SPREMBERG, Germany: A German far-right party is using a simple message to attract voters in a mining region threatened by government plans to phase out coal: jobs are more important than the environment. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s aim to wean Europe’s biggest economy off fossil fuels is the main issue in a September election in the […]
German help for South Asia’s biggest floating solar power plant in West Bengal
KOLKATA: Bengal is set to get South Asia’s biggest floating solar power plant. The 500MW plant is likely to attract an investment of Rs 2,500 crore. Sources in power department indicated that Kangsabati river at Mukutmanipur could be the location for the project. If everything goes as per plans, it may also become the country’s […]
German energy grids say plans ready for 100MW hydrogen plant
The 100 megawatt (MW) power-to-gas (ptg) plant to be called “hybridge” can start operations from 2023 at Lingen in Germany’s windy north-west, the firms said in statements presented at a Berlin news conference. New Delhi: German power and gas grid firms Amprion and Open Grid Europe (OGE) said on Monday they would shortly apply to […]