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 …
China is planning to build a third nuclear power plant in southern Guangdong province, it was reported on Tuesday. Guangdong nuclear power group has submitted proposals fro a third six million kilowatt nuclear power plant to be built in Yangjiang to the state council in Beijing for approval, a company …
Nasa abandons search for Lander: The Mars Polar Lander space probe, which landed on the red planet on December 3, has been declared definitively lost, MPL project manager Richard Cook said on Monday. Nasa will no longer attempt to contact the probe, Cook said in a statement released by Nasa.
Andhra Pradesh is set to become the first state in the country in procuring gas through pipelines. East and West Godavari districts will get the piped gas in two years' time from now.
In a significant move, the Centre for the first time has set up a special working group to work out the logistics of increasing the availability of power to all the southern states.
From Angola's Atlantic water to the swamps of southern Sudan, Africa is a new frontier for Western oil explorers with production and revenues rising every day. The continent may be crying out for foreign investment, but by enriching undemocratic governments, fuelling civil wars and polluting the environment, the oil companies …
Viability of an independent pipeline for supplying low BTU gas for power plants is being firmed up by the producers and gas companies in Pakistan. A task force comprising their representatives has been set up to report within a fortnight.
Australia's aviation authority believes it has come up with a test to determine which of the 5,000 light aircraft grounded in the country's worst case of fuel contamination need repair work. The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) said if the test were approved by an independent expert in an interim …
The Cogentrix has denied charges levelled by the Environment Support Group that the Cogentrix had not sought funding from the US Export-Import Bank for setting up a thermal power plant near Mangalore.
The government is considering a ban on the conversion of petrol driven vehicles to diesel driven vehicles. It may bring in amendments to this effect in the Motor Vehicles Act of India soon to effect this changes.
A revolutionary housing complex equipped to produce half its own energy requirements by means of solar power has been constructed in the inland city of Amersfoort in the Netherlands. The development of 500 households generates 1.3 megawatts per annum, making it the largest solar-powered housing development in the world.
Faster action and more research and funding are needed to prevent the extinction of further flora and fauna in the country, the Malaysian Nature Society (MNS) said. MNS president Datuk Dr Salleh Mohd Nor said Malaysia needed to learn from the inevitable extinction of the leatherback turtle--the first animal species …
Beneath the limestone soil of Sunset Valley's quiet suburban neighborhoods runs another line, a 50-year-old, 700-mile-long oil pipeline that some say represents a grave environmental threat and others contend holds environmental and economic benefits just waiting to be tapped. The differing views say much about how Texas has changed since …
Days before the Deepak Parekh committee is scheduled to submit its report on escrow and other related issues, Cogentrix India chief Ron Somers has written to the Karnataka Chief Minister seeking an immediate meeting to discuss the Mangalore Power Company's 1,000 mw thermal power project.
experts : The Chinese-designed Chashma Nuclear Power Plant (chasnupp) on the banks of the Indus river in Punjab is becoming a bone of contention between Pakistan and its most tested friend-- China. Sources claimed that there was a fire in the plant late last month but the government ensured that …
Amid growing concern that a gasoline ingredient intended to make the air cleaner is now polluting water, a group of well owners from Garden City, New York sued the gasoline industry today, trying to force it to pay to clean contaminated water sources. The ingredient, methyl tertiary butyl ether, or …
Japan ruling coalition plans to submit a bill to promote the use of wind, solar and other alternative forms of energy to the Diet seassion that starts this month. The bill aims to diversify energy sources and reduce carbon-dioxide emissions.
The National Astronomical Observatory under the Ministry of Education plans to build a high-precision radio-telescope network as part of its VLBI Exploration of Radio Astronomy (VERA) project for measuring the precise distances of celestial bodies and their movements.
The massive energy problems of rural areas need to be given much higher priority, according to a joint report of the World Energy Council and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The report, The Challenge of Rural Energy Poverty in Developing Countries, noted that more than three billion people …
As dusk descends in Sagar island in the Sunderban delta of West Bengal the unique mangrove system also home to the royal Bengal tiger, life no longer plunges into darkness. In more than half of the 16 villages in Sagar island, inhabited by 150,000 people who make a living from …
