Cement, Energy & Environment Jan-Mar 2002

e NEWS BRIEF Energy • Chettinad Cement Bets on Ready-Mix Plant (significant net energy saving) 46 • Transforming the Energy Sector: Towards New Governance Structures (concept of independent regulation, the streams: rate of return and price cap) 46 • Renewing India (an energy portal maintained byWinrock Internationallndia) 46 • South Asia Regional Energy Website (a source of current energy information) 47 • Chettinad Cement's Karikkali Unit on Stream 47 • Green Signal for Ethanol in Fuel 47 • Magnetic Force Powered Flash Light 47 Environment • China one up on Developing Countries in Cutting Greenhouse Gases 48 • India Cements Plant to Have Japan Model Project 48 • GHG Reduction Database (a veritable source for transparency and awareness for implementation) 49 • Reducing C0 2 Emissions (WWF welcomes Lafarge into its climate saver's prograrnrne) 49 • NTPC, IDCOL Moot Flyahd based Cement 50 • Recycling Tyres used to Reduce Traffic Noise Waste to Wealth • New Binder Fujibeton for Road Construction (conversion of solid 50 rnunicipal waste into value added building cornponent) 50 • Power from Delhi's Garbage 51 • Lafarge DVC Joint Venture for Cement Unit 52 • Bricks from Marble Dust 52 • Stocking Up! (petcoke use in Jerez plant of Hisalbe, Spain) 53 International-Country Profile • China's Economy in the Second Half of 2001 • • • Full Steam Ahead (International report on Indian cement industry) Booming Chinese Cement Market Cement Industry Invests US$ 4 Million (Battelle Insti tute t; tudy on long term sustainability of cernent indus try) 53 53 54 54 e REGULATION NEWS • The Energy Conservation Act, 2001 54 • Cement Industry Hails Medium Terms Strategy to Boost Exports 55 • Proposed Draft Specification for D.G. Set Fuel by 'BIS' (a lkali manufacturers' association of India's recommendation) 56 • Regulatory Structures and their Revision for Petcoke use 58 • SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT • Mobile Laboratory for Testing Cement, Sand and Coarse Aggregate at Site 58 4