Wind, Clean Energy - Current Affairs Questions and Answers

ANSWER: Mexico

Explanation:
United States, Canada and Mexico will generate half their overall electricity from clean energy by 2025, according to the White House

• This is an aggressive goal yet achievable continent wide
• In 2015, clean energy-wind, solar and hydropower plus nuclear power accounted for 37 percent of the three countries electricity
• In the United States, region’s largest electricity producer by far, clean energy generates around a third of the total output, placing it below Canada but ahead of Mexico
• The rise in the coming years will mostly be driven by renewables and energy efficiency
• Canadian cities use hydropower to generate 59 percent of electricity and nuclear power for another 16 percent
• Mexico will join an existing commitment by the US and Canada for reducing the methane production by 40-45 percent of its 2012 level by 2025

ANSWER: US

Explanation:
India and the United States committed themselves to establish the US-India Clean Energy Hub as the coordinating mechanism to focus on government efforts in the US in partnership with leading financial institutions to enhance renewable energy investment in India.

• The two nations also agreed on a US $40 million US-India Catalytic Solar Finance Programme equally supported by the US
• This includes cooperation with USAID on Greening the Grid and support to Indian utilities for scaling up use of rooftop solar equipment

ANSWER: San Francisco

Explanation:
World’s Energy Leaders to gather in San Francisco for the 7th Clean Energy Ministerial and Inaugural Mission Innovation Ministerial on June 1-2,2016.

• Energy Ministers from Nations with 90% of Clean Energy Investments and 75% of GHG Emissions to Focus on Advancing Clean Energy Cooperation and Implementing PRIS Agreement Commitments.

ANSWER: Waive transmission charges for electricity generated from renewable sources

Explanation:
For providing clean energy projects in the nation, government has taken the decision to waive transmission charges for energy from renewable sources according to Union Minister Shri Piyush Goel. A legal framework will be brought out where all inter state transmission of renewable energy will be at no cost. Therefore, renewable energy will not be charged for transmission across the nation. Government has also sanctioned contracts worth INR 38,000 crore via competitive bidding for green corridors.

ANSWER: None of the above

Explanation:
Ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) uses the temperature difference between cooler deep and warmer shallow or surface seawaters to run a heat engine and produce useful work, usually in the form of electricity. However, since the temperature differential is small, the efficiency is low, decreasing the economic feasibility of ocean thermal energy for electricity generation. It needs a working fluid with low boiling point and hence refrigerants like ammonia or R-134a are used. In some cases vapor given out by seawater itself is used. Currently the world’s only operating OTEC plant is in Japan, overseen by Saga University. In 2002, India tested a 1 MW floating OTEC pilot plant near Tamil Nadu. The plant was ultimately unsuccessful due to a failure of the deep sea cold water pipe.

ANSWER: None of the above

Explanation:
LPG has mostly propane and butane. LNG has mostly methane. LPG is suitable for large and heavy diesel vehicles like trucks and buses. LPG, LNG and CNG are cleaner than petrol and diesel.

ANSWER: Only 2

Explanation:
It was constituted in the Public Account of India. National Clean Energy Fund (NCEF) is created for funding research and innovative projects in clean energy technologies.

ANSWER: Buran: Iraq

Explanation:
The Buran is a wind which blows across eastern Asia, specifically Xinjiang, Siberia, and Kazakhstan.

ANSWER: None

Explanation:
Barometer measure the pressure.Wind speed is measured by anemometers. Beaufort wind force scale, although it is a measure of wind speed and not of force in the scientific sense