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 …
India has joined the select band of about half a dozen countries in the world by exporting its first wind turbine to Australia. The 230KW wind state-of-the-art turbine manufactured by M/S Enercon Ltd was loaded into a ship at Daman in the presence of Non Conventional Energy Sources Secretary S.S. …
Rolls-Royce, the UK based global power systems group, announced that the 208 MW Godavari power project in Andhra Pradesh would be fully operational by May. The project, conceived as a fast track one, has become one of the first independent power project to start supplying power to the grid.
The Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) is considering drilling again in the Bengal basin on the recommendations of its US consultant, Kingston. The exploration and production company had pulled out of the area after its search for oil proved futile in the seventies and eighties.
Even as environmentalist lobby has stepped up its compaign for a cleaner Delhi, the autorickshaw and taxi unions in the Capital are confident that the new government at the Centre will not implement a plan to phase out old and polluting vehicles.
Representatives from Greenpeace Germany and prominent Canadian group Nuclear Awareness project criticised their governments for planning to export to Turkey the dangerous nuclear technology for power plants.
Oil and Natural Gas Corporation seems to have lost faith in the sincerity of multinational oil companies in helping it overcome some of the complicated reservoir problems faced by offshore oil fields Neelam and Bombay High. A recent offer made by the international energy company Halliburton to revive the ailing …
Though Bangalore city seems to be heading for a very dry summer this year, the Bangalore Water Supply and Sewerage Board says it has projects, which if completed on time, will be a long term solution to all the problems being faced by the city. But for this Bangaloreans will …
Conventional techniques for detecting compounds of environmental, clinical and industrial importance are slowly giving way to the use of biosensors which utilise biological components to detect such compounds. The development of biocensors to detect specific metals at low concentrations may help meet the demand for simple and sensitive analytical techniques …
The land site, identified by the Cochin Refineries Limited (CRL) for its proposed 522 mw joint venture power project at Ambalamugal, has been approved by a sub-committee of the environment panel. The sub-committee headed by Ernakulam district collector V P Joy constituted to select the land for the Rs 1,650 …
Asia's top shibreaking yard at Alang, near Bhavnagar, is going through a lean phase, triggered off by national and international economic crisis and allegations of lack of labour safety and toxic dumping.
In a major move to promote private investment to harness non-conventional energy sources (NCES) for generating electricity, the Haryana Government has exempted this category of Independent Power Producers (IPP)as well as users of this energy, from electricity duty, which, at present is 10 paise per units.
The 1,000-MW Nagarjuna Thermal power project near Padubidre in Udupi taluk would be commisioned by the year 2002 after the techno-economic clearance was obtained from the Central Electric Authority, according to the Nagarjuan Power Corporationm Ltd Executive Director, Mr H.R. Alva.
A Nagoya refinery is suspected of illegally exporting more than 50,000 tons of toxic industrial waste to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) since 1990, Asahi Shimbun learned over the weekend. The refinery is suspected of overlooking laws on waste disposal when they shipped the aluminum residue, which …
Japan's first commercial use nuclear power plant, fired up in 1966, will cease operations at the end of this month. Its operator, Japan Atomic Power Co., then will begin dismantling the pieces and hauling them away. That will also be a first for Japan.
The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) and the Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) have signed the contract for the turn-key 128 MW Kozhikode Diesel Power Plant.
A pregnant woman's exposure to chemicals and possibly to alcohol may make the baby prone to leukaemia, reports a new study. Mel Graves and his team from the Institute of Cancer Research, USA, recently isolated DNA from the cells of leukaemia -infected children aged five months to two years. In …
an old dogma in developmental biology is that there are two classes of developmental systems. Each class embodies principles that ensure the orderly progression of a relatively unstructured fertilised egg to the highly structured adult. The classes are called mosaic and regulative. A mosaic embryo is believed to come pre-equipped …
From ancient fish genes geneticists have reconstructed a stretch of DNA that can "hop' in and out of chromosomes. This gene could expedite the development of gene therapy to tackle diseases. Such mobile genetic units (called transposons) are usually found in insects and worms. Transposons, only a few thousand base …
Japan's deregulation measures for the domestic power sector will likely result in wider use of fuel oil and coal, counter to an agreement reached in Kyoto late last year to reduce greenhouse gas emissions next century, industry experts said. A government panel has been discussing measures to achieve a 20% …
The Pratapsingh Rane government in Goa yesterday approved an open policy facilitating setting up of small power plants by many entrepreneur to meet his energy needs and to sell the excess power generated.
