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 …
Australia's Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme would suffer a A$188 million impact if political pressure caused governments to boost Snowy River flows to 28 percent of original levels, an expert said yesterday. In a report on Snowy Water flows commissioned by the Victorian and New South Wales state governments, Robert Webster …
Engineers at the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre are involved in an ongoing effort to redesign nuclear reactors, incorporate improved safety features and conduct extensive tests, all with the aim of ensuring total safety in the country's nuclear power generation system.
The KSEB, which has been dilly-dallying the controversial 513-mw Kannur power project, has finally decided to recommend it to the state government for the techno-economic clearance from the Central Electricity Authority (CEA).
The police seized records Wednesday from the company that runs the fuel-reprocessing plant where Japan's worst nuclear accident occurred last week. Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, vowing to make his country "once again feel secure," visited the site later. As he has done before, Obuchi acknowledged his government's slow response to …
Japanese police on Wednesday raided offices of JCO Co, the operator of a uranium processing plant where the nation's worst-ever nuclear accident occurred last week.
Hundreds of police raided a Japanese uranium plant operator following the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, officials said. This was done amid revealations that there had been astonishing lapses in nuclear safety.
The Science and Technology Agency on Wednesday decided to establish a committee of experts to examine the extent to which residents living near JCO Co.'s uranium-processing facility in Tokaimura, Ibaraki Prefecture, were exposed to radiation when the nation's worst nuclear accident occurred on Sept. 30. The agency revealed in a …
The Canada-built reactor which is at the centre of the latest nuclear scare in South KOrea has long been the subject of controversy, with environmentalist groups saying it is unsafe. Besides South Korea, the system known as CANDU is in use at plants in India. Argentina, China, Pakistan, Romania and …
Solar and wind power would be worth the money to develop if governments, oil companies and utilities really got behind them, speakers told a Greenpeace business conference yesterday. "To get to such a different system and to do it quickly is going to take tremendous levels of investment, major policy …
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 …
Japan's Fugen nuclear power reactor could be forced to shut down in January if a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant does not reopen by then in Tokaimura, a town located 140 km northeast of Tokyo where the nation's worst-ever nuclear accident occurred last week. Operators of Fugen, state-run Japan Nuclear Cycle …
Trucks, passenger vans and sport utility vehicles over 8,500 pounds must slash their toxic emissions by over 90 percent in less than a decade, the Environmental Protection Agency said yesterday. The EPA's proposal calls for the reduction by 2007 in smog-causing nitrogen oxides and particulate matter, or soot, from the …
The Government announced an unprecedented 40 per cent hike in diesel prices. The new prices which come into effect from midnight are expected to partially neutralise the 60 per cent increase in international prices of diesel recorded over the last six month.
Hundreds of people inhabiting areas close to oilfields in Assam are being exposed to serious halth hazards with the country's two largest exploration companies discharging toxic effluents from drilling sites and indiscriminately flaring natural gas, endangering humans, flora and fauna. Experts says oil pollution and the impact of gas flaring …
The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) is understood to have cleared the 513-MW Kannur power project being promoted by K.P.P. Nambiar and Associates (KPPNA).
The owner of the uranium processing plant at the centre of Japan's worst radiation accident in history pledged Tuesday to pay compensation for the mishap, which exposed dozens of people to radiation and posed a potential threat to thousands of people in the community. The compensation announcement by Sumitomo Metal …
For sale: some of the world's biggest nuclear reactors, in Canada's most populous province, to an experienced owner willing to learn new skills. Ontario Power Generation, a spin-off of Ontario's debt-laden public electrical utility, said on Tuesday it was once again looking for investors to buy some or all of …
Lithuania's parliament yesterday approved a plan that set 2005 as the deadline to close the first unit of the Chernobyl-style Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, as long the West helps finance the decommissioning. MPs voted 63-31, with one abstention, in favour of the programme, deputy speaker Arvydas Vidzhiunas told parliament.
Hydrogen gas leaked at a nuclear power plant on inland's southern coast, east of Helsinki, yesterday, creating a risk of fire in the plant's yard but no danger to the nuclear process, officials said. A spokesman for the Loviisa plant, owned by power group Fortum, said gas leaked when the …
Wind energy can provide 10 percent of the world's electricity needs by 2020, creating 1.7 million new jobs and reducing pollution, according to new report unveiled yesterday. The report, commissioned by environmental group Greenpeace, the European Wind Energy Association and the Forum for Energy and Development, found that 1.2 million …
