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 plans to set up a cell to monitor the implementation of private power projects in states. This was disclosed by Union power minister P R Kumaramangalam at the opening session of the World Energy Council's seminar on financing the energy sector in developing countries, here yesterday.
China will launch a large energy conservation project in Beijing, Liaoning and Shandong Provinces with a World Bank loan of 63 million US dollars. The project is also backed by a 22 million dollar donation from the Global Environmental Fund (GEF) following successful pilot operation.
The Nepal government and the United Nations Development Programme have launched a Rural Energy Development Programme in Dolakha district. The programme is being introduced with the objective of enhancing living standards and protecting the environment by promoting mini-hydro power for the development of rural infrastructure.
Decks are almost cleared for the setting up of the petroleum refinery at Bathinda. The Planning Commission has given its nod. Only one hitch remains; clearance of the Rajasthan government for the laying of the pipeline from the Gujarat coast to Punjab has to be obtained before the final green …
spain recently congratulated itself on saving Donana national park, one of the continent's most important wetlands, from a flood of toxic sludge from a mine. The celebrations, however, may be short-lived, for mining engineers and naturalists fear that land outside the park may have been contaminated with enough heavy metals …
Mama knows bestInformation, as we all know, is something that the Internet simply overflows with. The problem, once you are "surfing' through those gigabytes in cyberspace, is to find what you are actually looking for. There are programmes called "search engines' that help you do just that, though most of …
In the recent years, scientists have employed diverse means to protect the environment, among which bioremediation has shown great potential as an effective method to clean up toxic wastes. But how do we know whether the genetically-modified bacteria that are used in this process are doing their job or not? …
despite the developments that have helped doctors understand and fortify the human cardiovascular system, medical science is still groping about blindly when it comes to one very crucial question: how to assess whether an individual will develop heart problems or not? But then predicting the future is never easy, and …
In the stately caucus room of the Russell Senate Office Building, the U.S. Navy joined forces with the oil industry and AT&T; Corp. the other day to lobby for a common objective: ratification in the next few months of the Law of the Sea treaty. The treaty regulates commerce, navigation …
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) shut down its catalytic reforming unit (CRU) at the Mumbai refinery, following a fire. The cause of the fire is yet to be established.
Royal Dutch/Shell published its first externally verified environmental audit and said it expects to increase the flaring of unwanted natural gas this year-paradoxically to reducte global warming. The Anglo-Dutch energy group says it is still committed to putting out the controversial flares, most of which are in Nigeria, by the …
Chemicals producers are to launch a drive to identify and restrict dangerous chemicals in an effort to head off threatened European Union legislation. The initiative follows a six-year delay in implementing an EU programme to test and control manufactured chemicals.
The financing of the Rs 4,400 core, 1000-mw Mangalore power project of Cogentrix and CLP Power International, will suffer a serious setback and its power purchase agreement (PPA) may now have to be reopened for the fourth time. This follows the recent decision of the finance and power ministries to …
Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority disregarded suggestions of the water resource experts and continued extraction of underground water from the "red marked" zones by commissioning new deep tubewells or replacing the old ones that would increase risk factors of environmental hazards.
With the US adopting a more conciliatory stance on economic sanctions on India, the Indian Renewable energy Development Agency Ltd (IREDA) is expecting its second line of credit from the Wrold Bank, worth US $135 million, to come through by September ,1998.
If all had gone as intended, on July 1st Sweden would have celebrated the closure of a nuclear reactor name Barseback-1. But the plant's owner, Sydkraft AB, did not want to join the party. It visted its lawyers instead, and last month Sweden's Supreme Administrative Court agreed to adjudicate on …
Dabhol Power Company, owned by US-based Enron Corporation, yesterday made a formal presentation to IDBI and ICICI for financing the second phase of its $1.8 billion 1,444 mw power project.
Rising fuel costs and energy shortages have put the shine back on wind power generation in Tamil Nadu, which has over 72 per cent of the installed capacity in the country. After suffering a setback in 1997-98 when a meagre 30 megawatts of capacity was added, the Tamil Nadu Electricy …
Haryana has received the first instalment of Rs 240 crores out of the Rs 2400 crores World Bank loan sanctioned for implementation of the reform programme in its power sector. The second instalment of this loan amounting to Rs 1000 crores would be received by October.
