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 Pakistan government has chalked out a plan to completely subsitute the furnace oil with gas during coming three years, said Secretary, Petroleum and Natural Resources Abdullah Yousuf.
Fifteen Australian power generators and retailers had signed-on to an internet based market to trade the green value of renewable electricity generation. The Marketplace Co Ltd (M-co) said. The project coincides with the introduction of a range of government measures to boost use of environmentally friendly energy to reduce Australia's …
Canadian college students have set a world record for the longest distance travelled in a solar-powered car, using an amount of electricity equivalent to running a toaster. Travelling at an average speed of 50 mph while using only 1,000 watts of power, the students logged 4,377 miles in their cross …
UK ministers are planning to divert more than half of a fund set up to help small and medium-sized business cope with the climate change levy into researching renewable energy, according to a leak from the Department of Trade and Industry.
The 250-MW Karbi-Langpi Hydro-electric Porject, whose construction began way back in 1979, is yet to be completed even after two decades, with the cost going up by more than eight times of what was originally estimated.
Washington is likely to stand firm on its Caspian energy policy whatever the outcome of the presidential elections in November, according to a senior US official. John Wolf, special adviser to the the president of Caspian energy diplomacy, said the US would continue to promote an east-west energy corridor linking …
The World Bank said it approved a $150 million loan to help Vietnam provide energy to about 450,000 households or an estimated 2 million people-in 32 rural provinces. Using renewable energy resources, the project will provide reliable lighting sources and improved health care and services, the bank said in a …
Zao Rosshelf, a subsidiary of Russia's natural gas giant, Gazprom, plans to sign an agreement with the Russian government by the end of 2000 to develop the massive Shtokmanovskoye natural gas field in the Bering Sea.But the project's high costs raise questions whether or not the gas can be tapped …
Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell is to acquire a majority stake in sakhalin energy which is to develop gas fields in the Russain far east island of Sakhalin, the companies said on Thursday.
Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI) director Dr. R K Pachuri has called for withdrawl of penalty clauses incorporated in the Energy Conservation Bill 2000, presently tabled in the Parliament.
Pakistan's military government has ordered work started ona pipeline that can carry natural gas from Iran and Central Asia to India, but not many expect it to serve its intended purpose.
The Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission (MERC), has passed an order on tariff revision proposal of Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) disallowing purchase of power from Enron sponsored controversial dabhol Power Project, of Rs 309 crore out of annual bill of Rs 1,000 crore.
Assam is endowed with oil shore reserve capable of sustaining crude oil production of 140 million tonnes annually for a period of hundred years, said a study of Cooper and Lybrand.
Hyderabad shows the way: In the face of burgeoning urban populations and growing mounds of garbage, an initiative in Hyderabad could show the way for other cities. A private company has begun converting the city's garbage into fuel pellets and now plants to establish a 10-MW power plant.
A non-governemnt organisation(NGO) - the city-based Development Research Communication and Services (DRCS) - is set to become the first outfit in West Bengal to opt for solar power for its office in the city.
Adding a new dimension to the case, the Delhi Government today declared that it was not duty-bound to implement the Supreme Court orders to impound all commercial vehicles which are to be phased out from Saturday and that the onus for this was on those plying such outdated vehicles.
Entire lower Sindh, specially, Thatta district in Pakistan is facing an agricultural crisis due to complete closure of non-perennial and other canals resulting from acute shortage of water in Indus and in Kinjhar lake.All canals are closed for past over one month. The Sindh government's notification formally issued for press, …
Russia has agreed to provide a long-term loan package of $1.25 billions to Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) for setting up a 2,000 MW nuclear power plant at Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu.
The Minister of petroleum & natural gas, Ram Naik has directed that pilot projects should be undertaken to produce alcohol from sugarcane for use as additive to motor fuels. Chairing a meeting regarding use of alcohol as admixture to motor fuels, Mr Naik said initially, these projects would be taken …
