Daily Archives: 17.06.2022

Sustainable power supply only from renewable energy sources (RES) is impossible without a traditional power industry, said Andrey Ryumin, head of Rosseti, at the SPIEF session Global Challenges of the Energy Balance-2022, moderated by Sergey Brilev, President of the Global Energy Association.

The construction of nuclear reactors of different capacities, from 1 MW to 1,200 MW, means energy supply problem solution for different regions for 100 years, said Alexey Likhachev, the Rosatom Head, at the SPIEF session The 2022 Global Challenges of the Energy Balance, moderated by Sergey Brilev, President of the Global Energy Association.

The Prism Courage, an LNG carrier owned by SK Shipping, Korea, made the world’s first autonomous transoceanic voyage. The vessel built by Avikus, a HD Hyundai subsidiary, used the HiNAS 2.0 navigation system whose artificial intelligence is capable of environmental recognition and ship-traffic control.

India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) plans to hold a tender within the next three to four months for the construction of 4 GW offshore wind turbines in the state of Tamil Nadu, located in the south of the country. The auction will be the first of eight tenders totaling 37 GW to run through 2030, according to an Offshore Wind report, an industry publication.

As said at the SPIEF Oleg Kazanov, Director of the All-Russian Institute of Mineral Resources (VIMS) under Federal Subsoil Resources Management Agency, Russia may start lithium mining on the basis of the ore deposits in the Murmansk region in 3-4 years and become one of the world’s five largest producers in eight years’ time.