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 …
Nepal will ask US power firm Enron Corp to reconsider its decision to withdraw its application to build a hydropower plant in the Himalayan kingdom, finance minister Ram Sharan Mahat said.
The Tanzanian government has succumbed to donor pressure and challenged the terms of a controversial Malaysian power contract which jeopardised the country's $350m Songo gas project and threatened to derail its structural adjustment programme.
The chief scientist of Indian tobacco company (ITC) has devised a "Solar barn" which uses solar energy for curing Virginia tobacco in technical collaboration with a Russia-based "NPO mashinostroyenia" research institute. The scientist Dr T S Subramaniam, who developed the Solar barn, said at present fuel wood and coal were …
Though Assam has been producing crude oil and natural gas for more than a hundred years now, the State's hydrocarbon reserves will last at least another 40 years at the present extraction rate, says Sri Nayan Moni Bora, a petroleum expert, currently serving Oil India Limited (OIL) as Deputy General …
A multi-crore project is under consideration to improve the water management of Loktak lake, the largest freshwater lake in the north-eastern part of the country, and sustain its resources for the long-term benefit of the local communities by adopting appropriate strategies on sound scientific basis.
The Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation (TIDCO) is planning to set up a fuel management company in collaboration with MC Bitor Ltd., a joint venture between Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan and Bitor of Venezuela for supply of orimulsion, a non-conventional fuel for power generation, to prospective power produers in the …
To give a major fillip to hydro power generation in the country, the Power Ministry is working on a six point strategy to attract hydro-players in this sector in a big way. Under the proposed strategy, the players would require minimum number of environmental clearances, the debt repayment would have …
Overlooking protests from its political opponenets the Bangladesh government has commissioned a study of the technical and economic aspects of importing electricity from India. The excercise funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and being carried out by a U.S. consulting firm, is expected to be completed in two months.
The row over the Tamil Nadu Government's action of writing a letter to a Japanese funding agency against extending Rs 84 crore financial assistance for a drinking water supply scheme for Bangalore, is likely to snowball itno a major confrontation between the two States in coming days.
There is potential danger of land sinking in the Krishna-Godavari basin that is being extensively exploited for oil and gas, a geologist has warned. Subsidence of the region even by a small amount would "devastate" the whole region, changing the courses of the two mighty rivers and causing the sea …
Haryana will be the second state in the country after Orissa to bring in power sector reforms. The state is all set to enforce the Haryana Electricity Reform Act (HERA) from June 1, 1998. Haryana which has followed the Orissa model, proposes to replace the vertically intergrated HSEB into three …
The power ministry has mooted a proposal to hawk non-urban distribution networks of state electricity boards to rural cooperatives. These cooperatives will also be provided the freedom to generate power to feed the networks. Power ministry officials claim that milk cooperatives like Kheda or a sugar coop like Mula Prabara …
Chairman and managing director of Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) Y S R Prasad, while inaugurating an international conference on "fire protection in N-installations" organised by the Department of atomic energy, said that the Department of Atomic Energy has planned to set up five centres soon on fire protection systems.
Major Irrigation Minister K N Nage Gowda today informed the Legislative Assembly that the Karnataka state government will soon make a representation to the Centre opposing the Inter-State Council's controversial recommendations on "equating tribunal awards within two years from the date of its notification".
Farmers take out march in Bagalkot: Nearly 10,000 farmers from Bagalkot, Bilagi and Jamakhandi taluks took out a procession in Bagalkot today demanding adequate compensation for farmers whose lands would be submerged with the implementation of the Almatti project.
The Gujarat Government will continue with subsidies in the power sector to various consumer sections, despite the Asian Development Bank instructions not to do so if the Government was to avail its loan.
Shell and Mobil are expected to lodge a formal request this week to postpone for six months the full development of Peru's vast hydrocarbons reserves in the south-western jungle area of Camisea. Shell and Mobil are alleging technical grounds for the postponement: drilling at the two enormous reservoirs, San Martin …
The Delhi Vidyut Board has decided to install "dry transformer" instead of oil transformers in cinema halls and high-rise buildings where open spaces were not available. High-rise buildings in Nehru Place will be among the first when the change will be made. This is the first time dry transformers will …
When the space shuttle Columbia next blasts off, it will resemble a Noah's ark of creepy-crawlies including insects, rats and 18 pregnant mice. The mice, along with 1,514 crickets, 135 snails, 152 rats and 223 fish, are scheduled to take off on Thursday aboard Columbia to research how the nervous …
