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Expert Speak |
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| Energy storage in India--how it has evolved and its potential | ||
| Ankit Mittal CEO and co-founder of Sheru, an energy storage company The energy sector in recent years has seen a shift towards renewable energy, and this trend is set to accelerate in the future as well. However, renewable energy is by nature variable and power is generated only during favourable conditions of sunshine or wind. We then have to devise solutions to ensure power is available round-the-clock, to not compromise our energy supply. One way to do this is through energy storage, where energy is stored and used later. With sufficient energy storage, we can store energy from renewable sources and use it when supply from these sources is lower than demand. While simple on paper, there are several factors such as technology, policy, and economics that decide the outcome of a project. READ MORE |
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Reporter's Diary |
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| Students create innovative apps at hackathon | ||
| Rahul Jain The UNESCO India– Africa Hackathon is an annual event that brings together students, educators, teachers and the research community of India, along with its African partners, to tackle the challenges faced by their respective countries and serves as a facilitator for cultural amalgamation. This year, the event was organised at Gautam Buddh University in Uttar Pradesh, from November 22nd to the 25th |
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News Updates |
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| Portal for new REC framework | ||
| Grid India's chairman and managing director S R Narasimhan launched a portal on December 5, 2022, for implementation of the new REC Mechanism framework. The portal enables access to the information and services related to REC Mechanism. CERC (Terms and Conditions for Renewable Energy Certificates for Renewable Energy Generation) Regulations, 2022, is effective from December 5, 2022. | ||
| No ISTS charges for new hydro projects | ||
| The Ministry of Power has issued an order for the waiver of Inter-State Transmission system (ISTS) charges on transmission of electricity generated from new hydro-power projects. This waiver is already available to solar and wind power projects in the country. | ||
| MoP initiates measures to improve the performance of utilities | ||
| Aggregate Technical and Commercial Loss (AT&C Loss) and ACS-ARR Gap are the key indicators of a distribution company's (Discom) performance. In the last 2 years, the AT&C loss of the Discoms in India was hovering at 21% to 22%. In order to address this, the Ministry of Power instituted a number of measures to improve | ||
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Reports |
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| Accelerating the Indo-Pacific energy transition | ||
| This report focuses on six Indo-Pacific countries - Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Singapore, and Viet Nam, which collectively house a quarter of the world's population, as they transition to cleaner energy through distinct but interdependent pathways. | ||
| Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy: Building resilience | ||
| Regulatory Indicators for Sustainable Energy (RISE), are a set of indicators intended for use in comparing the policy and regulatory frameworks that countries have put in place to support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 7 (SDG7) on universal access to clean and modern energy. | ||
| Wind Solar Hybrid gains ground in India | ||
| Wind Solar Hybrid (WSH) systems have started to gain prominence as an innovative solution for Commercial and Industrial (C&I) consumers in India. As solar and wind have complementary daily and seasonal energy generation profiles, their combined power output is much more stable and reliable as compared to standalone wind and solar. | ||
| Assessing land suitability for distributed solar energy in TN | ||
| This report aims at identifying unused lands for Mayiladuthurai district in the state of Tamil Nadu and evaluates to what extent these unused lands can be utilized to meet the state’s solar energy target of 20 GW by the year 2030. | ||
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State Scan |
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| Kerala launches green energy income initiative | ||
| The Green Energy Income initiative of the Kerala government was inaugurated by chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan at Thiruvananthapuram recently | ||
| Solar rooftop portal for Rajasthan launched | ||
| A solar rooftop portal for the state of Rajasthan was launched by the state’s power minister Bhanwar Singh Bhati. It will streamline the process involved in the approvals from distribution companies (Discoms) for installation of rooftop solar in the state. | ||
| Odisha RE policy 2022 gets the nod | ||
| The Cabinet on November 30th, 2022, approved the "Odisha Renewable Energy Policy, 2022" and this shall remain in force till March 31st, 2030. The policy aims to decarbonise the energy sector by facilitating development of green energy projects in the State; attracting investment in the clean energy sector through supply side and demand side interventions | ||
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Event |
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| Meet on carbon credits | ||
| The Indian Wind Power Association (IWPA)is organising an in-person meeting on Carbon credits---A primer on additional revenue from wind generation. The meet is on December 16, 2022 at the Grand Regent Hotel, Coimbatore. The meet aims to create an awareness on the fundamentals of carbon credit and to move ahead with carbon certification, along with International Renewable Energy Certificate (IREC)/Cercarbono, IWPA. iwpahq@windpro.orga |
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Bloggers Section |
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| Innovative finance mechanisms can scale up clean cooking | ||
| The advent of electric cooking, which uses energy-efficient systems, would be a viable option for improving the sector’s performance. In the past, clean cooking has been separated from other energy access initiatives. Thus, most funding institutions did not include clean cooking as part of their landscape. Utilising electrical systems for clean cooking is now both affordable and easy to adopt, thanks to innovations and business verticals. | ||
| Policy enablers needed to strengthen India’s Bio-CNG sector | ||
| The Bio-CNG potential in India is estimated at 62 million metric tonnes (MMT) per annum, of which the Sustainable Alternative Towards Affordable Transportation (SATAT) scheme aims to tap 15 MMT. The scheme plans to achieve this by installing 5,000 Bio-CNG plants across the country by 2023-24. | ||
| Renewable Energy Unit
Centre for Science & Environment New Delhi |
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