Green road freight cluster to help reduce gas emissions in India

The World Economic Forum on Wednesday announced the launch of India’s first zero-emission road freight cluster initiative which will reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. The announcement was made during a side event hosted by NITI Ayog at the backdrop of ongoing G20 Energy Transitions Working Group meeting in Panaji. Jasmeet Khurana, Lead, Moving Emerging

Researchers from Tel Aviv University produce green hydrogen using green electricity

The hydrogen is produced without air pollution, with a high level of efficiency, utilizing a biocatalyst. Hydrogen is a necessary raw material for both agriculture and industry, but 95% of the hydrogen produced in the world today is “black” or “gray”—produced from coal or natural gas and emitting 9-12 tons of carbon dioxide for every

Global Biofuel Alliance can power India’s energy transition drive

The upcoming 14th Clean Energy Ministerial and Eighth Mission Innovation (CEM14/MI-8) conference, scheduled to take place in Goa from July 19-22, 2023, is likely to establish the Global Biofuel Alliance (GBA). CEM serves as a prominent international platform, bringing together influential figures to promote clean energy technology and knowledge exchange and facilitate the global transition

Amazon says its carbon emissions fell for first time in 2022

The Seattle-based giant emitted 71.27 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2022, down 0.4% from the previous year, Amazon said in its annual sustainability report, published on Tuesday. The company achieved the improvement by using more solar and wind to power its operations and benefited from a decrease in emissions from construction and

Piped natural gas to houses in Ramagundam in August

For the first time in the State, cooking gas will be supplied to homes soon since the works on supply of piped natural gas to domestic as well as commercial operations in the erstwhile Karimnagar district have reached the final stage. Initially, Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) authorities have decided to supply gas to houses

LONGi – China’s First 10,000-ton Green Hydrogen Refinery Project Starts Operation

China’s Sinopec announced that the nation’s first 10,000-ton green hydrogen demonstration project had successfully produced hydrogen, and the output hydrogen was piped to local petroleum refining enterprises to replace the existing natural gas fossil energy as a power source. So far, the project has successfully realized the whole process from production to utilization of green

Producing natural gas from coal

The possibility of making natural gas, methanol, ammonia and other essential products from coal is being explored in the mines of South Eastern Coalfoields Limited (SECL). If implemented, this will be the first such project in the state of Chhattisgarh. Coal gasification is the cleanest and most eco-friendly way to convert coal components into electricity,

Chandigarh administration to conduct study to check pollution levels

The Chandigarh administration has decided to get a study conducted to check the increase in pollution levels in the city. This study, the administration claimed, is a bid to make the Union Territory (UT) carbon neutral by 2030. A tender has also been floated by the Chandigarh Pollution Control Committee to hire an agency that

U.S. and India Advance Partnership on Clean Energy

U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm and Indian Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas Hardeep Singh Puri held the third ministerial meeting of the U.S.-India Strategic Clean Energy Partnership, launched in September 2021. This effort focuses government, industry, and other stakeholder efforts to advance energy security, clean energy innovation, and decarbonization efforts to support

Indore-based agri scientist produces high biomass sorghum to blend with petrol

Agriculture scientist of Rajmata Vijaya Raje Scindia Krishi Vishwavidyalaya (College of Agriculture Indore) has put the country on path to become a leading producer of Ethanol by developing a high biomass sorghum variety. This comes a few days after Union road and transport minister Nitin Gadkari had said “If an average of 60% ethanol and