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 …
Nanje Gowda: Senior leader of Karnatka and a former MLA H N Nanje Gowda on Wednesday appealed to chief minister S M Krishna to go ahead with the Alamati dam project, including laying of skin plate. He said though the resuming of works on laying of skin plate would amount …
An international consortium including US, Italian, Greek and Turkish partners announced a $500m project to build a natural gas fired power station in northern Greece to export electricity to Turkey.
The safety of Laguna Verde, Mexico's only nuclear power plant, has become the topic of a heated debate between regulatory agencies, international monitoring associations, environmentalists, and local residents. On one side of the debate are the Mexican government and the International Atomic Energy Agency, which claim that Laguna Verde is …
Seven farmers of Mota Thavaria villager, near Jamnagar , have issued notices to Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) in connection with payment of Rs 7.25 crore as compensation for loss of their farm land due to leakage in the IOC pipeline. The farmers claimed that as a result of the leakage …
The state government on Wednesday decided to set aside Rs 60 crore for a series of watershed development programmes in Saurashtra, Kutch and north Gujarat for the financial year 2000-01. The decision was taken at a cabinet meeting at Gandhinagar. Till now, a mere Rs 1.5 crore was set aside …
The Haryana State Energy Development Agency has drawn up a plan to add about 240 mw of power to the state'sgrid from renewable energy sources by 2010. It would be implemented in two phases by private investors.
The government is considering fiscal incentives as well as new legislation to promote renewable and non-conventional sources of energy, secretary in the ministry of non-conventional energy sources M Mookerji said at New Delhi on Wednesday. It is finalising a energy policy statement on the non-conventional sources of energy. The idea …
The Union government has sent a draft legislation to state governments which proposes all new buildings both commercial and residential will have to mandatorily install solar heating panels. Addressing a press conference, N N Mookerjee, secretary, ministry of non-conventional energy resources said the ministry of urban development has sent a …
Iran asked Turkey for compensation for failing to complete its section of a pipeline under a $23bn agreement signed in 1996 to supply gas via a pipeline from Northern Iran to Ankara, the Turkish capital.
A leading Japanese electricity company will return nuclear fuel to Britain after British Nuclear Fuels (BNFL) admitted quality control records may have been falsified during its manufacture.
Power Development Board, parent organisation of the power sector in Bangladesh will launch the new Energy Conservation Project to save about 200 megawatt electricity per day in the crisis-ridden utility sector sector and cut down increasing expenses that the board has to spend the purchase power from Independent Power Producers …
The Centre for Environment Education (CEE) and Wee Wonder the educaitonal supplement of The Times of India for the school children, have launched a 'Wee Wonder-CEE Network' to undertake several environment educaiton and awareness related projects. The Network was launched by Mrinalini Sarabhai at Ahmedabad on Tuesday, during the ongoing …
Reliance Petroleum Limited (RPL) on Tuesday announced the completion of the world's largest grassroots refinery with a capacity of 27 million tonnes per annum (540,000 barrels per day) at Jamnagar, well ahead of schedule.
The Union power minister today ruled out accepting the demands made by Cogentrix Energy to enable the US power major to review its decision to pull out of the 1,000 MW Mangalore power projects. Mr P R Kumaramangalam told reporters late this evening that the Centre's counter guarantee to Cogentrix …
To begin whittling away at its environmental problems, especially a lack of water, China plans to utilize irrigation methods to help the nation's sustainable development. Wang Shucheng, minister of water resources, made it clear that during the 21th century, various water-saving methods would be implemented throughout China as the country …
Britain has set up an Indo-British Power Project Development Forum to develop power projects in India. Announcing this at the Partnership Summit 2000 organised by CII here on Monday, Britain's Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Stephen Byers said that the objective of the initiative was to supply reliable …
Greece will supply Kosovo with 60 per cent of its daily electricity to cover power needs once provided by the rest of Yugoslavia, a Greece official said.
The Celera Corporation of Rockville, Md., said yesterday it was about to begin the final stage in its project to decode the human genome. It has analyzed some 10 million fragments of human DNA, each about 500 chemical units in length, and is now ready to assemble them into a …
