The Punjab Energy Development Agency has released a draft green hydrogen policy aiming to achieve a green hydrogen and ammonia production capacity of 100 kilo tonnes per annum by 2030. The policy proposes extending incentives under the existing “Punjab Industrial and Business Development Policy 2022” to new green hydrogen and …
India has the largest concentration of population using biomass with inefficient stoves. About 840 million in India fully or partially rely on traditional biomass for cooking. In India, cooking is mainly carried out by women, and they play an important role in managing domestic energy needs. When modern fuels such …
Thousands of sanitation workers across the Capital should be pressed into service for Delhi’s campaign against pollution caused by burning of biomass, Union Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Wednesday. Mr. Javadekar was speaking at a meeting called to discuss measures to curb air pollution in Delhi and the National …
This study assesses and compares the benefits of electricity service to households and small enterprises from microgrids, solar home systems (SHS), and the national grid in select rural communities in India and Nepal. Electricity access, in general, leads to reduced kerosene use, more time spent by women on income-generation, and …
The wind energy segment could see a decline in fresh capacity addition from 3.3 GW in FY2016 to around 2.5 GW in FY2017 estimates ICRA. The rating firm says that the reasons for fall in wind energy capacity addition include substantial reduction in preferential tariff - from Rs 5.92 per …
Safeguarding the world’s remaining forests is a high-priority goal. We assess the biophysical option space for feeding the world in 2050 in a hypothetical zero-deforestation world. We systematically combine realistic assumptions on future yields, agricultural areas, livestock feed and human diets. For each scenario, we determine whether the supply of …
The Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana, to provide concessional LPG connections, is a step in the right direction but much more needs to be done by 2019 and beyond to ensure homes in India cook using modern fuels. This article explores the issues of providing connections, subsidy provisioning and ensuring sustained …
Describes case studies of energy cropping in Europe in the context of advanced biofuel and bioproducts sustainability. European biofuel policy has been dominated by discussions about the indirect effects of biofuel consumption, and in particular indirect land use change and impacts on food prices and security. One widely considered option …
Government of India has decided to provide 24 x 7 power to all in the country. The Government has a great mission of exploiting the Renewable Energy Sources in the country to an optimum level. In line with this mission it has multifaceted plans to tap the huge potential of …
MUMBAI: Tata Cleantech Capital, a joint venture between Tata Capital and IFC Washington, has partnered with Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) to fund green energy projects as the government looks to enhance power capacity through renewable methods like sunlight and wind. The collaboration is to share opportunities, distribute risks …
Household air pollution is the single most important environmental health risk worldwide, and women and children are at particularly high risk from exposure. This global report provides new data on the still-pervasive use of polluting fuels for home cooking, lighting and heating, as well as an in-depth look at the …
What would extensive fishery reform look like? In addition, what would be the benefits and trade-offs of implementing alternative approaches to fisheries management on a worldwide scale? To find out, we assembled the largest-of-its-kind database and coupled it to state-of-the-art bioeconomic models for more than 4,500 fisheries around the world. …
Fire is a common perturbation in the grassland ecosystems throughout the world. Effect of fire on carbon stock, rate of C-accumulation and soil CO2 flux have been studied in Imperata cylindrica–Sporobolus indicus-dominated grassland community of Manipur, Northeast India. Original Source
In a first, researchers have shown that a fungus can transform manganese into a mineral composite with favourable electrochemical properties — paving the way for a better rechargeable battery in the near future. The findings suggest that fungus Neurospora crassa , which is present in a red bread mould, could …
Power and Renewable Energy Minister Piyush Goyal has said that for the next six-and-a-half years, the NDA Government's thrust will be in the areas of hydroelectricity and bio-fuels. "Twenty five additional solar parks will be added in India," he said at a seminar on renewable energy here during the ongoing …
Biospheric relationships between production and consumption of biomass have been resilient to changes in the Earth system over billions of years. This relationship has increased in its complexity, from localized ecosystems predicated on anaerobic microbial production and consumption to a global biosphere founded on primary production from oxygenic photoautotrophs, through …
Clean cook-stove manufacturer Envirofit India, a subsidiary of Envirofit International, is targeting to sell 10 lakh such stoves by 2020 in the country, a top official said on Wednesday. “In the first seven years of our existence in India, since 2008, we sold one million cook-stoves. Now we are planning …
The World Bioenergy Association (WBA) is pleased to announce the release of the factsheet ‘Global biomass potential towards 2035’ – the ninth in the series of publications. This comes at the opportune time when world leaders are developing new renewable energy targets based on the climate agreement at COP21 in …
This IEA Bioenergy report provides an overview of the current status of biomass cofiring. The report shows that the firing and co-firing of biomass as a replacement for coal in large pulverised coal boilers can be a very attractive option for the utilisation of biomass materials for power production, and …
Global demand for agricultural and forestry products fundamentally affects regional land-use change associated with environmental impacts (EIs) such as erosion. In contrast to aggregated global metrics such as greenhouse gas (GHG) balances, local/regional EIs of different agricultural and forestry production regions need methods which enable worldwide EI comparisons. The key …
There is a lack of clarity at the individual state level on tariffs and policies preventing execution of power purchase agreements (PPAs) in a time bound manner With Prime Minister Narendra Modi's focus on renewable energy in India, many expect Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to have a lot in store …
