The Pakistan government has chalked out a plan to completely subsitute the furnace oil with gas during coming three years, said Secretary, Petroleum and Natural Resources Abdullah

China is preparing to adopt a quota system to promote the use of energy from renewable sources in the next Five-Year Plan (2001-05), according to an official with the State Development Planning

Canadian college students have set a world record for the longest distance travelled in a solar-powered car, using an amount of electricity equivalent to running a toaster. Travelling at an average

UK ministers are planning to divert more than half of a fund set up to help small and medium-sized business cope with the climate change levy into researching renewable energy, according to a leak

Fifteen Australian power generators and retailers had signed-on to an internet based market to trade the green value of renewable electricity generation. The Marketplace Co Ltd (M-co) said. The

The 250-MW Karbi-Langpi Hydro-electric Porject, whose construction began way back in 1979, is yet to be completed even after two decades, with the cost going up by more than eight times of what was

Washington is likely to stand firm on its Caspian energy policy whatever the outcome of the presidential elections in November, according to a senior US official. John Wolf, special adviser to the

The World Bank said it approved a $150 million loan to help Vietnam provide energy to about 450,000 households or an estimated 2 million people-in 32 rural provinces. Using renewable energy

Zao Rosshelf, a subsidiary of Russia's natural gas giant, Gazprom, plans to sign an agreement with the Russian government by the end of 2000 to develop the massive Shtokmanovskoye natural gas field

Anglo-Dutch oil giant Royal Dutch Shell is to acquire a majority stake in sakhalin energy which is to develop gas fields in the Russain far east island of Sakhalin, the companies said on