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 …
ABB today unveiled a new product before the world which will bring a quantum junmp in electrical engineering. Christened Powerformer, the worlds first high voltage generator will be able to generate electricity at high voltages in the range of 20 to 400 kilovolts (Kv) directly and the energy could be …
The Namrup Thermal Power Station (NTPS) , the first of its kind in the entire northeastern region, with which industrialization set in at Namrup, an unknown slumbering village till early sixties, is now gasping for survival on the face of various internal problems. The Assam State Electircity Board always casts …
The Petroleum Authority of Thailand has been less than open in building the Thai-Burmese gas pipeline, the government- appointed panel reviewing the project has concluded. The review, in which supporters and opponents put forward their arguments, drew to a close yesterday with the panel presenting its findings and a conclusion.
China has 23 hydro-power projects in operation or under construction by utilizing foreign funds worth nearly 3.7 billion US dollars, with a total generating capacity over 18.84 million kw.
China is launching a "green light" program nationwide to implement an energy saving policy. The program conforms to a shift in energy production from extensive to intensive.
Streetlights that are powered by solar energy have become a new feature in Lhasa. The 820,000 yuan cost of the solar energy streetlights came from the Beijing Muncipal Government.
Surplus biomass in Dindigul and Nilakottai taluks was found in a study of Biomass Assessment Project by the Gandhigram Rural Institute. Power plants with capacity of 16.5 MW and 5 MW could be installed in Dindigul and Nilakottai taluks from the surplus biomass available in the area according to Dr. …
The Netherlands Government has provided a subsidy of about Rs. 1 crore to a consortium of Dutch companies to study the feasibility of introducing autogas, an established alternative "green" fuel, on a large-scale in the national Capital territory of Delhi.
Rajasthan's Solar Energy Enterprise Zone (SEEZ) in the Thar desert has got stuck as multinational giants, Amoco and Enron, are not meeting the "financial criteria", according to State Government officials.
NEA : Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has said it does not have any differences with the World Bank over the proposed 100 million dollar Power Development Fund (PDF) a World Bank fund that will provide concessional loans to develop small and medium size power projects.
Sweden's largest independent power generator called on the European Commission to block government plans to decommission the first of the country's 12 nuclear reactors this year. Sydkraft, which has been ordered to close its Barseback I reactor by July, has filed a complaint in Brussels claiming that the government was …
The Export-Import Bank of Japan (JEXIM) said today it would extend an untied loan of 10.1 Billion yen ($79 millions) to India. The state-run bank said the loan, joint-financed with Asian Development Bank, would be given to the Gas Authority of India Ltd., which will use the loan to upgrade …
The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed a special leave petition against a Karnataka High Court judgment refusing to quash, on ecological grounds, the clearance granted by the Union environment ministry to the Cogentrix thermal power project in the state. The power project, at Nandikur in the coastal district of Dakshina …
The Minister for Power, Prof Y K Alagh, has said that the fast breeder reactor, now being developed after the success of the experimental "KAMINI" and the completion of the nuclear fuel cycle based on thorium, will be the "ultimate answer" to India's energy security problems.
The independent Centre for Wind Energy Technology (C-WET) is likely to become operational by April this year. In the initial stages, the Centre will start operating from the temporary place. The Tamil Nadu Government is likely to allot land at Pallikaranai near Chennai for its permanent headquarters.
RPG Enterprises has started negotiating with US energy major, Enron Internationals, to sell out a portion of its equity in Balagarh Power Company, an RPG group unit setting up a 500 mw Rs 2,000 -crore coal-fired project in West Bengal.
The government may alter the liquid fuel policy and offer condensate as an alternate fuel to promoters of power projects, who are proposing to use either naptha, furnace oil or LSHS. The government is considering this move after some sections in the govenment pointed to the adverse impact naptha imports …
The Orissa government has shortlisted four domestic and four overseas utility companies for diversting a 49 per cent stake in state-owned Orissa Power Generation Corporation. The four foreign firms who have been chosen are US-based AES Transpower, Power Gen and National Power from the UK, and Tractebel from Belgium. They …
German and Indian scientists appear to have been thinking along the same lines to convert geo-thermal energy for useful purposes. It is an attempt to find eco-friendly solutions for energy problems. No doubt, geothermal energy enjoys a major advantage over other sources of regenerative enrgy, such as wind and solar, …
Guwahati, the once beautiful and now degraded capital city of Assam, is perhaps going to face a distressful rainy season fron now on with some of her localities being inundated afresh. For, some vital areas of one of its major storm water reservoir Sarusola Beel are encroached upon and filled …
