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 Union Ministry for Non-conventional Energy Sources has earmarked Rs 26 crores for development of non-conventional energy sources in the North-Eastern states during the current financial year. The amount is 10 per cent of the net budgetary provision of Rs 260 crores for the ministry.
The centre would set up a 2,000 MW thermal power plant in Hazaribagh district, the Union Finance Minister Mr. Yashwant Sinha said. The cost of the project and its location were being worked out.
After his claims to produce herbal petrol were exposed by the scientific community two years ago, P Ramar, the village inventor, today distributed about two dozen bottles of "alternative fuel" to journalists in the city (Chennai) to "test for themselves".
The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the supplement to an agreement between India and Russia to set up two units at Kundankulam Nuclear Power Station in Tamil Nadu and transfer of the funds required for the project.
By the time Sweden votes in a September 20 general election, a programme to phase out nuclear power by 2010 was supposed to be underway. About 20 km from the Danish capital Copenhagen, across the Oresund strait, one of two reactors at Barseback was due to be shut down by …
Plans by Kansai Power Electric Co. to use a plutonium-based fuel in its Takahama Nuclear Power Station may be delayed for a few years while the government-appointed Nuclear Safety Commission weighs the merits of the idea, officials said Tuesday. The Takahama plant is a conventional facility, unlike the Monju fast-breeder …
The Rs 1,600 crore, 420 mw Raichur therimal power project has run into a roadblock with the Karnataka Electricity Board (KEB) raising objections over the EPC(erection, procurement, construction) contract.
General Motors Corp. and Japan's Isuzu Motors Ltd. are forming a $320 million joint venture to build new-generation diesel engines for GM trucks at a new factory outside Dayton, Ohio. The new, high-tech V-8 engines to be made at the plant, which use direct-injection technology, offer "very significant" reductions in …
Vast fields of gas crustals that could be a new clean fuel for the next century have been discovered on the seabed. Researchers said on Monday that the reserves of the crystals , called gas hydrates, dwarfed those of coal, oil and natural gas.
Chief Minister Sahib Singh has claimed that work on the construction of the Rs 700 crore gas based power project would start in the Capital by the end of this year. Work orders have already been placed with Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) to set up the 300 MW gas …
The Madhya Pradesh Government has decided to adopt a mission approach to implement the Foodgrain Security Action Plan in 336 villages inhabited by specially backward tribals in the Jhabua, Mandla, Bastar, Sarguja and Raipur districts. It is for the first time that such an ambitious scheme is becoming operative in …
The amount of coal burned at English and Welsh power stations has risen substantially since the end of March because of a cool summer and a shutdown of French nuclear power plants caused by a design fault. Figures from the electricity industry regulator showed power stations had burned 14.3m tonnes …
The Madhya Pradesh governent yesterday selected three coal projects for escrow cover. They include Daewoo Power-promoted 1,070 mw Korba project, the Pench Power-promoted 500 mw Pench project and Birla/PowerGen-promoted 500 mw Bina power project.
The cost of rural electricity is always over-estimated and state electricity boards pass off large-scale systems losses and power thefts as agricultural losses. The value added by 1 kwh of electricity in agriculture far outweighs the cost of power supplied to farmers, both in terms of higher acreage covered and …
The Gujarat government has decided to drop its ambitious small capacity and barge mounted power projects, and approached the central government to reallocate naphtha to four public sector companies in the state-including Kribhco and GSPCL-for their power projects. The decision taken recently, marks a major shift in the government's policy …
The House committee in Thailand has some doubts about the reported malfunction of all six desulphurisation systems installed at the Mae Moh lignite-fired power plant, and plans to raise the issue in Parliament. Pinit Chanthasurin, chairman of the House panel, yesterday said it was unusual for all four desulphurisation units …
Following sanctions imposed by Japan in the aftermath of nuclear tests, the Centre is planning to postpone discussions on eight power projects which were shortlisted for the 1998-99 OECF loan package.
A recent decision by the Tamil Nadu government to permit tariff-based negotiations for selecting developers for energy projects based on municipal solid waste (MSW) has breathed fresh life into two such projects in the pipeline.
E is for energy label : The Government is planning the introduction of an 'E-Mark' to signify energy efficiency as part of change being planned in the Energy Conservation Bill. This bill is the last of the three power sector Bills mooted by the Power Ministry.
The Washington-based Worldwatch Institute has predicted that China's skewed water policies have the potential of making it a foodgrain importer, and thus increase the grain prices in the global market. This in turn could weaken the ability of the poorer countries to buy grain for their populations and thus affect …
