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By Paul Homewood
India’s thermal power production continues to forge ahead, growing by 9% last year, from 1190 to 1294 TWh.
Meanwhile there has been barely any increase at all in their much vaunted renewables. Wind and solar only increased by 16 TWh in the 10 months to October (latest data), and still only account for less than 12% of India’s electricity:
New coal generating capacity added 2120 MW last year, and now stands at 208 GW. In the last three years 9630 MW has been added.
https://cea.nic.in/dashboard/?lang=en
Demand peaks at around 240 GW in summer; with wind and solar averaging just 19 GW, it is plainly absurd to suggest that India will be transitioning away from coal any time soon!
https://cea.nic.in/dashboard/?lang=en
India, as a founding member of BRICS (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa), has been allowed, by International Green Loonies, to hide behind the status of “Emerging Economy”, and get away with egregious acts. For instance, buying Russia crude, against boycott restrictions, refining it, and selling it openly, even to the US. If a person should be judged by their friends, then so should India.
Indian leaders do what is good for the Indian people.
India civilization is as old as China’s
Indian energy use and CO2 per person is about many times lower than the US
India says to us, you want to undo your past damage, go right ahead, but do not tell us what to do, and do not restrict us, so we can continue to be friends.
Wilpost, after all the tenor of your reply sinks in, I am left believing you are a BRICS supporter. The newly elected President of Argentina, Milei, first official act was to block Argentina from joining BRICS. Try to figure out why.
I read his post as saying that India would do what is best for India, regardless of Western virtue signaling, and independent of BRICS considerations. Seemed reasonable to me
USA hubris is renown, worldwide.
We have no right or business dictating to other countries and in the same breath claim to be a liberal democracy. Fact is we are a Constitutional Republic, but why let that detail get in the way.
What is a “liberal” democracy? Sounds like your bias is showing. BRICS is Socialism/Marxism/Communism, and against it are democracy and capitalism. Your choice. OK, my bias is also showing.
“…a Constitutional Republic…”
With the added proviso, “If you can keep it.” We haven’t.
I LOVE COAL………& gas and oil.
I HATE WIND TURBINES AND SOLAR PANELS.
Meanwhile there has been barely any decrease at all in the numbers using the fields…
Still, we should be catching up with India before long:
“Thames Water’s finances are already under close scrutiny after it emerged that its parent company had been warned by its auditors that it could run out of money by April if shareholders do not inject more cash. It needs to repay a £190m loan due next month.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/11/thames-water-absent-industry-anti-pollution-sewage
Personally, I blame the Matilda tendency
“Thames Water is a private utility company owned by Kemble Water Holdings Ltd, a consortium led by the Australian-owned Macquarie Group.”
Fanx guys.
“Total Installed Capacity” What’s RES?
Hydro, Wind, Solar, BM Power/Cogen, Waste to Energy, Small Hydro Power
https://powermin.gov.in/en/content/power-sector-glance-all-india
But mostly C O A L
But hydro has it’s own wedge of the pie chart and that RES wedge is way to big to be the others.
The site I quoted from is including hydro, so yes, the chart is without. But the site is 125 GW as of 5.23 and the chart is 133 as of 12.23.
With wind and solar additions in the months between it should fit.
RES = Renewable Energy Sources
It appears to me ludicrous that by Ireland ending all fossil fuels to generate electricity while there is a huge increase of coal to generate electricity in India that there will be any reduction of total CO2 emissions.
Perhaps a WUWT reader can do a simple back of an envelope comparison of annual fossil fuel electricity in Ireland with only the annual increase in coal generated electricity in India. I have tried to use the above article and the data from Wiki “List of countries by electricity production,” but cannot figure it out.
But Ireland’s willingness to commit suicide is in good faith. The left tells us that this could convince others to commit suicide too.
Britain and Ireland are competing to be the first lemming over the cliff. It seems that insanity is infectious.
It’s reassuring to see countries like Ireland, England and my country, Canada, setting an example for India and China to follow! We all have to do our part….LoL.
Simply put, Ireland is irrelevant. China is on top at somewhere around 12 Gt of CO2 annually, and increasing at 500 Mt/yr. India is around 2.8 Gt. Ireland is way down the list at around 60 Mt
For the UK in 2022 the total “carbon emissions” /sic were about 435mt. China increased their “carbon emissions” by 500mt. What is th point other than control for the UK (or Ireland) to head towards net Xero when China increases out put each year by more than the total for the entire UK?
[CO2 is a life giving gas. The big orange warm thing in the sky drives climate. Warmth is better than cold]
What complicates matters is that Ireland imports about 9% of its electricity from England. This means that Ireland is dependent upon England’s electricity mix; which is 38% gas-fired, 17% nuclear, 8% nuclear imports from France and 26% wind, solar, hydro, 2% coal, 12% biofuel (Drax wood chips). The cost of importing electricity from England will rise over time as the AGRs close in England and electricity supplies tighten over the next 5-10 years.
So Ireland’s termination of its domestic fossil fuel generation simply moved the emissions to somewhere else.
Go India Go. I find it reassuring that the most populous nation on Earth, a democracy, has the common sense to put development and citizens’ welfare ahead of mythical theories of CO2 driven dangerous climate change when no evidence has been found that is is an issue. Reason has not been extinguished entirely.
Use of TWh versus MW leads to confusion when making the comparisons.
Might ass well use furlongs per fortnight.
Personally, I prefer joules.
So what’s the conversion factor to change furlongs per fortnight into joules/hr ??
According to the pie chart something called RES??? is second only to coal in energy?
According to the IEA India had awarded 87 coal mines with licenses to commence production between 2020 and early 2023 and were considering another 106 mines in the round of auctions in March 2023.
IEA World Energy Investment 2023′
According to my source (googlewicki) fossil fuels contribute around 40GT of CO2 annually to the atmosphere. If Earth’s annual production of Biomass (cellulose) from photosynthesis is around half a trillion tons, according to my slide rule fossil fuels contribute around 4% of the biomass carbon requirement… so where does the rest come from?
Cheers
Coal measured in MW and Solar measured in TW? Please be better.
Per capita energy use by India is way lower than the world average. Every person in India is entitled to get basic energy need, whatever the source it may be. Currently India is on a path to increase Electricity production by whatever source, be it Coal, Wind, Solar, Hydro, Nuclear, Biofuel, or any other source available not replacing one with other but complimenting each source. That is the reason India has been able to meet the peak demands as and when they arise.
Each country has their own priorities. U.S. is replacing Natural Gas with Electric for domestic use. In India a ‘Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana’ (PMUY) as a flagship scheme with an objective to make clean cooking fuel such as LPG available to the rural and deprived households which were otherwise using traditional cooking fuels such as firewood, coal, cow-dung cakes etc. This has helped health of villagers due to lower level of pollution compared to earlier times.