Energy News 22 April 2022
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| Earth Day 2022: Google Doodle highlights effects of climate change, urges people to live more sustainably | Niti Aayog unveils draft battery swapping policy, backs fiscal incentives and interoperability | H2e Power commissions India’s first green hydrogen plant for Oil India in Assam | |||
On Earth Day 2022, which falls on Friday, Google addressed the pressing challenge of climate change through its doodle. “Acting now and together to live more sustainably is necessary to avoid the worst effects of climate change,” the company said. Today’s Google Doodle uses real time-lapse imagery from Google Earth Timelapse and other sources to showcase the impact of climate change across different regions. Read more... | NEW DELHI: The GST Council may consider reducing the differential across the tax rates for Lithium-ion batteries and Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) which are at 18% and 5%, the draft battery swapping policy has proposed among a raft of recommendations to give a fresh boost to adoption of electric vehicles in the country. Government think Niti Aayog unveiled the draft battery swapping policy on Read more... | H2e Power Systems, a Pune-based fuel cell and electrolyser start-up, has commissioned the country’s first commercial-grade green hydrogen production plant for Oil India at Jorhat, Assam. The Adar Poonawalla-backed start-up will use renewable energy from the 500kWe solar plant at Oil India’s pump station to produce hydrogen, which would be blended with natural gas to run hydrogen buses in Assam. Read more... | |||
| Saudi Green Initiative developing creative solution to tackle climate change | Atomic Energy Regulatory Board Gives Nod For Excavation For Two 700 MW Nuclear Power Plants At Karnataka's Kaiga | GAIL, HPCL to invest Rs 17,000 cr to boost Bengal CNG infra | |||
RIYADH: The Saudi Green Initiative is developing creative solutions to tackle climate change, besides consulting the Kingdom in evolving into an international leader in sustainability. The forum’s three primary goals are to cut carbon emissions by 278 million tons per year till 2030, plant 10 million trees across the country, and safeguard 30 percent of land and sea.The first wave of more than 60 programs planned under the SGI represents a total investment of over SR700 Read more... | New Delhi, Apr 21 (PTI) India’s nuclear regulator has granted permission for commencing the excavation for building two 700 MW atomic power plants at Kaiga Generating Station in Karwar of Karnataka. The consent for excavation for building Units 5 and 6 at Kaiga marks the beginning of a new generation of indigenously developed 700 MW Pressurised Heavy Water Reactors (PHWRS), which have emerged as the mainstay of India’s nuclear power programme. Read more... | GAIL, its JV company Bengal Gas Co and Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd's combined investment in various CNG projects in West Bengal will be Rs 17,000 crore over the next five years, senior officials said on Thursday.The projects include piped gas distribution and setting up of Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) stations. Availability of the green fuel is expected to play a role in reducing air pollution.HPCL will be investing Rs 8,000 crore in city gas distribution and CNG station infrastructure, while, GAIL and Read more... | |||
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| Maharashtra, Gujarat, TN plan huge coal imports amid shortage | NTPC ties up with Delhi Jal Board to convert waste into energy | Bengaluru startup launches indigenous cell manufacturing line to boost India’s electric mobility | |||
Three of India's most industrialised states plan to import 10.5 million tonnes of coal in coming months as officials scramble to arrest widespread power cuts, a move that could push global coal prices to new highs. The scale of the purchases and the decision to go back on a plan to cut coal imports underscore the severity of the India's fuel crisis. Utilities' coal inventories are at the lowest pre-summer levels in at least . Read more... | New Delhi, State-owned NTPC has partnered with Delhi Jal Board to convert sludge produced in latter's sewage treatment plants into energy. In Delhi-NCR alone, Sewage Treatment Plants (STPs) produce up to 800 MT of sludge per day. The disposal of the sludge is a major challenge as it contributes towards environmental pollution. "In an endeavour to reduce the carbon footprint, NTPC Ltd, India's largest Read more... | Bengaluru-based advanced battery technology startup Log9 Materials Thursday unveiled an indigenously-developed cell manufacturing facility at its campus in Jakkuru, aimed at meeting India’s future electric mobility goals. With the newly-launched facility, the startup is aiming to achieve at least 50MWh of peak cell production capacity in the next one year, and then they would be scaling to over 5GWh in the Read more... | |||
| India adds renewable capacity of 13.5 GW in 2021-22 | Cheaper solar cells could be on the way thanks to new materials | ||||
New Delhi: India added 13.5 GW of renewable energy capacity in 2021-22, which is 128 per cent higher than that in 2020-21, a statement said on Thursday. India added 10.21 GW of utility scale solar capacity, 1.11 GW of wind power and 2.22 GW of rooftop solar capacity in FY 2021-22, consultancy BRIDGE TO INDIA said in the statement. Rajasthan (5,806 MW) and Gujarat (2,469 MW) added the highest capacity in these 12 months, accounting for. Read more... | New solar cell devices that are cheaper and easier to make could soon make their way to market thanks to materials made at Imperial College London. Traditional solar cells are made from silicon, which has good efficiency and stability, but is relatively expensive to make and can only be manufactured in stiff panels.Perovskite solar cells offer an intriguing alternative; they can be printed from inks, making them low cost, high efficiency, thin, lightweight Read more... | ||||
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