Dhaka, May 13 – The government is setting up three power hubs to boost Bangladesh’s power generation capacity over the next two decades. The hubs will be constructed at three locations as part of the Power System Master Plan 2016.…
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Chinese cos give Dhaka US$4bn 2000mw coal-based power deal
Dhaka, 18 Jan – GCM Resources plc and POWERCHINA (a People’s Republic of China Central Government State Owned Enterprise) signed a Joint Venture Agreement and EPC Contract for the development of 2,000MW of mine-mouth coal-fired power plants with an approximate…
Solar energy crowns social housing programme in Brazil
“Solar energy makes my happiness complete,” said Divina Cardoso dos Santos, owner of one of 740 houses with photovoltaic panels on the rooftops in a settlement on the outskirts of this central Brazilian city.
লন্ডনে জিসিএমের ২৮ ডিসেম্বর বার্ষিক সভার সামনে বিক্ষোভ আহবান
লন্ডনভিত্তিক গ্লোবাল কোল ম্যানেজমেন্টের(সাবেক এশিয়া এনার্জি) ২৮ ডিসেম্বর অনুষ্ঠিতব্য বার্ষিক সাধারণ সভার সামনে তেল গ্যাস রক্ষা জাতীয় কমিটি যুক্তরাজ্য শাখা, ফুলবাড়ী সলিডারিটি গ্রুপ ও রিক্লেইম দা পাওয়ার বিক্ষোভ কর্মসূচি আহবান করেছে। ঐ দিন সকাল ১০টায় সেন্ট্রাল লন্ডনের অক্সফোর্ড সার্কাসের ৩৩…
Russia starts producing MOX nuclear fuel for fast reactors
Dhaka, Dec 18 – The TVEL Fuel Company of Russia’s Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation has started batch production of MOX nuclear fuel assemblies for BN-800 Fast Neutron Reactor at their Mining and Chemical Combine in Zheleznogorsk of Siberia.
Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) centre launched at ICIMOD
Kathmandu, 13 November 2018: A centre of excellence on Sustainable Energy for All (SE4ALL) was launched on Tuesday at ICIMOD to improve access to modern, affordable and reliable energy services in the Hindu Kush Himalaya (HKH) region.
Storm warning for the fossil-fuel industry
by Daniel Litvin London – This has been a year of extreme weather events, from the “Beast from the East” that froze much of the United Kingdom in March to Hurricane Florence on the US East Coast and Typhoon Mangkhut…
Pope urges action on clean energy
Pope Francis has said climate change is a challenge of “epochal proportions” and that the world must convert to clean fuel. “Civilisation requires energy, but energy use must not destroy civilisation,” he said. He was speaking to a group of…
Russia eyes US nuclear fuel market
Russia’s state-owned nuclear corporation Rosatom reached an agreement with the American counterpart for pilot testing of their new TVS-K nuclear fuel in Western-designed reactors at US-based nuclear power plants.In May, Rosatom’s TVEL Fuel Company and Global Nuclear Fuel–Americas (GNF-A ),…
Power generation hits 8942 MW setting new record
The country made a record by producing 8942 MW of electricity on Saturday evening.
Gorbachev disagrees with Obama on nukes
By David Swanson Mikhail Gorbachev and Barack Obama have radically different views on what is involved in doing away with nuclear weapons. Reading Gorbachev’s new book, The New Russia, is a bit disappointing, but it contains some key insights. It…
8 power sector projects put on ‘fast track’
The government has put eight power sector projects on ‘fast track’ giving an allocation of Tk 11,416.74 crore in the 2016-17 fiscal year. The government’s budget document titled ‘Kathamo Rupantare Brihat Prokalpo: Probriddhi Sanchare Natun Matra’ (Large Projects in Transformation…
No-electricity cooler made with plastic bottles
By Sonam Joshi A Bangladeshi inventor has made a simple yet effective cooler to help poor residents of his country cope with skyrocketing temperatures during summer without any electricity. His tools? Used plastic bottles.
