We have reached where no other country could. It's a joyous occasion," he added. Mr Modi was watching the event live from South Africa where he is attending the Brics summit. Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) chief Sreedhara Panicker Somanath said the successful landing "is not our work alone, this is the work of a generation of Isro scientists". India's achievement comes just days after Russia's Luna-25 spacecraft spun out of control and crashed into the Moon. The crash also put the spotlight on how difficult it is to land in the south pole region where the surface is "very uneven" and "full of craters and boulders". India's second lunar mission, which also attempted to soft-land there in 2019, was unsuccessful - its lander and rover were destroyed, though its orbiter survived.
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The automotive industry is on the brink of a disruptive revolution – moving away from vehicles that run on fossil fuels to electric vehicles (EVs) and autonomous or self-driving vehicles (AVs) that leverage digital technologies to navigate traffic without human intervention. India has been in the news for the recent uptake on EVs. While currently, only 1% of the three million cars sold every year in India are EVs, the government is ambitious to grow this to 30% by 2030.
Here are seven moves that can help gas companies, whether they are incumbents or new entrants, gain a competitive advantage in the city gas distribution market.
The EU rules would require all new cars sold from 2035 to have zero CO2 emissions, making it effectively impossible to sell new fossil fuel-powered cars.
Reliance and its partner BP Exploration (Alpha) Ltd (BPEAL) will sell 6 million standard cubic meters per day of gas in an e-auction planned for April 3, a tender notice said.
India is the third largest energy consumer in the world and its energy demand will quadruple in the coming decades, thanks to the rapid economic growth.
Given that India’s EV segment has witnessed faster-than-anticipated growth in the past few years, it will result in the country’s gasoline consumption peaking sooner than previously thought.
"With the successful operationalisation of the 700-MW plant, the world's largest wind-solar hybrid power plant, AGEL now has the largest operating renewable portfolio in India with 8,024 MW," it said.
Battery-powered electric vehicles have been hailed as clean vehicles that will transform mobility and significantly reduce transportation’s harmful impact on the environment
Baynouna Solar Energy Company (BSCE), a joint venture between Abu Dhabi-based renewable energy company Masdar and Finnish investment and asset management group Taaleri, has announced the opening of its new 200MW solar park in Amman.
Israel's natural gas revenue mostly came from the gas produced at Leviathan and Tamar fields in the Mediterranean Sea, along with the revenues from the nearby Karish field, which began operating in October 2022, Xinhua news agency reported
If solar panels were more efficient, much smaller panels could make the same amount of electricity, and wouldn't claim as much land.
Middle East Energy, the region’s leading energy event, will turbocharge the sector’s transition when the 48th edition of the exhibition and conference powerhouse opens in Dubai on March 7 featuring over 800 exhibitors from 170 countries as well as 20,000 energy professionals and utilities decision-makers.
This move will significantly benefit charger manufacturers and Charge Point Operators (CPOs), allowing them to provide multiple tariff options, control user access, and real-time energy monitoring, the company said in a media release
Opening the conference, PM Modi spoke of India’s rising prowess as an energy transition powerhouse and officially launched E20, a blend of 20 per cent ethanol with petrol, as part of the government’s plans to achieve 20 per cent ethanol blending in the overall petrol supply by ..
Moving forward, the transition towards renewable fuels will be aided by rising global gas prices and should be viewed as an opportunity driver towards accelerating the energy transition to renewables.
Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s budget listed green growth as one of the seven priorities of the government and allocated ?35,000 crore to achieve clean energy transition and net-zero emissions by 2070.
Mobility is switching sides completely, and what we are witnessing right now is a big change that is completely moulding the global transportation industry.
According to the data of the Global Solar and Wind Power Trackers, this buildout can avoid the use of almost 78 million tonnes of coal annually, or roughly 32 GW in coal power plant capacity. Annual savings in India can skyrocket if the coal-to-clean switch matches the country’s ambitions.
The unprecedented scale of required investment will need industrial strategies from the countries to mobilize those investments across all regions, technologies, and supply chains.
