Energy News 24th May 2022
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| Tree planting 'must triple to hit environment aims' | Delhi to induct 150 electric buses on Tuesday, free ride for 3 days | ONGC becomes 1st gas producer to trade on IGX | |||
Tree planting in Northern Ireland needs to at least triple to meet official targets, according to a UK forestry industry body. Confor has called on any new administration to prioritise an updated forestry strategy. This should include incentives and targets to boost wood production and support jobs, as well as help reach net zero.he Department for Agriculture said it was committed to planting more trees.Confor chief executive Stuart Goodall said growing wood . Read more... | New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal will flag off 150 new electric buses from the Indraprastha Depot on Tuesday and commuters will get to travel free of cost in these for three days, an official statement said. "Delhi is going to equal the national record of inducting the most number of buses by inducting 150 electric buses into its public fleet tomorrow. Any person can travel for free in these buses for the coming 3 days from May 24 to 26," the Delhi government . Read more... | New Delhi: State-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) on Monday said it has become the first gas producer to trade domestic gas on the Indian Gas Exchange, trading unspecified volumes from its eastern offshore KG-DWN-98/2 block. In a statement, ONGC said it will increase volumes slowly. "ONGC has become the first exploration and production (E&P) company in India to trade domestic gas on Indian Gas Exchange. The first online trade was made on May 23, 2022 by ONGC Director Read more... | |||
| At Tokyo summit, Australia PM Albanese says goals aligned with Quad, wants to discuss climate change | NTPC School Of Business Conducts Capacity Building Programme For SAARC Countries | Petrol Under-Recovery At Rs 13, Diesel At Rs 24; Reliance-BP Says Operations Unsustainable | |||
New Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday said his goals were aligned with the priorities of the Quad grouping of countries, telling the leaders of the United States, India and Japan that he wanted to also discuss climate change.Albanese, the leader of Australia's Labor Party who was sworn in as his country's 31st prime minister a day earlier, also said the Quad stood together for a "free and open Indo-Pacific".The informal grouping of countries, led by Washington, was set up as a potential bulwark against Read more... | New Delhi : NTPC School of Business (NSB) is conducting a capacity building programme on ‘Cross Border Electricity Trade’ for SAARC Countries. The virtual programme commenced on May 17th 2022 and will continue till May 26th 2022. The programme is being supported by Asian Development Bank and SAARC secretariat.The programme delves into various aspects of CBET including policy, regulatory, pricing and market development in the South-Asian region. It also focuses on global best Read more... | RBML - the joint venture of Reliance Industries Ltd and supermajor BP - has told the government that fuel retailing for the private sector in India has become unsustainable after market-controlling public sector firms frequently froze petrol and diesel prices at rates way below the cost, sources said. Despite a surge in oil prices, state-owned Indian Oil Corporation (IOC), Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd (BPCL) first froze petrol and diesel rates for a recor Read more... | |||
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| Mining Operation Begins At NTPC Chattibariattu Coal Mining Project | Tata Power, Tata Motors to develop 7MWp solar rooftop in passenger vehicles | UNIDO launches innovation challenge on carbon tech | |||
Ranchi: Chatti-Bariatu Coal Mining Project of NTPC Ltd which had commenced its Mining Operations on 25.04.2022 has achieved yet another milestone today on 21.05.2022 by touching the coal seam after excavation to a depth of approx. 7 m. With this excavation of Box-Cut has also commenced, which will pave the way to start Coal production from July’22. Chatti-Bariatu shall soon join Pakri Barwadih, Dulanga and Talaipalli in the ever-expanding list of Coal producing mines of NTPC. Read more... | Tata Power and Tata Motors have collaborated to develop a 7 MWp solar rooftop project at the latter's passenger vehicle plant in Chikhali, Pune. This is the third phase of a joint 17 MWp on-site solar project developed by the two companies, of which 10 MWp has already been installed, a company statement said.The two companies have recently inked a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) for this solar project.. Read more... | Hyderabad The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) regional office in New Delhi has announced the launch of 5th Innovation Challenge on innovative low carbon technologies. For which the applications will be accepted until 31 May, 2022. The Innovation Challenge is conducted under the Facility for Low Carbon Technology Deployment, which is jointly implemented by UNIDO and Bureau of Energy Efficiency. Read more... | |||
| Adani group to invest Rs 60,000 crore in green energy plants in Andhra Pradesh | Driving down the costs of hydrogen fuel: Prototype achieves 99% yield 8 times faster than conventional batch reactors | ||||
AMARAVATI: The Adani group has agreed to invest 60,000 crore in green energy plants in the state. The state government clinched the deal during chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's meeting with Adani group chairman Gautam Adani in Davos. Gautam Adani, who held initial discussions with the chief minister on Sunday, met the chief minister again on Monday to formalise the agreement.Adani group has decided to set up a 10,000 MW solar power project along with setting up Read more... | Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed a new technique for extracting hydrogen gas from liquid carriers that is faster, less expensive and more energy efficient than previous approaches."Hydrogen is widely viewed as a sustainable energy source for transportation, but there are some technical obstacles that need to be overcome before it can be viewed as a practical alternative to existing technologies," says Milad Abolhasani, corresponding author of a paper Read more... | ||||
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