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 …
Conventional wisdom in the industrialized countries is that oil prices can come down only if OPEC increases production. OPEC cut production in March last year, when prices were around $10 a barrel. In reaction, prices more than tripled. But the West is not powerless in the pricing of oil.
Environmental groups have applauded Tony Blair's refusal to lower the tax on fuel during the crisis caused by lorry drivers' protests throughout the country.Pointing out that fossil fuels are one of the major causes of global climate change, Charles Secrett, Executive Director of Friends of the Earth (FoE), congratulated the …
Japan's pledge to trim greenhouse gas emissions may be hard to achieve unless Japan proceeds to use more nuclear power, the chairman of the Federation of Electric Power Companies said yesterday. The Japanese government pledged at the Kyoko conference in 1997 to trim emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon …
Protests at the high price of fuel that had brought Britain and Belgium to a virtual standstill drew to a close yesterday as their governments talked tough, but elsewhere across Europe fresh unrest flared. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, insisting there would be no short-term reduction in fuel taxes, said …
Quake-prone Delhi that is lying in India's second-most seismic hazard zone and currently experiencing mild seismicity is least prepared to cope with an earthquake or any other disaster like floods or fires, warn experts.
In an attempt to generate and promote clean energy, the Union non-conventional energy sources ministry and the Rajasthan government have joined hands and decided to set up a solar thermal powr plant at Mathania, 30 km from Jodhpur.
The world's leading industrial nations are discussing forging a joint position on soaring oil prices and the euro, dollar and yen exchange rates. Initial contacts between members of the Group of Seven industrial nations have already taken place on the level of officials or "sherpas" who prepare summit meetings, according …
Ontario Power Generation, long criticised for its environmental record, said yesterday it will spend more than C$250 million ($168 million) over three years to reduce emissions at some of its fossil fuel stations.
The implementation of the country's first rs 12.47 crore project fro power generation from cattle manyre at Haibowal dairy complex in Ludhiana is likely to begin int he next three months.
Dutch electricity producer EPZ said it planned to produce more durable energy in its Geertruidenberg plant in the southern Netherlands and at the coal-powered unit of its nuclear plant in Borssele in the southwest of the country. New installations will be built there to produce energy from clean biomass and …
The city of Bangalore has set a trend in the utilisation of non-conventional energy sources by having the highest number of solar water heater installations in the country.
British energy giant Powergen has signalled it could pull out of a power project in Madhya Pradesh due to frustrating delays in implementaiton, following in the footsteps of US counterpart Cogentrix. But the Madhya Pradesh government, which won fresh investment commitments worth $1 billion at a business forum at Khajuraho, …
The Cogentrix company which had pulled out of the Mangalore power station project is now coming back to hold talks with the State Government following Monday's Supreme Court judgment.The representative of the company, Mr. Ron Somers, will be calling on the Chief Minister, Mr. S.M. Krishna, on Wednesday.
The Congress(I) MPs from Gujarat called on the Prime Minister, Mr. A.B. Vajpayee, today and urged him to take convene a meeting of the Chief Ministers, of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra - to solve the Narmada project dispute at the earliest.
residents of Tannery Road in Bangalore are facing a potable water crisis because tanneries located in the area are polluting the groundwater. Untreated hazardous sludge from these units blocks sewers resulting in the seepage of effluents into the ground, a report published in the Deccan Herald said . This has …
Some Japanese researchers have come up with a way to cleanly burn fuels such as lignite, which produce a lot of pollution due to their high water and sulphur content. Researchers at the Japan Chemical Innovation Institute and the National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research near Tokyo say a …
The Union ministry of water resources has constituted an expert team to look into the high level of raw water lost during transportation between Bhakra dam and Nangloi treatment plant in west Delhi.
New York City's energy bazaar has opened for business, and the proposed transformation of a Truman administration relic into a 21st-century cash cow is just the beginning. Altogether, at least 13 proposals for power plants across the city have been put forward over the last few months-a staggering surge of …
