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 …
Will Cogentrix, which walked out of the 100 MW Mangalore power project along with its partners China LIght and Power, reconsider its ealier decision? This seems to be a possibility considering what Mangalore Power Corporation (MPC) managing director Ron Somers said on Saturday.
In a remote village in the Philippines' Laguna procinve, a small contraption, made by a local company and driven by the currents of a local stream, is being used to generate enough electricity to light bulbs, run fans, and power TVs in a cluster of four thatch houses. The news …
Today's giant coal and nuclear power plants are failing to provide the high-quality, reliable electricity needed to power the new digital economy, according to a new report from the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington, DC-based research organization. Power interruptions due to the vulnerability of central power plants and transmission lines cost …
Import data compiled by Greenpeace from Government of India statistics for 1998-1999 indicates that more than 100,887 tonnes, including hazardous and potentially hazardous wastes have entered India illegally, some in violation of a 1997 Indian Supreme Court order banning the imports of hazardous wastes into India. The import data was …
The Centre has identified three mega power projects, Hirma, Ennore and Pipavav for the new guarantee cover which its plans to provide to ensure regular payments for energy sold. As an alternative to the earlier counter guarantee scheme extended to the fast track power projects, the government has worked on …
The Union minstry for non-conventional energy resources (MNES) has proposed to establish a 140 MW integrated solar combined cycle power (ISCC) project at village Mathania in Jodhpur district in Rajasthan with an estimated cost of Rs 871.74 crore. It has also drawn up a detail plan for harnessing solar energy …
A team of Swedish researchers has revealed that solar power from certain cells could compete in price with electricity produced in conventional power stations in 10 years' time. A research team at Uppsala University converted sunlight to electricity with a high, 16.6% efficiency using a module of solar cells made …
The German government has said that it will introduce an electricity trading system encouraging the use of combined heat and power (CHP), which will avoid 50 million tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions in 2010.
Scientists have found that a species of pine tree thrives in the carbon dioxide-enriched air expected in the future, becoming reproductively mature earlier and producing more cones and seeds than identical trees living in today's CO2 concentrations.The researchers at Duke University, USA, have been investigating the effects of increasing CO2 …
Indian authorities have agreed to exempt emission test certificate, mandatory for vehicles plying on the roads in India, for Bhutanese vehicles until April 2000, according to the Road Safety and Transport Authority (RSTA).
A nuclear safety expert has accused the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and the Atomic energy Regulatory Board (AERB) of "criminal negligence" for not alerting the public about the release of deadly radioactive tritium from the Rajasthan Atomic Power Station (RAPS) into the Rana Pratap Sagar Lake whose water is …
Cogentrix Energy Inc, the main promoters of Mangalore Power Company, which announced on Thursday that it was pulling out of the 1,000-MW thermal power project at Nandikur near Mangalore, stated on Friday that it would begin winding down operations on the project from December 31.
Cogentrix is not the first case of an US power developer that has run into serious problems in India. In fact the most celebrated case is that of Enron, whose Dabhol power project faced similar accusations of wrong doing. Yet Enron was able to surmount all the problems and its …
Japanese, South Korean, US and European officials are to meet in Tokyo next week to discuss "full-fledged" nuclear power plant construction in North Korea, the government said on Friday.
World oil prices fell as the US started to release barrels from its emergency oil reserves, easing American consumer anxiety over a winter fuel crunch.
The Union Environment Ministry's directive to various thermal power plants in the country to either fall in line or face action has set the alarm bells rising in state electricity boards. Warning the managements of thermal plants against pollution, the ministry has directed them to use coal having 34 per …
Egypt and Trinidad and Tobago could host a new generation of gas to liquids (GTL) plans, Shell International Gas Limited said in a press release issued in Dhaka.
For Oakland (Calif.) Mayor Jerry Brown, renewable energy has always been a no brainer. As governor of California during the early 1980s, he lobbied hard for wind farms. So last June, after deregulation of the state's electric-power industry gave consumers, for the first time, a choice to buy "green power," …
