Energy News 30th November 2022
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| Biodiversity loss and climate extremes — study the feedbacks | CEA projects 9pc jump in peak power demand to 235GW in April 2023 | Russia discussing 'gas union' with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan: Deputy PM | |||
As humans warm the planet, biodiversity is plummeting. These two global crises are connected in multiple ways. But the details of the intricate feedback loops between biodiversity decline and climate change are astonishingly under-studied. It is well known that climate extremes such as droughts and heatwaves can have devastating impacts on ecosystems and, in turn, that degraded ecosystems Read more... | news1Kolkata, Nov 29 (PTI) Central Electricity Authority (CEA) on Tuesday said peak power demand may shoot up by nine per cent to 235 GW in April 2023 and called for proper planning to avoid recurrence of energy crisis. In April this year, the peak power demand was around 215GW. The country had witnessed unprecedented coal demand from the power sector during the summer this year after COVID curbs were eased. Read more... | Russian is discussing a possible "gas union" with Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to support shipments between the three countries and to other energy buyers, including China, senior Russian officials said on Tuesday. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, who mentioned shipments to China, provided no details of the plan. Meanwhile, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the details of the agreement Read more... | |||
| Prince William and Kate to visit US for climate change prize | Privatisation is not the only solution to discoms woes say NTPC CMD Gurdeep Singh . | ‘ONGC gas price to be capped at $6.5 for 5 years, no change in Reliance-bp price’ | |||
In their first international trip since becoming Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Catherine will visit the US this week for an environmental prize. The royal couple will show their support for finding ways to tackle climate change, at the second annual Earthshot Prize awards in Boston. Billie Eilish, Annie Lennox, Ellie Goulding and Chloe x Halle are among the performers taking part.Environmental campaigner Sir David Attenborough will also be contributing Read more... | New Delhi: Privatisation is not the only solution to problems being faced by many power distribution utilities or discoms in the country as many state-owned entities are running efficiently and making profit, NTPC Chairman and Managing Director Gurdeep Singh said on Tuesday. The union government has been taking initiatives to privatise the discoms. But since electricity is in the concurrent list of the Constitution of India, the union government could take steps to privatise discoms in the Union Territories only. Some states including Gujarat, Odisha Read more... | A government-appointed gas price review panel, led by Kirit Parikh, recommends a floor and ceiling price for natural gas produced from legacy fields of State-owned firms for five years to help moderate CNG and piped cooking gas rates. State producers Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and Oil India Ltd. (OIL) will be paid a minimum or floor price of $4 per million British thermal unit and a cap or ceiling price of $6.5 as against the current rate of $8.57, three sources with direct knowledge of the Read more... | |||
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| Transition refers to minimising greenhouse gas emissions: Coal India chief | Carbon capture key for sustainable development: Niti Aayog report | Promise of zinc-ion batteries for electric grid storage is currently overestimated, scientists say | |||
Kolkata: Coal India Chairman Pramod Agrawal on Tuesday said India will continue to depend on coal to meet its power demand in the coming decades and stressed that energy transition means transition to a world where greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to a minimum. He also called for a transition to a world where energy is equitably used. "Today, more than 70 per cent of our energy is produced by coal... So, coal is there and coal will survive in the country for decades to come. When we are talking Read more... | New Delhi, Nov 29 (IANS): Carbon Capture, Utilisation, and Storage (CCUS) is key to ensuring sustainable development and growth in India, particularly for production of clean products and energy, leading to an Aatmanirbhar Bharat. This is the finding of a study titled 'Carbon Capture, Utilisation and Storage Policy Framework and its Deployment Mechanism in India', which was released on Tuesday by government think-tank Niti Aayog. The report explores the importance of CCUS as an emission reduction strategy to achieve deep decarbonisation Read more... | In the quest to be able to store renewable solar and wind energy on the electric grid to be used at times when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing, scientists are investigating a number of different types of chemistries for large-scale batteries that could be used for grid storage. One candidate for this sort of battery chemistry, called an aqueous zinc ion battery (AZIB), has been identified as a promising technology for grid storage that can help maximize the advantages of renewable energy sources. The foundation of affordability and safety of AZIBs Read more... | |||
| India's thermal power giant NTPC planning for aggressive renewable energy push | Protons fix a long-standing issue in silicon carbide electronics | ||||
New Delhi: NTPC, state-run power giant, is planning for an aggressive push in the renewable energy segment and repurposing their existing coal-based plants, said its Chairman and Managing Director, Gurdeep Singh at an event on Tuesday. “We will go for an aggressive push for solar, hydro, wind, and repurposing of our existing coal-based plants,” Singh said in a panel discussion at a KPMG hosted event here. He added that NPTC will increase its renewable Read more... | Silicon carbide (SiC) is a semiconductor material that outperforms pure silicon-based semiconductors in several applications. Used mostly in power inverters, motor drives, and battery chargers, SiC devices offer benefits such as a high power density and reduced power losses at high frequencies even at high voltages. Although these properties and its relatively low cost make SiC a promising contender in various sectors of the semiconductor market, its poor long-term reliability has been a Read more... | ||||
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