India is facing an acute shortage of fossil fuels like Coal and Oil and has already seen the Power outages in most parts of India and it will be a most worrying trend in the near future. The acute shortage of the conventional fuels and the subsequent Pollution issues and abnormal release of Greenhouse gases from the Power plant especially Carbon dioxide has major Climate change impacts already observed There is an urgent need to rethink the alternative energies and their promotion This workshop will focus on the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of minimizing Conventional energy and improve energy efficiency in it and more focus on the alternate future energies like Green Hydrogen, Solar energy and Wind energy and its hybrid models will also deliberate on future technologies, The session also proposes to discuss the various alternatives in the Solar, Wind, Hydel powers and to tap and store energies and explore the future fuels The three sessions by experts in the field will discuss the various options to achieve a Net zero emissions by 2040 The government of India and state governments have already had ambitious plans for encouraging the renewable energies under various National Missions such as National Solar Mission, National Hydrogen mission, and Missions on wind energy, Tidal energy under NMRE wing With about 300 clear, sunny days in a year, India's theoretical solar power reception, on its land area is about 5,000 trillion kilowatt-hours. Assuming the efficiency of PV (Photovoltaic) modules as low as 10%, this would still be a thousand times greater than the domestic electricity demand projected for the future years now.
India achieved 5th global position in solar power deployment by surpassing Italy. Solar power capacity has increased by more than 11 times in the last five years from 2.6 GW in March 2014 to 30 GW by 2019 . Presently, solar tariff in India is very competitive and has achieved grid parity Similarly, the wind energy also started a movement and both Wind and Solar hybrid modules are the best option to continue the regular power supply in inaccessible terrains and windy areas There is plenty of Carbon dioxide released from the Power plants which must be trapped By “Carbon Capture and Storage” technology which is to be the most promising technology in the near future to reduce the CO2 and release of Blue Hydrogen Green Hydrogen Concept is one of the best solutions and most promising renewable energy in the near future due to the easy availability of solar energy and Water and an indigenous technology of proton Exchange Membrane Electrolysers which are being developed.
With the increased Green Hydrogen production and up scaling up to 2 GW power in the near future India can reach Net zero emissions by 2040 The Growth of the technologist for Green Hydrogen and maximum investment proposals discussed in the recent TiE sustainability summit at Mumbai reiterated that, India will be an export country for Green Hydrogen by 2050 In addition, there is an urgent need to develop the Storage capacity of the renewable energies and Development of technology for energy storage capacity in the batteries The Geothermal Energy and Tidal energy are also the future prospects to tap energy which are yet to be tapped to utilise as India is having vast Sea shore on the three sides of the country The workshop is jointly organized by Environment Protection Training and Research Institute (EPTRI), the Telangana State Pollution Control Board (TSPCB). The Special Chief Secretaries of Telangana Government from energy department and also Environment department who are the policymakers are attending the workshop and deliberating.The Director General EPTRI will deliberate and plan EPTRI as a technical Hub to impart training in the near future.
