Energy News 23 March 2022
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| India eyes river basin plantation to meet climate goal | Discoms owe Rs 1 trillion to power generating firms till Feb: Power Min | French energy giant TotalEnergies to stop buying Russian oil | |||
India intends to grow plantations over 4,68,222 sq km, an area larger than the entire state of Rajasthan, by 2027 in 13 major river basins to meet its international commitment to sequester carbon emissions, according to an overview report released last week.These plantations will include riverfront development programmes, afforestation, and agroforestry schemes, according to a report on the overview of detailed project reports for . Read more... | Power distribution utilities outstanding dues stood at Rs one lakh crore at the end of February this year, Parliament was informed on Tuesday. "As per data provided by the power sector Generating companies, on the PRAAPTI Portal, at the end of February 2022, a total amount of Rs 1,00,931 crores is due from the DISCOMs," Power Minister RK Singh said in a written reply to the Rajya Read more... | Paris: French energy giant TotalEnergies said it has decided to halt all its purchases of Russian oil and petroleum products by the end of 2022 at the latest. The French company said in a statement it will "gradually suspend its activities in Russia" amidthe "worsening situation" in Ukraine. Russia represented 17% of the company's oil and gas production in 2020. TotalEnergies holds a 19.4% stake in Russia's natural Read more... | |||
| UN chief warns world is sleepwalking toward a climate catastrophe | Mysuru set to become first city to have LED streetlights in Karnataka | Govt closely monitoring commodity price movements amid Russia-Ukraine war: FinMi .. | |||
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the world is "sleepwalking to climate catastrophe" because of slow action on emissions and a continued reliance on fossil fuels. Guterres said that the Paris Agreement goal of capping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius is "on life support", and called out leaders in rich countries for shifting blame onto emerging economies, and vice-versa. Read more... | Mysuru: Reducing utilisation of energy being the key to ensuring effective use of fiscal resources in urban administration, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) is all set to take a giant stride in this direction.The Heritage City is slated to become the first in Karnataka to have all its streetlights illumined by LED bulbs, which is expected to save the MCC 70% of the funds that would otherwise be spent on the electricity bills for the Read more... | New Delhi: The government is closely monitoring the global commodity price movements and their impact on the Indian economy through trade in the aftermath of global supply disruptions amid the Russia-Ukraine war, Parliament was informed on Tuesday. Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhury said the government is also committed to supporting initiatives for Read more... | |||
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| Govt to reduce coal-based power share to 32% by 2030 | Energy transition to create 3.2 mn jobs by 2050: Bhagwanth Khuba | Using quantum methods to predict next-gen lithium-metal battery reactivity | |||
The Power Ministry is working on plans to cut down the share of coal-fired thermal power generation capacity to 32 per cent in the next eight years from 52 per cent at present. The government’s focus is on leveraging policy measures to not only meet the growing electricity demand, but also to reduce the carbon footprint of the power sector. The move is in line with the government’s COP26 pledge of achieving 500Read more... | Union Minister Bhagwanth Khuba on Tuesday stressed the need for the energy transition because of rising demand, which can eventually help create 3.2 million jobs by 2050. The minister of state for new & renewable energy was speaking at a curtain raiser event for the third edition of Hybrid Conference & Digital Exhibition on 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat - Making India a Global Manufacturing Hub for Renewable Read more... | Lithium-metal (Li-metal) batteries show great potential for packing more significant amounts of energy than the current lithium-ion batteries. For example, a Li-metal electric battery in a car could travel more miles, and a Li-metal phone battery could have longer battery life. However, the metal surface of Li-metal batteries is highly reactive, and there is limited understanding of the chemistry of these reactions. Dr. Perla Balbuena, professor in the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Read more... | |||
| NTPC set to import 2 lakh MT coal | Centre’s nod for 3 state solar parks | POLO-IBC solar cell with 23.7% efficiency | |||
Bhubaneswar: The Centre has approved three solar parks with a cumulative capacity of 340MW for Odisha under the solar park scheme, Union new and renewable energy minister R K Singh said on Tuesday. Responding to a query by BJD MP Sujeet Kumar, Singh, in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, said one 40-MW solar park has been planned in Landeihill village in Ganjam district. The other two will be floating parks. One of them with 200MW capacity has Read more... | Bhubaneswar: The Centre has approved three solar parks with a cumulative capacity of 340MW for Odisha under the solar park scheme, Union new and renewable energy minister R K Singh said on Tuesday. Responding to a query by BJD MP Sujeet Kumar, Singh, in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha, said one 40-MW solar park has been planned in Landeihill village in Ganjam district. The other two will be floating parks. One of them with 200MW capacity has been Read more... | A group of scientists from the Leibniz Universität Hannover and the Institute for Solar Energy Research Hamelin (ISFH) in Germany has developed two different kinds of solar cells based on n-type doped electron-collecting poly-Si on oxide (POLO) junctions with an aluminum-alloyed p+ junction for hole collection — a back-contacted back junction cells (POLO-BJ) and an interdigitated back-contacted cells (POLO-IBC).“We developed both technologies in parallel, as their process flow is very similar and the development showed Read more... | |||
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