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 …
Up to half the European Union's Ecu145bn a year electricity supply market could be open to competition by the turn of the century - well above the minimum requirements of EU legislation - according to EU's energy commissioner.
South Korean and U.S. officials remained apart on the issue of how to finance the light-water reactor project in North Korea during their talks yesterday. Seoul officials have been embarrassed by the U.S.'s intransigent stance that it will not contribute towards the cost of the reactors which is estimated to …
China has started work on four large nuclear power stations, which are expected to increase the proportion of power coming from nuclear power and to reduce pollution.
The new leader of the nuclear ministry in Russia has proposed building a research reactor in Iran in addition to the atomic energy plant under construction there has drawn protests from Israel and the United States.
The explosion at a Ukrainian coal mine which killed 63 people at the weekend was a sad reminder of the decrepit state of the country's energy sector. The day before the blast, the European Bank for Reconstrution and Development re-opened a wider controversy over Ukraine's energy needs. EBRD officials in …
Switzerland was warned that its role as one of the world's leading biomedical research centres would be "totally crippled" if genetic engineering was banned. Fritz Gerber, chairman of Roche, Switzerland's second biggest pharmaceutical company, said if Switzerland's June 7 referendum on a "genetic protection" bill was passed, it would mean …
The power sector in Jammu and Kashmir is set for privatisation with the state government having signed four memoranda of understanding with foreign companies to set up power projects in the state.
The Uttar Pradesh Government's pried watershed development scheme, yet restricted to pockets in the sub-Himalayan and Shivalik ranges, continues to have a bleak furure even as the second phase of foreign financing approaches its end.
Russia's acting nuclear energy minister has asked the U.S. government to return to the original bilateral deal under which Russia sold uranium from dismantled nuclear warheads to the U.S. In 1993, Russia agreed to sell 500 metric tons of highly enriched uranium from dismantled warheads to the U.S. to be …
A three-day International Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition is being organised at Delhi from Tuesday to highlight issues relating to the upstream petroleum industry.
Technicians at the world's largest nuclear plant shut down a reactor after a pump controlling power generation stopped working. There was no danger of a radiation leak from the trouble, a spokeman for Tokyo Electric Power Co. said.
Senior cabinet minister Narottam Patel has squarely blamed the Gujarat Water Supply and Sewerage Board (GWSSb)-- the main official body respobsible for making potable water available in the state, except in Gandhinagar and six major cities controlled by municipal corporations-- for the acute water crisis, particularly in north Gujarat, Kutch …
Despite the continuing controversy over Enron's participation the promoters of the 513-MW Kannur power project in Kerala are confident of getting the final go-ahead shortly and taking up implementation as scheduled.
The World Bank is in talks with the Finance Ministry for putting in place a partial risk guarantee programme for the largest power project in the country, the 3,950 MW Orissa-based Hirma project.
The second of country's eight "fast track" power projects began to produce power in Andhra Pradesh after being mired in controversy and procedural wrangles for five years.The 208 megawatt gas-based project in the eastern coastal town of Kakinada is promoted by New York-based non-resident Indian-owned Spectrum Technologies and the Hyderabad-based …
The ministry of non-conventional energy sources has recommended a scheme to set up generation of electricity through renewable sources. Under the scheme,a company which generates electricity using renewable sources would get an equal amount of energy from the state electricity board, which it can then sell to a third party …
The Delhi Energy Development Agency (DEDA) incurred an expenditure of Rs. 11.36 lakhs on advertisement and publicity against sales of only 344 solar cookers, valued atRs. 1.65 lakhs, against the target of 3,000 cookers since 1994, when the subsidy given by Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy Sources was discontinued, the latest …
State Minister for Planning, Science and Technology, Dr. Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir said that the country could save Taka two thousand five hundred crore annually through the use of technically-developed oven. Describing the installation of biogas, Dr. Alamgir said about ten thousand biogas plants had been installed so far in the …
A study to be presented shortly to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is expected to recommend the completion of two nuclear reactors in the Ukraine as the "least cost" way of providing for the country's energy needs.
The country's leading power generating company NTPC announced today that it was planning to enter into hydel power generation and also in non-conventional energy sector, including solar.
