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 Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) of the Pakistani Cabinet has decided, in principle, to sell 1,500-2,000 MW of surplus power being produced by independent power producers (IPPs) to India.
Mr Sikandar Singh Maluka, Minister of State of Irrigation, has said that Rs 2,000 crore is being spent on the construction of 1000-MW super thermal plant at Gobindwal Sahib. The constructin of two units of this plant has been given to a private company on contract basis and of these …
Nuclear Power Corporation India Ltd. is planning projects to generate 20,000 MW nuclear power by the year 2020, according to company CMD Dr. YSR Prasad. Several of the newly planned power projects are already on the way to completion.
The centre is planning intensive use of solar energy to ensure continuous power supply. In the Ninth Plan the ministry of non-conventional energy plans to commercialise and develop entrepreneurship in the renewable energy sector with the aim to create an additional capcity of 70 mw through alternative sources.
Seven companies are in the race for setting up two projects near Chennai to generate power from municipal solid waste. The state-owned Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO) intends to establish two 5 MW power generation plants to run on solid waste in north and south Chennai.
A new 4.75 MW plant generating power from wastes would become operational in Nagpur within 18 months. A memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between the Nagpur Municipal Corporation and the promoters of the power project Sicon and ENBEE Infrastructure Limited Company on Wednesday.
The International Energy Agency signed a Declaration of Co-operation with the Government of India covering major areas in the energy field. The declaration is similar to agreements the IEA signed with Russia in 1994 and China in 1996.
Nambiar promises a fight: Mr. K.P.P. nambiar, Chairman of the Kannur Power Project Ltd, promoters of the 513 MW mega power project at Irinav near Kannur, has promised to fight till the end the Kerala State Government's decision rejecting the financial tie-up between his company and Enron International.
Vitamin B2 can ward off migraines, says a recent European study team. Researchers at the General Hospital of Luxembourg, Belgium, split 55 migraine patients into two groups. One took 400 milligrams of Vitamin B2 every day for four months, the other, a placebo. At the end of the trial, 59 …
With the growth of the Internet has come problems of copyright infringement. Given the decentralised nature of the Web, it is a daunting task to keep track of copyright pirates. But now US-based Broadcast Music Inc is using a program to monitor how copyrighted music is being used on the …
albert Einstein's epic insight into the relation between matter and energy, expressed elegantly and succinctly as E=mc 2 , has been confirmed countless times, especially every time a nuclear weapon detonates. This process also occurs naturally
any elementary physics text book will tell you that a metallic plate with holes will not allow any radiation to pass through provided the holes are of a smaller diameter than the wavelength of the radiation. This principle is used in many devices, such as microwave ovens, where the glass …
Ukraine is to launch a worldwide appeal for $358m to make safe the cracking "sarcophagus" shielding the Chernobyl reactor which blew up 12 years ago. Ukraine has already secured $400m in aid pledges to start a 10-year repair job on the sarcophagus, which is estimated to cost a total of …
The Union ministry for non-conventional energy sources has engaged AEA Technology of Britain to study the feasibility of setting up two power projects that will use vegetable wastes as fuel. The projects are envisaged for the wholesale vegetable markets located at Azadpur in Delhi and Koyambedur in Chennai.
The West Bengal government is setting up a separate corporation for promotion and implementation of rural energy development work in the state. The first of its kind in the contry, the new state-owned agency - West Bengal Rural Energy Development Corporation Ltd - is being registered as a public limited …
The Indian state of Orissa has scored top marks for its regulation of the electricity sector in a survey of Asian utility regulation carried out by the Asian Development Bank and made public at its annual meeting in Geneva.
Greenpeace has occupied a drilling location owned by the NAM oil company. The Dutch offshore union FNV has declared its support for the action and has sent an observer to the action site. Also joining the action are members from the local bird sanctuary. Greenpeace demands that Dutch political parties …
A major gas field has been discovered in Pakistan's Sind province raising hopes of more finds in the area. The gas, with a 10 per cent carbon-dioxide content, is considered to be of very high quality.
The Kerala State Government will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Chinese Government for setting up various small hydel projects in Kerala on May 4.
More than 20 leading global oil companies are locked in a fierce contest for bidding rights to what is being touted as the largest and most promising gas reserves finds in recent years, in offshore Bangladesh.
