A PERSPECTIVE ON THE LARGE COAL BASED CAPACITY ADDITION
The government has decided to add 80 GW thermal power capacity by the year 2031-32, as Power demand of the country has increased at...
Hybrid Solar Photovoltaic And Bio-gas Power Plant
Sun being an inexhaustible source of energy is used to produce clean energy through solar photovoltaic panels. Solar cells absorb solar radiations emitted by...
Global Dynamics of WTE Plants
Although according to EIA (U.S. Energy Information Administration) June 2022 Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory report, in the recent past, U.S. Waste-To-Energy (WTE) electric-generating...
ENERGY SECURITY AND GHG MITIGATION – PART 3
Methane pyrolysis
It is a fundamentally new technology that splits natural gas or biomethane directly into the components of hydrogen and solid carbon. This process...
ENERGY SECURITY AND GHG MITIGATION Part 2
Conversion of waste into hydrogen first requires the production of a synthesis gas (syngas), composed of CO and H2. Gasification is used to directly...
ENERGY SECURITY AND GHG MITIGATION PART 1
We have arrived a long way from the days when people debated whether global warming is real, some of us would ridicule our ageing ...
UNDERSTANDING THE TECHNO-ECONOMICS PART II
Bio-methanisation
Biomethanation is a process by which organic material is microbiologically converted under anaerobic conditions to biogas. Three main physiological groups of microorganisms are...
UNDERSTANDING THE TECHNO-ECONOMICS Part 1
Bio Coal or Green coal and Bio Methanisation are two ways of utilising agricultural waste to generate energy, both can be considered renewable since...
RE and Modern Grid Necessity & Constraints
Several initiatives have been taken by the Government of India (GoI) to increase the renewable energy generation, which will not only be useful to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, but also result in some increase in per capita energy demand…
TRANSITION IS INEVITABLE
With rise in the use of renewable energy, its cost of installation is coming down very rapidly, the post-COVID19 development packages must be spent on building sustainable power systems with more renewable energy plants… - P.K Chatterjee
Assessing India’s clean energy progress
The following text highlights a recent report by BloombergNEF and Bloomberg Philanthropies. Assessing India’s clean energy progress and developing modes for cleaner economic growth.