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 …
Twenty new coal suply limkages have been cleared for new power projects being set up by state electircity boards, National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) and Damodar Valley Corporation.
North China's Shanxi Province will build or expand ten large power plants at a cost of 70 billion yuan over the next few years. The province hopes to increase power generating capacity by 830,000 kw annually through the next two year's construction.
Panel : A Parliamentary committee on energy has expressed disappointment over the inadequate budgetary provision for the national project on biogas development during the Ninth Plan.
An ingenious arrangement that has encouraged Russia to convert its stockpiles of bomb grade uranium into much less dangerous civilian reactor fuel and earn precious cash in the process could soon be undone. The Clinton administration, in a move that could easily disable the arrangement, is planning to sell of …
The Canadian government will pay US-based Ethyl Corporation, the chemicals group, US$13m to settle a lawsuit over Canada's ban on importing the fuel additive MMT. The government said that it had been unable to find scientific evidence justifying the ban, which began in June 1997 because of allegations from the …
India and Russia signed a crucial contract on Monday to kick start the deal on the construction of a nuclear power plant at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu. Under the contract, signed by the Managing Director of Nuclear Power Corporation of India, Mr. Y.S.R. Prasad, and the General Director of Russia's …
The Rural Development Minister, Mr. M.P. Prakash, who is also the Minister in charge of Bellary district, has called a meeting of the representatives of Karnataka Power Corporation in Bangalore on July 25 to discuss setting up a 500 MW coal-based power unit near Bellary.
Shell and Mobil have pulled out of a vast project to pipe gas from the Amazon jungles to the coast of Peru. The oil companies walked away from signing an agareement with the government after 11th-hour negotiations causing embarassment to Peru's President, Alberto Fujimori, who once described the $3 billion …
The Andhra Pradesh government is in the process of studying various suggestions to introduce mandatory energy audit scheme for the industrial sector. The scheme, currently being evaluated by the Society for Conservation of Energy in the state is likely to take a final shape before the last quarter of 1998.
The Punjab State Electricity Board has incurred power generation loss of Rs 6 crore following the desilting of the hydel channel. This was against the advide of the Chief Engineer, Canal, Punjab, who had insisted that the pond area should be cleared before taking work on the hydel channel so …
The proposal of the Punjab State Electricity Board (PSEB) to effect a 33 per cent, across the board, hike in the power rates in all sectors, except agriculture, was approved in principle by the Chief MInister, Mr Prakash Singh Badal, on Friday. A board meeting of the PSEB scheduled for …
The Punjab Water Supply and Sewerage Board is drawing up plans to use canal water to meet the demands of potable and drinking water for the city's urban population. Talking to The Tribune the Chief Engineer of the board, Mr R D Kansal, said he had especially brought along a …
The National Hydro-electric Power Corporation(NHPC) is threatening to stop power supply to Jammu and Kashmir as the State Government has not paid dues worth Rs 125 crore for power had through it.A top NHPC official, agitated by the delay in realisation of pending bills by the State, has urged the …
The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests has convened a meeting of all chief ministers of hydro-power generating states on August 5 to take a final decision on the proposed amendments to the Water(Prevention and Control of Pollution) Cess Act 1977 and decided ont he modalities of levying water cess.
An Anglo-US joint venture between British Energy and Peco Energy of Pennsylvania is seeking to buy a power plant at Three Mile Island, in 1979 the site of one of the worst nuclear accidents. The companies said the deal marked the first sale of a nuclear plant in the US.
The Royal Dutch/Shell Group and Mobil Crop. have pulled out of Peru's $3 billion Camisea natural gas-project, saying government conditions made the jungle project unprofitable.
Environmental activists yesterday called on the government to suspend and review the planned construction of nuclear research facilities in Nakhon Nayok. In an open letter to Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai, a group of eight organisations voiced opposition to the Office of Atomic Energy for Peace's nuclear research project on grounds …
Boral Ltd., a building materials and energy company, said it discovered significant gas volumes in Australia's Bass Strait, between the mainland and the island STate of Tasmania. The Yolla field contains between 450 billion feet and 600 billion feet of liquids-rich gas with potential recoverable gas reserves of between 250 …
The environment and forests ministry has issued the environment clearance to the six million tonne Bina refinery project to be set up in Madhya Pradesh, thus clearing a major hitch.High level official sources said the clearance was given much before the Prime Minister's Office intervened in the matter.
West Bengal's Ninth Plan power outlay has been slashed from Rs 8,390 crore to Rs 6,935 crore. However, even the reduced outlay is more than double the Eighth Plan outlay of Rs 3,045 crore. The plan outlay on power accounts for around 40 per cent of West Bengal's total Ninth …
