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 …
Tough task ahead for Tidco : Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation Ltd (Tidco) will almost certainly be required to go in for a desulphurisation plant and a gassification plant if it opts to use orimulsion as an alternative fuel for power generation instead of naphtha.
The people of ten Village Development Committees of Pyuthan have eventually come forward to wage a protest campaign as the local hydro electricity power failed to dig out a solution to the problems being discussed for the past three weeks. A press release of the delegation of ten affected VDCs …
The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) plans to generate 99,000 million units of electricity during the current financial year 1998-99 with an availability factor of 84 per cent from its coal based stations which are in commercial operation.
Shanghai plans to establish a nuclear power group to build generating equipment in China's largest city, underlining the country's aim to supply more locally-made machinery for a growing number of nuclear power stations. China has laid out plans to multiply the number of nuclear power plants in the country, as …
At the State Power Minister's initiative, Bengal, after a gap of a few decades, finally plumped for mini-hydel generation in the hilly areas of Darjeeling. One 500 KW and a few 10 KW stations have come up and construction work is on for a 3 MW small hydel by WBSEB …
The Karnataka Power Corporation Limited (KPCL) has initiated measures to form a core group to prepare the report for the 500 MW coal-based thermal power plant project at Toranagal near Hospet.
Maharasthra's plan to sell a part of Chandrapur thermal power unit of Maharastra State Electricity Board (MSEB) has been shot down by various workers unions in the board. The recently-commissioned seventh unit of Chandrapur was to be sold in three parts for around Rs 561 crore on a ten year …
National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has evinced interest in forming a joint venture with the Uttar Pradesh State Electricity Board (UPSEB) for the execution of three major hydro-power projects in the state which have been languishing for want of funds.
CAG report : The US-based power company Enron's 2,184 MW power plant in Maharashtra is again in the thick of a controversy with the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) confirming what critics of the project had been saying all these years. In its annual report of the audit it carries …
More than 20 oil companies, including some of the world's largest are hoping that a week of diplomatic activity will unblock one of the most fiercely contested exploration licensing rounds in recent years. The companies believe Bangladesh, one of the world's poorest countries, may have some of the region's biggest …
The Union government has issued an ordinance for setting up the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission and State Electricity Regulatory Commissions within three months. The regulatory commissions that will be set up at the central and state levels will chiefly be tariff regulatory bodies.
The environment pollution (prevention and control) authority of the Delhi government has asked the Delhi Vidyut Board (DVB) to show cause why its 277.5 MW coal-based Indraprastha thermal power station should not be closed down. The newly created authority, which is a statutory body with sweeping powers to enforce its …
Enron Corp. said it may buy a coal substitute from Venezuela to burn in power plants in Asia and Africa, a purchase that could boost the fortunes of a fuel that has met still opposition in England and Florida. Feasibility studies for the use of the mixture of water and …
The West Bengal Power Development Corporation (WBPDCL) which is implementing the first phase of the Bakreswar Thermal Power project is confident of achieving a landmark in project implementation by commissioning the first unit within 42 months of the zero date as against the Central Electricity Authority norm of 45 months.
The Clinton admjnistration has forecast that developing Asian countries, led by India and China, will account for about half of the world's increase in energy consumption in the next two decades, even as East Asia currently faces an economic crisis.
A controversial shipment of nuclear material from Georgia arrived in Britain and was moved to a Scottish nuclear plant. The nuclear material, the subject of a secret deal by the United States, Britain and the former Soviet Republic, was tranported by truck on a 160-kilometer journey to the remote Scottish …
The energy scenario in Bihar seems to be going from bad to worse. Since indepandence, the installed capacity in India has increased manifold (from 1,362 mw in 1947 to 90,000 mw today) its per capita power consumption remains as low as 315 units, as compared to an excess of 10,000 …
The Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) has successfylly negotiated the second World Bank loan worth $450 million to strengthen inter-regional transmisison links and upgrade its data-base systems.
The Prime Minister, Mr A B Vajpayee, today called for greater co-ordination amongst ministries to clear the existing bottlenecks in the power sector and has urged the finance and power ministry to clear the pending counter guarantees for the fast track power projects.
