Energy News 24 August 2022
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| US to spend more than $500 billion on climate over a decade: Study | Kalpataru to construct transmission link for SJVN's Luhri Hydro Project Stage-I | India's Chennai Petroleum Corp forms joint venture for $4 bln refinery | |||
The US government will spend more than $500 billion on climate technology and clean energy over the next decade under three recently enacted laws, an analysis by non-profit RMI found. The tally is based on this month's Inflation Reduction and CHIPS acts and last year's Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. Together they fund climate-related research and pilot studies and support manufacturing."Together they form a coherent green industrial policy, in the sense that there are strategic industries Read more... | State-owned SJVN Ltd on Tuesday said Kalpataru Power Transmission Ltd will construct a 220 KV direct current single zebra transmission line for 210 MW Luhri Hydro Electric Project Stage1. SJVN Chairman and Managing Director Nand Lal Sharma said in a statement that the firm has entered into an agreement for the construction of a 220 KV D/C (direct current) single zebra transmission line for 210 MW Luhri Hydro Electric Read more... | BENGALURU, Aug 23 (Reuters) - Chennai Petroleum Corp Ltd (CHPC.NS) said on Tuesday it has formed a joint venture with its parent company Indian Oil Corp (IOC.NS) and others to build a 9 MMTPA refinery at a cost of 315.80 billion rupees ($3.95 billion) in southern Tamil Nadu state.CPCL, in which National Iranian Oil Company has about 15% stake, was operating a small refinery at the Cauvery Basin at Nagapattinam, where the new plant will be located. Read more... | |||
| UN General Assembly declares access to clean and healthy environment a universal human right | PSPCL successfully meets all-time highest ever peak power demand | HPCL commences its first cow dung-based compressed biogas project | |||
The resolution, based on a similar text adopted last year by the Human Rights Council, calls upon States, international organisations, and business enterprises to scale up efforts to ensure a healthy environment for all. The UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, welcomed the 'historic' decision and said the landmark development demonstrates that Member States can come together Read more... | Chandigarh: Under the visionary leadership of Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, the Punjab State Power Corporation Limited has successfully met its all-time highest ever peak power demand of 14,295 MW on August 22, 2022 thereby surpassing its previous demand achievement of 14,207 MW recorded on June 29, 2022. Overall increase in energy supplied is also up by 12.87 per cent from April till date as against 2021. 33,242 MUs viz-a-viz 29,452 MUs.Read more... | State-run Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited on Tuesday commenced its Cowdung to Compressed Biogas Project at Sanchore, Rajasthan. The plant, first such under HPCL’s Waste-to-Energy portfolio, is proposed to utilise 100 tons of dung per day to produce biogas, which can be utilised as automotive fuel. The project is proposed to be commissioned in a year’s time. Read more... | |||
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| Gencos imported 92 lakh tonne of coal in April-June period: Power Min | Norway announces major support for renewable energy initiative in India | A strategy to improve perovskite absorbers for all-perovskite tandem solar cells | |||
Power generating firms (gencos) have imported 92.07 lakh tonne of coal in April-June FY23 for blending purposes ahead of Monsoon season, Parliament was informed on Thursday. "Ministry of Power (in April) advised central gencos, state gencos, and Independent Power Producers (IPPs) to import coal for blending purpose during 2022-23," Union Power Minister, RK Singh said in a written reply to the Lok Sabha. Read more... | The new Norwegian Climate Investment Fund, managed by Norfund, and KLP, Norway’s largest pension company, have entered into an agreement to take a 49% stake in a 420 MW solar power plant in Rajasthan developed by Italian Enel. Norfund and KLP together will take a 49% stake in the solar energy project Thar Surya 1 for approximately 2.8 billion INR. The 420 MWDC (300 MWAC) new solarpower plant is being built in Rajasthan by Italian Enel Green Power. Read more... | Tandem solar cells (TSCs), stacks of p-n junctions based on semiconductors with different bandgaps, are a highly promising energy solution that could help to reduce carbon emissions. Perovskites, earth-abundant materials with a tunable bandgap, high charge-carrier mobilities, advantageous optoelectronic properties and long carrier diffusion lengths, could be particularly valuable for creating low-cost and highly power-efficient TSCs for large-scale implementations.Read more... | |||
| NHPC, BEL ink pact to set up solar equipment manufacturing facility | Discovery offers path to safer, solid-state sodium rechargeable batteries | ||||
NHPC on Tuesday signed an initial pact with Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) to set up a large capacity solar equipment manufacturing facility. "A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed between NHPC and BEL...for setting up of gigawatt scale vertically integrated solar manufacturing unit," a BSE filing said. The MoU was signed by Biswajit Basu, Director (Projects), NHPC and Vinay Kumar Katyal, Director (Bangalore Read more... | A safer, greener, and inexpensive rechargeable battery for powering electric vehicles, mobile phones and many other applications could be a step closer following a breakthrough discovery by NUS researchers.The team led by Assistant Professor Pieremanuele (Piero) Canepa (Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the NUS College of Design and Engineering) has identified a new sodium-ion-based solid electrolyte composition that may enable ultrafast battery charge Read more... | ||||
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