Energy News 8th April 2022
WEC India Energy News
| |||||
| |||||
WEC India Energy Handbook Mobile Application
| |||||
 |  |  | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| What latest climate report says: No time to waste, but world is not out of options yet | India has strong defence against cyber attacks: Power minister R K Singh | Oil prices drift lower, set for 3% weekly fall due to massive stocks release | |||
A common theme of all the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in recent years has been the emphasis on early action. A substantial part of the journey to a carbon-neutral world has to be made in the near term, in the next five or ten years. If that does not happen, there is little hope for restricting the global rise in temperatures to within 1.5 or 2 degree Celsius from pre-industrial times. Read more... | Amid reports that Chinese hackers targeted the power system in Ladakh, Union Minister for Power R K Singh on Thursday said that the country has a strong defence against any kind of cyberattacks."Our defence against cyber-attack is strong. We had put protocols in place. Those protocols are working and we are strengthening those protocols every day," Singh said on the sideline of a clean energy ministerial senior officials meeting in Read more... | MELBOURNE/BEIJING (Reuters) -Oil prices drifted lower on Friday and were set to drop around 3% for the week as consuming countries' planned release of 240 million barrels from emergency stocks offset some concerns over reduced supplies from Russia due to western sanctions. Brent Crude futures edged lower by 55 cents, or 0.6% to $100.03 a barrel at 0403 GMT after gaining more than $1 in the early Read more... | |||
| NASA Finds Two Space-Based Novel Ways to Track Climate Change and Groundwater Loss across Planet | NLC India's power generation rises 19 pc to 2,920 cr units in FY22 | India weighs joining IEA emergency oil release plan to calm prices | |||
Using two space-based studies, NASA has been observing climate change and groundwater loss across the planet. The Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) mission allows ecosystem and climate researchers to quickly locate their regions of interest, and study forest structure and carbon content with greater precision than in the past.GEDI is a high-resolution lidar instrument designed specifically to measure vegetation from the International Space Read more... | NLC ndia Ltd on Thursday said it has registered an 18.64 per cent rise in power generation at 2,920 crore units in FY22. "This is the highest ever generation in a financial year since inception of the company, and is 18.64 per cent higher than the generation made during the previous year 2020-21. (2461.30crore units)," the navratna public sector unit said in a BSE filing. A new record has been created in terms of electricity generation, with the power stations of NLC India Ltd and Read more... | NEW DELHI: India is considering joining the International Energy Agency's second initiative this year for a co-ordinated release of 120 million barrels of oil from emergency reserves of member countries to calm global oil prices. "In the interest of collaborating with like-minded countries on these positive initiatives, Government of India is examining what it can do to support these actions," the oil ministry said late on Thursday evening after the IEA governing board confirmed the Read more... | |||
 |  |  | |||
| Europe Agrees to Ban Russian Coal, but Struggles on Oil, Gas | India hosts global ministerial meeting on renewable energy | Zinc-air battery with improved performance thanks to solar power | |||
The European Union is poised to ban Russian coal in the first sanctions on the vital energy industry over the war in Ukraine, but it has underlined the 27 nations' inability to agree on a much more sweeping embargo on oil and natural gas that would hit Russia harder but risk recession at home. The coal ban, which is expected to be approved in a new package of sanctions this week, would cost Russia $4 billion a year, said the European Commission, the EU's executive arm. Energy analysts and coal importers say Europe Read more... | New Delhi: Energy experts from across the world discussed ways to scale up innovation and use of technologies for transition towards clean energy at the Clean Energy Ministerial meeting which began on Wednesday. India is hosting the Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM), a forum of 29 countries, which will conclude on April 8, a power ministry statement said. According to the statement, the meeting is being organised to review various work streams in clean energy policies. The meeting will also be used to prepare the Read more... | Zinc-air batteries, which produce electricity through a chemical reaction between oxygen in the atmosphere and zinc, are considered to be next-generation candidates to meet the explosive demand for electric vehicles instead of lithium-ion batteries. They theoretically meet all required characteristics for next-generation secondary batteries, such as high energy density, low risk of explosion, eco-friendliness (does not emit pollutants), and low cost of materials (zinc and air, which can be easily obtained from nature).Read more... | |||
| World Energy Transition Outlook 2022 launched: Where does India stand? | Innovative Waste Heat Recovery Experiment In Sweden | ||||
New Delhi: The Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue (BETD) has become an important international forum for key stakeholders in the energy transition area. In the second edition of BETD, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), an intergovernmental organization, recently launched the World Energy Transitions Outlook (WETO) 2022. India is one of the founding members of the IRENA, headquartered in Abu Dhabi. In Paris COP21, the signatories agreed to pursue efforts to try to limit the rise in global temperatures by 2050 to 1.5 Degree Celsius above pre-industrial Read more... | RISE Research Institutes of Sweden has set up a small fuel cell-powered data center in Luleå, a coastal city in northern Sweden, for the recovery of waste heat. The fuel cells generate electricity used to power the Edge data center and supply the excess heat to the local district heating and cooling grid. RISE is a partner in the EU-funded WEDISTRICT project aimed at demonstrating that district heating and cooling systems can be built on a combination of renewable energy sources and waste heat recovery solutions. In the EU, 50% of consumed energy goes towards the heating and cooling of buildings, and is Read more... | ||||
WEC India Energy Handbook mobile application is a compendium of Indian and Global energy sector. The handbook is conceptualized as a ready reference for the energy professionals, covering key energy indicators, trends, source wise electricity generation, fossil fuel prices, top producers of electricity and reserves in the form of user interactive charts and graphs. The handbook also gives insight to global and Indian scenarios by organisations like IEA, EIA and WEC till 2040."