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 …
Big Three US automakers, aiming to shake the perception that they'd rather sell big trucks than help stop global warming , will show their green side next week at their hometown auto show. Chrysler Corp, Ford Motor Co and General Motors Corp all plan to display various trypes of alternative …
The Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has bagged the plant package contract for the prestigious Rs 1163 crore Faridabad power project, ending the month long wrangling over the bidding process between a state-owned power utility and a multilateral lending agency.
The Uttar Pradesh Cabinet has approved the proposal of floating a global tender once again for the 1000-mw Anpara C power project. This had earlier been awarded to Korean giant Hyundai International while the state was under President's rule.
The Centre will extend only a limited counter-guarantee to the five fast track power projects which have yet to receive a counter-guarantee. This implies that the Centre will only partially underwrite the state government liabilities resulting from tariff payments owed on the sale of power.
A central law on energy funding for industries is likely to be tabled in Parliament soon, Dr Bhaskar Natarajan , Director, Energy Management Centre (EMC), has said. He said drafts had already been made by the State Governments and had been submitted to the Ministry of Petroleum.
The chief of the Akhil Gujarat Vidyut Kamdar Sangh, Sanat Mehta strongly opposed the state government's move for privatisation of the Gujarat Electricity Board (GEB) and called upon the employees of the GEB to be united and fight against such a move.
In the second sellout within a year, the 520 mw Korba West Power project has changed hands yet again from the Delhi-base Kedias to a foreign consortium of Electrogen Alpha Ltd of US and Korea Heavy Industries Construction Company Ltd of Korea. The RPG group had earlier sold of the …
The Union ministry of non-conventional energy sources has sanctioned seven projects in Andhra Pradesh under the central grovernment's bio-mass scheme. The scheme envisages, for the utilisation and processing of industrial, agricultural and municipal wastes into generation of energy.
The Central Electricity Authority has rejected the Cogentrix plea seeking a revision of Rs 73 crore in the capital cost of the 1,000 mw fast track power project in Karnataka.
Hindustan Petroleum Corporaiton has entered into fuel supply agreements (FSA) with 12 major independent power producers setting up new power generation units.
The fate of the 25 finance companies that entered into lease deals with REPL Engineering Ltd for erecting windmills has been conclusively sealed. A letter issued by director of the Gujarat Energy Development Agency (GEDA) to the income-tax department in Mumbai, has clarified that a certificate of commencement purported to …
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd said that it has entered into a fuel supply agreement with 12 major independent power producers (IPPs) in the country.
Karnataka Power Corporation Ltd and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd signed a fuel supply agreement for supply of 125 TMT of Naphtha for the Bidadi Combined Cycle Power Project.
The Dabhol Power Company will start construction of its regassification plant in October, even before the financial closure of Phase II of the $3-billion power project. Disclosing this, Mr Joseph Sutton, who recently took over as CEO of Enron International from Ms Rebecca Mark, said that Maharashtra would be the …
Secondary zinc manufacturers in the country, who manufacure zinc primarily from zinc ash, a non-hazardous recycleable material, continue to suffer due to the ban on its imports having been termed 'hazardous' despite decisions given in their favour by national as well as international bodies.The Basel Convention on Transboundary Movement of …
The Environmental Protection Agency in U.S. is gearing up for one of the most ambitious projects ever proposed to test chemicals found in everyday products for harmful side effects. Under contract to the agency, OSI Pharmaceuticals Inc., has been asked to show how the drug industry's advanced automated techniques for …
The macroseismic and aftershock studies of last year's Jabalpur earthquake have revealed a "deep-rooted seismogenic fault" located within the Narmada south fault zone, according to J R Katyal, deputy director-general of the Geological Survey of India (GSI).
a new compound would help women avoid the risk of developing breast cancer after hormone replacement therapy ( hrt ). T M Wilson and his colleagues at the Duke University Medical Centre, Durham, North Carolina, usa and Glaxo Wellcome, claim that the compound called gw 5638 could become an important …
a rhythm in the ebb of sunspot dominates the atmosphere of the Sun and influences life on the Earth as well. Some of the largest sunspots can be even seen without a telescope. Recently, C Westendorp and his colleagues at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias, Tenerife, Spain, claim to …
