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 …
Import of power from Pakistan is to be realised in the next 8' month. According to power ministry sources, Pakistan has deciding to initially sell around 300 MW of power to India from its Dina Nath grid.
Andhra Pradesh government on Sunday set in motion far-reaching reforms in power sector by issuing notification bifurcating the state electricity board into two separate corporations for generation and transmission.
UNDP, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs and the World Energy Council will cooperate in a global initiative to prepare a scientific assessment of the linkages between energy, economic, environmental and human security issues -- including poverty, health concerns and pollution. The assessement will identify changes and new …
Banana peel paste as a substitute for batteries? Sounds weird? Well, 13-year old G Prasanth Kumar from S V University High School, Tirupathi has shown that it is possible to use paste made from banana peels as an electrolyte for the production of small voltage difference to run video games …
Oil conservation week (January 14 -27 ) passed largely unnoticed. Although the need for conservation is as compelling as ever. The Petroleum Conservation Research Association (PCRA) has, however, not slackened its efforts in optimising and reducing the use of petroleum products.
A global treaty limiting the use of 12 toxic chemicals by next year is possible as long as resources are provided to get the job done, a UN Environment Program official said last week. UNEP deputy director Shafqat Kakakhel delivered the keynote address at a meeting of delegates from more …
for the first time the us and the uk scientists have mapped the entire gene pattern of an animal, a tiny worm. This achievement is providing clues to human health problems such as cancer, ageing and Alzheimer's disease. "This worm is really an animal just as we are. It has …
under pressure from the us food industry, the Environmental Protection Agency ( epa ) has modified a new brochure on pesticides, putting less emphasis on their health risks and barely mentioning organic foods as an alternative to foods grown using toxic chemicals. The original strongly blamed pesticides for inducing heath …
this is an age when a good figure almost always helps: the thinner it is, the better it is supposed to be. We are talking, of course, about television ( tv ) screens and miscellaneous visual display systems. These have been getting thinner and thinner over the past decade. Recently, …
The Centre has advised the Assam Government to restructure the State Electricity Board (SEB) to identify the problems faced by it. In course of his recent three day visit to the region, the Union Power Minister, Mr. P.R. Kumaramangalam, told presspersons that the State Government had been given two options: …
The US could increase the proportion of electricity generated from renewable sources to about 10 times current levels over the next 20 years, and still see a 13 percent decrease in electricity prices, according to a new study by the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). Increasing the amount of electricity …
The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission has ordered Northern States Power (NSP), a Minneapolis-based utility, to acquire another 400 MW of wind generation by the year 2012. NSP is already required by 1994 state legislation to obtain 425 MW. NSP is currently buying power from 132 MW of wind turbines located …
A Carleton University PhD student is mapping out a molecule that blurs the traditional dividing line between bad industrial pollutants and good natural chemicals. Sheryl Tittlemier's newfound chemical behaves like some of the nastiest industrial pollutants in the world and it comes from something natural in the oceans. Man-made pollutants …
Tamil Nadu, from the present 500 MW deficit, is set to become a 3000 MW power surplus state in 2002 with various projects to the tune of 10,000 MW set to go on steam in the next four years. "After 2001, Tamil Nadu will be the highest power surplus state …
Commonwealth Energy Corporation, California's largest Electric Service Provider (ESP), announced on January 28 that it will offer its GreenSmart program to California residential and small business customers at a discount from the Power Exchange price.
Hungarian utility Dunamenti Power, majority owned by Tractebel of Belgium, is favourite to win the contract to build a new 400MW coal-fired power station at a cost of $400m. Dunamenti, already Hungary's largest generating company with a combined capacity of almost 2,000MW, is understood ot have outdid German and US …
Germany's environmentalist Greens were licking their wounds yesterday after their set-back at the hands of Chancellor Gerhard Schroder over government nuclear energy policy. Leaders of the Greens, the junior partner in Mr Schroder's SocialDemocrat-led government, lined up to criticise the chancellor's decision on Tuesday to bow to industry pressure and …
While nearly 30 lakh urbanites in Punjab have no access to safe drinking water, the sub soil water in the Faridkot-Kotkapura-Bathinda-Sangrur-Moga-Abohar belt is unfit for human consumption. Informed official sources told Tribune News Service that even in big cities like Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Bathinda, Patiala and Moga, 35 to 40 …
It has come full circle back for Enron. The US-based energy utility has had enough of brickbats and it's time now for bouquets with the proposed commissionning of its mammoth 2,184mw two-phase Dabhol power project in Maharashtra. The entire Enron Corp board is set to visit what is turning out …
It may be a power backed diplomatic exercise but make little commericial sense. The cost of power indicated by Pakistan has emerged as a major stumbling block in importing the proposed 2000mw of power by India from across the border. Highly placed official sources told the The Financial Express that …
