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Policy U-Turn on Coal Pollution Puts Lives at Risk and FGD Firms in Crisis

Analysis, Features

  Only 11 per cent of India’s coal-based thermal power units are now required to install flue gas desulphurisation systems. This change follows a recent notification from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, reported The Hindu.   FGD systems help reduce sulphur dioxide from flue gas, a residue from coal combustion. Sulphur dioxide contributes to fine particulate matter in the air, which is linked to heart and lung disease. India first introduced sulphur dioxide…

Unpacking GNA: Discussion on Power Transmission and Renewable Energy Integration

Opinions and Perspective

  In India’s power sector, discussions often spotlight generation, such as renewables, hydro, thermal, or nuclear, but the transmission system, the backbone that delivers electricity, rarely gets its due. General Network Access (GNA), introduced by the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC), simplifies access to shared transmission lines for power producers. In a recent Power Peak Digest podcast on the Electricity Market in India YouTube channel, host Shivani Singh discussed GNA’s role in renewable energy integration…