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 …
incessant of power cuts and days without electricity forced them to develop a power generation system of their own. The people who developed the turbine and generator, are no great engineers, just common people from Pathanpara, a tiny village in Kannur district, Kerala. They have set up a unique and …
The third gas turbine generator of captive power plants of the Eastern Region Business Centre (ERBC) of Oil and natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGCL) was commissioned by Mr R C Gourh, Director (technical), ONGCL at Lakwa Oil Field . This generator installed at a total cost of Rs 13.85 crore …
Bangladesh's first off-shore gas field has started transmission to the national grid, officials said. Britian's Cairn Energy PLC, which developed the Sangu gas field along with Halliburton and Shell said it has begun gas delivery to the Bangladesh National Gas Grid.
The Kandla Port Trust plans to recomission oil jetties within one week. Eyewitnesses report that the port is extensively damaged. All the port/ private crafts and barges are either sunk or grounded. All shore cranes at cargo jetties are damaged. The container yard is damaged and the marine unloader twisted …
West Bengal plans to mark its presence on the wind energy map of India with the commissioning of the State's first wind farm at Fasergunj in south coastal Bengal, 133km from Calcutta.
The Kerala Chief Minister Mr. E.K. Nayanar, today reiterated his Government's commitment to energy conservation. Inaugurating a two-day workshop on Indo-Japanese cooperation in energy conservation, Mr. Nayanar said energy conservation had become a vital issue in Kerala as it was comparatively less industrialised and some of its established industries were …
The British Prime Minister, Mr Tony Blair, yesterday endorsed a Franco-German push for next week's European Union summit to pave the way for curbs on the EU's centralised powers. He said Britain favoured proposals for a new Maastricht-tupe conference to reform the Union's internal-machinery before enlargement to include some of …
Goans groaning under very trying electricity supply conditions have been asked to put in a little more patience till the power situation in this small state improves for the better. But citizens have been cautioned against questioning the grant of huge tariff subsidies to industries, and politicians argue that any …
The Supreme Court today has directed the Secretary or Additional Secretary of the Union Ministry of Power to convene a meeting of the concerned officers of the NTPC, Central Electricity Authority, Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB), Power Grid Corporation(PGC) and New Delhi Municipal Committee(NDMC) so that the authorities concerned might make …
The controversial Bill seeking the establishment of electricity regulatory commissions at the Centre and in the states was passed in the Lok Sabha on Tuesday after a four-hour debate in which the opposition parties assailed the government for passing it in a hurry.
The Hindu organisations in Kerala headed by Swami Satyananda Saraswathi have joined with the BJP to launch an agitation to restore the rights of a disputed dam in Pampa river at Pathanamthitta in the central part of the state. A Pampa Vimochana Samiti has been formed which has announced a …
Slovakia started up the first reactor of its controversial Mochovce nuclear power plant, provoking condemnation from neighbouring Austria. Austrian experts claim that the power plant, which is only 120 km from the Austrian border, does not meet Western safety standards.
The proposed Act to bring bottled or packaged drinking water under mandatory quality control and under the purview of the Food and Drugs Administration (FDA), a "political decision" in this regard is still pending at the Centre. Though the Central Committee for Food Standards (CCFS), an advisory body constituted under …
For General Electric Co of the US, Powergen Plc of the UK and Mitsubishi Corp of Japan, the former President, Mr. Suharto's fall from power is quickly changing the way they did business in Indonesia. They are among a string of companies that signed long term contracts worth billions of …
Despite Environment Minister Suresh Prabhu's aim to quicken the entire process of giving environment clearances to power projects, no meetings have been held of the environment committees since the new government has assumed power. In fact no meeting has taken place since last year.
Indonesia's power utility said it wanted to renegotiate multi-billion dollar projects with Siemens, General Electric, Mitsui and other investors. The move comes amid economic crisis and a backlash against the business partners of the Suharto family.
International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector financing arm of the World Bank, has approved a loan of USD 51.9 million to the Khulna Power Co. Ltd.
