Energy News 09th May 2022
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| Trudeau: Canada to be good energy partner with Europe but won't compromise climate goals | Govt. to set up 29 PSH projects in phases to meet growing demand for power | Pushp Kumar Joshi takes over as CMD of HPCL | |||
KYIV (Reuters) - Canada wants to be a good energy partner to Europe but will not abandon its climate goals and planned transition to cleaner fuels, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said late on Sunday. Trudeau, in an unannounced visit to Ukraine, also said he trusts the Bank of Canada as it attempts to tame three-decade high inflation. Earlier, Trudeau said Canada will provide new weapons and equipment for Ukraine and reopen its embassy in Kyiv, the . Read more... | Facing a persistent shortage of coal that has crippled generation at the thermal power plants, the government is gearing up to set up 29 Pumped Storage Hydropower (PSH) projects with a total capacity of 33,240 MW in a phased manner to meet the growing demand for power in the future. The techno-commercial feasibility reports have already been prepared for all the projects, while the Detailed Project Reports (DPRs) are being drafted for seven of them Read more... | New Delhi: Pushp Kumar Joshi on Sunday took over as the new chairman and managing director of India's third largest oil refining and fuel marketing company Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL). "Prior to this Dr Joshi was Director-HR of the Corporation from August 01, 2012," the company said in a statement. Joshi, the senior-most director on the HPCL board, was in January picked by the government headhunterPESB to replace Read more... | |||
| Western nations must bear financial cost to fight climate change: India | Lower taxes on hybrid cars can help faster adoption of EVs in India: Honda | Reliance expects gas rates to go up again in Oct amid soaring energy prices | |||
Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav on Sunday said India's per capita carbon emission is among the lowest in the world and therefore the western industrialized nations should shoulder the bulk of the financial burden for combating climate change.Addressing the "Conference on Environmental Diversity and Environmental Jurisprudence: Read more... | Lowering taxes on hybrid vehicles can lead to faster adoption of electric vehicles in the country, according to a senior official of Honda Cars India Ltd (HCIL). The automaker noted that hybrid technology is currently best suited for Indian conditions as it is not dependent on external charging infrastructure. Read more... | The largest company in terms of market cap, Reliance Industries (RIL) expects the price of natural gas in India to start rising in October once again as its gas exploration business harvests from the global surge in energy prices which has already taken the rates at a record level. Sanjay Roy, senior vice-president for exploration and production, said in an investor call following the announcement of its quarterly earnings on Friday, said that Read more... | |||
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| Centre directs imported coal-based plants to run at full capacity | Gujarat added second-highest renewable energy capacity among states in 2021-22 | Towards carbon neutralization: Enclosure radiative cooling for reducing air conditioning energy consumption | |||
The Centre on Friday issued fresh instructions to states asking them to ensure that all plants based on imported coal operated and generated power to their full capacity after it directed them and generating companies based on domestic coal to import at least 10 percent of their requirement of coal for blending. The instructions issued by the Union power ministry on Friday under the provisions of the Section 11 Electricity Act, 2003, also permit generating companies to sell power to Read more... | Ahmedabad: As the push for renewable energy sources intensifies amid the stinging coal crisis, Gujarat has been in the vanguard of the mission to add renewable power generation capacity in the country. After Rajasthan, Gujarat added the second highest utility-scale, wind and rooftop solar power generation capacity in India at 2,469MW in FY 2022, according to the data compiled by Bridge to India, a renewables Read more... | The international consensus is that reaching carbon emission peak and subsequent carbon neutrality are to be considered the main global challenges. Research shows that building energy consumption accounts for more than 35% of total energy consumption, of which HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) systems account for 44%. Recently, radiative cooling has been widely studied as a passive cooling method, which can efficiently reduce the target temperature by increasing Read more... | |||
| Mumbai: Central govt’s push to solar energy empowers more to make the switch | Hydrogen blending in gas grid would lead to 'limited CO2 benefits and a large increase in energy costs': Irena | ||||
MUMBAI: The number of BEST electricity consumers in island city switching to rooftop solar photovoltaic panel installations is seeing a steady rise. Latest statistics released by the undertaking on Friday shows as many as 349 consumers have opted for such rooftop panels so far under the recently announced central scheme. The maximum such consumers are in A ward (89 connections), followed by D and F/North ward with 51 connections each. While 79 residential consumers Read more... | Plans by fossil gas companies to blend hydrogen into natural gas grids will drive up energy costs while delivering minimal greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions, according to a new report by the International Renewable Energy Agency (Irena). The study explains that while it may be physically possible to blend up to 20% H2 (by volume) into gas grids without massive infrastructure changes, there are “multiple disadvantages that limit the prospects of this option” and many Read more... | ||||
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