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 total power required for running trains with modern coaches for the first phase of the Delhi MRTS is only 75MW by the year 2005. Apart from running trains , this power will be used for auxiliary load such as lifts, escalators, lighting, ventilation and air-conditioning. This power requirement is …
Most Delhiites may not even know that Masudpur, a provider of popular bio-manure, exists just a km away from upmarket Vasant Kunj. But the 1.5 -acre plot with four huge black tanks and lots of cow-dung spread on the ground has the bio-gas plant - standing strongly for 17 years. …
Enron: Energy major, Enron, forecasts that world electricity consumption will double from 13,100 billion kilowatt-hours to 26,960 billion kilowatt hours by 2020.Electricity consumption in Asia and Latin America nearly triples over the 1997 to 2020 time frame, while the rest of the developing world's power use early doubles.
Renewable energy is beginning to play an important role even in areas that have traditionally relied on coal and lignite.Nowhere else is this more true than in Germany's coal state of North Rhine/Westphalia which is known as Europe's most important region for energy and Germany's leading state for energy technology.
Cong.: The Congress(I), the very party which had initiated the process of bringing in foreign investment in the power sector- its first success being Enron's investment in Dabhol in Maharashtra - today put Enron back on the electroal agenda. It has demanded that the Enron project's be re-worked and its …
Orissa has become the first state in the country to completely privatise its power distribution network with the Grid Corporation of Orissa Ltd, sigining an agreement with AES Orissa Distribution Company Pvt Ltd for transfer of 51 per cent of its share in Central Electricity Supply Company.
The Congress on Thursday demanded an independent probe into the power purchase agreement (PPA)signed between Enron and the state government on the suspicion that electricity consumers in Maharashtra will be made to shell out more than Rs 6 per unit.
As the Philippine economy shows signs of powering up again, its development could be hurt for the second time this decade by an old enemy: electricity shortages. Power prices here are nearly double those in Thailand and Malaysia.
Running into a "polite" wall of state resistance in Gujarat, Arundhati Roy and a group of anti-Narmada dam activists are thinking of re-routing the "rally for the valley" campaign. The Madhya Pradesh government had requested Gujarat to let the activists pass through the state for tomorrow's Jalsindhi rally being organised …
Nepal's Minister of Water Resources Govind Raj Joshi said that the Government has included 18 projects with the total capacity to generate 3,397 megawatts of electric power in the Least Cost Generation Expansion Plan (LCGEP). The list also includes the 402-megawatt Arun III project that was aborted after the World …
Hetatuda Muncipality in Nepal has decided to ban diesel-operated three wheelers from operating them in Hetatuda Muncipality. At a time when there is also not a systematic park for the 125 auto rickshaws operating in Hetauda town, Hetauda munciplality has decided to request Transport Management Office, Birgunj not to register …
The Reliance group promoted Patalganga power project in Maharashtra is set to achieve financial closure in about a month, following an understanding between the group and the Maharashtra State Electricity Board(MSEB).
Multinational power sector giant Enron Corp has decided to pull out of Kerala-based Kannur Power project Ltd. Enron India had a 76 per cent stake in this project with an envisaged capacity of 513 MW, while the balance was held by KPP Nambiar Associates.
Petrobangla is likely to sign Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) for oil and gas exploration in the blocks 5 and 7 soon with Royal Dutch Shell Oil and the US company Unocal as the two companies have assured the Bangladesh government that they will not conduct drilling activities in the Sundarbans …
The work of preliminary stage of the much talked about and long cherished Ruppur Atomic Power Project in Ishwardi under Pabna District of Bangladesh is expected to be started in the beginning of the coming century. A source close to the Project told this correspondent that a high powered team …
Sewage from London and surronding areas is to be turned into electricity under a new deal to promote renewable energy. Tharmes Water, which supplies water to almost 12 million customers in London and the Thames Valley has formed a joint venture with the Renewable Energy Company, Europe's largest supplier of …
Tanzania and Zambia are looking for an investor to construct a power line linking them to the Southern African Power Pool (SAPP). Officials attending a SAPP meeting that ended in Dar-es-Salaam last Thursday told The EastAfrican that the two countries were finalising arrangements before advertising a tender for investors to …
The government of India is planning to corporatise 3 state electricity boards by the end of the current finacial year as part of a greater plan to unbundle generation, transmission and distribution of power. It will also chalk out a draft plan to develop a single and unified power system …
The Transnational Resource & Action Center (TRAC) , a US-based corporate watchdog, confered the Greenwash Award on BP-Amoco Corporation for its 'Plug in the Sun' campaign, on July 28 . In the campaign the company claims that by installing its solar-powered gas pumps, it allows you to 'fill your tank …
