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14.02.26 - 02:18
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India Explores Gas Power Boost To Stabilize Grid During Peak Hours (ZeroHedge)
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India Explores Gas Power Boost To Stabilize Grid During Peak Hours
By Tsvetana Paraskova of OilPrice.com,
India considers boosting the run rates of its gas-fired power plants during evening peak hours to support the grid amid the surge in renewable power generation, India's Power Secretary Pankaj Agarwal said on Friday.
“For the last three years we have been studying whether gas plants can run for eight hours in the evening and remain shut during the rest of the day,” Agarwal said at a meeting with power plant executives, as carried by Reuters.
India has reduced in recent years its gas-fired power fleet from 25 gigawatts to 20 GW, due to idled plants for years that are now unfit to operate.
However, the country, where coal remains king but renewables rapidly expand, looks to keep the 20 GW gas-fired capacity to provide flexible baseload capacity to offset the intermittency of solar and wind power.
India is expected to import about 29 million tons of LNG this year, while its goal...
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