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 U.S. Treasury's announcement that it would soon privatize the government's half-century old uranium enrichment plants has made waves largely because of the proposed method of sale. The Treasury is moving forward in spite of years of warnings that the sale would undermine a key initiative for containing nuclear proliferation.
The Union Cabinet has given the green signal to a major nine-million tonne refinery project near Paradip in Orissa to be set up jointly by the Indian Oil Corporation(IOC) and the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation(KPC).
Karnataka has yet again urged the Union government to extend counter-guarantee to the Rs 4,000 crore, 1,000 MW Cogentrix Thermal Power Project, near Mangalore, maintaining that a decision on it cannot be linked to a corruption case pending before the Supreme Court.
Medha : Medha Patkar, the founder convenor of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) said construction work on different Narmada projects should be stopped until the report of the task force, constituted by the Madhya Pradesh Government was received.
India Oil Corporation's proposal for setting up a nine tonne per annum grassroot refinery and associated facilities at Abhaichandrapur near Paradeep Port in Orissa received the Cabinet nod late on Thursday evening. The project involves an investment of Rs 8,270 crore.
Soon after the announcement of the new liquid fuel policy by the Union Power ministry, the states will shortly begin an exercise of locating new promoters and weed out the non-serious players for about 9,000 MW liquid fuel-based power projects.
Southern Co.'s Southern Energy Co. unit and Johnston Development Co. signed an agreement with Shanxi Enhua Energy Co. to develop a $500 million power project in China.
The government today announced modifications in the liquid fuel policy limiting the existing ceiling of 12,000 megawatt capacity for fixed power projects based on liqued fuel linkages only to naptha.
Neyveli delayed : It was a day of mixed results for the power ministry-- while two of the fast track power projects, Hinduja and Ispat group's Bhadrawati power projects were given the required boost by the finance ministry, the Neyveli power project appears to be in for more delay.
The Union Power Ministry has decided to extend the last date for achieving financial closure for existing liquid fuel projects from March 31, 1998, to October 31, 1998. The Independent Power Producers Association of India had been putting pressure on the Government for an extension for achieving the financial closure.
The Centre awarded six oil blocks, covering an area of 20970 sq km, for exploration to seven national and global oil firms and indicated that contracts for 12 more blocks would be concluded next months.
Entergy of New Orleans has won a $670m gas power station development in spite of ministers efforts to slow the "dash for gas" to protect the coal industry. Entergy has received the final consent it needs to build an 800MW station at Damhead Creek to the east of London.
Starry-eyed might be the best term for the tone of the long-range energy outlook on supply anddemand presented by the Advisory Committee for Energy, which reports to the Minister ofInternational Trade and Industry. The report outlines anticipated energy needs between now and 2010. It is a foundation for many other …
The rehabilitation and resettlement (R&R;) process for the hundreds of families to be displaced by the 1,000 MW Cogentrix power plant to come up in the vicinity of Nandikur near Mangalore began with the demolition of nearly 150 huts and the eviction of a few hundred people in a village …
Madras Refineries Ltd (MRL) today signed a memorandum of understanding with the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board(TNEB) for evacuation and purchase of power from the MRL's proposed 350 MW power project at Amulavoyal village in Tiruvallur district.
A new genetic technology patented in the US that prevents germination of seeds saved from harvest, may pose serious problems for farmers. The new "Terminator' technology is potentially "lethal' and a global threat to farmers, biodiversity and food security. If commercially viable, the technology developed by the US Department of …
light from far-flung quasars (celestial objects optically resembling a star but extremely remote and immensely powerful sources of light and other radiation) may change the way physicists see the Universe. An international team of scientists says it may have found evidence from these distant beacons that a constant that determines …
try bringing order to a child's cupboard. You will soon realise that it inevitably moves from an ordered state to a disorderly one. This tendency is by no means restricted to cupboards. We encounter it all the time around us - a broken cup of coffee, mixing of milk in …
The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) has asked the ministry of finance (MoF) to resolve contentious issues on counter-guarantees being given to fast -track power projects to expedite their financial closures. The ministry of finance has introduced new conditions in the counter-guarantees which have been rejected by the private power developers.
The Madhya Pradesh State Government may scrap the task force which was created to review the Maheshwar power project, if the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) failed to give an alternative model by the end of June, according to a press relase isued by Shree Maheshwar Hydel Power Corporation Ltd.
