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 …
India may soon make its first foray into the energy market in Central Asia,Turkmenistan has offered to sell oil to India on an oil swap programme, whereby it will supply oil on the existing Turkmenistan-Iran route to energy deficient, northern Iran.
National Thermal Power Corp is strongly opposed to the idea of allocating free power from 100 per cent export oriented thermal power stations to the states where these are located.
A project to supply drinking water to two villages in north Mumbai has triggered a feud between petroleum minister Ram Naik and Mumbai Mayor Hareshwar Patil.
Two killed: Two Tisco employees have been killed and three others injured during an explosion in the steam pipe of a Tisco power plant in Jamshedpur, police said.
Beijing started work over the weekend on a light-rail system costing nearly six billion yuan that is designed to reduce traffic congestion and stimulate the real-estate market in the north of the city.
Nine cracks and about 80 fractures have been discovered in a weld supporting a huge cylindrical structure connected to the inner wall of a nuclear power reactor at a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, the Japan Atomic Power Co. (Genden) said Friday.
Hiroharu Kitani, president of JCO Co., whose uranium-reconversion plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, was the site of Japan's worst nuclear accident, announced Saturday that the company would pay 30,000 yen to 50,000 yen in compensation to local residents instructed to evacuate following the accident.
The Science and Technology Agency and its affiliate, the National Institute of Radiological Sciences, have drastically revised the previously announced radioactivity levels in areas around the JCO Co. uranium reconversion plant in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, where Japan's worst nuclear accident occurred Sept. 30.
The Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC) has asked for closure of the Indra Prastha Thermal Power Station for non-compliance with environment is not possible, says the secretary of environment and forest of the Delhi government. However, the threat of closure of the thermal power station has already been communicated to …
A Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court has ordered issue of notice to respondents, which include Bharat Petroleum, Hindustan Petroleum and Indian Oil Corporation, on a public interest writ petition filed seeking a direction to the three oil companies to reduce the sulphur content in the diesel supplied in …
The state-owned exploration and production giant, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd(ONGC) has embarked on a major enhanced oil recovery programme for 15 fields spread all over the country. These would be over and above the programme it has already begun for its fields in the Bombay High region.
China's campaign to clean up polluted city skies and conserve oil reserves will expand the use of natural gas in industries and homes, the China Daily Business Weekly said yesterday. The newspaper quoted an official at the State Administration of Petroleum and Chemical Industries as saying the share of natural …
The European Commission has opened a four-month merger probe into the nuclear power joint venture between Germany's Siemens and France's Framatome, raising a question over their plans to create the world's leading nuclear technology company.
In Toliara, western Madagascar, the war against deforestation is waged from a little green hand cart. Nono, a fruit vendor at the local market, pulls the vehicle around town for 30 hours a week, drumming up trade in its cargo of energy-efficient stoves. In return, he receives modest compensation.This tale …
NGO: The Delhi Transport Corporation has come under criticism from the city-based Centre for Science and Environment, an NGO working for cleaner environemnt.A study by the air pollution control units of the CSE has blamed the DTC for misleading citizens by saying it will be able to control air pollution …
Twin rovers with the specific mission of discovering sites where water might have once pooled on Mars will roam the planet's surface in 2004, Nasa said on Thursday.The US space agency said it would launch the two golf cart-sized rovers separately in 2003.
A Delhi-based dotcom company - Everything about Water - is launching a free online water consultancy service in the Capital by August end to provide complete solutions to water-related problems.
A failure in its crumling electricity grid forced Russia to shut down several nuclear reactors over the weekend, including those at the huge top-secret Mayak fuel reprocessing plant, officials said.
A failure in its crumbling electric grid forced Russia to shut down several nuclear reactors over the weekend, including those at a gargantuan top-secret fuel-reprocessing plant, officials said on Monday.Officials assured the public there was no danger, but the head of the huge, secret Mayak reprocessing plant, in the remote …
A US astronaut and Russian cosmonaut took the walk of a lifetime today, 11 stories up the international space station as it barelled through the heavens 370 km above earth.
