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 …
Japan's nuclear power plants are desperately trying to find somewhere to send spent nuclear fuel after their last contract with a European enterprise expired last week. Japan's power companies, which produce 900 tons of spent nuclear fuel a year, had been transporting used fuel to reprocessing plants in England and …
Energy Development Company Limited (EDCL) is setting up a 9 MW hydro-power project at a cost of Rs 44.50 crore at Harangi dam with an engineering procurement and consturction (EPC) contract with Sulzer Flovel Ltd.
The power ministry is planning to introduce a cess on all power plants across the country . A bill to this effect, amending the Electricity Act, may be moved in the next session of Parliament.
A major power project in Mizoram has been shelved due to the economic sanctions imposed on India by Japan following the Pokhran nuclear tests. The 210 MW Muivai project, which was to be financed by the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund, had been put on hold following the imposition of Japanese …
The draft of the Biological Diversity Act, to be tabled soon in Parliament, is full of loopholes that would permit foreign interest to continue to exploit the Indian markets and not ensure conservation of species. " It (the draft) is a bio-piracy facilitating legislation. The draft, if implemented as it …
The rehabilitation of the Hetauda Deisel Power Station in Nepal, which has traditionally been used for standby and peak load duty when other power sources are unable to meet the consumer demand, has been completed. The first phase of the project comprised the rehabilitation of four, ten-year-old Ruston PKC generating …
A series of nuclear reactor problems has forced Electricite de France (EdF), Europe's largest electricity company to step up its power imports. Five of the company's network of more than 50 nuclear reactors are sidelined for technical reasons, with no guarantee they will be able to restart before the end …
The 31 mini power plants with a combined generation capacity of about 979 MW, which were planned to be developed by late 1997, have been bogged down due to several hurdles including the 'problem of wheeling by the Andhra Pradesh State Electricity Board'.
The fire in an Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) depot at Thekeriguri in Nagaon district, which started in the early hours of Tuesday, was still blazing on Wednesday . However, the intensity of the fire had lessened and it was expected to burn itself out by Thursday.
Power failures which often disrupt the smooth flow of traffic at many of Delhi's intersections will no longer be a problem at the Ring Road-Africa Avenue Crossing near Bhikaji Cama Place in South Delhi, thanks to the solar power system which has gone into operation from today. The solar power …
The United National Development Programme (UNDP) has offered a grant assistance of $4 million for renewable energy supply to select tribal villages in India. The aid has been provided under the UNDP's government of India country cooperation framework to cover the 1997-2001 period.
Decks have been cleared for a collaboration between a Chinese outfit and the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) for the setting up of small hydro power stations in the state. The Hangzhou International Centre on Small Hydro Power of China will collaborate with KSEB in setting up 18 small hydro …
Even through PPAs were signed by the Rajasthan State Electricity Board with as many as 12 indepandent power produvers (IPPs) for developing projects in the state, many of them may not see the light of day.
Setting a major milestone in India's nuclear power programme, the construction of first two units of 500 mw pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWR) began at Tarapur in Thane district yesterday.
Hounded by goons and ignored by apathatic authorities, the inventor of a unique gas saving gadget has been turned to a shoe shine boy. Mr Debajyoti Bandopadhyay, 33, frail and famished in appearance, can be found hard at work in his new profession outside the Talkatora Stadium as a protest. …
In a determined bid to improve the availability and quality of power supply to the tubewells, the Haryana Government has asked the recently-constituted Haryana Vidyut Prasaran Nigam to erect separate transmission lines for the tubewells.
The Nepal government has decided to launch "park people programme" with the cooperation of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in the Rara National Park and Khaptad National Park in the mid and far western regions with the objective of conserving bio-diversity and improving the social and economic conditions of …
