Renewable Energy

The Green New Deal could radically alter politics, economy and society in the UK

November 26, 2019 Anand Gupta

It acknowledges the UK’s central role in fossil fuel extraction, and growth in global migration due to climate change ven as the United Kingdom was busy with the Brexit debate and the millennials of the world were campaigning for climate justice, the Labour Party silently voted in favour of a Green New Deal at the […]

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Centre’s nod to assess offshore wind energy in TN

November 18, 2019 Anand Gupta

The first offshore wind farm project in India would come up in Gujarat. It would be a 200 MW demonstration wind farm. CHENNAI: With Centre identifying Tamil Nadu as a potential destination for offshore wind farms, Chennai-based National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE) has been given a go-ahead to install Laser Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) […]

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Shell New Energies EVP: Hydrogen Subsidies Will Pay Off, Just Like They Did for Solar

November 14, 2019 Anand Gupta

Shell’s Mark Gainsborough on renewables, hydrogen and bringing together the oil giant’s burgeoning family of clean-energy businesses. PARIS : Shell expects its filling stations to eventually become fossil-fuel-free. But getting there will require major changes, and in the energy business, change often means subsidies. So it is with hydrogen, says Mark Gainsborough, executive vice president […]

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Air Liquide, DLVA and ENGIE are entering into an ambitious partnership to produce green hydrogen on an industrial scale

November 14, 2019 Anand Gupta

Air Liquide, the Durance, Luberon, Verdon urban area (DLVA) and ENGIE are signing a cooperation agreement to develop the “HyGreen Provence” project which aims at producing, storing and distributing green hydrogen. Initiated in 2017, “HyGreen Provence” will make it possible to develop and validate the technico-economic conditions for the production of 1,300 GWh of solar […]

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What is hydrogen fuel? Supreme Court’s solution to Delhi’s air pollution crisis

November 13, 2019 Anand Gupta

SC has asked govt to explore hydrogen fuel tech to find solution to Delhi’s air crisis. Hydrogen is zero-emission fuel, but manufacturing the gas is quite polluting. Bengaluru : The Supreme Court pulled up the central government Wednesday over deteriorating air quality in Delhi-NCR and asked it to explore hydrogen-based fuel technology, based on case […]

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Renewables Are Booming, But Not Fast Enough to Cap Greenhouse Emissions

November 13, 2019 Anand Gupta

The International Energy Agency’s annual report into fuel supply and demand shows a pickup in the rate of growth for wind and solar power. But that’s not enough to curtail greenhouse gas pollution, which is on track to grow through 2040. The findings are a blow to the international effort to rein in climate change […]

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‘In G20, only India on course to meet 1.5 degree Celsius target’

November 12, 2019 Anand Gupta

NEW DELHI: Extreme weather events led to around 16,000 deaths and economic losses of $142 billion in G20 nations on average every year during 1998-2017 with India reporting the highest number of deaths among them and figuring in the list of top five countries in terms of economic losses during the period, said a global […]

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Role of legal, regulatory framework in transition to clean energy economy

November 8, 2019 Anand Gupta

Timely transition from a fossil fuel-based economy to a clean energy one remains a defining challenge for our generation, both in terms of speed and vector of the change ince 1970s, Indian laws and policies have provided for environment protection in furtherance of our constitutional principles. Indian jurisprudence in this sphere is acknowledged for its […]

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Rise and Fall of Carbon Credits: Finding Solutions for Climate Crisis in Free Market

November 4, 2019 Anand Gupta

The plan to combine two seemingly opposing forces—a free market and the battle against human-induced climate change—was ambitious. But carbon credit trading, once seen as one of the most successful mechanisms to help developed countries and the private sector to continue with business while meeting their emission targets, is now on the brink of disappearing […]

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ABB wins one of its biggest ever contracts to connect world’s largest offshore wind farm to UK grid

October 30, 2019 Anand Gupta

First ever UK use of high-voltage direct current (HVDC) technology with smaller environmental footprint for connecting offshore wind farms Dogger Bank offshore wind farms to power 4.5 million homes Increasing current wind offshore capacity by 3.6 GW, equivalent to 5% of the UK’s total estimated electricity generation ABB has been selected by energy companies SSE […]

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