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 …
Transmission and distribution losses of power have come down from 52 per cent to 43 per cent during the past three months, the Delhi Power Minister, Dr Narenda Nath, claims in the Delhi Assembly today. The ministry also announced that the government was ready to buy power from Jammu and …
China plans to counter the worsening water crisis in the semi-arid north while realigning its major flood-prone rivers. The nation's ambitious initiatives were outlined yesterday by Zhang Chunyuan, vice-minister of water resources, during a symposium marking World Water Day. Studies will be conducted to determine the feasibility of diverting water …
The Bombay High Court today directed a CBI probe into the contract for retrofitting turbines awarded by the Maharashtra State Electricity Board(MSEB) to Powerplant Performance Improvement Ltd(PPIL).
With summers around the corner and a power crisis looming large, a Delhi NGO has suggested some demand management schemes, to curb the wasteful usage of electricity. Experts at the Indian National Trust for Preservation of Art, Culture and Heritage(INTACH) say that the white paper on power, brought out by …
Indian remote sensing satellite, IRS-P3, launched during the third developmental flight of India's Polar Satellite Launch vehicle(PSLV) from Sriharikota in 1996, has successfully completed three years of operation, orbiting the earth 15,554 times.
Uproarious scenes were witnessed in the A.P. Assembly on Monday over the issue of supplying uninterrupted power to farmers for the rabi crop when Congress(I) members waved sheaves of dried paddy and staged a dharna in the well.
The Nuclear Fuel Complex has for the first time manufactured Zircaloy import substitutes for the nuclear reactors in the country. "This is a unique achievement", said NFC chief executive Dr C Ganguly. Addressing a Press Conference he said," The Post-Pokhran sanctions imposed on India have proved to be a blessing …
While recommending the need for an integrated naitonal transport policy to meet the future needs of the country, the recenty- formed Task force on Infrastructure has stated that until indirect user charges in the form of a cess on petrol and diesel are levied by the government and its proceeds …
The Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, Mr. Robert Priddle, released the Agency's report on the energy policies of Japan. The IEA report acknowledges that Japan has led the world in many aspects of energy policy. It has made full use of international energy markets to achieve energy security …
Kapoor : A comprehensive Bill to reform and restructure the cash-strapped power sector in the Capital will soon be introduced in the Delhi Assembly, Lt Governor Vijai Kapoor said today.
Norway's government proposed late last week to invest 5.0 billion crowns ($640 million) over the next 10 years in renewable energy sources such as wind, bio-fuel and heat pumps. Oil and Energy Minister Marit Arnstad presented an energy white paper on Friday laying out a framework for Norway's energy sector, …
A new solar-powered system could finally solve a significant part of India's power problems realistically and economically. Called the Dish/Stirling system, the sytem could, more significantly, cut down the huge losses to state electricity boards that arise out of providing practically free power to irrigation pumpsets.
The fourth state conference of the BJP's Tamil Nadu unit commenced at Tiruchirappalli today with the state BJP leaders asserting that the party was well set to capture power in Tamil Nadu by 2001.
Even as its first phase is nearing completion, the Enron project at Dabhol is facing another controversy, with the Mumbai High Court admitting a petition about the comtamination of water sources in four villages around the site and ordering testing of the water by an expert panel.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation(ONGC) and Oil India Ltd (OIL) have struck gas and oil in Bombay offshore basin and in the central part of the Upper Assam basin, respectively.
US-based Ogden Energy Asia Pacific Ltd has inked a deal with the Assam State Electricity Board(ASEB) under which Ogden will lease, rehabilitate, operate and transfer (LROT) the board's power generation business.ASEB will continue to distribute the power which will be sold to it by Ogden.
The fire at the Mumbai offshore rig, Sagar Ratna, is likely to take another two months to be doused and therefore, the loss in terms of gas production is expected to be sizable. The loss of about 1.6 million cubic metres per day is estimated to cost around Rs. 25 …
The second unit (40 MW) at Kodasalli Dam Power House was mechanically rotated on March 16 successfully. It will be a gift from the Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd to the people to Karnataka on the Ugadi day.
Taiwan opposition politicians and environmental activists have raised a chorus of protest against the government's decision to issue final permits for the resource-poor island's fourth nuclear power station.
With the fire at ONGC's well at Bombay High continuing unabated for the seventh day now, ONGC has called in one more expert from the US-based Cudd Control Company, taking the total to six. While the Cudd experts are continuously studying data from the well which caught fire, the immediate …
