India gives coal-fired plants extra two years to install emissions equipment
2 years, 3 months ago

India gives coal-fired plants extra two years to install emissions equipment

Live Mint  

India extended a deadline for coal-fired power plants to install equipment to cut sulphur emissions by two years, the government said in a notification on Tuesday, marking the third push back on a commitment to clean up dirty air. India had initially set a 2017 deadline for thermal power plants to install flue gas desuphurisation units to cut sulphur emissions. The order on Tuesday said power plants will be forcibly retired if they do not comply to norms on sulphur emissions by end-2027. Plants near populous regions and the capital New Delhi will have to pay penalties to operate from end-2024, while utilities in less polluting areas will be penalized after end-2026, the order said.

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Why sulphur dioxide emission controlled slipped off priority charts
1 month ago

Why sulphur dioxide emission controlled slipped off priority charts

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: India’s national capital region is back in the news for its hazardous levels of air pollution. However, a major constituent of the fine particulate matter, PM2.5, has secondary aerosols such as sulphur, nitrate and ammonia, whose main source is coal-fired thermal power plants in Delhi-NCR. A new analysis by the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air …

Thermal power plants: A pollution worry for Delhi
1 month ago

Thermal power plants: A pollution worry for Delhi

New Indian Express  

NEW DELHI: Emissions from Delhi-NCR-based 12 coal-fired power plants are more deadly than the emissions from the burning of paddy straw in Punjab and Haryana. Thermal power plants produce multiple times more dangerous particulate matter and Sulphur Dioxide than burning agri-residue does. According to a new analysis of sources of deadlier particulate matter and a comparison between NCR-based TPPs emissions …

India's coal dependence for power to be highest in nine years as heatwaves intensify
6 months ago

India's coal dependence for power to be highest in nine years as heatwaves intensify

Hindustan Times  

India will use more coal for generating electricity this year than it has in almost a decade, to cope with surging electricity demand, Bloomberg reported. Representational The country expects to add 15.4 gigawatts in the financial year 2024-25, the most in nine years, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. Coal still generates about three-quarters of India’s electricity, and the …

Business Matters | Why is the rising cost of coal-fired power plants good news for India?
1 year, 7 months ago

Business Matters | Why is the rising cost of coal-fired power plants good news for India?

The Hindu  

Why is the rising cost of coal-fired power plants good news for India? It said that achieving net zero – which India aims to reach by 2070 – will require adjustments to how people live, work, and move around—and some of these changes will be costly. First, India expects to increase investments in coal-fired power plants to help power economic …

India asks utilities to import 6% of their coal for nine months
1 year, 11 months ago

India asks utilities to import 6% of their coal for nine months

Live Mint  

India's power ministry has asked utilities to import 6% of their coal requirement until September, according to a letter seen by Reuters, warning that domestic supplies could be curtailed if import targets are not met. Estimated domestic coal supply of 392 million tonnes during the six months to the end of September is expected to fall short of demand by …

India’s power units binge on coal, outpace Asia
2 years, 1 month ago

India’s power units binge on coal, outpace Asia

The Hindu  

India's coal-fired power output has increased much faster than any other country in the Asia Pacific since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, underscoring the challenges the world's third-largest greenhouse gas emitter faces in weaning its economy off of carbon. India's coal-fired power output increased more than 10% year-on-year from March to October to 757.82 terawatt hours, an analysis of government data …

India lags in biomass co-firing targets
2 years, 2 months ago

India lags in biomass co-firing targets

The Hindu  

India has been severely lagging in ensuring that at least 5% of coal used in thermal plants was mixed with biomass despite guidelines mandating them to do so. The meeting to review progress of biomass co-firing in thermal power plants was held in New Delhi to prepare for the coming post-monsoon season that saw farm fires in north India and …

Explained | Has the emissions deadline been extended?
2 years, 3 months ago

Explained | Has the emissions deadline been extended?

