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 …
Texaco Inc will be the target of an advertisement campaign claiming the oil company dumped toxic waste in the Amazon rain forest, causing health problems for people in Ecuador and Peru, a Washington-based special interest group says.
$125 million robotic spacecraft, the first ever dispatched especially to investigate weather on another world, was missing on Thursday and presumed destroyed just as it was supposed to go into an orbit around Mars. As the slenderest hopes of re-establishing radio contact diminished with each passing hour, project officials announced …
More than the farmers who face uncertainty over the release of Cauvery water to save standing crops, over 10 lakh landless farm labourers in the delta districts of Tamil Nadu appear to be worse off as they are concerned over their livelihood in the near absence of agricultureal operations. By …
The Bangladesh government entered into an agreement with a Canadian company for an overhaul of three units of the Karnaphuli hydroelectric plant and establishing two new gas-fired thermal plants.
Aging oilfields in China's eastern regions will continue to be major sources of oil in the early part of the next century, with annual output forecast at 115 million tons by 2000.
Military courts to try cases of power theft : The Pakistan government on Tuesday promulgated four ordinances including the one which allowed calling of Armed Forces in aid of WAPDA to combat menace of electricity theft in the country. The ordinance through which the government made emergency provisions to combat …
With the power situation continuing to remain grim in the Capital, chief minister Sheila Dikshit said on Tuesday the Delhi government will bring out a white paper on power by January 15. It will be used as a "strategy paper" that will have all the facts regarding DVB on record. …
The Tamil Nadu State Electricity Board (TNEB) has committed itself to a doubling of electricity tariffs in the next 4-5 years, based on which it has agreed to provide a comfort on payments to six independent power producers. This will work out to an annual average increase of 21 per …
The country's first Wind Energy Estate near Dewas in Madhya Pradesh has attracted 12 private entrepreneurs to invest in setting up wind turbines in the joint sector. A total of 14 MW of wind energy is being generated from the venture which is being promoted by the Ministry of Non-Conventional …
The World Bank has cleared the second tranche of its assistance to a solar power project in West Bengal. The Bank has decided to adopt the Bengal scheme to reach power to remote areas through solar energy as the model for all such solar power projects in India.
Already struggling to compete in an oversupplied Asian gas market, two new Australian liquefied natural gas projects are now scrambling to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions in order to comply with Australia's obligations under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol. The cost of cutting emissions in another set-back for the two LNG projects, forced …
The government will soon launch a special drive to check mal-practices, like adulteration, in the marketing of petroleum products, petroleum minister V K Ramamurthy said at Delhi on Tuesday. He also announced the formation of four sub-committees under the parliamentary consultative committee of the minister to go into the problem …
"We are optimistic that the second unit of Kaiga atomic power station will attain criticality during the second week of September and commerical production will start in January next," said Mr V K Sharma, Project Director of the Kaiga plant. Kaiga has six units totally each with a capacity of …
The Confederation of Indian Industry, northern region, has agreed to assit the Himachal Pradesh government in augmenting its efforts in attracting investments in the power sector as also aid the process of policy formulation in the sector. Toward this end, the CII has constituted a five-member task force heades by …
The Delhi Jal Board has denied that water being supplied by the baord was found contaminated by the municipal corporation . The Jal Board also said that in one per cent cases where water quality was not satisfactory, individuals are responsible.
The Pune-based Thermax Ltd has secured around Rs 300 crore engineering procurement and construction (EPC) contract for a 100 mw power plant to be set up in Tamil Nady. With this, the company has taken a big leap by entering into the EPC business for independent power projects (IPPs).
The Rs. 3,189-crore Purulia Pumped Storage Project (PPSP) has been delayed by two years and the first 225 MW unit of the 900 MW venture is not expected to be ready before March 2004. However the OECF-aided project was not likely to run into cost overruns as a consequence to …
A White House report warned the next century could be littered with drastic environmental and political risks if the United States does not invest billions of dollars in clean energy technology. The report by the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) called for greater public and private …
A fire at Turkey's biggest refinery was brought under control on Friday with only one storage tank still on fire three days after a huge earthquake struck but reports of spillage emerged from broken pipes. "As of 9:30 the fire is at an easily extinguishable condition. We have only few …
The Delhi Jal Board seems to think that Delhi'ites can now be allowed to consume water from private tankers as ban which was imposed about a month ago has virtually ceased to exist.
