{"id":119117,"date":"2021-10-12T16:29:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T23:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=119117"},"modified":"2021-10-12T16:30:08","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T23:30:08","slug":"aaea-bats-for-long-term-strategy-to-overcome-power-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/10\/12\/aaea-bats-for-long-term-strategy-to-overcome-power-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"All Assam Engineer\u2019s Association (AAEA) bats for long-term strategy to overcome power crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Nava Thakuria<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>Guwahati:\nExpressing concern over the probable electricity crisis due to the shortage of\ncoal supply to various power plants in the coming days, a northeast India based\ngraduate engineers\u2019 forum advocates for a long-term strategy to overcome the\ncrisis focusing on non-fossil fuel power projects. All Assam Engineer\u2019s\nAssociation (AAEA) specially bats for the household solar power generation (for\nown consumption) across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mentionable\nis that the Union government has initiated serious discussions on the impending\nemergency as the festive season just starts in the populous country. Some\nhigher energy consumed States like Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab,\nDelhi, Odisha, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, etc are identified as to be severely\naffected by the crisis, where the concerned authorities have already urged the\nconsumers&nbsp;to use the electricity judiciously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to\nthe central electricity authority of India, around 75% of the country\u2019s 135\ncoal-fired power plants are in serious trouble because of the visible lesser\nsupply of thermal coal from the mines for various reasons. The country\u2019s\ngovernment-run coal producer, Coal India Limited, assumes that the demand for\nelectricity has been rapidly increasing with&nbsp;near normal economic\nactivities after the Covid-19 induced national lockdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coal is\naccountable for nearly 70% of India\u2019s electricity generation. The&nbsp;country\nhas to import a large volume of \u2018black gold\u2019 from Indonesia, South Africa,\nRussia, Australia, Colombia, Kazakhstan, Mozambique, etc. Though India has a\nlarge coal reserve, its heating quality is relatively low and hence the country\nemerges as the world\u2019s third-largest coal importer. However, the government now\nseeks to cut the coal imports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\ncoal-fired electricity is always expensive and it will increase further. Hence\nthe government should consider gradually decreasing the use of coal &amp; gas\n(for moving turbine to finally generate electricity) and starts activating the\nother means of power generations,\u201d said AAEA president Er Kailash Sarma,\nworking president Er Nava J. Thakuria and secretary Er Inamul Hye, adding that\nthe price of renewable energy is going to be cheaper in the coming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The forum\nspecially urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take personal interest in\nencouraging the Indian scientists to develop high performing energy store-houses\n(batteries) as a mission to overcome the crisis forever. As the electricity\ncannot be warehoused after production for the future-use, a scientific\narrangement for preserving the energy for reusing efficiently should be\ndeveloped, stated the forum, adding that it which would finally resolve the\npower crisis not only for one billion-plus Indians, but the entire human\nrace.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nava Thakuria Guwahati: Expressing concern over the probable electricity crisis due to the shortage of coal supply to various power plants in the coming days, a northeast India based graduate engineers\u2019 forum advocates for a long-term strategy to overcome the crisis focusing on non-fossil fuel power projects. All Assam Engineer\u2019s Association (AAEA) specially bats for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nava-thakuria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}