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 …
Official: A fierce blaze in a state-owned oil refinery in Izmit in northwestern Turkey was brought under control early on Thursday as firefighters continued to battle flames, a senior official of the plant said.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Atal Behari Vajpayee, today set a deadline of March 31, 1999 for atleast 10 power projects to complete all formalities (financial closure) and get off the ground. To achieve this, he suggested the reation of a crisis resolution group to resolve the so-called "last mile" problems …
The Supreme Court has cautioned high courts against granting interim stay of contracts awarded by the Government or public authorities for the construction of developmental projects since such 'stay' stopped or held up those projects causing inconvenience to the people. The court issued the stern caution while setting aside Bombay …
A US-Canada commission has urged the two countries to impose a moratorium on bulk water removals and sales from the Greak Lakes basin until the joint body can issue final recommendations next year.
Woodside Petroleum Ltd said yesterday greenhouse emission costs could hinder Australia's chances of winning liquefied natural gas contracts. Woodside managing director John Akehurst said greenhouse gas emission targets agreed to under the Kyoto agreement would affect Australia but not its major competitors in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Middle East. "The …
Capacity addition in the power sector during the Ninth Plan is likely to fall short of the targeted 40,000 mw by 15,000 mw. This is mainly due to slippage in the private sector.
The Ropar Thermal Plant (RTP) has suffered Rs 3.5 crore loss in the past five and half months of this year due to excessive auxiliary consumption, furnace oil consumption and demineralised water consumption which are essential for power generation because in the absence of these the plant can not be …
Dhaka and Washington signed a joint statement of Cooperation in Bangladeshs's energy sector. The US pledged to send a team to Dhaka to identify opportunities for jointly improving the energy infrastructure and policy, legal and regulatory mechanisms needed to promote foreign investment in the energy sector.
Energy Development Ltd. (EDL), an Australian multinational, is all set to invest Rs 130 crores to generate 15 mw of electricity from municiapl solid waste (MSW) at Perungudi near Chennai.
The lenders of the Dabhol power project have insisited that no new lender would enter the consortium for funding the 1,444 mw phase II of the project. This was stated by Deepak Parekh, chairman of Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation Ltd at a seminar on infrastructure financing in India organised by …
The minister of urban affairs and employment, Mr. Ram Jethmalani told the Lok Sabha that an action plan for providing safe drinking water to all in the next five years, as promised in the National Agenda of Governance, has been forwarded to the Planning Commission.
Gujarat Chief Minister keshubhai Patel asked the Centre for higher allocation of natural gas to the state, besides more power at cheaper rates. The Chief Minister made the demand while speaking at the foundation laying ceremony of 650mw power project at Kawas near Surat.
Various possibilities of tapping the vast hydro potential in the proposed State of Uttarakhand were disussed at a seminar. Inaugurating the seminar, Major General B.C. Khanduri MP called for a concerned effort for tapping the vast untapped energy resource and its proper channelisation for the development of the state and …
The World Bank has cautioned the Bangladesh government that it may suspend credit to the Fourth Dhaka Water Supply Project of WASA including that of Syedabad Water Treatment Plant for what it termed lack of progress and inordinate delay in the implementation of the project.
Companies that need a power source that is close to 100 percent reliable are considering fuel-cell systems to replace electricity supplied by utilties. One disadvantage is the installation cost. The cost for a fuel-cell system averages about $4,000 for each kilowatt hour of power, compared with $1,200 or less for …
You might get just 2 buckets a day: India will have to pay a heavy price in the first quarter of the new century for having failed over decades to evolve an equitable water policy and for years of unchecked deforestation. While the entire world is facing a shortage of …
Astronomers said on Monday they had found direct evidence for the first time of matter being pulled into a black hole. They said the mtter was being pulled at a speed of more than 10 million km per hour into the black hole, a dense region where extremely strong gravity …
Researchers hope to be able to launch a spacecraft which will pas all probes to be the first spacecraft out of the solar system. Using a new propulsion system known as M2P2, it would be ten times faster than the space shuttle and could zip by VoyagerI, launched in 1977 …
Tungabhadra Steel Products Ltd's (TSPL) mini hydel project in Karnatak went on steam on Friday, marking a new phase in the public sector company's 39-year history. This is the first time a central public sector company has built and commissioned a hydel power project.
Malaysia has been appointed to lead a study to plan a power supply system for rapidly industrialising and developing countries. The task to formulate the system has been given to Tenaga Nasional Berhad by the Paris-based Conference International Des Grands Resaux Electriques A Haute Tension (Cigre) or International Conference on …
