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 West Bengal Rural Energy Development Corporation (WBREDC), set up early this year, seems a non-starter. The corporation is yet to get an office to operate from.
New Zealand scientists have harvested a crop of gold digging plants, Reuter reports. The researchers used a technique called phytoextraction to encourage plants to take up gold from the soil into their roots and to above ground shoots.
The Indo-Russian inter-governmental commission has identified a host of power projects including the Muzaffarpur TPS stage II, Tenughat TPS stage-II and the Maithon right bank TPS for execution by Russian companies.
The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has dircted CESC Ltd. to explain the controversial cost figures of Budge Budge project. The power company, which received the letter from the central regulatory agency few days ago, will send a team of some of its senior officials later this month.
The new German Government will hold formal talks with the power companies next month on plans to shut down the country's 19 nuclear power plants. The German Chancellor, Mr. Gerhard Schroeder, made the announcement yesterday after holding preliminary talks with four leading nuclear-energy operators on a strategy for scrapping nuclear …
The Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources has firmed up plans to set up the world's largest hybrid solar power plant, the first of its kind. The 140MW project is coming up in Rajasthan at an investment of over Rs 1,000 crore, according to officials.
MNES : Large-scale use of solar water beating systems (SWHS) can help in improving the overall conventional power supply by reducing demand, according to a senior official of the ministry of non-conventional energy sources (MNES). "The use of SWHS by one lakh households each replacing two kw electric geyser can …
The UK government agency currently inspecting the Sellafield nuclear plant will not be checking the safety of the plutonium fuel produced for Japanese utility Kansai Electric (KEPCO) and due to arrive in Japan on Wednesday 22 September, Greenpeace stated today. The Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) has sent representatives to the …
An underground power line is likely to be laid through Victoria's Alpine National Park to the Mount Hotham ski resort despite concerns about damage to the fragile mountain ecology. A panel appointed by the Planning Minister, Mr Rob Maclellan, has approved the $6.5million project, dismissing environment protection conditions proposed by …
India, a key Asian buyer, does not plan to import diesel after deliveries in the first half of October, an official of the Oil Coordination Committee (OCC) said. The OCC is the State-run planning and monitoring agency for the country's oil sector.
Philippine oil refiners said yesterday they were ready to comply with the government's plan to speed up the phaseout of leaded gasoline in heavily-polluted Manila by January. But industry executives said the country's refiners would have to invest billions of pesos to be able to meet higher petroleum product standards …
It started with a short letter to a local newspaper here four months ago, in which a woman from Ketchum, Idaho, warned Jackson residents that the Federal Government intended to build a nuclear incinerator 90 miles upwind from Jackson and Yellowstone National Park. At the time, almost no one here …
As the clock ticks towards the new millennium, the ahadow of Y2K bug looms ever larger over the Karnataka power sector. Though the state energy department has set the end of September 1999 as a deadline for the power utilities to be Y2K compliant, industry sceptics fear that it might …
A giant wind turbine, capable of generating power for 3,000 homes, began operation in Swaffham, eastern England. The machine, designed by Lord Foster's architectural practice, has been selected as an official Millennium Product by the Design Council.
In a major breakthrough for Gujarat in the Central sector investment, the Centre has cleared a mega 2,000 MW power proejct to be set up in Pipavav in Amreli district in Saurashtra at a cost of Rs 8,000 crore.
The Gujarat Congress Seva Dal on Tuesday resolved to strive for completion of the multi-crore Sardar Sarovar Project and threatened to launch an atitation to force the Bharatiya Janata Party government in the state to sincerely work towards completion of this project.
The state government had provided green signal to the Rs 5000 cr. gas grid protect proposed by the Gujarat Petroleum Corporation Ltd., to transfer Liquified natual gas from Pipavav in Saurashtra to Hazira in South Gujarat through a well networked pipeline.
The government will soon come out with an energy conservation bill which will prohibit use of inefficient equipment and would impose penalty on manufacturers who do not comply with the prescribed standards prohibiting use of inefficient energy equipment. Stating this at the national energy conservation awards function organised in the …
The Delhi government has decided to stop registration of all two-wheelers fitted with two-stroke engines from January next year. City transport minister Parvez Hashmi said on Sunday a draft proposal to this effect has been prepared and will soon be placed before the cabinet for approval.
Edison Mission Energy, a US power utility, said it remains committed to its $820-million coal-fired power scheme which is facing environmentalprotests in Prachuap Khiri Khan, Thailand. Robert Driscoll, senior vice-president for the Asia Pacific region, yesterday reaffirmed the intention to build the 734 -megawatt facility.
