Congrats !
- and a note of Caution !
Dear Piyush Goyalji :
MINT ( 07 Feb 2017 ) quotes you to say :
·
India’s solar power generation capacity stood at over 9 gigawatt (
GW ) as on 31 Dec 2016
·
State owned NTPC Ltd has decided to shut down its old polluting power
plants of capacity totalling 11 GW and replace those with new ones which are highly efficient
During his budget speech , Shri
Jaitleyji said , target for new Solar Power plants for 2017-18 , is 20 GW
Congratulations for achievements on the
Solar front !
And a word of “ Caution “ as far as
those 11 GW of coal based NTPC
plants
I reproduce below , an extract from book
“ Clean Disruption “ ( page 227 ) by author, Tony Seba ( www.tonyseba.com
) :
India has a growing coal-induced human
catastrophe of its own. Outdoor air pollution caused 600,000 deaths in India in 2010
The country has about 120 GW of coal
today, but has proposed building 519 GW of additional coal power
plants
India’s coal deposits are mainly
composed of lignite, also known as brown coal . Lignite is considered the
lowest quality coal, according to industry classifications
Lignite has up to TEN TIMES the number of volatile organic compounds as US
anthracite
Because has a lower heat content, more
needs to be burned to get the same amount of energy as anthracite
If the additional 519 GW of coal power capacity is brought online in
India, the country will quadruple its coal capacity infrastructure using
lignite, the lowest quality coal
Lignite generates TEN TIMES the particulate matter of anthracite
coal
The human death toll in India because of
coal pollution could be an ORDER OF MAGNITUDE higher than it is today, as many
as SIX MILLION deaths
per YEAR
Moreover, the water needs of the coal
industry would devastate a country already ravaged by water mismanagement and
desertification
Indian reports on soil degradation have
increased by a factor of SIX, according to the United Nations
Convention to combat Desertification
On pages 229-231 , Tony
Seba writes :
“Typical new coal plant will produce power for 12.8 CENT per kwh(Rs 9)
“
Last month , a new Solar Plant in MASDAR City came up at 2.59 CENT / kwh ( Rs 1.8 )
Dear Piyushbhai :
Is it too late for NTPC to re-invent itself ( otherwise known as “ Making
yourself obsolete before someone else does “ ), by becoming NSPC ( National Solar Power Corporation ) ?
During 2015-16 , NTPC suffered a loss of Rs
11,000 crore
To set up those 11 GW of
new coal plants , it will need an investment of Rs 77,000 cr , - and need 10
years to put up - all of which will become
non-productive / dead investment within a few years !
For the same amount , we can put
up 11 GW of Solar plants in ONE YEAR –
plants which will still be 99 % efficient after 20
years !
ADANI Group recently commissioned a 648 MW Solar in Tamilnadu , at Rs 7 Cr per MW – ( Rs 7,000 cr or $ 1 Billion per GW ) - all within 8 months !
Recently , a small nation like Indonesia managed to bring out into the
mainstream economy , some $ 300
Billion of BLACK MONEY ,
through an Amnesty Scheme ( 4 % tax / no penalty !
) – enough for putting up 300 GW of
Solar plants !
Is there a way to save all of the misery
/ cost / human lives , associated with coal ?
I request you to take a look at my
following earlier blogs / emails :
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