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 …
Greenpeace has called on Thailand and other Asean states to embrace a clean and sustainable energy future through the use of renewable and efficient sources other than fossil-fuels. At a regional workshop on climate change and energy organised by the Asian Development Bank and the UNDP, Greenpeace presented its report, …
The Pusan chapter of the Korean Federation for Environmental Movement (KFEM) and Greenpeace International are planning to launch a joint maritime campaign to protest Japan's plutonium transport from Europe, KFEM officials said yesterday. The officials said that the anti-nuclear campaign will take place in the Korea Strait aboard Korean- or …
Pakistan accepts IMF, World Bank condition : Pakistan has agreed with the IMF and the World Bank to impose GST on petrol, gas and electricity before the release of the next tranche of $270 million loan "without putting any extra burden" on the consumers. It emerged on Thursday after talks …
The government should make it mandatory for a certain percentage of total power generation in the country to be sourced from renewable sources such as wind energy. This was suggested at a discussion on Wind Power Policy organised by the Tata Energy Research Institute(Teri).
British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL) unilaterally lifted the freeze on Greenpeace International main bank account shortly before a court hearing set for Monday in which Greenpeace was launching a counter legal action to unfreeze the account.
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd(BHEL) will be the first Indian company to manufacture special state-of-the-art boilers to substantially reduce environmental pollution from fossil fuel fired power plants.
Returns on investments in U.S. electric utilities judged environmentally less efficient have outperformed those determined to be less environmentally friendly, a study by New York-based investment advisory firm Innovest Strategic Value Advisors shows. A copy of the soon-to-be released report was obtained by Reuters.
The Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA) will be coordinating the setting up of a 4-MW power plant at Salem which will use 300 tonnes per day of municipal garbage.
With finite resources of fossil fuel facing exhaustion in a few decades, nuclear energy held the promise for raising the per capita electricity consumption standards of India to that of the developed countries, according to the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr. R. Chidambaram.
Greenpeace held a press conference to call on the British Government and and its state-owned nuclear reprocessing company, British Nuclear Fuels Ltd (BNFL) to immediately rescind the freeze on its bank account, and to end plans to expand plutonium fuel (MOX) production at BNFL's Sellafield plant in Cumbria, north England.
A two-day conference on automobile and fuel technologies organised by the Tata Energy Research Institute(Teri) has recommended setting up a multi-disciplinary consortium to tackle the problem of vehicular pollution.
The European Commission has warned Germany that it might have to abolish or revamp financial support for energy produced from wind power, a Commission spokesman said late last week. "We have opened the state aid procedure to look into subsidies windmill operators receive from the German state by means of …
Indian Oil Corporation(IOC) has invested Rs 4,670 crore to make process change at its refineries to upgrade quality of petrol and diesel to make products more environment-friendly.
Mention hydrogen energy and the reaction can be wild. Talk of fleets of buses powered by fuel cells produces jibes about "rolling hydrogen bombs". This is unfair: properly handled, hydrogen is as safe as other fuels, such as natural gas and propane. The scepticism hardly mattered while hydrogen energy remained …
The Central Electronics Limited has drawn up a three-pronged strategy to shore up its financial position in the wake of the recent Cabinet decision to put it on notice for disinvestment on account of its poor financial performance.
The UK government is threatening retaliatory action unless the French speed up the liberalisation of their electricity market. Ministers have warned they could invoke a reciprocity clause in the European Union electricity directive if the French fail to open their market to British companies.
Drilling for oil and natural gas in the Barmer-Sanchore sector of western Rajasthan has brough out encouraging results. The first well, drilled by Shell India in Gudamalani area of Barmer district, has indicated the presence of oil and natural gas between the depths of 1821 metres and 2045 metres.
US power major Enron is exploring possibilities of picking up minority equity stake in RPG Power. The proposed equity participation by Enron India Ltd comes after the joint venture between Enron and the RPG Group for the proposed Indo-Bangaldesh gas pipeline project hit a snag.
A Chinese firm is to build a 14 megawatt(MW) hydropower plant in West Nepal, officials said on Thursday.They said China Guangxi International Corporation for Techno Economic Cooperation(GITEC), based in Nanning in Guangxi province, would build the Upper Modi hydropower plant for $28 million, the biggest Chinese involvement in Nepal's hydropower …
Two more cracks and another three small areas of damage have been found in the stainless steel pipe that leaked radioactive cooling water at a nuclear power station operated by Japan Atomic Power Co. (Genden) in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, the operator said Thursday. The number of cracks and points of …
