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 country's first -ever power plant using solid waste as fuel will go on stream within the next few months with the commissioning of the Rs 150 crore 15-mw project at suburban Perugudi at Chennai. Work on the project, undertaken by Australia-based Energy Development Ltd (EDL), was progressing on schedule …
The Delhi Government has sought clearance from the Union Ministry of Environment for setting up the Capital's first power plant to be run jointly by the Government and the private sector.
Diesel ban unwise : The automobile industry has strongly opposed the Environmental Pollution Control Authority's recommendation to ban non-commercial diesel vehicles in Delhi and has prepared a submision for the Supreme Court which seeks an integrated approach to vehicular pollution. A ban would prevent the development of clean diesel engine …
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), a Delhi based NGO, has warned that an impending groundwater crisis is building up in Punjab due largely to over-extraction of groundwater and faulty cropping practices. The groundwater table in the state during the last two decades has been falling at the rate …
French oil company TotalFina SA has agreed to join Gulf Canada Resources Ltd. in a controversial Alberta oil sands project that could eventually cost more than C$1.3 billion to develop.
The Supreme Court has expressed serious concerns over the financial mess in the Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB) and has asked the Delhi Government to file an affidavit detailing steps taken for its privatisation.
Eight out of 150 people who underwent tests because they were situated within 350 meters of the Sept. 30 criticality accident in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, are believed to have suffered damage to their DNA. Medical specialists made the assessment after it was discovered that urine samples from the eight people …
U.S. electricity rates should drop around one cent per kilowatt-hour by the year 2020, carbon gas emissions continue to rise and more than40 percent of the nation's nuclear power capacity go out of service, according to the government's annual long-term energy outlook yesterday. To keep pace with growth, Department of …
The Centre is preparing a rehabilitation package to put the Orissa power sector reform process back on the rails. The culprit in this case is not the recent cyclone but the mismanagement of the country's first power sector reform experiment.
The Bangladesh government is said to be seriously considering export of power rather than gas to India to meet growing demands in that country. The idea, still at a preliminary stage, is surfacing in the shape of proposals for setting up of large power plants, official sources said.
European oil companies have been taken aback by a run on diesel as traders stockpile the motor fuel ahead of the new year when the marketmoves over to a cleaner specification, traders said yesterday.
A $259m scheme to generate electricity by burning London's household waste has been submitted to the government. Energy Power Resources, one of the country's biggest renewable energy companies, is seeking planning permission for a MW66 riverside power station in south London.The plant would burn up to 585,000 tonnes of waste …
The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) has assailed the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) for its failure to generate any nuclear power as projected in its 'Profile' programme, despite having spent Rs. 5,291.48 crores as of end-March 1998.
The World Bank pressurised the Benazir government to sign the power purchase agreements with the Independent Power Producers (IPPs). It imposed its conditionalities on the then government and forced it to accept the rates offered by the IPPs.
Spanish electricity utility Hidroelectrica del Cantabrico said yesterday it was planning to invest 31.2 billion pesetas ($195.2 million) in six new wind power generation plants within five years. The new generation plants will be in the north coast region of Asturias and will have a total power of 208 megawatts. …
The environment ministry is undertaking a project regarding development of national data about vehicles and traffic growth pattern in the country to gather options for a new meaningful future fuel policy. Officials said Pakistan did not have data about vehicles nor any analysis of traffic pattern and growth in the …
The government of Denmark has agreed to grant Nu 5.00 million to support reduction of vehicle emission in Bhutan. An agreement to this effect was signed between the Joint Secretary of the Ministry of Finance, Aum Yangki Wangchuk, and the Resident Coordinator and Counsellor at the Liaison Office of Denmark …
Greenpeace won its battle to delay new oil and gas exploration in the North Atlantic on Friday when a judge ruled that Britain had failed to apply the European Commission's Habitat Directive in allocating licenses."The decision is a huge victgory for whales, dolphins and coral reefs," said Peter Melchett, the …