Few of us think about heat as an essential ingredient in the products we use every day. And, yet industrial process heat constitutes two-thirds of all energy used by industry. It is used to melt and form metals, to make ceramics, to refine crude oil, to make industrial chemicals, to dry crops, to process food, to sterilize medical instruments, and to heat the facilities within which industries operate. Practically, everything we use on a regular basis has at some point required heat to process. And it turns out that the challenges society faces obtaining process heat mirror in many respects the energy challenges for society as a whole
The domestic automotive industry has seen a healthy revival in the current fiscal, aided by a recovery in economic activities and increased mobility.
Log9 Mobility, a wholly owned subsidiary of Bengaluru-headquartered deep-tech and advanced battery tech startup Log9 Materials, has announced a strategic partnership with EV SaaS startup Pulse Energy, to launch India’s first WhatsApp-based payments at Electric Vehicle (EV) charging stations. Pulse Energy offers a platform for 550+ fast charging points, facilitating interoperability between charge point operators across India.
In 2023, the renewable energy sector is expected to maintain growth and achieve desired figures, and cash flow, technology upgradation and government’s support with futuristic measures will be the major factors driving growth
Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week (ADSW), the global initiative championed by the UAE and its clean energy powerhouse Masdar to accelerate sustainable development, will hold its first annual Green Hydrogen Summit this year, highlighting green hydrogen's growing importance in the global drive toward net zero.
Bhatia, then PhD student in IIT Bombay, demonstrated a 12% efficient Si solar cell that was entirely made below 100C.
In addition to its newly launched electrical vehicle charger, some of the brand's well-known products include On Grid Solar, Off Grid Solar Systems, Hybrid Solar Systems, Solar Water Pumps, Solar Lights, and Solar Water Heater.
After a year and half of extensive research in heterojunction (HJT) solar cells, China-based LONGi Green Energy Technology said it has achieved a record efficiency of 26.81% for its HJT silicon solar cell on full -size silicon wafers through mass production.
The increasing popularity and acceptability of CNG vehicles in the Indian market promises a significant room for growth for automakers and they must make the best of this opportunity
The recently-launched product offers increased efficiency to optimize space and lower overall system costs. This 182 and 212 mm cell ultra-high power module falls in the mono-crystalline silicon category and features the latest PERC Solar cells with high transmission energy.
Realising the importance of natural gas in energy transition, Govt. of India has laid an ambitious vision to make India a gas-based economy by enhancing the share of natural gas in energy basket to 15 percent by 2030
Ultralight fabric solar cells that can quickly and easily turn any surface into a power source have been developed by MIT engineers.
The introduction of the in-car entertainment feature is celebrating its 100th year anniversary, and with news that game consoles could be a standard offering in future Honda electric vehicles, connectivity expert VNC Automotive believes the future for ‘in-vehicle infotainment’, as it’s now commonly known, could be even more radical.
Global renewable power capacity growth is set to double in the next five years driven by energy security concerns, overtaking coal as the largest source of electricity generation along the way, said the International Energy Agency (IEA) in a new report.
Some Bengaluru-based startups are innovating on solutions to develop efficient batteries for electric vehicles or recycle used batteries to reduce the carbon footprint of these batteries.
According to officials, the AICE aims to promote collaboration among universities, research institutes and industry from both countries in the energy domain. The virtual Centre will be launched during the two-day Energy Summit 2022 hosted by IIT Madras in December.
Electric vehicle (EV) solutions provider Applied Electric Vehicle Energy Reticulation Systems Africa (Aeversa) subsidiary Iron Energy is nearing the completion of the first locally assembled 8 t electric commercial truck.
The firm is also expanding into other sustainability areas such as water management, sustainable mobility, hydrogen generation and circular economy
In a speech to the 27th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP27) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) -- also known as COP27 -- in Egypt, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen announced Australia will join the Global Offshore Wind Alliance (GOWA), Xinhua news agency reported.
When the battery is being used - and its stored energy is being discharged - tiny particles (called ions) inside the battery travel from the anode to the cathode, through a chemical solution called the electrolyte, creating an electrical current. When the battery is being recharged, those particles then flow back from cathode to anode.
Throught his, ISA seeks to create a group of entrepreneurs who will create locally relevant business models and a pipeline of projects
EVs, with connected vehicle and autonomous driving tech, have tremendous disruptive potential
"Financing requirements associated with the transitions could amount to 4.4 percent of GDP per year -- or 8.5 trillion rand (about $500 billion)" between this year and 2050, said the bank in a report published Tuesday.
