Union Minister of Power and New & Renewable Energy R. Ok. Singh. File
Union Minister for Power and New and Renewable Energy R. Ok. Singh on July 21 mentioned that with a view to obtain the net-zero carbon emission goal, storing the renewable energy is necessary in order that it turns into accessible round the clock.
Chairing the inaugural operate of G20 14th Clean Energy Ministerial assembly and eighth Mission Innovation assembly in Goa, Mr. Singh additionally mentioned that the governments should work on constructing storage capacities of renewable energy.
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Minister Singh mentioned, “If you want to get to net zero (carbon emission), then you will have to store the renewable energy so that it is available round-the-clock and that is a problem. The cost of storage is huge. The G20 Ministerial meeting will discuss the problems that lie on the path of climate action, energy transition and the strategies to achieve it.”
“We kept talking about how important energy transition is and how important climate change is. But if we were actually serious, we would have more capacity of batteries. We have only one country doing it,” he mentioned, with out naming the nation.
Mr. Singh mentioned that one other problem is that the reserves of lithium are restricted and the majority of the reserves are tied up by only one or two nations. “That is a major problem which we need to solve,” he mentioned.
“We also need to address the question of chemistry – why only lithium and why not sodium-ion (in manufacturing batteries). I would request – let’s get together and crack this challenge of storage,” the Minister mentioned.
Talking about India’s initiatives on this space, Mr. Singh mentioned that the nation plans to make use of inexperienced hydrogen and inexperienced ammonia as storage.
“We are huge on pumped storage. We have 33,000 MW of pumped storage under different approvals. We have established 1,500 MW of pumped storage,” he mentioned.
The Minister mentioned that the G20 nations additionally want to deal with provide chain points which have been exaggerated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine struggle. “India’s energy demand grew by 9.5% last year as the economy grew by 7.5%,” he mentioned.
“The challenge is to add more capacity to the energy generation…We have added 1,82,000 circuit kilometres of transmission lines so that we can generate solar installations in Rajasthan and consume it anywhere. We have one grid-one market,” he identified. The Minister additionally cautioned concerning the use of low-carbon hydrogen.
“The problem with this one kilogram of hydrogen from natural gas will get you about 10 kilogram of carbon dioxide. How do we guarantee that it won’t leak out – that is a problem,” he mentioned.
