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 …
Construction of a 100,000 kw wind power station is now underway in Tongyu Prefecture in Northeast China's Jilin Province, the first power plant of its kind in the province.
A group of activists, claiming big corporaitons are too often above the law, yesterday demanded that California's attorney general dissolve Unocal Corp by invoking a rarely used state statute that would put the company out of business. The activists, including environmentalists, feminists and human rights advocates, also said they will …
Shanxi province, China's leading coal producer, is hoping to turn itself into China's largest clean energy base in years. The province plans to upgrade coke furnaces which lack recovery facilities in the Fenhe River Valleys, and concentrate hundreds of smaller ovens in the same valley into several groups where large …
Bangladesh's first barge mounted power plant in the private sector is going to start generating power soon adding 100 MW electricity to the national grid.
The West Bengal Government has cleared the 500 MW capacity Balagarh thermal power project to be set up by RPG Enterprises in Hoogly district. The project was sent to the State Government at least three years ago for clearance. CESC Ltd, a RPG group company, has been entrusted the responsibility …
The first indigenously-developed rice husk-based biomass power project will be inaugurated by the State Chief Minister, Digvijay Singh on Tuesday at village Jarouda near Raipur in Chattisgarh.
Bangladesh has extended its full support to a move towards establishing a Saarc power grid to resolve the growing electricity crisis in the South Asian countries. This was stated by Bangladesh minister of state for foreign affairs Abul Hasan Chowdhury at the opening of regional workshop " Improving the availability …
The Centre referred the Cauvery scheme for implementation of the interim award of the Tribunal, to legal experts for an opinion on whether it should be notified before the Supreme Court hearing on Aug 12, or be submitted in the court.
Asian Development Bank (ADB) has commissioned Bechtel Consulting to draw up a 'gas master plan' for India, which will provide details like demand-supply situation, optimum number of LNG terminals and gas pipelines in the country. The plan is expected to estimate the number of companies in need of gas for …
The broad accord on the implementaion of the Cuvery's Tribunal's interim award, reached between the Chief Ministers of four basin states last weekend with the Prime Minister's intervention, marks a breakthrough in a dispute that has defied solution for over 80 years. The pact pertains essentially to an arrangement to …
The Union power ministry is not going to frame a power distribution policy and will allow state governments to evolve their own policy. Union Power Minister P R Kumaramangalam told that the centre would not issue any guidelines for privatisation of power distribution.
The country's first 500-mw nuclear power project is coming up at Tarapur near Mumbai, which was the launching pad of nuclear power in India with the commissioning of the first nuclear power plant in 1969.
The biggest ever deal for generating power in Bangladesh in the private sector was signed between Power Development Board (PDB) and an American company AES Corporation. As per the agreement, AES will commission a 360 MW combined cycle power plant at Haripur near Dhaka city on Build-Own-Operate basis by the …
Herbal fuel inventor Ramar Pillai has formally released samples of his "altenative fuel" and said he would commence commercial production at a small-scale plant in Chennai from October 3.
Power generation by Bangladesh's first barge mounted plant is going to be delayed by about a month affecting the power supply to the National Grid of Power Development Board (PDB). Earlier it was scheduled that the 110 MW barge mounted plant by Khulna Power Company Limited (KPCL) would start its …
The counter guarantee for the Hinduja National Power promoted 1.040 MW Vishakapatnam project has run into fresh problems after the Centre transferred the Railways' coal supply default liabilities on to the Andhra Pradesh government.
The report on apparent contamination of drinking water in six wells of Mandya town is very disturbing and cause for much concern. The report, based on a paper prepared by Bangalore University's Department of Civil Engineering, says that water taken from six wells in two areas of Mandya town was …
The government will issue the counter-guarantee for the 250MW ST-CMS power project in Tamil nadu on August 14. The agreement to this effect will be signed between the finance ministry and promoters, paving the way for financial closure.
Aiming to go beyond the 'energy = electricity' equation of centralised planning, the Kerala State Planning Board intends to give an added thrust to 'integrated, panchayat level energy planning' in the second year of the Ninth Plan (Peoples' Plan) period.
