Energy News 19th April 2022
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| India Can Help Other Countries Achieve Their Climate Change Goals: UN Representative | India's coal-based power generation rose 3 per cent in March | Fuel price hike: Oil companies may require further increase in petrol, diesel rate | |||
India not only has the potential to become a net-zero carbon emission country by 2070 but can also support others in achieving their climate change goals, said Rachel Kyte, a member of the UN Secretary General's high-level advisory group on climate action. Kyte, who was on a visit to India recently to interact with policymakers, businesses and think tanks about efforts to Read more... | New Delhi: Coal-based power generation rose 3.12 per cent to 1,00,276 million units in March compared to the year-ago period, according to official data. Thermal power generation stood at 97,238 MU (Million Units) in the same period a year ago. In February this year, it stood at 85,534 MU. Coal accounts for over 70 per cent of the country's electricity output and utilities account for around 75 per cent of country's coal consumption. Read more... | New Delhi: Indian Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) may need to raise prices further in order to recoup the losses registered during the five month period of freeze in retail prices of petrol and diesel till March 2022, according to Fitch Ratings. November 2021-March 2022 was one of the longest retail price freezes in recent years, despite reference crude oil prices ,Read more... | |||
| California sets clean energy record as it pushes toward climate change goals | LML Electric inks LOI with Germany's eROCKIT to form JV Read | Oil steady despite Libya supply drop, Shanghai preparing to reopen | |||
On the road to transitioning to net-zero carbon emissions by 2045, California set a new record earlier this month when its power grid briefly ran on 97% renewable energy. The California Independent System Operator said in a statement last week that the state had hit the 97% renewable energy mark at 3:39 p.m. on Sunday, April 3, besting the previous record of 96.4% that had been set a week earlier, Bloomberg reported. Read more... | LML Electric on Monday said it has inked a letter of intent (LOI) to form a joint venture with Germany-based electric hyperbike manufacturer eROCKIT AG. If the parties agree on the JV, the mass production of the bikes will take place at LML's facilities in India. "With this new jewel in LML's crown, the technology strength, manufacturing prowess, and disruptive Read more... | Oil prices were little changed on Tuesday, after rising 1% in the previous session, as Libya was forced to halt some exports and as manufacturers in China prepared to reopen factories after a nearly three-week COVID-19 shutdown in Shanghai. Brent crude futures rose 21 cents, or 0.2%, to $113.37 a barrel at 0020 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures slipped 2 cents to $108.19 a barrel. Read more... | |||
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| TN govt to procure 4.8 lakh tonne of coal to ensure uninterrupted power supply | Odisha to supplement health institutions with rooftop solar power | New study suggests stress among misaligned particles in typical lithium battery cathodes limits flow | |||
CHENNAI: The Tamil Nadu government will procure 4.8 lakh tonne of coal to tide over the coal shortage and to ensure uninterrupted power supply, electricity minister V Senthil Balaji told the assembly on Monday. “The department would float a tender within two to three days to procure 4.8 lakh metric tonne of coal to meet the shortage in the state, which requires 72,000 metric tonne Read more... | Bhubaneswar, Apr 18 (PTI) The Odisha government has initiated steps for supplementing power supply to health service institutions through rooftop solar projects in a bid to ensure that hospitals do not face electricity problems across the state. This was decided at a high-level meeting held under Chairmanship of Chief Secretary SC Mohapatra.1 Read more... | If you could shrink enough for a fantastic voyage across a lithium battery electrode, you'd see the level of charge at every scale is highly uneven. This is not good for the battery's health. Rice University researchers who recognize the problem worked with the Department of Energy to view in great detail how the various particles in an electrode interact with lithium during use.Specifically, the Rice lab Read more... | |||
| Masdar signs solar, hydro MoU in Kyrgyzstan | Hydropower Supply Chain Deep Dive Assessment | ||||
Masdar has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Kyrgyz Republic’s Ministry of Energy to explore the development of up to 1GW of renewable energy opportunities in the Central Asian nation and support Kyrgyzstan’s clean-energy objectives. Minister of Energy of the Kyrgyz Republic Bekmurzaev Doskul Djumagulovich and head of development and investment Read more... | The Hydropower Supply Chain Deep Dive Assessment is part of a series of reports produced in response to Executive Order 14017 “America’s Supply Chains,” which directs the Secretary of Energy to submit a report on supply chains for the energy sector industrial base. The Executive Order aims to help build more secure and diverse U.S. supply chains, including energy supply chains.This report examines the hydropower supply chain to Read more... | ||||
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