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 …
On Sunday, residents for the city of Tokushima voted 102,759 to 9,367 against building a dam across the Yoshino River on the island of Shikoku, 500 kilometers (300 miles) southwest of Tokyo. It heated up Tuesday when Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi outraged grass-roots activists by saying it was up to …
To reduce peak electricity load in the Capital and initiate a culture of energy-efficient lighting, the Tata Energy Research Institute(TERI) has drawn up a demonstration project to replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent lamps in select offices and establishments.
The Supreme Court has dimissed an appeal against the Gujarat High Court order allowing Reliance Petroleum Ltd to lay pipelines for its Motikhavdi project through the Marine National Park and the Marine Sanctuary in the state.
A World Bank study describing India's power sector policies as "environmentally harmful and financially unsustainable" was repudiated by the Union Government. Calling the study irrelevant, Union power minister P R Kumaramangalam told The Times of India:"I don't agree with this study".
The US Government has unveiled plans for geothermal energy to provide ten percent of the electricity needs of the western US by 2020. The US Department of Energy (DoE) is to award $4.8 million in grants to support the development of geothermal energy projects in six western states including Nevada, …
The Shell Foundation, a division of oil major SHell, will open 12 'solar centres' in South India including six in Karnataka, in order to promote the use of solar energy.
The German government said yesterday it would lift its two-year-old ban on the shipment of nuclear waste and allow the transport of some spent fuel staring in August. The head of Germany's Nuclear Safety Agency, wolfram Konig, said the government has approved five rail shipments from three nuclear power plants …
The Deepak Parekh Committee has invited Cogentrix to submit its suggestions to it by January 28 along with the other 26 power project promoters in Karnataka.
Turkey is set within the next few days to award a controversial contract to build its first nuclear power plant. But the plan to site a reactor at Akkuyu on the Mediterranean coast has come under attack not just from anti-nuclear campaigners but from other critics who argue that the …
A consortium of European, US and local companies, along with the Trinidad and Tobago government, have agreed to expand a $1bn liquefied natural gas plant that began production eight months ago.
The Energy Charter Secretariat, a Brussels-based organisation promoting trade and investment in oil and gas, is aiming to get its 51 member countries to agree to new guarantees on east-west energy shipments.
Hinduja National Power Corporation(HNPCL) has told the Andhra Pradesh government and Power Transmission Corporation that it is ready to discuss a mutually satisfactory resolution on the project cost of the 1,040 mw thermal power project at Visakhapatnam.
A significant numbr of older U.S. nuclear power plants are approaching the end of their useful lives and must be decommissioned , a process with profound environmental consequences, because the innards of reactors become radioactive during decades of operation. The central questions in decommissioning involve how clean the sites are …
Britain has become the first country to grant a patent covering cloned earlystage human embryos-- a decision that could ignite new controversy among critics of biotechnology even though Geron Corp., the company licensed to use the patent, says it has no intention of creating cloned humans. The British patent, granted …
Saudi Arabia's attempts to restructure a dysfunctional oil-based economy have led to a reinforcement of collective cabinet control over energy policy. The new body will be the ultimate decision maker over future downstream joint ventures with foreign companies.
The Delhi Development Authority has agreed to provide land to the entrepreneur, selected by the Delhi Vidyut Board, on license fee consideration to set up a unit for processing fly ash, generated by the Indraprastha Thermal Power Plant, to check the pollution of Jamuna river.
Two years ago, Cardiologist Sandip Rane noticed an alarming trend in Mumbai. Respiratory ailments, chiefly among the children were on the rise. Encouraged by the Supreme Court directive last year on Euro norms, Rane filed a public interest litigation in the Mumbai High Court in the middle of the last …
A research team at the University of Tokyo has developed technology that can make chemical compounds without using toxic organic solvents. Demand for toxic-free chemical composition is growing amid efforts to reduce environmental damage.
Cogentrix Energy Inc, of the U.S. has quit India, handing over a stalled $1.3 billion power project to HongKong parter CLP Holdings Ltd., which plans to develop the venture with an Indian partner. Saturday's decision marks the latest twist in the seven-year saga to build the 1,000-megawatt plant in southern …
