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 …
Non-conventional energy would play a major role in the industrial development of the country in the coming 25 years, Union minister for non-conventional energy sources M Kannappan said yesterday.
chargesheet soon: The CBI is to file the chargesheet in the 'Herbal fuel-Ramar Pillai case' before a Special Judge in the next few days.Final touches are being given to the chargesheet which is likely to be filed on Tuesday or Wednesday, according to CBI sources.
Texas governor George W. Bush announced details of plans to spur US oil production by drilling in Alaska and elsewhere on Friday, asserting the Clinton-Gore administration had left America "at the mercy of big foreign oil." With winter approaching and fuel prices high, energy politics tooks centrestage in the battle …
West Bengal Power Development Corporation Ltd (WBPDCL) is planning to set up the State's first liquefied natural gas(LNG)-based power project at Sagardighi in the Murshidabad district.
The unravelling of the full sequence of the human genome-a list, in order, of the chemical bases that encode the information needed to assemble and run a human body-is a scientific wonder. It is not diminished by the fact that what have been announced are "draft" sequences, and that dotting …
President Bill Clinton has unlocked $20 million in US funds for an energy programme for North Korea, saying the Washigton was making good progress in eliminating Pyongyang's missile threat.
The Delhi Minister for Forest and Environment, Dr A.K. Walia, today said that 16 new check dams will be constructed at South Delhi's Asola Bhati Wild Life Sanctuary. None of these dams have already been constructed.
The Prime Minister will dedicate a 15-MW wind poweer project and a wind test station to the nation on July 4 at Kayathar, near Tirunelveli in Tamil Nadu.
The Karnataka Chief Minister, Mr. S.M. Krishna favours a negotiated settlement of the contentious issues relating to the sharing of Krishna waters under Scheme B of the Bachawat Award by the riparian States.
The United States plans to finance a joint African/U.S. conference on renewable energy to be held in the Algerian capital on June 26-27, the OPEC news agency said on Friday.
A group of people suffering low white blood cells as a result of exposure to cobalt 60 radiation in Samut Prakan (Thailand) will sue the owner of the radioactive material and the atomic energy agency for putting their lives at risk.Four people who were exposed to the opened cobalt 60 …
In a move aimed at asserting its authority, the Delhi Pollution Control Committee(DPCC) has served notices on the Capital's three thermal power stations - Badarpur, Rajghat and Indraprastha - to either install pollution control devices by June 30 or face a shutdown. The three have been accused of releasing tonnes …
On the eve of a major regional energy meet, Nepalis today hoped that Energy South Asia forum would help address Nepal's pressing energy issues as upper riparian entitlements, promotion of indigenous technology and manpower, and the domestic economy's poor absorptive capacity. Energy South Asia, slated for March6-8 in Kathmandu, is …
Zimbabwe's fuel shortage is spreading more havoc across a country already struggling with its worst economic crisis in decades, with garbage collectors reporting yesterday that their operations had been hit. In Harare's central business district, sanitary areas are piled with bins overflowing with refuse while in some of the capital's …
U.S. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson is blocking the release of volumetrically contaminated nickel from Department of Energy (DOE) facilities in Oak Ridge, TN. The action will allow time for the evaluation of alternatives by DOE and for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to make a decision on national treatment …
Public sector oil companies are all set to supply environment friendly LPG-based fuel for automobiles (auto-LPG) from special retail outlets by March 2001.
The Gujarat government has decided to seek the opinion of the state's advocate-general on giving wildlife clearance to Essar Oil for laying down a 15km-long pipeline from the Gulf of Kutch to the Vadinar terminal area.
A five-member site selection committee constituted by the Punjab government to look for a suitable site for location of a nuclear power plant in Punjab has selected Patran for this purpose.
Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) has decided to float a company that will promote renewable energy in the country through functioning commercially.
