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 …
U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson has ordered an immediate investigation into reports that thousands of unsuspecting employees at Kentucky uranium plant were exposed on the job to cancer-causing plutonium. Mr. Richardson said that he would meet with workers at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant and request a study by the …
A decommisioned 1,000 ton nuclear reactor vessel has finished a voyage up the Columbia River, docking just miles from a disposal site for radioactive waste. The vessel will be buried in a deep trench.
The Andhra Pradesh Power Generation corporation (APGenco) has appointed Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (Bhel) and Siemens to carry out a refurbishment and modernisation (R & M) exercise of its Kothagndem thermal power stations. The cost of the exercise has been pegged at Rs 475 crore. Tata Consulting Engineers has already …
A 50 kw solar photovoltaic power plant, set up by public sector Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (Bhel) in the far-flung Kadmat island of Lakshwadweep, has started functioning.With the commissioning of the state-of-the-art eco-friendly plant, the power situation in the Kadmat island would get a boost, a Bhel statement said yesterday.
Over 50 Indian power plants that are in danger of being hit by the millennium bug are working to become Y2K compliant by October 31, government officials said on Monday.
Japan has approved a loan to rehabilitate the 30-year-old Tuanku Jaafar power station in Malaysia to be more efficient and environment-friendly. The loan will be extended through Japan's Economic Co-operation Fund (OECF), said Tenaga Nasional executive chairman and president Tan Sri Dr Ahmad Tajuddin Ali.
Commerce Ministry to allocate import quota : Pakistan's Ministry of Commerce has invited applications from importers interested in importing ozone depleting substance (ODS) since its import is subject to approval under the environment protection laws. The Ministry of Environment, Local Government and Rural Development has drafted guidelines for the import …
A 50 KW solar photovoltaic (SPV) power plant, set up by the public sector Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd(BHEL) in Kadmat Island of Lakshadwwwp, has started functioning. With the commissioning of the eco-friendly SPV plant, the power situation in the island will get a boost, a BHEL statement said on Monday.
The European Commission said yesterday it expected Lithuania to shut down the second of two reactors at its Ignalina nuclear power plant by 2009, after Vilnius set 2005 as the deadline for closing the first. Lithuanian Economy Minister Eugenijus Maldeikis met Commission officials in Brussels on Thursday to present the …
An innovative Public Distribution System through the Delhi Vidyut Board and New Delhi Municipal Committee wil help residents of the city to save energy and adopt bulbs that would drastically cut consumption of power, by the year-end. The conventional 60 watt bulbs will be replaced by the energy saving 11 …
The failure of the existing model of compressed natural gas buses have forced the Delhi transport department to order to improvised model bus from Telco. The existing front engine buses, which are plying on an experimental basis, suffer from overheating in the driver's cabin and are likely to be replaced …
Daewoo Motors Ltd is all set to introduce its mid-size sedan Cielo in a CNG-driven avatar in October. This would be followed with its luxury car Nexia in a similar CNG option, company sources said. Both the cars would come in a bifuel option, running on both petrol and CNG.
CEA : Inter-connecting regional operations through a national power grid, can save up to 8,000 mega watts during the 10th and 11th Plan periods (2002-2007 and 2007-2012), eliminating the need to set up infrastructure to generate that amount of power. The Central Electricity Authority (CEA) has released a study on …
A consortium of four Canadian and US companies has offered to invest $285 million (Rs 1.254crore) in a 105 mw power generation unit at Dhapa which will convert garbage into electricity. The group, after appropriate feasibility studies, intends to use the hihgly sophisticated plasma technology to utilise 1,500 MT ton …
For nearly ten million Calcuttans, home delivery of free filtered water will end beginning early next year. Come March 1999, the Calcutta municipal Corporation, under pressure from international funding agencies, will have unveiled a subsidiary, the Water and Sewerage Authority, after hiving off and mering its water supply and sewerage …
Oman LNG company said it signed a long-term deal with US energy firm Enron to supply the Dabhol power plant in India with 1.6 million tonnes a year of liquefied natural Gas (LNG). The company announed in a statement that it signed a sale and purchase agreement for 20 years.
Petrotech-99, the third International Petroleum Conference and Exhibition is being organised at New Delhi from January 9 to 12, 1999, said chairman and managing director Indian Oil, Mr. M.A. Pathan. The four day conference would be inaugurated by the Prime Minister Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, added Mr. Pathan while addressing …
The Nucelar Power Corportion of India Limited (NPCIL) is getting ready for the criticality of its 11th atomic power station at Kaiga, in Karnataka.The second unit of the Kaiga Atomic Power Station, Kaiga-2 - a 220 mwe Pressurised Heavy Water Reactor(PHWR) was expected to go critical on August 25, subject …
Aomori Prefecture in Japan is to get nuclear power plant at Ohma-machi following approval on Aug. 3 from the Electric Power Development Coordination Council, an advisory body to Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi. It will be the world's first nuclear reactor fueled solely by MOX (plutonium-uranium mixed oxide).
"Don't just boil your drinking water, but get it tested," the Department of Mines and Geology has warned people living in certain areas of Mysore. The Department which began its chemical analysis of groundwater in Mysore during 1992-1993 and has been constantly monitoring its quality since then, has found a …
