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 …
A strategy paper submitted by the Environment Pollution (Prevention and Control) Authority, to the Supreme Court may have more than a grain of truth, admit senior Delhi Vidut Board officials even as they claimed ignorance of its contents. Most senior DVB officials said, they had learnt about the reported "contents …
The power situation in the national capital of Delhi faces a massive shortage of 900 mw in another three years, a high powered environment committee has warned in a strategy paper submitted to the Supreme Court. "By 2002, it is estimated that Delhi's peak power demand will increase to about …
Kot Addu Power Company has given 90 days to Wapda to finally discharge its obligations under the various agreements, otherwise termination of the agreement can be made as per terms under the power purchase agreement (PPA). According to the Kapco, it had issued various notices of intent to terminate (NITs) …
Toyota Motor Corp said it developed new fuel cell system components with increasing power output while making the system smaller. The new fuel cell system produces 70 kilowatt against current 25 kilowatt, it said. In addition to the use of pure hydrogen, Toyota is developing methods of obtaining hydrogen from …
A new offshore oil exploration project in an area of extreme environmental sensitivity in the Kazakh sector of the Caspian Sea has pitted ecologists against Western oil companies who say their techniques are safe. The Offshore Kazakhstan International Company, a nine-member consortium, drilled its first test well on August 12th …
South Korea said it would pour a total of 4.2 trillion won between next July and the end of 2002 in a drive to conserve energy and help develop energy-related technologies. The Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy said the policy loans would be available at an annual rate of …
The North East has a vast potential for saving a lot of energy for substituting traditional direct combustion biomass fuels including firewood and ago-residues with 'producer gas'-- that is the fuel derived by converting these fuels into a gaseous form. Sources at TERI at Guwahati informed that this conversion can …
Windmill operators are in dire straits. The Indian Renewable Energy Development Authority (IREDA) will have to reduce the rate of interest, including that on outstanding loans, to 12 per cent from the current rate of 19 per cent if it wants to prevent windmill operators from virtual collapse.
The Japanese government had not conducted on-site inspections at the uranium processing plant where a large radiation leak occurred since 1992, an official said on Saturday. "Between 1985 and 1992, we conducted inspections on JCO, but that has stopped since November 1992," said Toru Nakahara, a spokesman for the science …
Japan reversed direction on Friday and said it would accept an offer from the International Atomic Energy Agency to help investigate the cause of the nation's worst nuclear accident. The head of the Science and Technology Agency, Hirofumi Nakasone, said Japan had decided to accept the offer from the Vienna-based …
The fate of the BEST-promoted, Rs 1,400 crore, 320 mw naphtha-fired power project hangs in balance as the Maharashtra government and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) have failed to take a decision on the allotment of land and other clearances required for the project.
One of the world's leading promoters of solar energy and founder president of the European Association for Solar Energy (Eurosolar) Dr Hermann Scheer has been named as one of the four recipients of the 1999 'Right Livelihood Award' .
Will news of an accident at the Kaiga atomic power plant reach local citizens in time for them to react? Will they be swiftly evacuated like the people of Tokaimura? No, insist the opponents of the project, who have been at it ever since the power plant was planned in …
The announcement this week of a "significant" oil discovery off the mainland coast of Equatorial Guinea is likely to boost international oil company interest in the small West African state.
Miniature gas-fuelled power stations producing heat and electricity could start replacing household boilers within a few years, with wide-ranging implications for mature energy markets. Some innovators are adapting conventional combined heat and power technology (CHP) that recycles a generator's waste heat. Others are miniaturising fuel cell CHP systems that produce …
The Uttar Pradesh State Electricity Board (UPSEB) has raised a communique vacating a Union government clause for Aditya Birla Group's Rs 2,600 crore Rosa Thermal Power Plant project of 567 MW in Shahjahanpur in association with PowerGen, UK, and cleared all the bottlenecks facing the project.
Koyali - Ahmedabad petroleum product pipeline of Indian Oil Corporation has been rated as Ecostar (Gold) corresponding to performance profile of "world class performance on environment, health and safety" by Tata Energy Research Institute (TERI).
Members from each major party in Scotland's new parliament yesterday said they would take part in a new commission to study how Scotland can tap the power of ocean waves for electricity. The Commission for Wave Power in Scotland will be made up of five members of the new parliament, …
The company involved in a nuclear accident in Japan last week will withdraw from the nuclear fuel business, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper reported. It said parent Sumitomo Metal Mining Co Ltd had said wholly owned subsidiary JCO Co would close down, citing the likelihood that the government will revoke …
