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 …
With the present policy of private participation and taxation rules remaining the same, the projected Ninth Fiver Year Plan target of 1,000 mw wind energy would fall short by around 600 mw, according to a study carried out by PSG Science and Technology Entrepreneurial Park(PSG Step).
The Government yesterday declared in the Lok Sabha it would inform by next week US major Cogentrix and Hong Kong-based China Light and Power Company, promoters of the 1,013 mw Mangalore power project, about its decision on providing crucial counter-guarantee and said it was keen to go ahead with the …
African Energy Ministers proposed new investment standards to minimise corruption and attract foreign investment to the continent and pledged to protect the environment, in joint statements issued at a U.S.-sponsored conference in Tuscon. The statements wrapped up a two-day conference that brought together ministers from 44 African countries, several U.S. …
The state government has decided to form a high-level committee headed by HDFC chariman DEepak Parekh to examine the escrow cover for the Cogentrix project. This committee will also examine t he escrow account ability of the Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation (KPTC) which amounts to 1,500 MW . This was …
The Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) and US-based Nitash Inc have signed PPA for bagasse-based power project. The project with an investment of Rs 225 crore will generate 48 MW of electricity per day that will be purchased by MSEB at Rs 3.01 per unit.
France will give a loan of 36 million franc to the CMC (Calcutta Municipal Corporation) to improve its filtered water supply distribution system. Under the scheme-a map of the underground water supply lines will be prepared.
The Supreme Court has asked the Centre to ensure that the expert committee set up to examine the repairs to the Mullaperiyar dam in Kerala meets within four weeks from today.
A powerful lobby has almost scuttled the proposal to lay a gas-pipeline from the Rs 1,600-crore Petronet LNG terminal under installation in Puthuvypu, Kochi, to the Kayamkulam thermal power plant, obviously to favour a power project proposed in Mangalore.
Amid unmistakable signs of a thaw in tensions on the Korean Peninsula, U.S. and South Korean executives signed a contract for construction of twin 1,000-megawatt nuclear reactors to fulfill North Korea's energy needs and to cement a commitment by Pyongyang to stop trying to build nuclear warheads.
In a welcome directive on curbing increasing vehicular pollution in the metropolis, the Bombay high court on Wednesday directed that a fine of Rs 1,000 be imposed on vehicles breaching the prescribed emission norms of 65 hartridge smoke units (HSU). Second time offenders will be dealt with more severaly and …
Rocked by yesterday's violent protest, the Gujarat government today capitulated to the Bharatiya Kisan Sangha ultimatum and agreed to supply the entire water from the Kankavati dam to the rural areas. The decision leaves Jamnagar, which was promised part of the water from the dam, high and dry.
The Manipur Assembly today rescinded its decision to oppose the construction of the controversial Tipaimukh dam. The Assembly also granted permission to the Northeast Eletricity Power Corporation (NEEPCO) to start its investigation into the project.
The Bharatiya Kisan Union will resist every move of the Haryana government either to disconnect the electricity supply to the tubewells in rural sectors, or forcibly realize the amount of power bills from the farmers. It has made a fervent appeal to the farming community in the state not to …
After pioneering experiments in participatory irrigation management involving self-help groups of farmers. Andhra Pradesh government now plans to handover the right to decide water tariff to the farmers' associations.
Japan has finally abandoned official targets for developing its own overseas crude oil fields, adopted 33 years ago and under increasing attack for fostering waste and inefficiency.
It has been one of the world's most enduring and passionate love affairs : Americans and their automobiles. Thereare a staggering 130m passenger cars and 70m other types of four-wheel vehicles in the US, according to Bureau of Transportation Statistics for 1997. There are however signs that US drivers are …
The soil on Mars is too toxic to support life, according to research published in the publication Science. After analysing soil collected from the Red Planet by Nasa's Viking Landers, scientists at the California Institute of Technology concluded that highly reactive "superoxides" would destroy any organic molecules as soon as …
High oil prices pose a serious threat to the world economy and could slash growth rates by as much as three quarters of a percentage point over the next year, James Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, warned. "For developing countries as a group, the higher price suggests three quarters …
A blockade of British refineries and storage dumps began to break up and convoys of oil trucks moved past company gates unimpeded for the first time in a week, but Prime Minister Tony Blair warned there was still "some way to go" before ordinary drivers would see gas back in …
