1) Ministry for Power, Coal New and Renewable Energy and Mines launched which web portal on 21st Dec?
a. Coal Mitra
b. Coal Sandesh
c. Coal Sangh
d. None of the above
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Explanation
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ANSWER: Coal Mitra
Explanation:
Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines, Shri Piyush Goyal launched ‘Coal Mitra’, a Web portal for flexibility in Utilization of Domestic Coal and released reports on ‘Renewable Energy Integration: Transmission an Enabler’, ‘Green Energy Corridor II’ and ‘Electricity Demand Pattern Analysis’ on 21st Dec.
The Coal Mitra Web Portal has been designed to bring about flexibility in Utilisation of Domestic Coal by transferring the reserves to more cost efficient State/Centre owned or Private sector generating stations.
It will be leading to lower generation costs and ultimately lesser cost of electricity for the consumers.
The web portal would be used by the State/Central Gen Cost to display information about normative fixed and variable charges of electricity for the previous month as well as margin available for additional generation so as to enable the utilities identify stations for transfer of coal.
It would host data on Operational and Financial parameters of each coal based station; Quantity and source of supply coal to the power plant; and Distance of Power plant from the Coal mine.
Reports released include ‘Renewable Energy Integration: Transmission, an Enabler’, ‘Green Energy Corridors - II’ and ‘Electricity Demand Pattern Analysis’.
The first two reports, prepared by PGCIL, cover aspects of comprehensive transmission plan to integrate renewable energy sources into the National Grid and role of Transmission as an Enabler in growing Renewable Energy (RE) penetration scenario.
The last report has been prepared by Power System Operation Corporation Limited (POSOCO).
About Coal Reports
The ‘Renewable Energy Integration: Transmission, an Enabler’ report : - Covers the study of balancing and stability issues for 15% & 30% RE capacity penetration.
- Also studies the aspects of Balancing Reserve Analysis with Thermal Power Plants, both gas and supercritical coal, Reservoir type Hydro & Pumped Storage Plants
The ‘Green Energy Corridors-II’ (Part-A) report:
- Details about the identified capacity of Solar Parks and transmission infrastructure requirement in various states at Intra-State and Inter-state level.
- Inter-alia covers the financing options available for rationalisation of transmission tariff.
- Covers challenges to be addressed to facilitate smooth integration of solar power parks.
The ‘Electricity Demand Pattern Analysis’ report:
- Covers the analysis of data archived by POSOCO since 2008 with insights towards diurnal, seasonal and yearly demand patterns, decomposition of demand data into seasonal trends at all levels - National, regional and individual State level.
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3) India is the ___ largest coal producer in the world after China and the US, according to PwC report.
a. 1st
b. 2nd
c. 3rd
d. 4th
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ANSWER: 3rd
Explanation:
India is the third largest coal producer in the world after China and the US and will reach production level of 1.5 billion tonnes by FY20, according to a PwC report - According to the report, India has witnessed a two fold increase in total raw coal consumption in the past ten years
- Coal is mostly consumed for electricity generation in the country to the tune of 64 percent followed by steel at 8 percent and cement at 5 percent.
- Coal production in India has seen a massive increase from FY2010 to FY2016.
- Total domestic output is now estimated at 628 million tonnes
- Of this, 90 percent comes from public sector coal producers while the private sector contributed 10 percent
- Import of coal has also witnessed a rise of 25 percent from 2011 to 2016 as per the report
- In 2015, India imported 212 million tonnes of coal as against 193 a year later
- To attain production level of 1.5 billion tonnes by FY20, coal production must be increased to 1 billion tonnes by FY2020
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