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 cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) yesterday cleared Cochin refineries Ltd's proposal for a 500 mw power project in Kerala.Cochin Refineries has been given permission to form a joint venture with CAEC, Larsen and Tubro (L&T;) and the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB).
In a vote face, Goa's coalition Government has dropped all modified proposals of privatising transmission and distribution of power. Private power generation would be permitted only by competitive bidding and signing the power purchase agreement.The Wilfred D'Souza Government has also decided to sell excess power of 100 mw, which the …
General Motors (GM) said in Detroit that it was recalling 400,000 1993-model vehicles because of emission control problems of the request of the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA).
The Centre on Tuesday joined the litigation over the awarding of contract in the Bakreswar thermal power project by filing a special leave petition in the Supreme Court.
Sources of water supply for more than 25 million people in the country contain fluorides. Such sources for over one million people contain arsenic compounds beyond permissible limits, the director of Rajiv Gandhi National Drinking Water Mission (RGNDWM), Mr Palat Mohandas, said here today. He was speaking at a regional …
Little risk of quake near N-plants : Most of the active faults near the Tsuruga Peninsula in Fukui Prefecture--home to many nuclear power plants--are unlikely to trigger earthquakes in the near future, according to a study by the prefectural government and the International Trade and Industry Ministry's Geological Survey of …
The Ambanis do not believe in doing things by halves. Reliance Petroleum has submitted to the government a plan that is breathtaking in its sweep and scope: a pipeline network covering 3,000 km and cutting across seven states. RPL proposes to construct a network of pipelines which will carry its …
A 13-megawatt new multifuel power plant has been built at Basbari, Tanisiniuwari village development committee in Morang district of Nepal. The power plant was built with the joint cooperation of the Nordic Development Fund (NDF), the Finnish Export Credit (FAC), the Nepal government and Nepal Electricity Authority at the total …
In 1986, Homi J H Taleyarkhan, noted freedom fighter, former governor of Sikkim and former ambassador to Italy and Libya, founded the Urja Research Foundation. Promoted by Industrial Boilers Ltd, it is a voluntary non-profit, non-governmental organisation working with a missionary zeal for promotion of the national cause of conservation …
A controversial scheme to turn plutonium into nuclear fuel at British Nuclear Fuel's Sellafield Complex has secured the backing of the environment agency, which said it was justified on scientific and economic grounds. But the agency urged the UK government to consider wider issues in deciding whether or not to …
Recent scientific results show that the range and sophistication of the sensory capabilities of plants far exceeds what we had imagined. Experiments published this year reveal how some of these senses work, how sensitive they are and what a wide variety of responses they can elicit. These range from growing …
The Central Electricity Authority has rejected the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) cost escalation proposals put forward by the Mangalore Power Company. Mangalore Power is a fast-track power project with governemnt counter-guarantee and is promoted by Cogentric of the US and China Light and Power.According to officials, the EPC bids …
France indicated willingness to diversify its energy operations, cutting back on its all-nuclear policy of energy production. Dominique Voynet, the environment minister who is the sole Greens cabinet member, said that France was slowly veering away from nuclear energy. She did not put forward a timetable or details on alternatives.
The rethink by the new Goa government on allowing private power producers to sell directly to industrial and commercial consumers has hit Reliance-Salgaonkar Ltd's (RSL) Goa power project, which is ready to be commissioned. The International Finance Corporation (IFC), which is preparing the power privatisation scheme for the state, is …
The Swiss government postponed setting up a deadline for shutting the country's five nuclear power plants, asking instead of a compromise on the issue. The Federal Council, or cabinet, said the plants would be decommissioned at some point but asked their owners, enviornmental critics and local communities to agree on …
West Bengal is set to produce 'green power' once a 23 mw power plant is set up at the Dhapa garbage dumping ground in east Calcutta.EDL India private Ltd, a company jointly owned by EDL, Australia and an NRI promoted investment firm Arcee Holdings Ltd, submitted its project report early …
The World Bank has urged Pakistan to make a clear separation between investigations into alleged corruption by a number of private and foreign-backed power producers and parallel talks with these companies over elecricity tariffs, which the Pakistan government insists are too high.
The international atomic energy seminar, held recently in Mumbai under the auspices of the Department of Atomic Energy, has underlined that nuclear power, a pariah among energy options in the eighties, has come back with a bang in the nineties as an increasingly preferable option for developing countries to have …
