Energy News 22 March 2022
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| India has proved it is second to none in combating climate change: Tirumurti | India, Japan launch clean energy partnership at 14th Annual Summit | India's import of Russian oil less than 1% of total; share from US to rise: Puri | |||
NEW YORK: India has proved it is second to none in combating climate change and it had made robust and enhanced pledges in Glasgow during COP-26, said India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations TS Tirumurti on Monday (local time). Addressing the event "A World We Women and Girls Want: Lifestyle for the Environment (LIFE)" virtually, Tirumurti said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's initiative . Read more... | India and Japan on Saturday launched a Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) for cooperation towards achieving sustainable economic growth, addressing climate change and ensuring energy security. The initiative was launched on the occasion of the 14th India-Japan Annual Summit being held in New Delhi. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is on a two-day visit to India (March 19-20) for a summit with his Read more... | New Delhi: India buying more volumes of crude oil from Russia is still less than 1 per cent of the total oil imports while the volumes from the US will rise significantly, Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Monday. Replying to supplementaries during the Question Hour in the Rajya Sabha, he said India bought 419,000 tonnes of crude oil from Russia during the first 10 months of Read more... | |||
| L&T Technology Services Aims For Carbon, Water Neutrality By 2030 | Delhi's Peak Power Demand May Surpass 8,000 MW This Summer | Crude oil futures gain on spot demand | |||
L&T Technology Services (LTTS) aims to achieve carbon and water neutrality by 2030 and has unveiled its first sustainability report, the company said on Monday. The report, conforming to the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), presents LTTS' sustainability efforts across its key elements for fiscal 2020-21. "L&T Technology Services Limited, a leading global pure-play engineering Read more... | New Delhi: The peak power demand in Delhi is expected to cross the 8,000 MW mark for the first time in the summer of 2022, the BSES said on Monday, asserting that its discoms are prepared to meet the record demand. This is more than the all-time peak power demand of 7,409 MW recorded in 2019. During the summer of 2020, it had clocked 6,314 MW."After clocking 7,323 MW Read more... | New Delhi, Mar 10 (PTI) Crude oil prices on Thursday rose by Rs 102 to Rs 8,615 per barrel as participants widened their positions on a firm spot demand. On the Multi Commodity Exchange, crude oil for March delivery traded higher by Rs 102 or 1.2 per cent to Rs 8,615 per barrel in 7,204 lots.Analysts said raising of bets by participants kept crude oil prices higher in Read more... | |||
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| Aluminium Association of India seeks PMO intervention as coal supply deteriorate . | NTPC-Simhadri to develop standalone fuel cell based 50kW microgrid pilot project with green hydrogen | Ionic liquids make a splash in next-gen solid-state lithium metal batteries | |||
New Delhi: Aluminium Association of India (AAI) on Monday said it has written to the Prime Minister's Office seeking its urgent intervention to ward off the imminent disruption in coal supplies with the state-run coal miner deciding to curtail road and rake coal dispatches to the non-power sector. The letter has been prompted by a recent adhoc decision by state-run CIL to Read more... | VISAKHAPATNAM: The NTPC-Simhadri plant in Vizag region will develop a project of standalone fuel cell based 50 kW microgrid pilot project with green hydrogen production using electrolyser. The project will be India’s first green hydrogen-based energy storage project. NTPC Simhadri’s Chief General Manager Diwakar Kaushik said that NTPC has awarded the Standalone Fuel-Cell based Read more... | Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have developed a new quasi-solid-state cathode for solid-state lithium metal batteries, with significantly reduced interfacial resistance between the cathode and a solid electrolyte. By adding an ionic liquid, their modified cathode could maintain excellent contact with the electrolyte. Their prototype battery also showed good retention of capacity. Though finding the best ionic liquid remains Read more... | |||
| Demand, policy bolster solar panel manufacturing in Gujarat | Biofuel: How new microalgae technologies can hasten the end of our reliance on oil | ||||
Gujarat — one of the early entrants in both manufacturing as well as adoption of solar power — is slowly gearing up to become the frontrunner in solar module and ancillary manufacturing. Riding on robust demand on industrial and residential fronts, coupled with a policy push from the state and central governments, Gujarat is set to witness a capacity addition of an . Read more... | Microalgae have been used by the Chinese for medicinal and nutritional purposes for thousands of years in the belief they could cure almost any health condition. The idea that microalgae have extraordinary healing powers isn't as far-fetched as some might think. Though the ancient Chinese believed the microalgae was responsible for health-improving benefits, we now know that it was in fact the biochemical compounds Read more... | ||||
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