India Electricity Mix
By Paul Homewood
We concentrate on energy and emissions data in China for obvious reasons – it is such a big country. We consequently tend to ignore the rest of Asia. So let’s take a closer look at India.
BP Energy Review
Over the last decade, electricity generation from fossil fuel plants has increased by 73%, and still accounts for 78% of total electricity.
In unit terms, fossil fuel power has increased by 566 TWh since 2010, while wind and solar have risen by only 117 TWh. And as the second chart shows, the annual rate of addition of renewables is if anything slowing, not accelerating.
In 2021, India added 1.5 GW and 10.3 GW of wind and solar power respectively; enough to generate 16 TWh. Total electricity generation is, however, 1337 TWh, a figure which has been increasing at a rate of 56 TWh a year since 2010.
In other words, new wind and solar capacity is only enough to meet a quarter of new demand.
There appears to be little sign of any of this changing in the foreseeable future.
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Off topic but this article is about NOAA’s hurricane predictions for this season which is not doing too well at the moment.. They’ve had to lower their prediction because of the slow start to the season. It might be worth keeping an eye on their site as we go through the year.
https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/noaa-still-expects-above-normal-atlantic-hurricane-season
India gets a free pass as long as China’s in the mix. But then, they both have an underclass that needs (cheap) energy. Such a shame that the traffic-light tendency – the Greens too yellow to admit they’re really Reds (Props to Chris Monckton) can’t see that the UK has people in need of energy too.
I can’t remember if it was Chris Monckton or someone else who also called environmentalists watermelons, green on the outside red on the inside.
IIRC it was James Delingpole who christened the Greens “watermelons”.
India has a young population, China an ageing one.
China’s will peak about 2030, India about 2060 with a larger population than China.
The “population pyramids” are informative.
https://www.populationpyramid.net/china/2019/
The chart on the top right has a “slider”.
India has loads of problems.
Their politicians are often venal incompetents.
But they are absolutely brilliant compared to the denizens of Westminster and Whitehall. And few are interested in driving India off the nearest cliff.
Looks like there’s problems in Holland
Dutch power grid overloaded in more places; No new connections possible
https://nltimes.nl/2022/08/04/dutch-power-grid-overloaded-places-new-connections-possible
Oh dear…how sad…never mind!
Titter ye not, parts of West London are in the same situation.
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Take a look at AEP’s latest outpouring in the DT.
Let’s just say that ‘comments could be going better !’
He really can’t ‘read the room’ can he ?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2022/08/05/tories-doomed-betray-thatcher-retreat-net-zero/
The IEA Coal Market Update – July 2022 says India consumed a total of 1053 Mt (Million tonnes) of coal in 2021 a “new record high”. Three quarters was used for electricity production and coal consumption rose by 12% or 117Mt.