Energy News 20th May
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| UN chief says renewable energy "lifeline" to ending climate change | Power Min urges states to direct utilities to clear dues to gencos, coal firms | Positive outlook for IGL on policy push, volume growth, cost pass through | |||
UNITED NATIONS, May 19 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday called for efforts to accelerate the transition to renewable energy, saying the renewable energy is the "lifeline" to ending climate change. Greenhouse gas concentrations, sea level rises, ocean heat levels and acidification, all set new records during 2021, while some glaciers reached the point of no return, according to the latest flagship Read more... | The Ministry of Power has urged certain states, including Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra, to direct their utilities to clear total outstanding dues towards generating firms (gencos) and coal companies as failing to do so might affect electricity supply. Union Power Secretary Alok Kumar has shot off letters to chief secretaries of states including Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Union Territory of Jammu andRead more... | New Delhi: The overall outlook for Indraprastha Gas Ltd (IGL) looks positive in the near term on account of multiple factors including favourable policy and regulatory environment, expected volume growth and pass through of the cost of gas to consumers. The company is one of the largest city gas distribution firms in India and primarily operates in the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi. CNG 7 Read more... | |||
| Bangladesh to cut GHG emissions by 7 percent unconditionally by 2030 | Vivek Kumar Dewangan takes charge as CMD of REC Ltd | Indian government in talks with Russian over cut-price oil deal - HPCL | |||
Environment, forest and climate Change Minister of Bangladesh Md. Shahab Uddin has said that the country will cut Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions by 7 percent unconditionally and 16 percent conditionally by 2030.He made the comments during a meeting with Swiss Ambassador Nathale Chuard in Dhaka on Wednesday, said an official press release.He said the Bangladesh government had Read more... | New Delhi: Vivek Kumar Dewangan, a 1993 batch Indian Administrative Service Officer of Manipur Cadre, took charge as Chairman and Managing Director of Rural Electrification Corporation (REC) Ltd on 17 May, 2022, according to the official press release. Before his appointment in REC, he was serving as Additional Secretary in the power ministry Read more... | NEW DELHI, May 19 (Reuters) - India is in talks with Russia over a deal to buy oil at discounted rates, the chairman of India's state-run Hindustan Petroleum Corp. (HPCL.NS) said on Thursday, at a time when much of the West is shunning Russian crude over the conflict in Ukraine.India, the world's third biggest oil importer and consumer, is struggling like much of the rest of the world with inflation at multi-Read more... | |||
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| Maha first state to get imported coal, 1.5 tonnes coming nex .. | Energy Department to store power in battery units | Researchers create highest efficiency 1-sun solar cell | |||
Nashik: Maharashtra will get its maiden consignment of 1.5 lakh tonnes of imported coal from Indonesia by early next week. Maharashtra State Power Generation Company (Mahagenco) officials said the coal is expected to reach by May 23 after which it would be transported to the thermal power stations (TPSs).“Maharashtra is ahead of other states in importing fuel for its TPSs. Other states are still in the process Read more... | Battery storage seems to be the buzzword these days. Now, the energy department too has decided to go for battery storage of electricity. Even if 10,000 Megawatts (MW) of power is generated via solar or wind energy in the state, there is no provision to store it and so the energy is wasted if there is no demand. To remedy this, Karnataka plans to set up a hybrid park to provide electricity round-the-clock, which will not only have the provision Read more... | Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) created a solar cell with a record 39.5% efficiency under 1-sun global illumination. This is the highest efficiency solar cell of any type, measured using standard 1-sun conditions. "The new cell is more efficient and has a simpler design that may be useful for a variety of new applications, such as highly Read more... | |||
| Home to World’s Largest Solar Park, Western Rajasthan Becomes a Solar Hub | Method to predict the fire risk of lithium-ion cells based on thermal management | ||||
Western State of Rajasthan has recently become the first state in India to surpass 10 GW of installed large-scale solar power generation capacity. Currently the largest producer of solar power among Indian states, 26% of Rajasthan’s installed power capacity comes from solar (at the end of 2021, India had an installed capacity of 55 GW of solar power). Western Rajasthan is the epicentre of this solar revolution. Till recently, this area was Read more... | A study on statistical and computational analysis for state-of-health and heat generation behavior of long-term cycled NCA/graphite cylindrical lithium-ion cells for energy storage applications jointly led by Dr. Yoon-Cheol Ha at Next-Generation Battery Research Center of Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI, President Sung-ho Myung) and Dr. Yong Min Lee at the Department of Energy Science and Engineering of Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) was published in the Read more... | ||||
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| Coal production lags power demand: RK Singh | |||||
Power minister R K Singh insists that there is no coal shortage and states need to import coal to plug the mismatch between rise in electricity demand and fuel supply snags caused by spike in global prices. In an interview, he tells TOI that generation companies have been asked to buy rakes to meet the shortfall from railways. Excerpts: Read more... | |||||
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