Energy News 26th May 2022
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| Climate change made South Asian heatwave 30 times more likely | Power ministry working on scheme to liquidate past dues of discoms | Uttar Pradesh has slashed VAT on petrol,diesel, CM Yogi Adityanath tells UP Assembly | |||
Human-induced climate change made the deadly heatwave that gripped India and Pakistan in March and April 30 times more likely, according to a rapid analysis of the event. Temperatures began rising earlier than usual in March, shattering records and claiming at least 90 lives. The prolonged heat has yet to subside.“High temperatures are common in India and Pakistan, but what made this unusual was that it started so early Read more... | The Ministry of Power on May 25 said it is working on a scheme to liquidate the past dues of electricity distribution companies. The scheme will allow the discoms to pay dues in up 48 monthly instalments, which can "save around Rs 19,833 crore on late payment surcharge", an official release stated.According to the government, the discoms owe a cumulative amount of Read more... | LUCKNOW: Chief minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday informed the house that the value added tax (VAT), imposed by the state government on diesel and petrol, has been further reduced by Rs 1.03 and Rs 1.40 per litre, respectively, after the Centre slashed the excise duty on the fuel three days ago. Yogi's submission came on a query raised by SP MLA Virendra Yadav who sought to Read more... | |||
| UNCW researchers travel to Antarctica to study impacts of climate change and more | Tripura adopts EV policy, to convert 10% of state’s vehicles to electric mode in 5 years | Infrastructure plan: $33M to clean up hundreds of oil wells | |||
UNCW’s Dr. Michael Tift, a recent recipient of the university’s Rising Research Excellence Award, and Ph.D. student Anna Pearson were stationed in Patagonia, Chile for two and a half weeks to quarantine before embarking on their month-and-a-half journey to Antarctica on the Nathaniel B. Palmer, a large icebreaker research vessel.Their three-year, more-than-half-a-million dollar research grant is made possible by the National Science Foundation. Tift and Pearson are joined by Dr. Luis Huckstadt, Read more... | In an effort to cut down on environmental pollution and uphold Tripura as an eco-friendly tourist destination, the state government has decided to adopt the Tripura Electric Vehicle Policy 2022, to promote electric vehicles. Speaking to reporters at the state secretariat Tuesday evening, Information and Cultural Affairs minister Sushanta Chowdhury said his government is committed to increasing electric-based mobility since it would reduce air pollution and would be helpful in -Read more... | NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The Biden administration says $33 million in infrastructure money will be used to clean up some 277 of an estimated 15,000 abandoned oil and gas wells on federal land. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland says the money is part of $250 million provided through the infrastructure law for cleaning up orphaned wells and well sites on federal public lands, national parks, national wildlife refuges and national forests. Read more... | |||
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| NTPC's another milestone, touches coal in its 4th coal mine | Domestic Solar Capacity Installations Rise 50% To Over 3 GW In Jan-Mar: Mercom India | A new conducting polymer complex to create stable and fully printable organic solar cells | |||
New Delhi: NTPC Coal Mining Team has achieved another milestone on the 21st. May 2022 with the touching of coal in its 4th. coal mine, Chatti-Bariatu, located in Hazaribagh District, Jharkhand. Mining operations were commenced in this mine on the 25th. April, this year. With this, excavation of Box-Cut has commenced, which will pave the way for the start of coal production in Read more... | Over 3 gigawatt (GW) of solar energy capacity was installed in India in January-March 2022, Mercom India said on Wednesday. The installation was 50 per cent higher than the 2 GW added in the same period of 2021, the research firm said in a report. "India added over 3 GW of solar capacity in Q1 (January-March) 2022, a 21 per cent rise compared to 2.6 GW in Q4 2021. On a year-on-year basis, installations rose Read more... | In recent years, engineers worldwide have been trying to develop more sustainable technologies to produce electrical energy. One of the most promising among these solutions are organic solar cells. Organic solar cells should be both efficient and stable, to ensure that they can operate reliably and for long periods of time. Ideally, they would also be printable using printing technology, as this would simplify their large-scale fabrication.Hole-transporting materials (HTMs) are a key component of fully printable organic solar cells. Read more... | |||
| Vietnam company to invest $840 mln in country's first green hydrogen plant | New biobattery for hydrogen storage | ||||
HANOI: Construction is due to start on Vietnam's first green hydrogen plant next month, the government said on Wednesday, as the Southeast Asian country seeks to boost the use of cleaner energy while reducing dependence on coal in its power mix. TGS Green Hydrogen will build the plant in the southern province of Ben Tre, with trial operations due to start from the first quarter of next year, the government said in a statement. Read more... | The fight against climate change is making the search for carbon-neutral energy sources increasingly urgent. Green hydrogen, which is produced from water with the help of renewable energies such as wind or solar power, is one of the solutions on which hopes are pinned. However, transporting and storing the highly explosive gas is difficult, and researchers worldwide are looking for chemical and biological solutions. A team of microbiologists from Goethe University Frankfurt Read more... | ||||
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