India Power Industry GHG & CO2 Emissions - India Renewable Energy Consulting – Solar, Biomass, Wind, Cleantech
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All data for 2023.

Total GHG Emissions (CO2eq): 3.4 billion tons.

Total Power Industry Emissions:

  • Total emissions: 1.43 billion tons (CO2eq)
  • Proportion of total: 42%

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Support data and other highlights

1.4 billion tons of CO2 (2023) https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/indias-coal-fired-electricity-output-emissions-hit-record-highs-2024-03-12/

1.85 billion tons Coal combustion in India for power CO2 emissions in 2022: This looks too high to me https://coal.gov.in/sites/default/files/2024-02/Yashvardhan-Verma-Blue-Hydrogen-Coal-gasification-linked-with-CO2-sequestration-IIT-Bombay.pdf

India used about 550 million tons of coal in 2022 which at 2.3 t CO2 per t of coal, translated to 1265 million tons of CO2



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Narsi, a Director at EAI, Co-founded one of India's first climate tech consulting firm in 2008.

Since then, he has assisted over 250 Indian and International firms, across many climate tech domain Solar, Bio-energy, Green hydrogen, E-Mobility, Green Chemicals.

Narsi works closely with senior and top management corporates and helps then devise strategy and go-to-market plans to benefit from the fast growing Indian Climate tech market.

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