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 …
Team leaving for India to finalise modalities: While Pakistan is hit by the worst-ever load shedding of the year, a four-member official delegation is leaving for India to finalise the modalities to sell 2,000 megawatt of electricity. The delegation of experts from Power, Water, Finance and Foreign Affairs is expected …
Enron India and K.P.P. Nambiar and Associates (KPPNA) have terminated their agreement for the development of the 513-m.w. Kannur power project in Kerala.
JAPANESE firm Asahi Chemical Industry has announced that it will sue us-based firm General Electricals (GE) for violating its patent on the production of polycarbonate resin. The company said that it would file the claim against General Electricals Spanish unit, GE Plastics, early next year. In May, Asahi Chemical filed …
THE Australian government has proposed to grant Aborginal title claims to two parcels of land in the Northern Territory (NT). Two claims by Aboriginal groups, Innesvale claim, covering 283,700 hectares (ha), and the Urrpantyenye claim, covering 6,554 ha, would bring the number of Aboriginal land holdings in the NT under …
WAGES from the Galileo spacecraft show conclusively that the three faint rings around Jupiter come from moon dust spiralling down into the planet's atmosphere. No one knew that the rings existed until the Voyager spaceprobe few by the planet in 1979. The dusty rings are visible only when light hits …
Now global positioning system (GPS) satellites can also give you a weather report for all you sea-faring people. This could provide a low- cost alternative to weather buoys and expensive radar satellites that are conventionally used for predict- ing bad weather. GPS signals from the ground are usually consid- ered …
VEHICLES and buildings could soon inform us if they are feeling up to the mark or not. Scientists in Japan have developed a paint that can 'sense' vibrations that warn of impending structural damage. Shigenori Egusa at the Japanese Atomic Research Institute and his colleagues from Kansai Paint Company made …
The government's decision to decrease the prices of liquid fuels is likely to result in a lowering of power tariffs by 50 paise to Re 1 per unit from liquid fuel-based power projects. With the lowering of tariffs, the financial impact on the State Electricity Boards (SEBs) will also decrease.
The biodiversity bill, intended to protect the country's biological reserves, is still awaiting clearance from the Union Cabinet. According to an official spokesperson, the Bill was to be tabled in the winter session of Parliament, but this could not be done because of the commotion over the insurance and patents …
The world added 2,100 megawatts of new wind energy generating capacity in 1998, a new all-time record, and 33 percent more than was added in 1997, according to preliminary estimates by the Worldwatch Institute. The new wind turbines added in 1998 have pushed overall wind generating capactity worldwide to 9,600 …
After a delay of nearly one year, state-owned Indian Oil Corporation's six million tonne refinery is expected to go on stream within the current financial year. However, there would be no cost overruns in the Rs 3868 crore project.
The government is, for the first time, scaling down powr requirement projections by 10 per cent in the 16th power survey. The move is in view of the fact that the government does not expect an economic recovery till the end of the 10th Plan. This is in variance with …
A high-level inquiry committee has blamed "poor construction supervision" for the May 7 fire, in which five people died and two were injured, at the Indian Oil Corporation's Panipat Refinery. The committee has estimated the "direct financial loss" because of the fire at Rs 1.42 crore.
After strongly backing the Euro-I and Euro--II auto norms, environmentalists are now gunning for the diesel fuel saying that engines powered by it produce significant amounts of Respirable Suspended Particulate Matter (RSPM), the main culprit behind health-related problems. Pending a final decision on the ban on diesel vehicles, the Centre …
The Confederation of Indian Industry(CII) has called for encouraging multiple genertions in the power sector as this would not only induce competition but also help improve internal efficiencies and set benchmarks for performance by others.
The power ministry is in the process of opening dialogue with the World Bank for financing transmission projects with the initiation of moves to privatise power distribution.
Norwegian natural gas consortium NaturkraftAS wants to build an 800-megawatt gas-fired power station at Tjeldbergodden, northwest Norway, NRK public radio said yesterday. The company, owned with equally by industrial group NorskHydro , state oil firm Statoil and state power producer Statkraft, earlier this year shelved another gas power plan after …
In a significant development aimed at enhancing power generation through non-conventional energy sources, the Centre has decided to go in for international bidding for the languishing Rs 5,000 crore 900 mw Hansphal creek tidal wave project in the Gulf of Kutch in Gujarat.
The Government is extending its memorandum of understanding with the promoters of the 3,960 MW Hirma mega power project, Southern Electric Company, for another year till September 2000. The MoU would have expired this month.
- U.S. lawmakers urged federal regulators not to issue a permit for a controversial 664-mile natural gas pipeline that would stretch from the Great Lakes to New Jersey. n addition to citing environmental and safety concerns, opponents to the project told the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that there is …
