Energy News 11th May 2022
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| Minister to discuss media and climate change at editors’ conference | States must ensure quality power supply 24/7 for industries: | India asks GAIL to import LNG to meet rising city gas demand | |||
Cabinet Office Minister Alok Sharma is to discuss the media’s role in addressing climate change at today’s Society of Editos Conference. Mr Sharma, who was president of United Nations Climate Change Conference COP26, will make the address as delegates converge to discuss the state of the industry.Mr Sharma, pictured, has Read more... | Chennai: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday urged the state governments to ensure quality and round-the-clock power supply for industries throughout the year. The minister’s statement comes amid power disruptions reported in different parts of the country. Addressing a stakeholders outreach programme on the Free Trade Agreements (FTA) , Read more... | NEW DELHI: India has mandated state-run GAIL (India) Ltd to import gas and buy from local difficult fields to meet growing demand growth from household and transport sectors as cheaper supplies from old blocks is not enough, a government order said. City gas distributors (CGD) have set up sales network to supply gas to transport and households across the country, buoyed by Prime Minister Read more... | |||
| 50:50 Chance of Global Temperature Temporarily Reaching 1.5°C Threshold in Next 5 Years | Higher coal imports may push power supply cost by 5% in FY23, says ICRA | Only PNG-based industries in Ghaziabad, Noida from October 1 | |||
Geneva, 9 May 2022 (WMO) - There is a 50:50 chance of the annual average global temperature temporarily reaching 1.5 °C above the pre-industrial level for at least one of the next five years – and the likelihood is increasing with time, according to a new climate update issued by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). There is a 93% likelihood of at least one year between 2022-2026 becoming the warmest Read more... | The government measures to ease power supply constraints through higher coal imports are likely to increase cost of supply for discoms by 4.5-5.0 per cent in 2022-23, ICRA said on Tuesday. On May 5, Ministry of Power (MoP) issued a directive under Section 11 of the Electricity Act, stating that all imported coal-based power plants shall operate and generate power at their full capacity to meet the growing demand, ICRA stated. Read more... | NOIDA: The Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) has said that only PNG-based industries can function in Noida and Ghaziabad from October 1. The move is in keeping with a directive from the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) in NCR to check pollution levels in the region. Praveen Kumar, the regional officer of the UPPCB in Noida, said the department had informed all stakeholders about the latest order. Read more... | |||
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| Coal output in April up 29% amid power deficit | Solar rooftops, manufacturing to get boost under draft EU plan | Scientists advance renewable hydrogen production method using perovskite materials | |||
NEW DELHI : India, which is in the midst of a power crisis due to a coal shortage triggered by an intense summer, recorded a 29% increase in coal production from a year earlier in April. Production of the fossil fuel jumped to 66.58 million tonnes (mt) last month from 51.62 mt a year earlier, the coal ministry said in a statement Read more... | The European Commission hopes to jumpstart a large-scale rollout of solar energy and rebuild Europe's solar manufacturing industry, as part of its bid to wean countries off Russian fossil fuels, a draft document seen by Reuters showed. "Solar electricity and heat are key for phasing out EU's dependence on Russian natural gas," the Commission said in the draft, due to be published next week in a package Read more... | Perovskite materials may hold the potential to play an important role in a process to produce hydrogen in a renewable manner, according to an analysis from scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).Hydrogen has emerged as an important carrier to store energy generated by renewable resources, as a substitute for fossil fuels used for transportation, in the production of ammonia, and Read more... | |||
| UAE: New 1,500MW solar plant in Abu Dhabi to power 160,000 homes | Electric eels inspired the first battery and now point a way to future battery technologies | ||||
A new solar plant with 1,500-megawatt (MW) capacity will be developed in Abu Dhabi, a top official said during the World Utilities Congress held in the Capital. Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC) – a leading company in the integrated coordination of planning, purchasing and supply of water and electricity across the UAE – invited developers or developer consortiums to submit an expression of interest (EOI) for the development of a new solar photovoltaic (PV) independent power project to be located in the Read more... | As the world's need for large amounts of portable energy grows at an ever-increasing pace, many innovators have sought to replace current battery technology with something better. Italian physicist Alessandro Volta tapped into fundamental electrochemical principles when he invented the first battery in 1800. Essentially, the physical joining of two different materials, usually metals, generates a chemical reaction that results in the flow of electrons from one material to the other. That stream of electrons representsRead more... | ||||
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