The Hindu  

The story so far: On September 5, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change extended the deadline for installing pollution control technologies in the country's thermal power plants. In the notification, the Ministry set up three different timelines for three categories of thermal power plants for ensuring the installation of pollution-control technologies. Seven years after the first notification for …

Experts raise red flag over extension in deadline for coal-based power plants
2 years, 3 months ago

Experts raise red flag over extension in deadline for coal-based power plants

The Hindu  

Experts have raised a red flag over the decision by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change to extend the deadline for coal-based power plans to install emission control equipment. This is the third time that the Ministry has extended the timeline for polluting power plants and experts have pointed out that the delay will have an adverse impact …

Breather for coal plants draws anguish
2 years, 3 months ago

Breather for coal plants draws anguish

The Hindu  

The Union Environment Ministry has for the third time extended the deadline by which coal plants must install pollution control technologies to stem emissions, drawing criticism from environment and clean-energy activists. The Ministry first specified emission norms for the control of sulphur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and mercury from coal-fired power plants in December 2015, giving thermal power plant operators time …

Temporary shut down of coal-fired power plants around Delhi helped reduce pollution, says government
2 years, 5 months ago

Temporary shut down of coal-fired power plants around Delhi helped reduce pollution, says government

Firstpost  

The Delhi government had earlier shutdown three thermal power plants operating within the Capital permanently, Indraprastha power plant in 2009, Rajghat plant in 2015, and Badarpur plant, in 2018 New Delhi: The closure of a few coal-fired power plants within 300 km radius of Delhi last year helped reduce pollution levels, the government has said. In November last year, India …

Coal ban: Thermal plants need attention
2 years, 6 months ago

Coal ban: Thermal plants need attention

Hindustan Times  

To control air pollution in Delhi-NCR, the Commission for Air Quality Management has banned the use of coal for industrial, domestic, and other purposes in the entire area from January 1, 2023. PREMIUM For example, in 2015, the government asked power plants to install flue gas desulphurisation, to control toxic SO2 emissions. For example, in 2015, the government asked power …

India heading towards another power crisis in July-August: Report
2 years, 6 months ago

India heading towards another power crisis in July-August: Report

India TV News  

A lower pre-monsoon coal stock at thermal power plants in India is suggestive of another power crisis in July-August, independent research organisation CREA has said. "The data compiled from official sources suggest that the coal power plants are in no position to address even a minor spike in the power demand and there is a need to plan for coal …

India to face wider coal shortages, worsening power outage risks
2 years, 6 months ago

India to face wider coal shortages, worsening power outage risks

The Hindu  

India is expected to face a wider coal shortage during the quarter ending September over expectations of higher power demand, an internal Power Ministry presentation seen by Reuters showed, worsening risks of widespread power outages. The energy-hungry nation expects local coal supply to fall 42.5 million tonnes short of demand in the September quarter, 15% higher than previously projected, due …

Centre threatens to curb domestic coal supply if utilities delay imports
2 years, 7 months ago

Centre threatens to curb domestic coal supply if utilities delay imports

Live Mint  

India's power ministry on Wednesday said it would cut domestic fuel supply to state government-run utilities by 5% if they do not import coal for blending by June 15, as officials struggle to address rising power demand. A heatwave pushed power use to a record high in April, leading to the worst electricity crisis in more than six years and …

Explained | How quickly can India move away from coal?
2 years, 8 months ago

Explained | How quickly can India move away from coal?

The Hindu  

The story so far: On Friday, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Decline in coal stocks and the resulting power outages in several States have spurred queries of renewable energy’s potential to fill in for the conventional resource. The India Energy Outlook 2021 report of the International Energy Agency said energy use in India has doubled since 2000, with 80% of …

What can India do to address its perennial power shortage?
2 years, 8 months ago

What can India do to address its perennial power shortage?

