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 Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has mooted the idea for a National Policy on Captive Power Plants. The plants would be submitted to the Centre. The contents of the policy was discussed at a two-day national seminar in Chennai.
A Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court has dismissed a public interest writ petition, challenging the orders passed by the Ministry of Environment and Forest and the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board for setting up a barge mounted power plant at Tanir Bani in Mangalore.
The Calcutta Municipal corporation will not issue any more licences for sinking deep tubewells in housing complexes. The reason: a sharp fall in the city's ground water level. A circular to this effect will be issued by the Municipal Commissioner, Mr Asim Barman, soon. The decision is based on a …
Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) has sanctioned two diesel-run power projects for Kargil and Leh areas of Ladakh in J&K;, an REC press release said.
Reputed to be Gujarat's strongest dam after the presitigious Sardar Sarovar Project, the 40-year-old Wanakbori dam is ageing. A two-feet long crack is clearly visible on the dam wall, but as far as authorities go, there's nothing amiss with the structure.
A strip of gentle, rolling plains near the Martian South Pole will serve as a welcome mat when NASA's Mars Polar Lander touches down on the Red Planet on Dec. 3. NASA unveiled the landing site, a swath of terrain measuring about 1,500 square miles, at a briefing at NASA …
The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has accorded the techno-economic clearance to the Cuddalore thermal power project in Tamil Nadu. The project is the largest so far in the country and will comprise two units of 660 MW each at an estimated cost of Rs. 6,400 crores.
The two mega refineries located on the coast of Gulf of Kutch will cause more pressure on the fragile eco-system of the Marine National Park, said principal secretary of forests and environment, P Basu while sounding an alarm about possibility of enormous damage to the marine eco-system if a disaster …
The drinking water problem facing the 2.5 lakh population of Surendranagar and Wadhawan towns of Gujarat has reached a flashpoint. In the TB hospital, Dal Milli Road, societies behind the 80-ft road, Joravarnagar and Ratanpar areas, water used to be supplied for only half an hour per week. But now, …
The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) has come out strongly against reports that latest research by five of its scientists found the research of an earlier team, wherein the latter had estimated that protactinium- 231 (Pa-231) could be a good alternative to Uranium -231 as nuclear fuel, was way off …
Wind power producers beware. The Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) is going to increase the penalty to 30 paise per unit for operating wind mills without capacitors from October 1, 1999. The penalty now is only 10 paise. Tamil Nadu has over 700 mw wind power capacity from over 3,000 …
It has been decided to increase the penalty on windmills operating without capacitors to 30 paise per unit, Mr B. Poornalingam, chairman Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) announced at Chennai today. The hike from the existing 10 paise on every unit, will come into force on October1, he said at …
About 100 villagers are to protest to the House budget scrutiny panel today against its decision to approve one billion baht to the nuclear research reactor project in Ongkharak district, Nakhon Nayok (Thailand). The villagers will also demand the government revoke the contract the Office of Atomic Energy for Peace …
The power ministry in an official communique has stated that out of an installed capacity of 93,000 mw only about 20,000 mw of capacity needs to be "vigorously monitored for Y2K compliance by October 31, 1999". The general drift of the release is that there is no reason to be …
Oil refining companies are being asked to ensure that 7.5 per cent of the crude throughput of their refineries be converted to kerosene. The ratio has been fixed by the ministry of petroleum and natural gas after it found that many refiners were producing more diesel and aviation turbine fuel …
Trucks brought soldiers to this seaport town on Tuesday to clean up an illegal shipement of toxic waste and hundreds of residents frightened of health hazards kept up an exodus to safer areas. The police confirmed that four people were killed in road accidents on Monday when more than 1,000 …
If you have seen old cars filling up with unleaded fuel, and lost your cool at the thought of the environmental consequences, relax. By February 2000, there will be one fuel for all -- unleaded , at that-- whather your car is fitted with a catalytic converter or not. The …
Irked by low rainfall, villagers of Kakroi in Sonepat district yesterday decided to irrigate the rice crop in their parched fields by cutting the Sutlej-Yamuna Link Canal (SYL) and thus set in motion a water crisis in the Capital. The villagers cut the canal early yesterday. The illegal diversion of …
The Rajasthan government on Thursday introduced a comprehensive bill in the state Legislative Assembly for the power sector reforms, which among other things, envisages setting up of an Independent regulatory Commission.The bill, called Rajasthan Power Sector reforms Bill, 1999, was introduced in the House by power minister Chandra Bhan and …
Three leading financial institutions, industrial Development Bank of India(IDBI), Infrastructural Development Financial Corporation (IDFC) and State Bank of India(SBI) have issued Letter of Intent(LOl)to infrastructure Leasing and Financial Service (IL&FS;)'s Rs 1,200 crore Tirupur water project.
