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trading, innovative regional green power The committee, which met with Saifullah slowed to 1% in the first half of September, a
consumption mechanisms, development Abro in the chair, was apprised that currently review of daily load despatch data by federal
of renewable energy power stations and around 1,100 megawatts of electricity was grid regulator POSOCO showed, much slower
development of integrated power Generation- being provided to K-Electric from the than the 16.1% growth in August which had
Grid-Load-Storage projects. Together these national grid at the basket price. resulted in a 23.7% increase in coal-fired
are expected to set examples for the paths Briefing the committee, Power Division output.
of green electricity consumption for digital Additional Secretary Waseem Mukhtar said The steep increase in coal-fired generation
infrastructure companies in China, while that the agreement relating to provision of in August pushed average coal stock held by
also further strengthening the sustainability 650MW to K-Electric from the national grid Indian coal-fired plants down to just six days’
initiatives of Chindata Group. had expired in 2015. needs as of Sept. 13, a near three-year low,
For the exploration on the innovative “However, around 1,100MW is being compared with an April 2020 high of stocks
regional green power consumption supplied to K-Electric at present from the lasting 31 days, latest federal power ministry
mechanisms, Chindata Group has made national grid at the basket price,” he added. data showed. Federal guidelines mandate
accessibility to green energy one of its core K-Electric CEO Moonis Alvi told the utilities have stockpiles that last at least two
site selection principles for its hyperscale data committee that the company’s total electricity weeks.
center infrastructure clusters. Zhangjiakou demand was estimated at 3,600MW and it Renewable energy output rose 53.6% in
city in Hebei Province is China’s first National was generating 1,700MW through its own September, driven by a more than doubling
Renewable Energy Demonstration Zone, generation plants. of wind power production and an 18.6% rise
and has been the home base for Chindata Around 900MW would be added to in solar power generation, the POSOCO data
Group’s first hyperscale data center cluster K-Electric’s system next year, he added. showed, making up for a 5.3% fall in hydro
in the pan-Beijing area. Chindata Group has power output, and a 33.7% decline in gas-fired
consumed a total of 440.2 million kWh green power.
power through the green power consumption
mechanisms in this region and reduced green COAL
gas emissions of around 415,000 tonnes.
CHINDATA GROUP India’s coal-fired power HYDROGEN

output falls 1.5%, Four Japanese firms to
GRID
India’s coal-fired electricity generation so far conduct hydrogen supply
Pakistan’s K-Electric this month fell 1.5% from year earlier, while chain study in Australia
power output from renewable energy jumped
takes1,100 MW from grid 53.6%, Reuters reported. Liquefied hydrogen supplier Iwatani Corp.
The slowdown in coal-fired power output
Pakistan’s Senate Standing Committee on and a pickup in renewable energy generation and three other Japanese firms will partner
Power has discussed the implementation could provide relief to utilities across the with two Australian companies to carry
status of all pending recommendations, country which are struggling with a coal out a feasibility study for a green liquefied
illegal power connections in jurisdictions of shortage, forcing India to ask power plants to hydrogen supply chain project in the state of
distribution companies and K-Electric and the import coal. read more Queensland.
circular debt. Overall electricity generation growth Iwatani, Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd.,

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