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  • Petrobangla stops supplying gas to old electricity plants: Country heads for massive power outage

    Major parts of the country will plunge into darkness as the Petrobangla has begun cutting gas supplies to old and worn-out electricity generation plants to ensure more efficient use of gas, officials said yesterday. They said the decision to put fast depleting gas to better use was taken by the government two days ago, with implementation starting on Sunday. "Gas supply to a state-run power plant near Dhaka with more than 100 megawatts capacity has already been stopped and the process will continue," said Jalal Ahmed, chairman of the state-run Petrobangla.

  • 13 Daska villages inundated

    Flood in Nullah Aik inundated 13 villages of Daska tehsil on Monday, damaging standing crops and forcing dwellers to shift to safer places.

  • Need for systematic study of street lighting: Seminar

    Pune, July 20 The Indian Society of Lighting Engineers (ISLE) in association with MIT Lighting Research Academy and CIRT. held a national workshop on street Lighting at CIRT Bhosari The workshop was held to discuss various aspects of street lighting and suggest effective solutions for the benefit of the public at large.

  • CMO hunts for energy booster

    Hyderabad, July 20: The Chief Minister's Office is busy trying to crack the mystery of the missing Malaysian magnate. He first met the Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, earlier this year to explain his proposal to set up a 2000-MW thermal power plant near any upcoming port in Andhra Pradesh.

  • Hunza village produces its own electricity

    Minister for Finance and Privatisation Syed Naveed Qamar has said that community participation is vital for sustainable development. He was speaking at a public rally in Ahmedabad, a hamlet 15 kilometres north of Aliabad, the headquarter of Hunza, after opening a hydro-power project. The 350-KVA micro-hydel power station was constructed by the villagers with the technical help of the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme and financial assistance of the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF).

  • Plan to set up ethanol plant near Faisalabad

    Sugar Cane Grower's Association (SCGA) has submitted a plan to the Government of Punjab for the setting up a 1000-1200 tons crushing per day (TCD) ethanol plant from sugarcane juice at Mamoo Kanjan, in district Faisalabad. The cost of setting up the plant would be around $10 million, which would produce around 2.0 mw electricity because of high pressure steam technology.

  • Robust effort to tackle climate change

    The proposed framework for tackling climate change is robust and balanced. Modifications to the universality and simplicity of the emissions trading regime are only proposed where there are overwhelming arguments for doing so. Coal-based electricity generators get differential treatment because their future investment decisions are central to tackling climate change. If the value of their existing assets is virtually eliminated overnight, their capacity to make those investments in low emission technologies will be crippled.

  • Plan for uninterrupted water supply

    Dis-trict Nazim Kanwar Naveed Jamil has said that the water supply system will be directly linked with an automatic changeover system under which the supply will not be affected even during the power loadshedding. He was speaking at a meeting of officials of the Hyderabad Development Authority, Wasa, Hyderabad Development Package and Hesco at his secretariat on Friday. Mr Jamil said all central pumping stations would be directly linked with a high-tension line through an automatic changeover switch system to ensure uninterrupted water supply to the people even during loadshedding.

  • Households' carbon blow to be cushioned

    Australian households will receive either tax cuts or increased family payments to offset higher electricity and fuel prices, as the government admits its climate change plan will drive up inflation. The framework of Labor's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme has been released in Canberra, detailing the government's plan to meet its target of bringing down greenhouse emissions by 60% by 2050. The higher family assistance may start before the trading system begins on July 1, 2010, possibly ahead of the next election.

  • Power crisis deepens, loadshedding enforced

    B.S. Satish Kumar BANGALORE: The power shortage assumed crisis proportions in Karnataka on Monday. Depletion of storage at hydel resources and technical snag at a generating unit at the Raichur Thermal Power Station have aggravated the problem. The power utilities resorted to unscheduled loadshedding throughout the State, including Bangalore, to make up for the power shortage. Many areas in Bangalore faced loadshedding varying from 90 minutes to two hours during peak demand while the loadshedding was even more in the remaining parts of the State.

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