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 …
India and Algeria have agreed to set up a joint working group to develop the hydrocarbon sector for mutual advantage. The group will identify areas in which both the countries could cooperate. The two agreed to work on opportunities drilling rigs, refineries and providing oil field services.
The cash-strapped Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) can save a whopping Rs 358.8 crore per annum if the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) fully backs down its Kayamkulam thermal power plant. Despite clear clauses in the power purchase agreement (PPA), which allows KSEB to despatch the power station, NTPC is …
Fukui Prefecture, Japan gave the final go-ahead Thursday for Kansai Electric Power Co.'s plan to use mixed plutonium-uranium oxide fuel at its Takahama nuclear plant. The controversial project, which could start as early as November, will mark the first time MOX fuel will be used at a nuclear plant in …
The power ministry has written to the finance ministry asking that eight more power projects - Anta, Auriya, Kawas and NHPC and two more be notified as eligible for Customs duty-free import of equipment. These projects currently do not meet the capacity benchmarks set for duty-free equipment import.
United States-based power majors, Marathon and Enron, which are believed to be in negotiation with the Essar group to buy its equity stake in Essar Power, have asked for an extension of the period for repaying the liabilities of Essar Power.
The world's first tidal power station will be built in the Zhoushan Islands areas of east coastal China's Zhejiang Province, the Zhejiang Provincial Bureau of Oceanography. The Zhoushan Islands have one of the world's richest tidal energy sources, and the site is determined after two years of investigations by Chinese …
In an attempt to provide power connections to farmers on a priority basis, the Congress (I)-led Government in Rajasthan will soon be implementing a scheme for releasing the connections within 60 days of depositing the demand note moneny. If the stipulation is flouted, the officials concerned will be immediately placed …
Going by the realisation so far this month in the Mettur reservoir, Tamil Nadu is optimistic that it will receive from Karnataka, for the first time since 1993, the quantum of 10.16 tmc ft of water for June as recommended by the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal.
The Cheyyur Super Thermal Power Project, which has become a subject of controversy in respect of its location, is coming up for a public hearing next month. The hearing to be conducted by a panle essentially consisting o the field officials of the Pollution Control Board (TNPCB) and the district …
The Gujarat refinery of Indian Oil Corporation has become the first refinery in the country to commission the diesel hydro-desulphurisation unit (DHDS). The unit will enable the production of extra low sulphur diesel of 0.25 per cent.
By the end of next month, the Indian Oil Corporation expects to supply more environment friendly diesel all over the country. The extra low sulphur diesel will be available at all its refineries much before the deadline set by the Government.
The Department of Atomic Energy(DAE) today said it had commissioned the synchrotron radiation source (SRS),Indus-I, enabling India to join the select band of a dozen nations in the world.
The US Overseas Private Investment Corporation is expected to approve a $200m loan for a gas pipeline in Bolivia, a project opposed by 60 environmental groups in 25 countries. Opic, which promoted US foreign investment by political risk insurance, has recently approved new stricter environmental guidelines. However, when it votes …
Eastern European countries will come under scrutiny this week over the continuing use of aging and Chernobyl-type nuclear reactors 13 years after the world's worst nuclear disaster. Concerns will be underlined at a conference sponsored by the International Atomic Energy Agency at which seven states - including Ukraine, where the …
Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL), a premier electronics company prducing microprocessor-based electronic voting machine (EVM), has produced a new microprocessor-based solar power supply unit to power rural information technology(IT) network.
The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) is reviewing the allocation of naphtha to power plants. The review may result in some naphtha linkages getting withdrawn and reallocated to other claimants, the Union Power Minister, Mr. P.R. Kumaramanagalam, told Business Line.
Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd (KPCL) will sign a shareholder's agreement with US energy major Unocal to implement the Rs 800 crore, 200 mw combined cycle project at Bidadi, near here, on June 21, it was announced here yesterday.
Reliance's Hazira petrochemicals complex has won the golden jubilee memorial trust award from Southern Gujarat Chmaber of Commerce & Industry for 'outstanding pollution control programme' for the year 1998-99.