For the first time, global demand for each of the fossil fuels shows a peak or plateau across all WEO scenarios, with Russian exports in particular falling significantly as the world energy order is reshaped
French multi-energy group TotalEnergies SE (EPA:TTE) has agreed to buy a 25% stake in India’s Adani New Industries Ltd (ANIL) in a move to create what they say would be "the largest green hydrogen ecosystem in the world," underpinned by 30 GW of renewables. ANIL will serve as an exclusive platform for the production of green hydrogen in India, targeting an annual output of one million tonnes by 2030, TotalEnergies said on Tuesday. The French company is buying the minority interest in ANIL from Adani Enterprises Ltd (BOM:512599). Financial details about the transaction were kept under wraps.
The theme sets the tone for a hybrid event that takes place on May 25th in Maputo, Mozambique, and also online. The (Lusophone Renewable Energy Association (ALER) and the Mozambican Renewable Energy Association (AMER), in partnership with EDM – Electricidade de Moçambique and with the support of GET.Invest Mozambique – financed by the European Union and Germany, and integrated in the European program GET.invest – are organizing the hybrid event ‘Renewables Storage and Grid Integration in Mozambique’, which will take place on Wednesday, the 25th of May, at the Indy Congress Hotel in Maputo, with online transmission.
Probably the most ambitious agreement on renewable energy ever was signed today on the harbor of the city Esbjerg in Denmark. It’s called The Esbjerg Declaration — with the subtitle on The North Sea as a Green Power Plant of Europe. According to Statista.com, approximately 837 gigawatts (GW) of wind power capacity was installed worldwide from 2001 to 2021. The section on wind power in The Esbjerg Declaration states targets for offshore wind up to at least 150 GW by 2050. The current wind power capacity in Denmark is about 5 GW, half onshore and half offshore.
The new president of Tanzania, Ms. Samia Suluhu Hassan, has pledged to create 6GW of renewable generating capacity with hydropower, solar and wind, newspaper The Citizen reports. If her ambition is realised, it would make Tanzania the third greenest powered African country behind South Africa and Morocco, the paper said, noting that Tanzania last year had a total electricity supply of only 1,605MW.
New Delhi: Union Minister of State for New and Renewable Energy Bhagwant Khuba has invited global investors to invest in India's clean energy industry, stressing that projects worth around USD 196.98 billion are underway in the sector. Addressing investors at a conference in Munich, Germany, Khuba said India offers a great opportunity for investments.
Toyota Group plans to invest 48 billion rupees ($624 million) to make electric vehicle components in India, as the Japanese carmaker works toward carbon neutrality by 2050. Toyota Kirloskar Motor and Toyota Kirloskar Auto Parts signed a memorandum of understanding with the southern state of Karnataka to invest 41 billion rupees, the group said in a statement Saturday. The rest will come from Toyota Industries Engine India.
"The requisite financial closure to the tune of Rs 132 crore has already been achieved from State Bank of India. Further, the company has arranged long-term PPAs in advance with various corporate parties for sale of power generated out of the hybrid power project upon commissioning," the company said.
Mining giant Anglo American has unveiled the world’s largest hydrogen-powered truck, a monster weighing 220 tonnes, at a platinum mine in northern South Africa. Billed as the first of a fleet that will replace the firm’s diesel-powered trucks, the vehicle uses 2 megawatts hydrogen fuel cells to haul up to 290 tonnes of ore.
Tanzania's natural gas reserves have just proven to be extremely necessary for the nation's economy and energy sector at large. On April 29, Tanzania took the extractive sector to another level by nailing an agreement with exploration companies to construct a vast liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant worth $30 billion.
NEW DELHI: India and on Tuesday agreed to further strengthen the with a focus on green hydrogen, renewable energy and wastewater management. “The two sides confirmed the aspirations – through the Green Strategic Partnership – to take global leadership in pushing for ambitious green energy transition and demonstrate the pathways to achieving it, focusing both on energy efficiency and renewable energy,” said the joint statement after held talks withhis Danish counterpart.
Although electric vehicle (EV) adoption has grown significantly over the past decade, battery swapping has never been a mainstream charging method. The idea of swapping batteries however, is not new. In some parts of the world, especially China, battery swapping is a big deal, especially since there has been a surging take-up of EVs. India too wants to jump on the bandwagon, starting with its e-scooters, e-bikes and even rickshaws.
