts reportedly lie scattered around the U.S. Energy Department's uranium plant in Paducah, Kentucky, a safety manager has informed regulators, in a new disclosure of potential hazards unknown to workers or civilian plant supervisors.
The space agency NASA has managed to launch space shuttles safely with a reduced work force, but critical shortages of skilled engineers and unhurried efforts to replace them could pose increased safety problems as the flight rate increases in coming years, an advisory panel said.
Over 200 fishermen belonging to some fishing hamlets in and around the port town today staged a demonstration in Tuticorin demanding immediate steps to safeguard the dwindling prawn wealth from the alleged pollution caused by Tuticorin Thermal Power Station(TTPS).
The US Senate voted yesterday to require that nuclear waste be shipped from power plants around the country to a site in Nevada as early as 2007 once a permanent burial site in the western state is licensed. But the measurement, which has yet to be considered by the House, …
Air pollution has assumed an alarming proportion in Rajkot. The poisonous smoke emitted by vehicles particularly is causing serious health problems among citizens. According to some officials of the Gujarat Pollution Board (GPB) the proportion of smoke emitted by vehicles in city is as high as 286 cubic mg as …
Renewables are no more natural, abundant, better or cheaper than fossil fuels, according to the Greening Earth Society (GES). The GES - an organisation which believes that "using fossil fuels to enable our economic activity is as natural as breathing" - claims in its report Renewable Energy and the Laws …
The proposed Rs 5,000 crore, 900 mw Hansthal creek tidal wave project in the Gulf of Kutch in Gujarat has gained further impetus with the appointment of a Mauritius government official as adviser for the project. Centre has also decided to conduct preliminary surveys on the feasibility of an even …
A new policy package to generate 100 mw of wind power has been announced by the Rajasthan government to attract investment in the private sector. The package commits the purchase of power by RSEB at the rate of Rs 3.03 per kwh-the rate will escalate at 5 per cent per …
The fast-depleting ground water table in Amritsar, has made the authorities concerned sit up. Due to the continuous fall in the water level, wells, which serve as traditional sources of drinking water, have gone dry.
Norwegian environmental youth group Nature and Youth staged a protest yesterday on top of the roof of opposition Labour Party's central office in Oslo, saying they wanted an end to plans for gas-based power in Norway. NTB new agency reported the group, a unit of Friends of the Earth, decorated …
In a bid to light up dwellings in interior West Bengal areas during the golden jubilee year of the republic, the state government has taken up a mega project to reach solar power to 20,000 rural households, according to state power minister Mrinal Banerjee.
Lin Hsin-yi, Taiwan's economics minister, has recommended that construction of the island's US$5.4bn fourth nuclear power plant be halted in a heavy blow for proponents of the controversial project. In a long-awaited report to the cabinet, Mr Lin said he believed alternative sources of electricity supply could be found for …
The department of fertiliser is proposing to seek one time budgetary support to help the naphtha and fuel oil-based fertiliser units to switch over to natural gas. Alternatively the department may look for multilateral funding agencies to finance the revamp of the units.
The fuel protests of the past two weeks have been largely about taxes. But if it's tough for Europeans to accpet high fuel taxes, it's toughest for Norwegians. Only the Saudis export more oil. Money has been sloshing into Norway since the first of its North Sea wells came on …
Japanese in general are growing uneasy about nuclear power. In a poll released last February, 90 percent of the respondents said they were "anxious" about safety issues. But such concerns have done little to slow Japan's commitment to nuclear technology. Japan has 51 nuclear plants that generate 36.8 percent of …
Outrage at the gas pump is spilling over into U.S. presidential politics. Vice President Al Gore labeled oil prices a "national crisis" and urged President Clinton to tap the nation's 570 million barrel Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help moderate prices this winter. On Friday, the administration compiled, authorizing the release …
The UNDP will finance a biomass fuel efficiency project that will address environmental and health problems faced by the people of Tsirang dzonkhag (Bhutan).
China is preparing to adopt a quota system to promote the use of energy from renewable sources in the next Five-Year Plan (2001-05), according to an official with the State Development Planning Commission. The new policy requires the power sector in each region to produce no less than 5.5 per …
