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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.

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

EV Charging Stations in India

The year 2017 will be remembered as a significant one for defining India’s mobility architecture. From big ticket announcements on the marque Ahmedabad-Mumbai high-speed rail project to Hyperloop, India has seized its moment in the sun to announce big plans for finding next generation transportation solutions.

But nothing has caught the imagination of the industry and policy makers quite like the government’s ambitious plans for a mass scale shift to electric vehicles (EVs) by 2030 so that all vehicles on Indian roads by then—personal and commercial—will be powered by electricity. While the transformative push for electric vehicles has become a cause célèbre for India and the world, it presents challenges along with opportunities.

With Volvo’s July announcement that it would phase out the internal combustion engine and manufacture only electric or hybrid vehicles by 2019, many believe India’s EV moment has arrived. It won’t be long before major automakers in India follow Sweden-based Volvo’s lead in phasing out internal combustion engines and electrifying their line-ups to meet the 2030 deadline.

Silver bullet

There are multiple narratives in this fast evolving scenario. From solar power developers and lithium ion battery makers to automobile manufacturers of marque badges, everybody seems to have thrown their hats in the ring. India’s Maharatna and Navratna companies such as NTPC Ltd, Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (Bhel) and Power Grid Corp. of India Ltd, all want a piece of the EV pie in order to remain relevant in the uncertain and evolving energy landscape of the country.

For energy firms, setting up a charging infrastructure is an attractive prospect, given the lucrative market potential projected to be around 90 billion units (BU) of electricity. For comparison, India generated 1,107 BU in 2015-16.

Electric vehicles are also expected to help generate fresh demand for electricity —the lack of which is weighing down the entire power sector—and also help in resolving the stressed assets conundrum.

Any uptake in demand for power will help improve the financial viability of these stressed power sector projects. This in turn would improve the per capita power consumption of around 1,200 kWh—one of the lowest among the large economies.

“In a world in which renewable energy has a very high penetration, India has the opportunity to be independent and provide cheap power to its people in ways that are quite different than say in an economy that is built upon oil and gas,” David Sandalow, fellow at Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, said at a conference in New Delhi in September.

India, the world’s third-largest energy consumer after the US and China, is working towards building a green economy and plans to achieve 175 gigawatt (GW) of renewable energy capacity by 2022 as part of its commitments under the global climate change accord. Of this, 100GW is to come from solar.

“This industry (EV) is starting to take off. And it’s still a tiny percentage of the overall vehicle market but it’s starting to reach an inflection point where it can have I think a very significant impact globally,” said Sandalow, who was acting under secretary of energy during former US President Barack Obama’s term.

Such a shift to renewable energy makes imminent sense for India which paid Rs4.16 trillion to buy 202.85 million tonnes of crude oil in 2015-16. “Particularly in a high solar resource country like India, it is a very good strategy for providing transportation,” Sandalow said.

EVs as a storage

The fates of solar power and electrical vehicles in India are likely to be closely interlinked, given that EVs have batteries that can offer a storage solution to India’s clean energy push.

Solar power generated during the day needs to be stored in batteries. The storage capability of EV batteries could help with grid balancing, complementing the National Democratic Alliance government’s push for solar power.

With lithium battery prices having nose dived from $600 per kilowatt-hour (kWh) in 2012 to $250 per kWh in 2017, the solution is becoming economically viable. The EV industry is betting on a further drop to $100 per kWh by 2024.

Bioplastics

Bioplastics are plastics in which all carbon is derived from renewable feedstocks. They may or may not be biodegradable. Biobased plastics contain both renewable and fossil-fuel-based carbon. The percentage of biobased ingredients and the conditions under which the biobased product may biodegrade, if at all, vary widely.

According to the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), a biobased material is:

an organic material in which carbon is derived from a renewable resource via biological processes. Biobased materials include all plant and animal mass derived from CO2 recently fixed via photosynthesis, per definition of a renewable resource.

Products on the market are made from a variety of natural feedstocks including corn, potatoes, rice, tapioca, palm fiber, wood cellulose, wheat fiber and bagasse. Products are available for a wide range of applications such as cups, bottles, cutlery, plates, bags, bedding, furnishings, carpets, film, textiles and packaging materials. In the US, the percentage of biobased ingredients required for a product to be referred to as biobased, is defined by the USDA on a product-by-product basis. ILSR has recommended that the USDA set a minimum threshold of 50 percent biobased content for products to be considered biobased.

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