Punjab Green Hydrogen Policy
<p>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
Energy
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How newer reactors would have survived Fukushima
<p>The safety features and power backups built into third-generation reactors should shut them down safely even without electrical power.</p>
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Fuel price hike for roads
Ranchi, March 24: It appears that aam aadmi will have to shell out more for petrol and diesel for better roads. The Assembly today passed Jharkhand State Road Development Fund-2011 Bill proposing to levy Rs 2 surcharge per litre of fuel to build a corpus fund for development of road networks, despite protests from the Treasury and Opposition benches. Though the bill proposes a maximum cess on
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Why radiation fears are often exaggerated
<p>Fear of radiation from Japan's stricken nuclear power plant must not blind us to the risks attached to the alternatives.</p>
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Foreign Companies Eye Clean Technology Projects in India
Western companies are in the race for slice of the lucrative market for clean technologies such as renewable energy and water or soil treatment projects in India and China, which corporate leaders say will be worth trillions of dollars in a few years as the Asian giants grapple with rising oil prices and pollution.
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Smart-grid 'stockbrokers' to manage your power
<p>Software agents that get the best price by buying and selling electricity on your behalf could increase grid efficiency and help you cut costs.</p>
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MoEF more strict on power projects
Concerned over the large-scale diversion of forest land for hydroelectric projects, the Union Ministry of Forest and Environment is imposing more stringent conditions, including declaration of reservoir created due to construction of dams as reserved forest, as a pre-requisite for granting clearance. The new conditions have been imposed in respect of the 402 MW Shongtong-Karcham projects and th
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Waste to energy plant in Vijaywada shuts down
in yet another indictment of incineration technology, the waste-to-energy plant at Vijayawada recently stopped operations. There is now no functional incineration-based waste-to-energy plant in the
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Green wheels
THE World Commission on Environmental Development, 1987, gave way to the famous Brundtland Commission Report titled Our Common Future. This report, for the first time, made 'sustainability' a
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Energy tax alternative still remains elesive
The US senate is in a dilemma because every alternative they have thought up to the contentious energy tax has received loud protests from some section of the American public.
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Living energy
Bioresources, the energy and raw materials derived from plants and animals, could help end poverty.