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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