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 Russian Foreign Minister, Mr. Yevgeny Primakov, has confirmed Kremlin's commitment to continue cooperation with New Delhi in developing India's atomic energy sector in spite of its recent nuclear tests.
British Petroleum's plans for a 3,000 'energy park' in South Wales are to be blocked as part of the government's efforts to safeguard the deep-mine coal industry.
Oil and Natural gas Corporation(ONGC), which has an estimated 400 billion cubic metre prognosticated natural gas reserves in Tripura, is awarding contracts to two American companies for exploration of gas in the State.
The environmental public hearing on Hindustan Petroleum's Mangalore-Bangalore petroleum pipeline in Bangalore was inconclusive for the second time. The Deputy Commissioner, Mr. M.K. Shankaralinge Gowda, offered to call another hearing, if necessary, after studying the comments and objections raised at the meeting. The hearing committee would review the entire feedback …
Natural gas can meet as much as one-third of China's future power needs if certain market reforms are under-taken, according to the summary of a joint U.S.-China study. The full study offers a number of technology and policy mixes that its authors argue can help China attain its energy and …
The credit for developing artificial skin for robotic dinosaurs, which are on display here at the national science centre, goes to Delhi-based scientists who completed the task in three months. "The low-cost skin was developed indigenously in just three months for NSC as part of a crash programme to complete …
The British government ordered the controversial Dounreay nuclear plant in Scotland not to take on any more commercial reprocessing work. The decision means Dounreay will, in the long-term, concentrate on decommissioning the experimental reactors for which it was built.
Occidental Petroleum got a permit to explore the Samore field in eastern Colombia, 20% of it lying beneath the U'wa reservation, in early 1995. The U'wa Indians promptly threatened to commit mass suicide, over the plans to explore their tribal lands. Now the case is lying in court.
Union Power Minister Rangarajan Kumaramangalam has agreed to consider the capacity of the Kayamkulam Thermal Plant from 350 mw to 2500mw. Kerala has received the first major bonanza from the BJP government at the centre.
To bring electricity to the lives of about half a million people living in various islands dotting the Sundarban deltaic region, the West Bengal government is formulating a Rs. 50 crore electrification project for this area where renewable electrification can be the only source of energisation.
A local company in Wellington has claimed a technological breakthrough with a process that can produce clean drinking water out of thin air. Watermaster Technologies said its Airwell 2000 technology could alleviate drinking water shortages anywhere in the world. Developed jointly with Canterbury University, the Airwell 2000 could make up …
The US space shuttle Discovery docked with the aging space station Mir on Thursday. The ninth and last rendezvous since the three-year US presence on the Russian platform began. The Discovery and its six-member crew moored on schedule with the deteriorating and accident-prone Mir 380 km above earth at 1658 …
The power ministry has proposed to constitute a Power Development Fund (PDF) with an initial corpus of Rs 750 crore for speedy implementation and execution of projects. The nodal ministry has already held discussions on the modus operandi for setting up this fund and is now in the process of …
The fund-starved atomic energy programmes, including India's first indigenous 500 MW PHWR at Tarapur, four 220 MW reactors at Kaiga and Rajasthan, and the sophisticated AHWR (advanced heavy water reactor) technology, will receive a shot in the arm by the enhanced budget outlays for the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE). …
Shell International of USA has dicided to drill two oil wells in the Sanchor basin of Rajasthan following the encouraging results of its siesmic surveys in the Barmar-Sanchor region of the state.
The troubled Dounreay nuclear complex in Scotland was trying to explain why a large quantity of highly enriched uranium which it admits is unaccounted for never existed. The loss of an estimated 170kg of uranium was recorded in 1969.
Amidst strident protests from opposition members the controversial Bill seeking establishment of a Central electricity regulatory commission and electricity commissions in states was introduced in the Lok Sabha on Wednesday. Speaker G M C Balayogi permitted the introduction of the Bill by a voice vote, overruling the objections raised by …
