Скачать или смотреть The COVID-19 lockdown has reduced India’s CO2 emissions

The COVID-19 lockdown has reduced India’s CO2 emissions. CO2 emissions fell ~1% in 2019-20: Carbon Brief (aggregator)

Coal-fired power generation dropped 5% in March and 31% in the first 3 weeks of April 2020
Along with the pandemic, economic slowdown and growth in renewables has been attributed for this decline. Renewable power output increased 6.4% in March but dropped 1.4% in April

COVID-19 lockdown also reduced oil consumption by 18% the demand for which was already dropping in 2019. In comparison, natural gas saw a growth of 5.5% in 2019-20 but is likely to fall 15-20% because of the lockdown. While the fall in emissions may be short term, the growth of renewable energy is a positive sign, Carbon Brief noted. Further solar power prices were lower than that of coal.
A recent auction of 2000 MW by NHPC saw the average cost of tariff fall to Rs 2.55-2.56 per unit.

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