India and Maldives plan to set up a transmission interconnection for transfer of renewable power between the two countries. The proposal was discussed during the meeting between Power and New and Renewable Energy Minister R K Singh and Maldives' Environment, Climate Change and Technology Minister Aminath Shauna in the national capital on Tuesday.
Total renewable sector capacity, excluding small hydro and biomass has now reached 96,223 MW. Share of total renewable power in generation (excluding large-hydro) in FY2022 also reached a high of 12.82 per cent (10 per cent in FY 2021). Vinay Rustagi, Managing Director, BRIDGE TO INDIA, said, "Renewable sector has shown remarkable resilience in the face of multiple challenges. But it is important to acknowledge that the record high numbers in FY 2022 came mainly because of COVID spillover effect from the previous year."
India is setting up a first-of-its-kind standalone renewable battery power bank envisaging an investment of Rs 2,000 crore to make green energy available on tap for discoms and grid operators during peak demand, but spike in prices of lithium — a key ingredient for making batteries — and supply chain disruptions due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict may weigh on industry response.
(Montel) Denmark’s power grid can already handle 4 GW of additional onshore wind and solar output, a figure that could double by 2027 due to ongoing grid infrastructure improvements, TSO Energinet said on Monday. The updated figures, presented in a revised grid map, were a boon for the country’s green transition as they showed the potential for boosting renewables output, said Energinet’s head of planning, Rikke Bille, in a statement.
New Delhi: The electric vehicles (EVs) segment presents an opportunity of almost Rs 3 lakh crore for various stakeholders in India during the next five years through fiscal 2026. As per a Crisil Research analysis, the opportunity includes potential revenue of about Rs 1.5 lakh crore across vehicle segments for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) as well as component manufacturers and Rs 90,000 crore in the form of disbursements for vehicle financiers, with shared mobility and insurance accounting for the balance.
Global energy giant Shell will foray into retailing LNG for long-haul transportation like trucks, with its first filling station coming up in Gujarat this year as it bets big on the Indian gas market, a senior company official said. Shell operates a 5 million tons a year liquefied natural gas (LNG) import facility at Hazira in Gujarat and has a small network of petrol pumps. It is now looking at the LNG for trucks/buses market as a growth avenue.
Mahindra Electric Mobility Ltd, part of the Mahindra Group, announced the launch of its new Alfa CNG Passenger and Cargo variants, based on its popular Alfa brand. The vehicles will be available across Mahindra dealerships in Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Delhi, Bihar, Jharkhand, Kerala and Madhya Pradesh.
India is likely to see around 48,000 additional electric vehicle chargers at an investment of around Rs 14,000 crore over the next 3-4 years amid an expected healthy electric vehicle (EV) penetration in the country, a report said on Wednesday. As the EV penetration is expected to increase in the two and three wheeler as well as bus segments, the expansion of charging infrastructure which is currently at a nascent stage will play a critical role, domestic credit ratings agency Icra said in its report.
New Delhi: India will require $12.4 trillion to transition to net zero and help the world in its efforts to stave off the worst of climate change, according to a latest study by Standard Chartered. It said that emerging markets, overall, would need an additional $94.8 trillion – a sum higher than annual global GDP – if they were to meet climate goals without hitting citizens’ cost of living. This is on top of the capital already allocated by governments under their current climate policies.
Paris: Humanity has less than three years to halt the rise of planet-warming carbon emissions and less than adecade to slash them by nearly half, UN climate experts said Monday, warning the world faced a last-gasp race to ensure a "liveable future"
The Global Wind ENergy Council (GWEC) report comes ahead of a U.N. report to be published later on Monday that is expected to tell policymakers a huge ramp up in low carbon technology, such as renewable power, is needed if goals set under the 2015 Paris climate agreement are to be met.
Egypt has intensified efforts to mobilize financing for "green banks," in preparation for the COP27 Climate Summit, which it will host in Sharm el-Sheikh in late 2022. Minister of International Cooperation Rania al-Mashat said that innovative financing tools are a catalyst to ensure that the international community’s commitments made at COP26 in Glasgow are implemented ahead of the next summit.