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 …
Environmental groups are trying to delay a vote by the board of the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation to provide political risk insurance for a controversial pipeline project in Bolivia and Brazil. Amazon Watch, Friends of the Earth and the World Wildlife Fund are arguing that US law prohibits support …
Hungarian utility Budapest Power announced plans to build a 110MW gas turbine combined heat and power plant at a cost of $80m. The new station is expected to start producing power in 2004 and will replace an out-of-date unit of 24MW generating capacity in the south Budapest suburb of Kispest.
China struggle to become clean and green enough to woo European energy investment is hampered by tight purse strings. A recent China-European Union energy coference showed Chinese delegates singing the praises of green fules and appearing eager to join the ranks of the developed world in its call to protect …
Prime Minsiter Atal Behari Vjpayee has laid the foundaiton stones for two mega thermal power projects of 2,000 mw each in Bihar on Saturday, although neither of projects has received techno-economic clearance from the Central Electricity Authority(CEA).
The National Colloquium on the World Trade Organisation agreement has declared in its 'Chennai Declaration' that the Union Governemnt should pass the biodiversity legislation protecting the country's sovereign rights over its biological resources.
Acute problems require novel solutions. For the power-starved Capital, Municipal Corporation of Delhi scheme to generate electricity from garbage couldn't have come sooner. The Sanitation and Conservancy Committee chairman Divya Jaiswal admitted that the project is past the planning stage.
A team of researchers in Osaka, Japan has discovered a microbe that eats waste animal and vegetable oils, a significant cause of water pollution. Following five years of research, the group of scientists at the Osaka Municipal Technical Research Institute found a way to purify water by using the microbe. …
Klang Valley (Malaysia) residents expressed sympathy yesterday over environmental damage that the Sungai Selangor dam project may have. But if the bottom line is regular water supply, then they want the dam built. After experiencing dry taps last year, Klang Valley folk made it clear that they want uninterrupted water …
The turnover from amusement contracts should ideally ensure the maintenance for the places of tourist interest. In Mount Abu, boating on the Nakki Lake has been a favourite pastime for most tourists. However, since January 19, the waters of the Lake have been somewhat lifeless and dull. Tourists have been …
The district administration has taken up a programme to combat scarcity of drinking water in Midnapore, Kharagpur and Jhargram sub-divisions. For this, Rs 67 lakh was sanctioned in the first phase, the district Magistrate, Mr Arun Bal, said.
The Rajasthan government will bring out a non-conventional energy policy soon. A first of its kind at the state level, the policy is aimed at tapping the full potential for the development of non-conventional sources of energy in the state, particularly in the solar energy enterprises zone (Seez) identified by …
The West Bengal government is reconsidering the implementation of the 420 mw second phase of the Bakreshwar thermal power project through the existing joint venture. If the joint venture falls through the government will be left with two options: it can either ask for loan from the Japanese, who are …
The Delhi government is negotiating with the World Bank for assistance to revamop the city's ailing power system which is on the verge of a "collapse", chief minister Sheila Dikshit said.
The Haryana government will spend Rs 60 crore on the sewerage disposal and augmentation of water supply schemes in the urban areas in the current financial year. This was stated by Mr Surinder Singh, MP from Bhiwani after laying the foundation stone of a sewerage disposal scheme in Siwani, 60 …
Taking the cue from rural and semi-rural India, Zambia is to promote clay cooking stoves and coal briquettest to cut its charcoal consumption to 30 per cent of fuel needs. "In (the strategy) involves efficient clay cooking stoves and coal briquettes as smokeless solid fuel alternatives," says Julius Banda, an …
A power regulatory body is being set up in Rajasthan to streamline power transmission and distribution, plug power theft, and implement reforms to make the Rajasthan State Electricity Board viable, the Rajasthan Energy Minister, Mr Bhanwar Lal Sharma, said at New Delhi today.
Environment and health minister A K Walia on Saturday directed the three thermal power stations in the Capital to explore possibilities to reuse their effluents after treatment and also proper management of the fly ash. The Rajghat and I P Power stations discharge their effluents into the Yamuna while Badarpur …
Another barge-mounted power plant in the private sector is going to start generating power by the end of May in Bangladesh, adding 110 MW electricity to the national grid.
Denmark's Energy Minister Svend Auken said late last week five new offshore windmill parks should be completed by 2001. Auken in a letter to Denmark's Public Party said the wind power projects would cost around 8.6 billion Danish crowns and have a combined effect of 750 megawatts. The Danish government …
Australian oil refiners faced total capital expenditure costs of hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade their plants to produce lower sulphur diesel fuel, company spokesmen said late last week. Mobil Oil Australia Ltd corporate affairs manager Alan Bailey said reducing Australian sulphur content to current European levels of 500 …
