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 …
Breaking the western nuclear technology blockage against India, Russia will sign an agreement on Monday to build an atomic power station at Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu highly placed sources said.
The Delhi High Court today issued notices to the Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB), the Delhi Government, and a Chief Engineer (District-2) of the Board on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking restoration of three-phase power connection to three villages in the Sultanpur Mazra Assembly constituency in West Delhi.The notices, returnable …
The Delhi Jal Board has constituted a task force, under the supervision of Mr. Y.D. Bankata, Additional Chief Executive Officer, to monitor the deployment, movement and surveillance of trucks and tankers in the water scarcity-prone areas.
Fuel cells that convert methanol into electricity are potentially a practical and environmentally friendly source of power. Now their performance has been dramatically improved by a complex new catalyst. Using a new technique for making and testing hundreds of different catalysts at the same time, researchers at Penn State University …
Environmentalists are up in arms against the Cogentrix Energy Inc., the promoters of Mangalore Power Company, for going ahead with the construction of the rehabilitation colony. Even as the Union Government is yet to accord counter-guarantee to the Rs 4,000-crore, 1,000-MW thermal power project being set up at Nandikur near …
The World Bank has terminated a $240 million loan, which had first been suspended, for the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB). This decision has been taken by the Bank following a collapse in talks with the MSEB. The suspended loan would be considered terminated on its scheduled expiry date of …
Enron : Enron International Ltd views the imposition of sanctions by the United States of India as being of little consequence to the second phase of the Dabhol power project in Maharashtra.
Gas supply to Bangladesh's northern districts is unlikely before July next year. Development of power plants of this area will also be delayed due to unavailability of natural gas.
A Rs. 1,100 crore power project proposed to be established in Palakkad district in Kerala is waiting for its fuel linkage to be firmed up before it could earnestly commence land acquisition for the project. The project will initially be dependent on naphtha as its fuel before it switches over …
Russia's space station Mir will be taken out of service and plunged into the Pacific ocean in December next year, Itar-Tass news agency reported on Onday. Mir will begin its slow descent into the atmosphere on Thursday, said deputy director of the space flight centre Voktor Blagov, when the space …
Two laboratories of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), with the help from the oil industry, have launched a deep exploration of the Indian West Coast along the Konkan area where studies have indicated the existence of large deposits of "gas hydrates" and free gas (largely methane).
An international consortium led by Reliance Industries Ltd(RIL), the textiles and petrochemical major, has won the contract to develop the 1,500MW lignite mining and power generation project at Jayamkondacholapuram in Perambalur district of Tamil Nadu on the Build-Own-Operate-Maintain (BOOM) basis.
The Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB) plans to extend an escrow guarantee cover to Dabhol Power Company's (DPC) second phase of the power project. Due to the non-availability of a central cover for the second phase, DPC has held discussions with the state governemnt officials for an escrow cover. Sanjay …
The gas pipeline along the Bangabandhu Multi-purpose Bridge over the river Jamuna collapsed due to fault in the construction work of the pipeline, according to the findings of an initial inquiry.
The ministry of power has chalked out a series of policy guidelines to encourage financial institutions (FIs) to take up funding of hydel power projects.
Japan's revised Long-Term Energy Demand and Supply Outlook has been criticized by experts for introducing energy saving plans that are not likely to be realized. It also has been attacked for adopting too narrow an approach to the restriction of greenhouse gases.
frog embryos that are a mirror image of their usual form have been created by American researchers using a protein that marks which part of the animal is going to be left side. The protein is the earliest step yet found in the pathway by which embryos differentiate one side …
