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 …
Japan's big trading houses are forming alliances with environment-friendly business overseas to gain know-how in a field with tremendous growth potential. Marubeni Corp. is set to form a joint venture company BC International to make ethyl alcohol from sugarcane pulp in the southern state of Louisiana.
Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund (OECF) of Japan has agreed to provide 25 million US dollars as unconditional grant for rehabilitation of Bangladesh's seven power stations that will recover about 150 mw power.
Leonid Kuchma, Ukraine's president, said yesterday he would consider a new German plan to replace the aging Chernobyl nuclear power station, site of the world's worst nuclear disaster in 1986 , with coal and gas-fired electricity. He made his concession after a day of top-level talks with a German government …
The Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, today commissioned the Numaligarh refinery and announced that a Rs 100-crore loan provided to the company by the Centre would be treated as grant as requested by the Assam Chief Minister, Mr. Prafulla Kumar Mahanta, earlier in his speech.
Indonesia has asked Japan to bail out a controversial power plant project led by Hopewell of Hong Kong and Sumitomo of Japan-- a move which could break a deadlock in discussions to renegotiate 26 power purchase contracts but which would also cause Tokyo to break ranks with Washington.
Thirteen years after the devastating explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine, wrangling continues on how to close down the undamaged reactors on the site, and replace the electricity they supply. Five years ago, the Group of Seven industrial nations agreed to finance alternative energy sources, in return …
Leonid Kuchma, Ukraine's president, was expected to insist that Germany keep its word and help its word and help finance two nuclear reactors planned to replace the Chernobyl reactor, as Gerhard Schroder, the German chancellor, arrived in Kiev yesterday.
Out of the 22 coal-fired power stations awarded the government of India's Meritorious Productivity Awards for excellent performance, 20 power stations are equipped with generating equipment built by Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL).
Opposition to the Enron power project appears to be raising its head again with the Maharashtra State Electricity Board Workers' federation having arranged a convention (to be held on July 11 in Mumbai) against Phase -II of the Dabhol project.The other issue at the convention will be its opposition to …
In defiance of Power Ministry's directive, National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has declined to take over the Rs 6,000-crore Naptha Kakhri hydro power project in Himachal Pradesh on grounds of manpower problems. The Power Ministry had asked NTPC to take over the 1500 MW hydro power project due to the …
Haldia Refinery has won the most coveted and prestigious "Golden Peacock Environment Management Award '99" for best management of environment under the category of large scale enterprises.
Assam will take a big step towards industrialisation after the Prime Minister inaugurates the Rs 2,489 crore Numaligarh Refinery in Golaghat district on 9 July. The former Prime Minister, Mr P V Narasimha Rao, laid the foundation stone of the refinery, with a capacity of three million metric tonne per …
Assam will take a big step towards indusrialisation after the Prime Minister inaugurates the Rs2,489-crore Numaligarh refinery in Golaghat district on 9 July.
Jellyfish smothered the sea water cooling system at a Japanese nuclear power plant on Wednesday, forcing operators to cut output by nearly 30 per cent, officials said. Countless translucent jellyfish choked up sea water intakes at Kashiwazaki Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant in Niigata, North of Tokyo, said a spokesman for …
The arrival of Dabhol Power has started biting, with Tata Electric Companies(TEC) becoming the first casualty. Faced with the prospect of having to buy huge quantities of power from the Dabhol Power Company(DPC), the Maharashtra State Electricity Board(MSEB) has refused to buy power from TEC from May 15. The Dabhol …
Scientists have jointly begun work on a project with the US oil and gas major,BP Amoco, to develop dimethyl ether (DME) as an alternative clean transport fuel.
The first private power generation plant in Goa, and perhaps the sixth in the country, is being commissioned by the Reliance Saigaoncar Power Company Ltd. The next target of the government is to also corporate the transmission and distribution.
Amid contant rise in power consumption by approximately 11 per cent every year in Rajasthan, the Congress (I)-led Government in the State is contemplating wide-ranging reforms in the power sector and has promised unhindered electricity supply for eight hours a day to the faremrs during the coming Rabi season.
