6Jan

Thar coal to generate 10,000 MW by 2020: Ebad

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Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad Khan said that the government had devised a plan to generate 10,000 megawatts of electricity from Thar coal by 2020.

The federal government had been approached for laying a transmission line to take the electricity from Thar field to the national grid, he said while presiding over a meeting on Thar coal at the Governor’s House Thursday. He said installation of transmission network is the integral part of the plan which should be ready by the time power projects are ready to generate electricity from Thar coal.

The Governor pointed out that Thar coal would be utilised to make Pakistan self-sufficient in power generation to strengthen economy and make this area the hub of the petro-chemical industry.

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2Jan

Indian generator Essar Energy to build eight coal-fired power plants

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An energy company listed on the London Stock Exchange is planning to spend up to an estimated $6bn (£3.8bn) building eight coal-fired power stations that could add tens of millions of tonnes of carbon to the atmosphere.

Essar Energy has just brought online the first part of the 1,200MW Salaya 1 plant in Gujarat on the west coast of India and says this and other stations are needed to counter power shortages. The move comes after countries around the world met in Durban, South Africa, this month to try to hammer out a new climate change treaty to cut global CO2 emissions.

Britain is introducing cleaner fuels and phasing out its old coal-fired power stations while saying that new ones would need carbon capture and storage schemes attached. But a spokesman for Essar, which is listed on the FTSE 100 but operates largely in India, said its customers on the subcontinent could not afford the extra costs associated with subsidising cleaner technologies.

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11Aug

Coal Electricity Production Drops To Its Lowest Point in 30 Years

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Report Hydropower Industry Tops US56 Billion in 2011

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Clean energy policies may be under attack by the right wing in the US, but it looks like there is still good energy news to be had: apparently, coal electricity production in the United States has dropped to its lowest amount in more than 30 years. The Energy Information Administration has found that this year, coal accounted for only 46 percent of our power, a 6 percent drop from 2008. This positive news comes just a few weeks after New York City Mayor Bloomberg pledged $50 million to help the Sierra Club shut down coal plants. But, like most news, there are plenty of counterpoints to burst our happy anti-coal bubble.

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1Aug

Solar Vs. Conventional Vs. Diesel Power in India

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Solar Vs. Conventional Vs. Diesel Power in India

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This graph prepared by Headway Solar (P) Ltd. predicts on basis of our estimate, the future comparison of cost of Solar PV Power Vs. Conventional Power (such as Coal ,Nuclear mix) Vs. Diesel Gen-Set based Power. On the basis of this graph we can predict that Solar Power Boom without any Government Support will begin in and around 2016-2017. After this period the growth in Solar Power for distributed and centralized Power Generation will be immense.

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15Jul

Andhra Pradesh at the forefront of Indian ‘coal rush’

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Energy generated from new coal-power stations in this single state could eclipse emissions from an entire country

A single Indian state is to build a new fleet of coal-power stations that could make it one of the world’s top 20 emitters of carbon emissions – on a par with countries such as Spain or Poland. The proposed coal plants in the south-eastern state of Andhra Pradesh are part of a wider Indian “coal rush” to bring power to the country’s hundreds of millions living without electricity. They face opposition from local people and environmental NGOs who warn of farmland being turned over to opencast mines and coasts being threatened with pollution from ports that will handle coal.

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