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 …
The new mega power policy aims to provide cheap power to states for their economic restructuring and at the same time put pressure on the state governments to initiate reforms in the sector. This was stated by the Special Secretary, Power, Mr Pradeep Baijal, at a seminar organised by the …
Government is considering setting up three separate regulatory bodies to monitor and supervise the petroleum sector which is to be completely de-regulated by year 2002, a top Indian Oil Corporation Official has said.
The US mulninational Enron Power Corporation will achieve financial closure for its second phase of the $1.2 billion Dabhol Phase -II power project in the next 30 days, a top company official said at New Delhi today.
The technology is stunningly simple, working much like a self-cleaning stove : Unsorted garbage is dumped into a chamber; the door is sealed; the temperature is raised to around 380 degrees Celsius and then the contents are turned to vapour and a pile of inert ash. The process, called thermal …
The Environment and petroleum ministries have planned a minister-level meeting to sort out the issue of fuel quality improvement in refineries. The environment ministry is of the view that urgent steps to upgrade the quality of fuel supplied by the refineries are imperative to reduce the level of toxic contents …
The National Thermal Power Corportion (NTPC), which is putting up a power project at Cheyyur in Tamil Nadu, plans to use LNG as fuel for the plant. It plans to source the LNG from the project that is coming up at Ennore near Chennai. NTPC plans to put up a …
The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) will withdraw from oil and natural gas drilling activity in Bengal in the next few days after it drew blank from the 50th well drilled in the state and its off-shore areas in the last four and half decades. However, breaking a year-long …
Four new nuclear power reactors are expected to be operational by year 2000, Atomic Energy Commission's Dr R Chidambaram said on Wednesday, while asserting that no further nuclear tests are needed in the wake of the satisfactory results of the Pokhran blasts.
Tales of safety problems are emerging from behind the shroud of secrecy that cloaks India's nuclear-power industry. To address the problems, India may have to become more open- and lower its nuclear weapons ambitions : a report.
The Export-Import Bank of Japan has signed a loan agreement with Bank of China to provide 44.75 billion Japanese yen ($388.8 million) to finance a new thermal power plant, the Financial News said on Tuesday. The loan would be used for construction of two 300 megawatt generators in China's eastern …
Additional power generating capacity of 1,500 mw would be created from renewables in the country during the Ninth Plan, C R Kamalanathan, secretary, mines, said on Tuesday. "This is based on reduced Budgetary support indicated for the plan," he said.
A huge reserve of natural gas capable of generating 2,680 mega watt power annually for 30 years has been detected in Rajasthan's border district of Barmer. Seven block areas of Barmer has been found to possess coal-based methane reserve which could be gainfully exploited for the state's economic development, according …
India and Russia have signed a memorandum of understanding for taking up joint technology development projects and programmes in deep sea exploration and exploitation and relevant instrumentation. The agreement envisages joint endeavours by institutions in the two countries towards design and manufacture of underwater marine instruments and other equipment, as …
A huge reserve of natural gas capable of generating 2,680 mega watt power annually for 30 years has been detected in Rajasthan's border district of Barmer. Seven block areas of Barmer has been found to possess coal-based methane reserve which could be gainfully exploited for the state's economic development, according …
Pakistan has confirmed the availability of 300 MW of power for export to India for the next 10 years and in this regard the two sides have decided to establish extra-high voltage inter-connection of 400-500 MW capacity between identified grid substation near Lahore and Patti in Amritsar district. Pakistan has …
India and Pakistan on Monday agreed technical details for a planned cross-border sale of 300 megawatts (MW) of power by Islamabad, and the two neighbours decided to finalise tariffs at the next round of talks in March. "Pakistan confirmed availability of 300 MW of capacity for export to India for …
DEDA(Delhi Energy and Development Agency) gifted solar lanterns to the who's who of Delhi, created a list of buyers who did not exist and presented into thin air.Early last year, the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) had hauled up the nearly-insolvent DEDA for providing fictions figures. A copy of the …
The environmental proposals that the Clinton Administration is sending to Congress in its budget request for the year 2000 include new ways for delivering money to state and local governments to spend as they see fit, a sign that environmental power-sharing is taking a firmer hold than ever before. The …
