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 …
The controversy hinges on an environment impact assessment report prepared by Ernst & Young for its client, the Murdeshwar Power Corporation Ltd, for the Rs 180-crore, 130-mu(million units) Dandeli Mini-Hydel Project (DMH) in Karnataka.
Decks have been cleared for establishment of the second wind-based power project in Rajasthan with the assistance of the Union Ministry for Non-Conventional Energy SOurces, promising to improve the power situation in the State to a considerable extent. The 2.25 MW power plant will be set up in Deogarh villge …
Chugoku Electric Power Co., which plans to build a nuclear power plant in Kaminosekicho, Yamaguchi Prefecture (Japan), has offered eight local fishermen's cooperative associations 6 billion yen in compensation for potential damage the plant may cause to fisheries operating in the Seto Inland Sea, sources close to the company said …
Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry has issued a directive to manufacturers of refrigerators and freezers instructing them to reduce to their prodcuts' energy consumption by 30% from fiscal 1998 levels by fiscal 2004, ministry sources said.
The death last week of Hisashi Ouchi, shocked Japan. Ouchi, a JCO Co. employeed exposed to massive amounts of radiation during the Sept.30 accident at the company's nuclear fuel plant in Tokai-mura, Ibaraki Prefecture, died after nearly three months of treatment.
The death last week of a JCO Co. employee who on Sept. 30 was working at the scene of Japan's worst nuclear accident, reminded the nation of the health consequences of an atomic accident. According to Yuko Fujita, associate professor of physics at Keio University, accidents like the one at …
European Union finance ministers will discuss the possibility of member states releasing oil from their emergency reserves when they meet in Brussels on Friday. The move would be aimed at further weakening crude oil prices, which fell sharply.
Aoti Village is a warren of rundown buildings with a fine beach, fresh seafood, quiet streets, picturesque hills-and two massive concrete holes in the ground that most residents don't want.It's the construction site of Taiwan's fourth nuclear plant, which has sparked intense debate as newly elected President Chen Shui-bian tries …
Spanish energy group Repsol YPF said yesterday it would seek to develop the use of farm waste as a fuel additive along with engineering firm Abengoa and sugar company Azucarera Ebro Agricolas. Organic ethanol, or bioethanol, is obtained from fermentation of cereal and other farm waste and may be used …
One year after a disastrous nuclear accident in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan is still trying to formulate a new national energy policy.Exactly what this policy will be remains unclear as numerous obstacles stand in the way of securing both current and potential energy sources.One certainty is that the Advisory Committee …
Giant fountains of fast-moving, multimillion-degree gas in the outermost atmosphere of the Sun have revealed an important mechanism that makes the corona about 300 times hotter than the Sun's visible surface. These fiery, arching fountains now appeare in unprecedented detail with NASA's Transition Region and Coronal Explorer (TRACE) spacecraft.
China has decided to invest about $2.4 billion in two projects in its coal-rich provinces which will be able to turn coal into petroleum to ease the shortage of petroleum resources, an official report said.
George W. Bush accused the Clinton Administration of jeopardising US security by releasing oil from the nation's emergency reserve while Vice-President Al Gore cast the Republican presidential as "apologists for big oil".
At a time when the petroleum and natural gas ministry is busy preaching the advantages of improving the recovery rate from existing oilfields and roping in private sector to discover oil and gas fields, the ONGC appears reluctant to part with oilfields in spite of stagnating production.
Nepal's Ministry of Population and Environment (MOPE) is all set to crackdown on all the government and diplomatic mission-owned vehicles of the Kathmandu Valley which fail to meet existing emission standards after February 19.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd will drill two wells in the lower Vindhyas, in Damoh district of Madhya Pradesh. ONGC is set to go to that area after five years.
This year's strong earthquakes in Turkey, Taiwan and Southern California were the most monitored in history, but months later scientists are just beginning to understand the data. A record number of instruments on the ground and in space analyzed every quiver of the ground before, during and after the earthquakes, …
The Municipal Corporation of Delhi is all set to generate elecctricity from garbage using plasma based technology, MCD Commissioner S P Aggarwal said on Thursday.
Dick Cheney, the Republican vice presidential nominee, that President Bill Clinton's decision to tap into the Stretegic Petroleum Reserve was ill-conceived and patently political and that as president, George W. Bush would lighten bureaucratic regulations affecting the oil industry and might ease environmental curbs on drilling.
British ministers have drawn up plans to thwart future petrol blockades by pumping fuel around the country through military pipelines dating from World War II.During the recent fuel blockade, the government was within 24 hours of activating the Government Pipeline Storage System (GPSS) - built as part of the defence …
