Lagging policy support and rising cost pressures put investment plans for low-emissions hydrogen at risk globally. [Gas in Transition, Volume 3, Issue 12]
India turns over a new leaf [NGW Magazine]
Mar 9, 2021 4:30:am
Summary The economy is being dragged into the gas era more quickly with a mix of policy decisions but price is always a sensitive issue, the IEA finds. [NGW Magazine Volume 6, Issue 5]
by: Shardul Sharma
India’s gas market is growing fast but not evenly in all sectors. At present, natural gas has about 7% of the country’s overall energy mix (Figure 1), which is one of the lowest among major economies. The Indian government has been promoting the use of gas to fight chronic air pollution. In northern India, this has much to do with the region’s geographical and meteorological conditions, but the source of this pollution is anthropogenic and mainly related to energy demand.
A building in Da Nang city uses solar rooftop to generate power (Photo: nld.vn)
Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - Nguyen Duc Ninh, Director of the National Power Regulation
Centre, has said Vietnam will cut its renewable electricity
capacity due to oversupply.
Ninh told
local media at a recent conference of the
Vietnam Electricity Group (EVN) that Vietnam
will cut 1.3 billion KWh of renewable energy in 2021.
According to
EVN s statistics,
national electricity output generated from solar power in
2020 was 10.6 billion kWh, including 1.15 billion kWh from rooftop solar power,
accounting for about 4.3 percent of the total output from the national
electricity system.