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Delhi Cabinet Approves Electric Vehicle Policy
Delhi government has approved the electric vehicle policy which
mainly focuses. On electric two-wheelers, shared transport vehicles such as three-wheelers
and buses, and goods carriers
or freight vehicles. According to the policy, the government is
targeting 500,000 new EV registrations in Delhi by 2024. These EVs are estimated to cut down approximately INR 60 billion (~842.08 million USD) in oil and liquid gas imports an 4.8 million tons of
carbon dioxide emissions. A dedicatedEV cell will also be
established within the transport department for the effective
day to-day implementation of
the Delhi State EV Policy.
Sunday, October 6, 2019
European Commission Launches Consultation on the Establishment of Smart Readiness Indicator for Buildings
The European Commission has launched a consultation on the Smart Readiness Indicator to help ensure that
building owners, occupants and other
interested parties are made aware of
the significant benefits that smart technologies
and ICT can bring to buildings, particularly
in terms of improved energy performance and enhanced comfort and well-being. The Smart Readiness Indicator is a new instrument to ate the smart readiness of buildings, to be established
under the Energy performance of buildings directive (EPBD) 2018/844. The aim of the consultation
is to collect abroad feedback on some of the
structuring factors of the SRI scheme, in order to inform and orient the policy
making process.
Net Metering Regulations for Solar Projects
The Joint Electricity Regulatory Commission (JERC) for the state of Goa in India and
union territories has finalized the net metering regulations which will be applied to grid-connected roof top mounted, ground-mounted and floating solar PV power projects
in Goa and the union territories of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Chandigarh, Dadar
& Nagar Haveli, Daman & Diu, Lakshadweep, and Puducherry. Under the new regulations, the group net metering framework will apply to all the consumers. The
consumer will pay the developer for all the energy generated at a mutually
agreed tariff. The commercial arrangement between the developer and the prosumer will be submitted to the DISCOM for records, and the DISCOM will not have any role in such a commercial agreement.
Electric Buses to be deployed across 64 Indian Cities
Department of Heavy Industry (DHI) under the Ministry of Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises, has granted the approval for 5,595 electric buses comprising of 5095 buses for intracity operation, 400 buses for intercity operation and 100 buses for last mile connectivity to Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC), to be deployed in 64 cities under the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles (FAME-II) program. The buses will run 4 billion kms during their contract period and are expected to save nearly 1.2litres of fuel will in turn help in reducing 2.6million tons of carbon dioxide emissions
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