The flip aspect of local weather change? Likely to spice up photo voltaic, wind power potential of Kerala, TN, says examine

Express News Service

ALAPPUZHA: A examine carried out by the researchers of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, has revealed that international warming will change the local weather of Kerala and Tamil Nadu in comparison with different Indian states. It will improve the photo voltaic and wind power potential of those states.

According to the examine revealed within the newest difficulty of Current Science journal, the potential for renewable power sources will improve in these states, whereas different states will face crises.

“While the situation in most parts of India will be a reduction in solar radiation, which is also expected to impact during most of the monsoon and post-monsoon seasons (June to November), the situation may be different for both Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The projection of solar potential across Tamil Nadu and Kerala is much better than in other regions of India. The region is also found to be less cloudy in future,” Parthasarathy Mukhopadhyay, a member of the analysis group instructed TNIE over cellphone from Pune.

The examine titled ‘Analysis of future wind and photo voltaic potential over India’ was carried out by T S Anandh, Deepa Gopalakrishnan, and Parthasarathy with the help of the Ministry of Earth Sciences.

Researchers carried out the examine through the use of numerous state-of-the-art local weather fashions, devised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to analyse the wind and photo voltaic projections for the renewable power sector over the Indian subcontinent for the following 40 years. The examine additionally acknowledged that the longer term wind potential for each states can be optimistic throughout the area. “Some of the high wind speeds projected in future lie along Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The wind speed is found to increase in future during all seasons except monsoon,” mentioned Parthasarathy.

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The examine will grow to be a recreation changer to the mission of state authorities to make the state carbon impartial by 2050. According to the most recent info offered by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Tamil Nadu recorded photo voltaic power technology with 8,605 million items (MU) between April 2021 and May 2022 whereas Kerala noticed 600.56 MU throughout the identical interval. MNRE’s information additionally present a major improve in Tamil Nadu’s photo voltaic capability from 2016 (1,062 MW) to 2022 (5690.79 MW).

However, the identical can’t be mentioned of Kerala which witnessed simply 13 MW in 2016. It elevated to 539.60 MW in 2022, the report mentioned.

Tamil Nadu’s newest Renewable Energy Policy has set an formidable goal of 20,000 MW of solar energy initiatives, with satisfactory battery storage. The Kerala authorities, then again, introduced earlier this yr its ambition to grow to be carbon impartial by 2050 with a centered strategy towards the expansion of renewable power. Kerala, nonetheless, has been lagging behind in general photo voltaic installations, the researchers mentioned.

ALAPPUZHA: A examine carried out by the researchers of the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM), Pune, has revealed that international warming will change the local weather of Kerala and Tamil Nadu in comparison with different Indian states. It will improve the photo voltaic and wind power potential of those states.

According to the examine revealed within the newest difficulty of Current Science journal, the potential for renewable power sources will improve in these states, whereas different states will face crises.

“While the situation in most parts of India will be a reduction in solar radiation, which is also expected to impact during most of the monsoon and post-monsoon seasons (June to November), the situation may be different for both Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The projection of solar potential across Tamil Nadu and Kerala is much better than in other regions of India. The region is also found to be less cloudy in future,” Parthasarathy Mukhopadhyay, a member of the analysis group instructed TNIE over cellphone from Pune.

The examine titled ‘Analysis of future wind and photo voltaic potential over India’ was carried out by T S Anandh, Deepa Gopalakrishnan, and Parthasarathy with the help of the Ministry of Earth Sciences.

Researchers carried out the examine through the use of numerous state-of-the-art local weather fashions, devised by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), to analyse the wind and photo voltaic projections for the renewable power sector over the Indian subcontinent for the following 40 years. The examine additionally acknowledged that the longer term wind potential for each states can be optimistic throughout the area. “Some of the high wind speeds projected in future lie along Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The wind speed is found to increase in future during all seasons except monsoon,” mentioned Parthasarathy.

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The examine will grow to be a recreation changer to the mission of state authorities to make the state carbon impartial by 2050. According to the most recent info offered by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Tamil Nadu recorded photo voltaic power technology with 8,605 million items (MU) between April 2021 and May 2022 whereas Kerala noticed 600.56 MU throughout the identical interval. MNRE’s information additionally present a major improve in Tamil Nadu’s photo voltaic capability from 2016 (1,062 MW) to 2022 (5690.79 MW).

However, the identical can’t be mentioned of Kerala which witnessed simply 13 MW in 2016. It elevated to 539.60 MW in 2022, the report mentioned.

Tamil Nadu’s newest Renewable Energy Policy has set an formidable goal of 20,000 MW of solar energy initiatives, with satisfactory battery storage. The Kerala authorities, then again, introduced earlier this yr its ambition to grow to be carbon impartial by 2050 with a centered strategy towards the expansion of renewable power. Kerala, nonetheless, has been lagging behind in general photo voltaic installations, the researchers mentioned.