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 …
The Arunachal Pradesh Energy Development Agency (APEDA) has bagged two national awards for excellent performances in implementation of rural energy and solar thermal programme during 1996-97, according to APEDA Director, Mr. K.C. Dhimole.
The Kerala State Government has decided not to go in for equity participation by private companies in setting up the 163-MW Athirappally hydro-electric project. Instead, it is considering the global bidding route to implement the project under the direct supervision of Kerala State Electricity Board(KSEB) itself.
The French government has confirmed the permanent closure of the controversial Superphenix nuclear reactor, the largest fast reactor ever built, dealing a blow to the country's powerful nuclear lobby.
Lukoil's licence to explore oil deposites in the Russian sector of the northern Caspian Sea has been put in jeopardy by Yuri Skuratov, Russia's prosecutor general, who said this week that oil exploration in the area violated a law protecting local wildlife.
The State may be receiving 100MW to 150MW of power from the Eastern grid in the coming day. An official release issued by the State Electricity Board (KSEB) said that the State had received 100MW from the Bengal region on Sunday.
Setting aside the BICP estimate, the expert committee set up by the Centre to examine the cost of fuel for the 1,000 MW Ispat promoted Bhadrawati fast track power project, has concurred with the higher price worked out by ICICI, consultants to the Maharashtra State Electricity Board. The power project …
Various delays have led to the project cost of the Hinduja National Power Corporation Ltd in Visakhapatnam shooting up by Rs 300 crore to Rs 4,300 crore. One of the major fast-track private power projects in the country, it has been dogged by negotiations since 1992. The controversy over washed …
The Union ministry of environment and forests has sponsored a two-month programme for environment education and information for Morolpora, Bandipur, in North 24-Parganas.
In a bid to part finance its Ninth and Tenth Plan projects, National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) has asked for fresh loans from the World Bank along with restructuring of its earlier loans.
The credibility of the experiment reporting the cloning of Dolly the sheep from the cell of an adult ewe is being challenged by a leading biologist, and other scientists agree that the experiment needs to be repeated before it can accepted. The skepticism is erupting almost a year after the …
around 1200 bce, the Bronze Age civilisations of the Eastern Mediterranean came to a premature end . Within 50 years, several famous centres of scholarship and industry such as Troy, Mycenae and Knossos had been reduced to rubble. Amos Nur, a geophysicist at Stanford University, usa , believes that a …
a group of French researchers has come across a bubonic plague bacterium that is resistant to multiple antibiotics. The bacterium, called Yersenia pestis (y pestis), was isolated from a 16-year-old boy from Madagascar in southern Africa. It has developed resistance to all first-line antibiotics and principal alternate drugs used to …
Scientists in the US have developed a fire-resistant plastic. E Giannelis and his team at Cornell University, USA, have developed a method to mix organic polymers with clays on a micro level. The modified polymer-mineral blend exhibits increased heat and flame resistance. The Cornell group succeeded in mingling the two …
a microchip is helping people in Japan to deal with a crime wave that has hit the ancient Japanese art of bonsai. Bonsai is a Japanese practice of cultivating artificially dwarfed plants or small trees. Thieves have been stealing beautiful miniature trees that are very costly and take many years …
The Government yesterday said it was open to 100 per cent equity participation by foreign companies in Indian joint ventures for the production of solar devices.
In a breakthrough, scientists at the Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre (VECC), Salt Lake, made their machine a super-efficient shooter of atomic particles.
The giant Brent Spar oil rig, which Greenpeace fought to stop being dumped at sea, will be broken up and re-used in Norway. The Shell Group said it planned to slice up the Brent Spar and use the pieces as the foundation of a ferry terminal in Norway.
Extreme events such as the Great Ice Storm are likely to occur much more often in the future, Greenpeace warned. The environmental organization recommended immediate measures to reduce building heat loss and to create a more decentralized energy system, less dependent on long electricity transmission lines and distant power stations. …
Greenpeace welcomed the announcement by Shell that it will not dump the Brent Spar at sea, but criticised the company for taking two years and spending millions of pounds to come up with its conclusion.
