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 …
Pakistan's second nuclear power station, being built with China's assistance, will come on line in mid-2000, PAEC Chairman Ishfaq Ahmed said on Wednesday. The 300 megawatt nuclear power project is under construction at Chashma in Punjab.
Report : Bangladesh would gain more by exporting natural gas to India than by selling its neighbour fertiliser or electricity produced by the gas, the World Bank said.
A senior official said yesterday that Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear station, the site of the world's worst peacetime nuclear disaster, was likely to shut in November 2000. Viktor Stovbun, executive director at state-run nuclear energy company Energoatom, told a news conference that repairs to the plant would cost $100 million, a …
The Rajasthan State Electricity Board today decided to cut power connections of government departments which have failed to pay electricity bills. The decision to this affect was taken in a meeting with the Chief Minister today, where the government gave the go-ahead to cut the power connections of various government …
A milestone was achieved last week in the last stages of the mammoth 1.500 MW (NJPC) Nathpa Jhakri Power corporation last week, with the completion of the 27.39-km-long tunnel in tribal Kinnaur. It has the distinction of being the longest and largest hydro-power tunnel in the world.
West Bengal is set to mark its presence on the country's wind energy map. The State's first wind energy project is expected to begin feeding the grid by October.
Three different proposals for increased energy taxes have all been defeated in a referendum, resulting in disappointment for their backers, green groups and leftwingers, and relief for their business group and right-wing politician opponents.
The new Wildfowl and Wetland Trust (WWT) reserve at Barn Elms in south west London, created from four disused Thames Water reservoirs, is an example of best practice in creative conservation, says the creative conservation charity, Landlife.
Cinergy Corporation has announced investment totalling $700 million to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions at eight of its coal-fired power plants.Cincinnati-based Cinergy revealed its plan to install selective catalytic reduction units, or SCRs at eight of ten Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co. and PSI Energy plants, Cinergy's utility units.
Project not dead yet : Despite a recent ruling by Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court (Sala IV) that slammed the brakes on his company's multimillion-dollar oil exploration project, Edwin Kettenbrink, Jr. is not overly alarmed.As president and CEO of Harken Costa Rica Holdings - a subsidiary of the Houston, …
Though the local Super Thermal Plant of the PSEB has brought "light" to millions of houses across the Punjab, it has also made life miserable for thousands of people living in about 30 villages in its immediate periphery.
For three decades, geologists probing beneath th Arctic Ocean near Inuvik and in offshore Alaska have mapped the largest known untapped reserves of natural gas in North America:165 trillion cubic feet. But with gas prices low, indigenous opposition high and environmental issues looming, energy companies never found a way to …
The Victorian Government has established a $30 million fund to encourage farmers and rural communities to use water more efficiently.Environment and Conservation Minister Sherryl Garbutt said farmers and rural communities that adopted new irrigation practices and found uses for waste-water could apply for grants over the next three years.
The Karnataka High Court today disposed of a public interest writ petition filed by the displaced persons of the Kali River Hydro Electric Project at Supa, seeking directions for providing basic amenities at the Ramanagara rehabilitation centre.
The government experts are fearing severe water shortage in the coming months in the downstream areas of Pakistan, especially in Sindh, as water levels at the two major water reservoirs are still low, while the monsoon season is nearing its end.According to official figures, the level at Tarbela stood at …
Lorries, tempos, taxis and autorickshaws will keep off roads in Mumbai for seven days from January 2 midnight, to protest the Maharashtra Government's decision on pollution check measures.
One of the twin units of the Rajasthan Atomic Power project RAPP-3, has achieved first critically on Saturday after regulatory clearance from the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board.
The Australian Government is under pressure from civic and environmental groups to close the Lucas Heights nuclear plant in Sydney during the Olympics Games starting from September 15.
