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 U.S. Department of Energy(DOE) has announced an agreement with lamp ballast manufacturers and energy activists that will lead to a reduction in electrical consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. In a press release issued October 15, DOE details the change in commercial and industrial lighting applications intended to save enough …
The WBC count of a Japanes worker, fighting for life following Japan's worst nuclear accident on 30 September, has approached normal levels, a doctor, who treated victims of the 1986 Chernobyl accident, said.
The second phase of the Bakreswar Thermal Power Station in West Bengal, slated to generate an additional 210 MW by May 2000, is likely to be commissioned 45 to 50 days ahead of schedule.
Congress-led coalition government in Maharashtra, in a bid to fulfil its election promises, announced that it would look into the status of the multi-crore Enron project.
Even with temperatures and power consumption coming down steadily in Delhi, electricity supply continues to worsen with city being short by a whopping 850 MW on Monday.
In its efforts to ensure a high-quality transmission and distribution of electricity, Power Grid Corporation of India would commission the country's first 800 kv transmission line between Moga in Punjab and Kishenpur in Jammu and Kashmir by March next year.
Mrs Maneka Gandhi has sought a "proper inquiry" into the cost and benefits of large dams being built on the Narmada. In an interview to a private channel, the minister of state for social justice was critical of the tendency to justify huge expenditures on the ground that some money …
With Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala having second thoughts about whether he should go ahead with power sector reforms in the state, Haryana may not get the second tranche of $250 million (Rs 1,100 crore) of a World Bank loan meant exclusively for the power sector.
Investors scrambled to be in at the carve-up of a potentially massive market when India liberalised its power sector eight years ago. Today, only three of eight so called "fast track" power projects have been commissioned , and most private proposals have been stymied by a lack funds or got …
With Chief Minister Om Prakash Chautala having second thoughts about whether he should go ahead with power sector reforms in the state, Haryana may not get the second tranche, of $250 million (Rs 1,100 crore), of a World Bank loan meant exclusively for the power sector.
Oil India Ltd's (OIL) plans for converting Assam coal and heavy refinery residue into liquid hydrocarbon have run into rough weather on account of environmental reasons, which are found to be high investment-oriented and carrying almost zero return ratio.
Rolls-Royce confirmed it processes nuclear fuel for Britain's Ministry of Defence in the English city of Derby but declined to comment on reports that the plant was at risk of a Japanese-style accident.
BP Amoco Plc, the world's third largest public oil company, said it planned to sell three grades of cleaner gasoline in Chicago by 2001, about three years ahead of a proposed U.S. government deadline.
The Japanese government failed to expand the evacuation area in Tokaimura during the Sept. 30 nuclear accident despite a recommendation from its own emergency headquarters in the area, sources said Saturday. They said the government did not expand the evacuation area because officials feared that it would create panic among …
A Rolls-Royce plant in central England has been processing nuclear fuel for the Defense Ministry without the knowledge of the local community and had no public emergency plan in case of an accident, The Sunday Times reported.
The number of people exposed to potentially deadly radiation in Japan's worst nuclear accident rise to 69 after the government newly confirmed 20 more victims, an official said on Saturday.
A spectacular fusion of solar technology and competitive tension starts today at Darwin, Australia. More than 50 cars will race each another in the World Solar Challenge, the only solar car event in the world to streak across an entire continent. The challenge showcases the cutting edge of eco-friendly technology …
The proposed move of the Central and state governments to permit Bharat Oman Refineries Ltd (BORL) to lay underground petroleum pipelines in the salt pans of Singash village is resented by the small-scale salt manufacturing units and the villagers of the area, as they say it will affect the area's …
The newly elected Karnataka government has set the ball rolling on the energy front by ratifying the J H Patel ministry decision on the formation of the State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC).