Business Standard  

This year’s March was hottest in over a century, leading to earlier-than-usual surge in electricity demand. But the world’s largest coal mining firm said the escalating demand -- driven up by post-pandemic economic buoyancy and hotter than normal summer -- seem to be 'dwarfing' the supply increase. Coal India has sharply reduced supplies to the non-power sector which includes aluminium …

India to face more power cuts due to coal shortage, soaring demand
2 years, 8 months ago

India to face more power cuts due to coal shortage, soaring demand

The Hindu  

India is likely to face more power cuts this year as utilities' coal inventories are at the lowest pre-summer levels in at least nine years and electricity demand is expected to rise at the fastest pace in at least 38 years, officials and analysts say. Higher power demand this year has already forced India to cut coal supplies to the …

India to face more power cuts due to coal shortage, soaring demand
2 years, 8 months ago

India to face more power cuts due to coal shortage, soaring demand

Live Mint  

India is likely to face more power cuts this year as utilities' coal inventories are at the lowest pre-summer levels in at least nine years and electricity demand is expected to rise at the fastest pace in at least 38 years, officials and analysts say. Utilities' coal inventory at lowest levels in at least 9 yrs, "The problem is, even …

A clean energy transition plan for India
3 years, 2 months ago

A clean energy transition plan for India

The Hindu  

Energy security warrants the uninterrupted supply of energy at affordable prices. TPPs contributed 71% of the 1,382 billion units of electricity generated by utilities in India during FY 2020-21 though they accounted for only 55% of the total installed generation capacity of 382 GW. Contours of a plan We have developed a time-bound transition plan for India’s power sector involving …

Disrupted Coal Supply, High Electricity Demand Could Spell a Power Crisis For India
3 years, 2 months ago

Disrupted Coal Supply, High Electricity Demand Could Spell a Power Crisis For India

News 18  

India is facing a severe shortage of coal as the shortage of it could leave thermal power plants without fuel. India relies heavily on thermal power plants for its electricity needs and therefore coal remains as the major fuel behind India’s electricity supply. India is facing two challenges- soaring electricity demand as manufacturing and business rebounds after Covid-19 curbs were …

Global efforts to stop climate change won't be as successful if India doesn't step up
3 years, 8 months ago

Global efforts to stop climate change won't be as successful if India doesn't step up

Firstpost  

Global efforts to arrest climate change and keep Earth liveable will fail without a jumbo-sized effort from India to halt emissions growth that could wipe out ambitious carbon reduction targets elsewhere. But India bristles at being told what to do, particularly by Western countries that bear far more historical responsibility for climate change and still have much higher per capita …

India pushes deadline for coal-fired utilities to adopt new emission norms
3 years, 8 months ago

India pushes deadline for coal-fired utilities to adopt new emission norms

The Hindu  

India has pushed back deadlines for coal-fired power plants to adopt new emission norms by up to three years and allowed utilities that miss the new target to continue operating after paying a penalty, according to a government notice. The new order dated April 1 from the Environment Ministry says plants near populous regions and the capital New Delhi will …

Shut non-complying thermal power plants if air quality worsens: SC-appointed panel tells UP, Haryana
4 years, 2 months ago

Shut non-complying thermal power plants if air quality worsens: SC-appointed panel tells UP, Haryana

India TV News  

Expecting further deterioration in air quality in the coming days, the Environment Pollution Control Authority on Monday asked the Uttar Pradesh and Haryana governments to be ready to close thermal power plants that do not meet the standards laid down in 2015. In two separate letters, EPCA chief Bhure Lal asked the two state governments to review the preparedness for …

Closing down old thermal plants in 11 key States could save ₹53,000 crore: Report
4 years, 3 months ago

Closing down old thermal plants in 11 key States could save ₹53,000 crore: Report

The Hindu  

Shutting down thermal power plants older than 20 years in 11 key States can save the exchequer ₹53,000 crore over five years, says an analysis by Climate Research Horizon. While free power for agriculture and power theft are one reason, the authors opine, another is that several States have installed capacity based on projections that are far in excess of …

Economic slowdown, Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan makes it difficult to comply with air pollution norms: Power ministry
4 years, 3 months ago

Economic slowdown, Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan makes it difficult to comply with air pollution norms: Power ministry

Hindustan Times  

The Centre is considering deferring the deadline by two more years for thermal power plants to comply with norms to reduce air pollution by 2022 because of the economic slowdown linked to Covid-19 pandemic and difficulties due to curbs on imports from China in sourcing systems that help control toxic sulfur dioxide emissions, officials aware of the matter said. Power …

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