Day: July 1, 2021

The Islamabad Chamber of Commerce & Industry (ICCI) has shown grave concerns over the gas suspension to industry as well as electricity load shedding, saying these would badly affect industrial productivity and ultimately hurt the overall economy. ICCI President Sardar Yasir Ilyas Khan said that the supply of gas was stopped abruptly to various industries in Islamabad including steel re-rolling mills and steel furnaces, which has badly disturbed their production schedules. He said that supply of gas to industry has been suspended in the peak summer season, which has never…

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The country is facing outages of 6-18 hours due to shortfall of about 7500 MW in electricity generation and demand as neither the required RLNG is available nor are there sufficient water releases from Tarbela. Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Asad Umar has convened a meeting of Cabinet Committee on Energy (CCoE) on Thursday (today) to review the steps taken by the Ministry of Energy to deal with current energy ‘crisis’ which is attributed to suspension of RLNG supply to three power plants of 4000MW and 3500MW as…

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Consumers of compressed natural gas (CNG) in Punjab will be forced to use expensive fuel due to supply disruption and the government will also have to import more petroleum products worth millions of dollars. It is estimated that with the closure of CNG stations, about one million users of the fuel will have to buy about 15 million litres of petrol and diesel daily in their vehicles. This will not only drastically increase the financial burden on the consumers but also environmental pollution. The government has suspended gas supply to…

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From 1 October 2024 Great Britain will no longer use coal to generate electricity, a year earlier than planned, Energy and Climate Change Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan announced yesterday (Wednesday 30 June 2021). The move is part of ambitious government commitments to transition away from fossil fuels and decarbonise the power sector in order to eliminate contributions to climate change by 2050. Yesterday’s announcement confirms the intention set out by the Prime Minister last year to bring forward the deadline to end unabated coal-fired electricity generation. This brings forward the deadline…

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Reducing fine particulate emissions was a driving factor in the shift from coal to gas at the Junliangcheng power plant in Tianjin, China. Among the other benefits is a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, which is important as the world’s most populous nation strives to become carbon-neutral before 2060. Like many countries around the world, China is on a mission to cut back on coal-fired power generation. In fact, in 2020, the portion of China’s installed electric generation capacity that was fueled by coal dipped below 50% for the first…

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