Energy News 23 June 2022
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| Warming climate upends Arctic mining town | Power generation may further improve in fourth quarter: Ind-Ra | GAIL to enter distributed LNG production business | |||
Longyearbyen, Norway: Tor Selnes owes his life to a lamp. He miraculously survived a fatal avalanche that shed light on the vulnerability of Svalbard, a region warming faster than anywhere else, to human-caused climate change.On the morning of December 19, 2015, the 54-year-old school monitor was napping at home in Longyearbyen, the main town in the Norwegian archipelago halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole. Read more... | Power generation in the country would continue to grow in fourth quarter of this fiscal year on the back of revival of electricity demand and adequate coal stocks at power plants, rating agency Ind-Ra said in a report. The report highlights the trends in the power sector, with a focus on capacity addition, generation, transmission, merchant power, deficit, regulatory changes and the recent rating actions by Ind-Ra.Read more... | New Delhi: GAIL (India) Limited plans to enter into distributed liquefied natural gas (LNG) production with the vision to cater the demand from off-grid locations and transport sector.GAIL has placed order for two small-scale liquefaction skids capable of producing LNG on a pilot basis, the company said in a statement.Liquefaction will be achieved through proprietary technology-based mobile liquefaction skids. These plants Read more... | |||
| Europe faces 'scramble' to replace dwindling Russian energy: IEA | NASA picks 3 firms to design nuclear power plants for Moon | Brazil's Petrobras buys first cargo of Guyanese crude for refining | |||
BRUSSELS: Europe must race to replace sanctioned and curtailed Russian energy supply and should double down on efficiency and renewables, including nuclear power, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday. Gas prices have hit record levels as a slowdown in flows from Russia in recent days has deepened worries over supply Read more... | Washington: The US space agency NASA has picked three design concept proposals for a nuclear fission surface power system design that could be ready to launch by the end of the decade for a demonstration on the Moon. This technology would benefit future exploration under the Artemis mission that aims to land the first woman and the first person of colour on the lunar surface and establish Read more... | Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petrobras has bought its first cargo of Guyanese crude for refining domestically, the company told Reuters, as South America's newest producer expands its market reach. With the start of a second floating production facility in February, Guyana now sells two light and sweet oil grades with plans to pump up to 360,000 barrels per day (bpd) this year. "Petrobras constantly monitors the international oil market Read more... | |||
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| Mining automation project furthers Indo-Russian energy partnership | Delhi IGI Airport Becomes First in India to Run Entirely on Hydro and Solar Power | Team develops biobatteries that use bacteria to generate power for weeks | |||
New Delhi:India will soon have its first “Intelligent Mine” – a joint project between Finnish Russian digital solutions provider Zyfra and the domestic firm Thriveni Earthmovers Private Limited (Thriveni). Thriveni Earthmovers Private Limited (Thriveni) operates the NTPC’s flagship Pakri Barwadih Coal Mining Project (PBCMP) in Jharkhand. Thriveni has awarded Zyfra the Read more... | GMR Group-run Delhi Airport has become the first airport in the country to run entirely on hydro and solar power from this month in a major step toward achieving the ambitious goal of becoming a Net Zero Carbon Emission Airport by 2030, DIAL said. For this, Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL), a GMR Infrastructure Limited-led consortium, which manages and operates Read more... | As our tech needs grow and the Internet of Things increasingly connects our devices and sensors together, figuring out how to provide power in remote locations has become an expanding field of research. Professor Seokheun "Sean" Choi—a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Binghamton University's Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering Read more... | |||
| Spain bets on green hydrogen in clean energy push | Potential market for liquid hydrogen as a marine fuel in the Aleutian Islands | ||||
Madrid: As Europe seeks to move way from fossil fuels, Spain is racing ahead in developing green hydrogen, aided by a growing wind and solar power complex in efforts to decarbonise its economy. Spain accounted for 20 percent of the world's green hydrogen projects in the first quarter, second only to the United States, home to more than half of them, according Read more... | As interest grows in the potential of using "green" hydrogen generated from renewable electricity to help decarbonize maritime shipping, a new study from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) estimates there could be substantial demand for liquid hydrogen (LH2) at the Aleutian Islands ports in Alaska, including 10,000 tons annually from ships that already call on Dutch Harbor. Read more... | ||||
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