Carbon Seize, Utilisation and Storage (CCUS) is a course of that captures carbon dioxide from industrial sources and energy vegetation earlier than it enters the ambiance.
The captured carbon dioxide is then transported to both be utilised in numerous merchandise like chemical compounds or fuels, or completely saved in underground geological formations, akin to depleted oil and fuel reservoirs or saline aquifers.
Talking on the seventeenth India Coal Summit organised by the Indian Chamber of Commerce (ICC), Rajnath Ram, Advisor (Power), NITI Aayog, stated, “We're going to launch the CCUS mission very quickly, the place… incentives like 100 per cent authorities funding might be supplied to a few of the expertise. The incentives might vary from 50 per cent to 100 per cent.”
He additional stated these incentives will assist industries undertake carbon seize applied sciences and combine them with coal-based power techniques.
With the expansion within the financial system, the power demand can also be anticipated to go up, he stated, including that the “progress of power demand would undoubtedly require the multiplication of provide facet of power”. Whereas coal is taken into account to be one of many essential constituent of our whole major power provide, quite a lot of renewable power is being put in into the system. “However there are challenges associated to it… In the event you actually wish to combine the renewable power into the system, there are different prices concerned. It's important to parallelly convey the storage which may be costlier,” he defined.
NITI Aayog had earlier stated CCUS additionally has an essential position to play in decarbonising the ability sector, given the nation's current reliance on coal for assembly over 70 per cent of its electrical energy wants.
Even when India is ready to considerably inexperienced the grid and meet the goal of 500 GW put in capability of renewables by 2030, there would nonetheless be a necessity to fulfill the baseload energy demand from fossil fuels (most certainly coal) or different dispatchable sources, given the intermittency and non-dispatchable nature of photo voltaic and wind energy.
India's per capita carbon dioxide emissions are about 1.9 tonnes each year, which is lower than 40 per cent of the worldwide common and about one-fourth of that of China.
There's a want for sustainable answer for the decarbonisation of sectors that contribute to 70 per cent of the emission. CCUS has an essential and important position to play in it, particularly for India to perform net-zero goal by 2070. PTI