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 …
Thousands upon thousands of windmills, scattered on the prairie in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, are bringing joy to some 1 million local farmers and herds people. They were used to the whistling wind but never thought of using it to generate electricity for their own benefit. The wind …
Bharat Heavy Electrics Ltd(BHEL) has achieved yet another milestone in the international market with the first oder for a frame nine gas turbine-based power plant 124 mw ISO rating.
British Nuclear Fuels Limited succeeded in freezing Greenpeace International's bank account on Tuesday 20 July, accusing the environmental organisation of breaching terms of a UK injunction that forbids Greenpeace from interfering with the sea shipment of Mixed Oxide (MOX) fuel to Japan. The next day, 21 July, a ship carrying …
Southern Pacific Petroleum NL said the presence of Greenpeace protesters had not disrupted plans to commission its oil shale demonstration plant near Gladstone on the central Queensland coast. "It has been an inconvenience to the commissioning of the plant and we have used the time to work on other areas …
Favourable wind speed has contributed to an impressive 117 per cent increase in wind power generation in Karnataka in 1998-99 with production reaching 25.5 million kwh in the State has compared to 11.7 million kwh in 1997-98.
The State Government's business arm is proposing using woodchips from native forests in a string of new 'green power'' electricity plants across Victoria (Australia). In a prospectus released to potential investors last month, electricity generated from woodchips is promoted as 'green power'' from a renewable source. The proposal aims to …
A grant assistance of Rs 405,000 was provided by the Nepal Rural Energy Development Programme (REDP) for solar electrification to Ananta Nath Acharya, chairman of Solar Functional Group of Arman Village Development Committee a couple of days before, reads a press statement issued by the REDP.
After a gap of three years, there are signs of revival of one of the three much-hyped solar energy-based power projects planned during the time of the previous BJP Government to be set up in the sun rich desert sands of Rajasthan.
The Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) will bestow the first phase of the 2x220-mw Kaiga nuclear power plant in the month of September this year to the nation. NPC officials disclosed that the plant would achieve the reactor critically by August 31. Kaiga Atomic Power Station(KAPS) is the sixth power plant …
With water available one in six days for an hour, the water crisis has acquired alarming proportions in Surendranagar. And the people mince no words in blaming the Government for its inept handling of the problem. The gravity of the crisis cannot escape even a stranger. The long queues in …
Construction work on the Khar river dam in Pakistan is going on in full swing. The dam, being built by the community and a non-governmental organization on a self-help basis, has reached almost the half of the designed height. The dam is being constructed by the Kissan Committee, a voluntary …
A leak was detected in a second nuclear reactor in Japan's southern Saga province, forcing operators to halve power output reports saod on Monday.The leak happened on Sunday at the Genkai nuclear power plant, six days after a similar leak at a plant in the province of Fukui, when sea …
India's recent move to allow free imports of zinc ash could have serious environmental consequences affecting the health of people, environmentalists have warned. The Environment Ministry has recently allowed placing zinc ash, which is treated the world over as an environmentally hazardous industrial substance, under the open general licence(OGL) of …
The length of the crack in a stainless steel pipe that leaked radioactive cooling water at a nuclear power station operated by, Japan Atomic Power Co. (Genden) in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, was actually 9.9 centimeters, the operator said Saturday. Close examination of the pipe at the No. 2 reactor of …
Environmental Protection Agency investigated have uncovered what they believe are wide spread violations of federal air pollution laws by coal-fired power plants that have significantly added to the smog problems in the United States.
Development of biomass power can not only clean up the environment, provide additional 20,000 mw power but also accelerate rural growth by creating substantial employment in these areas, according to a report. "Apart from providing a much needed relief from power shortages, power projects based on biomass would also open …
Agroup of villagers harmed by toxic discharge from the Mae Moh lignite-fired power plant has filed a lawsuit to demand three million baht compensation for damage to crops and farmland. Over 60 villagers from Ban Huay Ped in Mae Moh district of Thailand yesterday assigned their lawyer to launch the …
Monday's coolant leak at a nuclear plant in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, Japan caused radiation levels inside the reactor building to shoot up 11,500 times the legal safety limit. The finding was announced by Japan Atomic Power Co. (Genden), which operates the Tsuruga nuclear power station. Massive leakage of radioactive cooling …
Future Energy, a green energy accreditation scheme, is designed to give consumers the choice to buy electricity derived from environmentally-friendly sources. But Friends of the Earth (FoE) has accused the government of watering down the labelling system by including energy generated through the incineration of household waste. "We were a …
