In December, the government asked state-run GAIL (India) and NTPC to increase imports of natural gas to supplement power generation.
With the transfer now completed, the state-run power generator is planning to offload 10 per cent to 20 per cent stake in NGEL, a senior NTPC official said.
At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spanish firm Bioo is exhibiting a unique tech to generate power by capturing electrons from indoor plant growth.
Fossil fuel pollution is declining faster than anyone anticipated. But far older practices like cutting down forests, livestock and crop farming account for a significant chunk of emissions too
In November, the coal ministry in a statement said it would augment coal supplies at TPPs to 45 million tonnes by March-end. However, data showed that maximum coal stock at TPPs hasn’t crossed 31-32 million tonnes so far. Also, logistics around coal supply will continue to be a major bottleneck, despite increase in coal production as well as railway lines for its transportation.
Clean hydrogen has great potential to power hard-to-abate sectors such as heavy industry, shipping and aviation. But it is a less economic, more resource-intensive method of heating homes
5.9 MT of lithium can give 6 terawatt hour of battery cells in India, which is six times the current production in the world. But lithium cell requires a host of other raw materials and technology, which need to be sourced.
The CERC is responsible for regulating and determining tariffs of inter-state transmission of electricity, issuing licences to persons to function as transmission licensee and electricity trader with respect to their inter-state operations
Carbon capture and storage has never really gotten off the ground. Now it’s found some backers, which is not a bad thing
The government aims at raising renewable energy production, reducing fossil fuel use and rapid move towards a gas-based economy, Modi said at a power ministry webinar.
India recognised that there is excess reliance on oil and gas supplies from OPEC countries in West Asia. Given the political volatility in that entire region, the needs of energy security dictate that the Indian crude basket should have a wider spread
A group of Adani officials are in Colombo to evaluate multiple projects with Sri Lanka. The conglomerate is also involved in building a $700 million terminal project at Sri Lanka's largest port.
The government has asked all power plants that use imported coal to operate at full capacity, anticipating an increase in peak electricity demand in the country.
The commodities giant has a giant war chest to expand its mining and trading empire
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Both companies will also explore opportunities to jointly offer a complete integrated solution to customers from green ammonia supply, bunkering and products or solutions for various applications, ACME has said
On January 9, 2023, Moneycontrol first reported that the previous such order under Section 11 of the Electricity Act lapsed on December 31, 2022, after being extended from October 31, 2022.
The latest order would mean at least 15 ICBs will have to operate at their full capacity until further notice.
People are concerned about the power needs of removing carbon from the environment, but there are other challenges to sort out before then
Keeping in view the immense utility of the PSPs in grid stabilisation as well as meeting the peaking power demand, a need for formulating separate guidelines to promote PSPs was felt to set the direction of its development, the minsitry said in the guidelines.
Moneycontrol was the first to report that Central Electricity Regulatory Commission's nod to HP-DAM market was expected anytime and IEX will launch it next month
PSPs will be exempt from the free power liability as well, and sovereign green bonds may be deployed for such projects, as per the draft guidelines. It also asks states to exempt land for such projects from stamp duty and registration fees.
This is the first time that the government has decided to take action against renewable energy developers for delays in project completion. The move comes at a time when several solar power projects have either been halted or delayed due to disruptions in equipment such as modules, cells, wafers and so on.
The Biden administration’s revolution in American industrial policy has huge geopolitical ramifications. It’s also a gamble
Adani Power had, in August last year, announced the Rs 7,017 crore-deal to acquire DB Power. However, it kept pushing the deadline to complete the acquisition.
