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 Government has deferred environmental clearance for the sub-sea pipeline of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd's (BPCL) Bina Refinery till the Supreme Court decides on a similar case concerning Reliance refinery.
Leading indepndent power producers (IPPs) are up in arms against the Union government's recent decision of providing duty concessions to the mega power projects. Asking for a level-playing-field with the mega power projects, these IPPs have conveyed to the power ministry that these benefits of duty free imports cannot be …
Eighty thousands villages in the country still go without power supply while the eighth plan target of electrification of 10,000 villages has not been achieved so far, the standing committee on energy has pointed out.
In an assembly in New York in May 1998, the United Nations on Sustainable Development adopted an article stating that water is indispensable in fulfilling the basic needs of society, promoting the development of agriculture and industry, and maintaining natural ecosystems. The commission agreed that in many countries water shortages …
Asia's economic collapse will depress oil and gasoline prices for nearly a decade, saving motorists in the United States about 13 cents a gallon in 2000 alone, the Energy Department said. While the Asian crisis has already helped to lower energy costs, the report offers by far the most strongest …
Residents in Sungei Long Gang affected by the mammoth dam project in Bakun appealed to the Malaysian government to let them stay on in their current longhouses. They said they preferred their present home than the Sungei Asap Re-settlement due to the insufficient facilities there. There are 16 villagers in …
Fore energy efficiency and services approach to become operational, the World Bank has extended further assistance of $130 million to India. Out of this $20 million would be utilised for energy service company (ESCO) development, Dr.K.S. Janakiram, General Manager, Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency Limited (IREDA), has said today.
A World bank affiliate unveiled a computerised-mapping system of the Earth's water resources on Thursday with hopes it will help farmers in poor nations gauge when and where to plant crops. The World Bank's Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) said its "world water and climate atlas"offered enhanced detail …
Germany's new government presented parliament with plans to increase energy taxes from April 1 and pledged to use its European Union presidency in the first half of next year to push a similar initiative throughout the continent. Jurgen Trittin, the Green party environment minister, said the new administration would end …
The Falkland Islands nascent oil boom fizzled after Royal Dutch/Shell reported that its second well drilled north of the islands in the south Atlantic was dry. The Fitzroy-1 wildcat well was the last of five that international oil companies drilled under the terms of a controversial licensing round that first …
The Union Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources (MNES) has initiated steps to encourage State Governments to tap the nearly one lakh megawatt electric power potential waiting to be harnessed in the country. The Ministry has begun a special drive to apprise the States of the schemes for power generation from …
The Government is considering a cutback in oil production at Bombay High, the country's largest oilfield, for two years in order to carry out an exercise to restore production.
Investors looking at Asian power projects will probably find the best opportunities in China, an official from the Export-Import Bank of Japan said on Thursday.
The Centre today justified in Delhi High Court the Panna-Mukta oilfield deal with Reliance-Enron Consortium saying the joint venture would fetch the Government additional $379 millions than that the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) would have generated.
China has taken wind power as an important source of electricity, and expects wind power stations to have a total generating capacity of one million kw by the year 2000. According to a senior official with the China State Power Corporation (CSPC), China has installed 10 million small wind power …
The European Union's spending watchdog savaged the EU's eight-year old programme to improve nuclear safety, potraying it as wasteful, plagued by muddled strategy and staff shortages, and ineffective. Failures in the programme have meant that of Ecu850m earmarked for nuclear safety in 1990-1997, less than half has in fact been …
Construction of nuclear power stations would become economically viable if tradeble pollution permits were introduced to combat global warming, Peter Hollins, chief executive of Britain's biggest nuclear power generator said. The head of British Energy said introduction of an energy tax and exhortations to save energy would have little impact …
Greenpeace demanded the immediate cessation of all EU aid programs for nuclear safety in Eastern Europe following the release of the EU Court of Auditors report which found the programs had completely failed. Instead, they called for the money to be spent on immediate closure and decommissioning programs for high-risk …
Abbot, the oil services group, is combining with PowerGen, the generator and electricity supplier, to create one of the UK's biggest wind-farm joint venture. The two groups intend to combine their skills to develop a new generation of offshore wind farms. The offshore schemes would be larger and more environmentally …
Dutch oil multinational Shell has withdrawn from the proposed Rs 10,000 crore joint venture refinery project with the Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) in Uttar Pradesh. Shell has withdrawn from the joint venture UP Refinery project as they have committed to invest funds in other areas of the petroleum sector, …
