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 Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC) has taken a 25 per cent equity stake in the 156 million pound Kondapalli power project near Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh. Other investors in the giant power project will be the Hyderabad based Lanco group, another British company - Eastern Generation, Korea Heavy Industries and …
The white paper on Delhi's power situation and future strategy will be handed over by Delhi's power minister Narender Nath to chief minister Sheila Dikshit on Friday. Mr Nath is chairman of the committee formed to prepare the white paper.
More than a hundred trees have been cut down in and around the on-going Kali Gandaki 'A' hydel project in western Nepal as the government failed to compensate locals of the trees that were grown up in their farms. Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA), which oversees the project, compensated the locals …
DDC chairman Gajendra Bahadur Shahi inaugurated the San Khola micro hydroelectricity project constructed in Debari, ward No.6 of local Jogbuda VDC in Nepal recently. The hydroelectricity project was constructed under the Rural Energy Development Programme of the District Development Committee.
Bharat Heavy Electrical Limited (BHEL), has successfully completed trial run of the first Gas Turbine Unit at the World Bank funded 350 MW Kayamkulam Combined Cycle Power Project (CCPP), in Kerala.Significantly, Kayamkulam CCPP is the first power project of its kind in the country, set up after raising the level …
omani scientists believe that camels may hold a clue to a treatment for river blindness, a debilitating disease that affects millions of people each year in the developing world. Immunological studies by Oman's Suhan Qaboos University researchers show that the camels have a highly-evolved immune system which allows them to …
amid growing fears that antibiotics used in animal feed could lead to drug-resistant diseases among humans, European Union ( eu ) agriculture ministers voted to ban four drugs. Scientists recommended the ban after a Dutch farmer was found to be infected with the same drug-resistant bacteria as his chicken, indicating …
A gene's DNA sequence reveals which amino acids will appear in the protein of the gene. To guess a new protein's function, scientists compare its amino acids with those of familiar proteins. If two proteins share much of their sequence, then chances are they do similar jobs. But the structure …
Researchers in the US have used a washing powder ingredient to turn waste leather into a high-value protein used in the manufacture of adhesives and packaging films. Agricultural Research Service scientists used alkaline protease to break leather shavings into low value protein hydrolysate that can be used in fertilisers. By …
As part of its plan to end the use of nuclear power in Germany, the center-left coalition government is expected to agree to ban the practice of sending spent fuel out of the country for reprocessing. But under a compromise already reached by Environment Minister Juergen Trittin, a Greens lawmaker, …
NEA has begun soliciting support from public sector corporations and private companies to tap into their "captive power" in a bid to do away with "load shedding" from February 19 in Nepal. NEA officials hosted a group of representatives from various public and private companies in an interaction programme to …
WRE, a renewable energy company based in Frankfurt, Germany, plans to sell "green" electricity in England and Wales from April. WRE said it had been given permission by Offer, the UK electricity industry regulator, to supply power generated by a consortium of companies harnessing solar, water, wind and bio-power.
The government has decided to implement the recommendation of the Central Road Research Institute (CRRI) on syncronisation of traffic signals on long stretches of roads in the country for conservation of petrol and diesel. Announcing this at New Delhi today at a news conference organised to apprise the media of …
BP Amoco, the oil company, will today acknowledge a case for imposing energy taxes on business. Rodney Chase, president and deputy chief executive, will set out a case for using targeted energy tax in conjunction with emission targets for individual companies. He argues that an energy tax could be a …
Singhdeo : For a person known to be averse to the concept of major dams, having right through advocated community participation in harnessing rain water, the high profile portfolio Water Resources appear to be a mismatch. However, Ramchandra singhdeo finds himself at the helm of affairs of the Water Resources …
The Centre on Tuesday decided to set up a committee to draw up a 10-year perspective plan for the chemical and petrochemical industry. The panel will consist of members of the government and industry.
Indian scientists are setting up a second nuclear reactor based on fuel extracted from Kerala's beach sands. The first one, Kamini, is operating at Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research (IGCAR) at Jkalpakkam near Chennai.
The Supreme Court should not stop the CBI investigation into the alleged corruption behind the Cogentrix MoU as ordered by Karnataka High Court, it was pleaded before the apex court yesterday. Arguments in the Cogentrix appeal resumed before a bench presided over by Justice S Saghir Ahmad after a four-month …
At the instance of the RPG Group, BHF-BANK AG of Germany has agreed to arrange on a fully underwritten basis the foreign currency financing requirements of $313 million for its 702.7 MW combined cycle Dholpur power project, to be set up at Rajasthan.