Inside the daring mission that thwarted a Nazi atomic bomb
When the Nazis captured a heavy water facility in Norway, the chemist who helped design the plant took action. On February 27, 1942, nine saboteurs scaled a cliff in the middle of the night to blow up a Nazi-controlled heavy…
India keen on joint development of oil, gas blocks in Qatar
India on Sunday evinced interest in joint exploration of new oil and gas fields as well development of discovered assets in resource-rich Qatar as the two countries decided to focus on enhancing cooperation in the energy sector. India also invited…
International nuclear energy forum ATOMEXPO 2016 ends in Moscow
The eighth international forum on nuclear energy- ATOMEXPO 2016, organized by Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation- ROSATOM in Moscow concluded yesterday, June 1, 2016.
Total returns second Danish shale gas licence
French energy group Total has returned the second of two shale gas licences to Denmark after disappointing test drilling results, the Danish government said on Wednesday “There is not enough shale gas in the north Jutland underground at Dybvad for…
Renewable energy sources grew at record pace in 2015
Developing countries spent more on renewable power than rich ones for the first time last year, driving the fastest increase in sources of green energy on record, a study said Wednesday. Global investment in renewable power was more than double the…
Thai military men jailed for attack on mine activists
A Thai court on Tuesday jailed two military men for orchestrating an attack on villagers who were blockading a gold mine, a lawyer said, a rare ruling in favour of such activists. Residents of Nanonbong in the northeastern province of…
Neanderthals built mysterious stone circles
A worker takes measurements of the stone rings inside Bruniquel Cave. Once illuminated by the flickering fires of prehistoric builders, an array of mysterious stone circles hid in darkness for millennia, tucked into the recesses of a cave in France.…
Solar Impulse 2 lands in Pennsylvania on record-breaking flight
The sun-powered Solar Impulse 2 aircraft landed in the US state of Pennsylvania Wednesday, completing the latest leg of a record-breaking flight around the world to promote renewable energy by consuming no fuel. After taking off from Dayton, Ohio in…
The toxic toll of Indonesia’s gold mines
More than a million small-scale miners in this island nation are poisoned, which is leaving children with crippling birth defects. Ipan, 16 months old, suffers a seizure as his mother, Fatimah, looks on. Both his parents, who live in Sekotong,…
Dhaka, Moscow discuss $11.385bn Russian credit for Rooppur NPP
Dhaka – Dhaka and Moscow have concluded negotiations for $11.385 billion Russian credit for Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP).
Bangladesh-Russia negotiation on Rooppur NPP in Moscow
Dhaka – Deputy CEO for International Relations of Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation Nikolay Spasskiy yesterday led the Russian part during negotiation with the visiting Bangladesh Delegation headed by the Minister for Science and Technology Yeafesh Osman. A high power…
Proposal for developing Rampal land by Army
Dhaka – The Cabinet Purchase Committee on Wednesday approved a Power Division proposal to appoint Bangladesh Army’s commercial wing, Bangladesh Diesel Plant Ltd (BDP), to develop the land of the second phase of Rampal Power Plant, unb news agency.
Coal spill risk to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
A major coal spill on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef could kill some colourful corals within two weeks and stunt the growth of fish and seagrass, a new study revealed Tuesday. While coal spills are rare, environmentalists have been increasingly concerned…
Eco campaigners block lignite-fired German power plant
Around 2,000 environmental activists protesting the use of fossil fuels blockaded a power plant that burns brown coal in eastern Germany Saturday,organisers said, a day after a similar protest at a coal mine. The activists, who arrived by bike, bus…
Bangladesh delegation visits Russia’s Novovoronezh NPP
Dhaka – A Bangladesh delegation comprising the Ambassador to Russia Dr. S. M. Saiful Hoque, representatives of Ministry of Science and Technology and other concerned departments visited the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant in Russia. The Novovoronezh NPP is the reference…
Why the Chernobyl nuclear ruins are a 20th-century Pompeii
By Kristin Romey Thirty years ago this week, a reactor explosion at the Chernobyl power plant in the former Soviet Union resulted in the worst peacetime nuclear disaster in human history. Due to high radiation levels, the thousand-square-mile (2,600-square kilometer)…
France fires up push for renewable energies
France announced Monday it was raising its renewable energy goals and would become the first country to issue “green bonds” to fund projects which benefit the enviroment. French President Francois Hollande also confirmed that the country’s oldest nuclear power plant,…