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 Indian Electricity (West Bengal Amendment) Act, 1994, which has received the asent of the President and come into force with effect from August 13, 1998, is all set to be the centre of a controversy and legal battle. For, the Act has put a complete bar on the jurisdiction …
Tamil Nadu and Karnataka will share hydel power from cauvery river for which they have asked the National Hydro Power Corporation (NHPC) to construct four electric projects at a cost of Rs. 6,500 crores after settlemetn of their decade-long water dispute.
The Tamil Nadu Govenment has approved Energy Development Limited (EDL) of Australia as the developer for its municipal solid waste based power project in the city.
The government will permit national oil companies to set up joint ventures for exploration in India as part of a new strategy to be announced soon, the Petroleum Minister, Mr V K Ramamurthy, said today.
Minister : Petroleum minister V K Ramamurthy said at New Delhi on Friday that the entire benefit of the fall in international prices of diesel could not be passed on to the consumers as the oil pool account needs money to pay oil companies against the bonds issued to them …
Indian Oil Corporation has received the Golden Peacock National Quality Award for 1998 for Corporate Excellance, instituted by the Institute of Directors(IoD).
The International Development Association (IDA), the soft-loan arm of the World Bank, has issued its first loan guarantee for a private sector project, clearing the way for a $233m financing of the largest gas fired power station in west Africa. The IDA, which has lent more than $100bn at concessional …
The Andhra Pradesh governemnt is planning to set up a separate water regulatory authority to accelerate privatisation of urban water supply programmes in some of the key cities in the state.The body will be the first such regulatory authority in the country.
The State-owned National Thermal Power Corporation has shortlisted multinational Asean Brown Boveri and Bharat Heavy electricals Ltd for plant package of its Rs 8,000 crore Talcher Pase-II Power Project in Orissa. A decision to award the contract for supplying the equipment to the 2,000 MW super thermal power project would …
An international conference-cum-exposition with the theme "Oil industry outlook in the 21st century: Challenges and Opportunities" is being held here from January 8.While the exposition will open on Friday, the conference will be inaugurated a day later by the Prime Minister Mr. A. B. Vajpayee.
Asia's first power utility, based an clean coal technology, is all set to be commissioned by the Gujarat Industries Power Company Ltd (GIPCL) near Surat at a cost of over Rs 1,500 crore. The first !25 MW unit of India's first 250 MW power plant based on circulating fluidised bed …
Pak team to visit India this month : A Pakistani delegation is expected to visit New Delhi in the current month to finalise the proposed sale of 2,000 megawatt electricity to India. The officials of the ministries of foreign affairs of both countries are busy in giving final touches to …
The Indian consumer is yet to gain the benefit of the Union Cabinet's decision in September 1997 to bring diesel prices on import parity. While the cost of imported diesel, including freight charges, import duty, port charges and sales tax, comes to about Rs 6.25 a litre, the consumer has …
In a bid to cut the high pollution levels in the Chinese capital, Beijing Muncipal Government is to issue special environmental protection licenses for autos whose tail gas emissions have reached the set standard for discharge, said Wang Guotao, Vice-Mayor of Beijing. The new system will be introduced early in …
Nuclear waste from atomic power stations has a half-life of 10,000 years or more. Against this timespan, the row within the German Government over whether to decommission the country's 19 nuclear reactors within a matter of years or over several decades appears very trivial. Yet the precise timetable and terms …
Over 30 years of extensive efforts have enabled Shanghai to become China's largest nuclear power industrial center featuring research, design and manufacturing sectors. Shanghai introduced development of the sector in the 1960s and the city is widely recongnised as the cradle of China's civilian use nuclear power industry.
The first 300,000 kw generating unit installed at Tianshenguio first-tier hydropower station on the Hongshui river was connected to the local power grid in southwest China's Guizhou province. The Tianshengqiao Hydropower Station is one of a series planned to be built on the Hongshui river.
The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation(ONGC) and Indian OIl Corporation(IOC) plan to be part of the consortium formed to set up a $4-billion integrated gas project in Iran.
