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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RzfH3rZ89gA" width="459"></iframe>Jebaraj Samuel Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090917329531281849noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906121108330139841.post-4580673369295894212015-10-26T22:59:00.003-07:002015-10-26T22:59:48.186-07:00Here’s What They're Saying About President Obama’s Clean Power Plan - WhiteHouse<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There is consensus across a broad swath of supporters -- from businesses to mayors, medical professionals to faith leaders, and environmentalists to civil rights groups -- that this landmark action will protect public health, reduce energy bills for households and businesses, create American jobs, and bring clean power to communities across the country.</div>
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Today, President Obama announced the Administration’s biggest step yet in the fight against global climate change – the Clean Power Plan, which sets the first-ever carbon pollution standards for power plants.</div>
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There is consensus across a broad swath of supports – from business to mayors, medical professionals to faith leader, and environmentalists to civil rights groups, that this landmark action will protect public health, reduce energy bills for households and businesses, create American jobs, and bring clean power to communities across the country.</div>
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Below are just some of the reactions:</div>
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Today, President Obama honored his commitment to act on climate change, a public health emergency. The Clean Power Plan is a tremendous step forward in the United States’ fight against carbon pollution and climate change that will also bring immediate health benefits to the American people. EPA estimates that the Clean Power Plan will prevent up to 3,600 premature deaths and 90,000 asthma attacks in 2030, as well as prevent 300,000 missed days of work and school.</div>
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I, along with the National Hispanic Medical Association’s 50,000 member doctors and allied health professionals, strongly support the EPA’s final rule limiting carbon pollution from existing power plants. Pollution from these power plants — both carbon pollution and other toxic power-plant emissions — sickens people raising the risk of illnesses like asthma, allergies, lung cancer and heart disease.</div>
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We applaud the Clean Power Plan for boldly addressing this problem now. The new plan is projected to prevent 3,600 premature U.S. deaths and 90,000 asthma attacks among our nation’s children. Close to 90 percent of deaths resulting from power plant emissions will be prevented and the nation’s students and workers will see 300,000 fewer missed school and work days.</div>
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Cities have been leading the way since 2005 with over 1,000 Mayors pledging to reduce their carbon emissions below 1990 levels through their efforts to increase energy efficiency and renewable energy, retrofitting lights and buildings, reducing waste, increasing recycling efforts, and reducing landfill emissions. The Mayors of this nation look forward to working with their states and engaging more with the utilities to implement sustainable GHG emission reductions that will not only protect the environment but also realize cost savings for consumers and businesses in their communities.</div>
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<a href="http://www.seiu.org/2015/08/seius-henry-we-can-address-climate-change-public-health-while-building-a-stronger-economy" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">SEIU</strong></a><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, International President, Mary Kay Henry:</strong></div>
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In today’s out-of-balance economy, many hard-working moms and dads struggle to make ends meet and provide better lives for their families. At home and in their communities, many families are forced to breathe the most hazardously dirty air in America, caused by carbon emissions from nearby power plants — especially in communities of color. SEIU is the largest healthcare workers’ union in the United States. Our members know first-hand the impact of both life-threatening pollution and extreme weather events. The Clean Power Plan will both reduce greenhouse gas emissions that result in climate change and loosen the air pollution chokehold on working families’ lives and livelihoods by helping to improve air quality, which will provide relief to children and adults suffering from asthma and other respiratory ailments.</div>
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<a href="http://www.bluegreenalliance.org/news/latest/statement-bluegreen-alliance-on-the-clean-power-plan" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Blue Green Alliance</strong></a><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, Executive Director Kim Glas</strong>:</div>
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Climate change is an environmental problem and an economic problem. But if we do this right, our actions to address it can become an opportunity. We look forward to working together in the coming months to develop an inclusive and comprehensive plan that protects our environment and creates growth and shared prosperity for generations to come.</div>
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<a href="http://consumersunion.org/news/consumers-union-clean-power-plan-will-improve-public-health-help-consumers-save-money-on-energy-bills/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Consumers Union</strong></a><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, Policy Counsel Shannon Baker-Branstetter</strong>:</div>
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Many states are already well on their way in moving to cleaner sources of energy. Consumer Reports has long advocated for greater energy efficiency and clean energy as ways to lower electric bills in the long-term. The Clean Power Plan has a very reasonable schedule for states to implement these improvements, and the plan offers states the flexibility and control they need to reach the goals of cutting emissions in the most cost-effective ways.</div>
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<a href="http://www.ceres.org/press/press-releases/365-companies-and-investors-announce-support-for-epa2019s-clean-power-plan" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Calvert Investments</strong></a><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, Vice President of Shareholder Advocacy Stu Dalheim:</strong></div>
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Climate change poses serious risks to financial markets and the U.S. economy which manages more than $13.5 billion. At Calvert, we believe solutions to climate change offer real opportunities to U.S. investors and companies. That’s why we strongly support the EPA’s Clean Power Plan. It’s common-sense, flexible and pragmatic approach will provide investors with the certainty needed to put their capital to work to continue the transition to a low-carbon economy.</div>
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<a href="http://www.ceres.org/press/press-releases/statement-from-ceres-president-mindy-lubber-re-epa2019s-clean-power-plan-final-rule" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">CERES</strong></a><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, President Mindy Lubber:</strong></div>
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The Clean Power Plan is the right measure at the right time. It’s a flexible, practical and economically sound blueprint to transition America toward a low-carbon future. That’s why 365 leading companies, from small local businesses to iconic Fortune 500 brands, are supporting the EPA rule publicly and are calling for timely finalization of state implementation plans by state governors.</div>
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<a href="http://www.windpowerengineering.com/policy/strong-support-for-clean-power-plan-voiced-by-business-leaders-across-u-s/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">EverPower</strong></a><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, President & CEO Jim Spencer:</strong></div>
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There are 57,000 clean energy jobs in Pennsylvania and with the Clean Power Plan, we should expect that number to grow considerably. By allowing our state the opportunity to craft better, stronger renewable energy and energy efficiency policies, we can provide the market signal businesses, like mine, to keep investing in our state. This creates good jobs that can’t be outsourced, cuts carbon pollution and expands our economy.</div>
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<a href="http://www.ceres.org/press/press-releases/365-companies-and-investors-announce-support-for-epa2019s-clean-power-plan" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">General Mills</strong></a><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, Chief Sustainability Officer Jerry Lynch:</strong></div>
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General Mills is committed to doing our part to tackle climate change and we fully support the effective implementation of the Clean Power Plan. In particular, we applaud the efforts of our home state of Minnesota for the progress its energy officials are making in building a plan that will work cost-effectively for the families, farmers, municipalities and the business community alike.</div>
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The Clean Power Plan presents an important opportunity to create thousands of jobs, save customers money, and improve reliability of our electrical system. This isn’t about politics – it’s about economic opportunity for all Americans, and cost savings for everyone.</div>
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The Clean Power Plan represents a commitment to continuing the transition from carbon-intensive generation to efficient, low-carbon generation, This flexible, market-based solution will reward the companies that invest and have invested smartly in cleaner generation. We applaud the EPA for its efforts throughout this collaborative process and look forward to working with the agency, states and other stakeholders as the rule is ultimately implemented.</div>
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We are pleased to see the administration responded to the comments we and others made, that renewables are ready to serve. The Clean Energy Incentive Program holds promise as a way to encourage states to move forward well before 2022, we look forward to the opportunity the EPA is providing to comment on the details. We know wind energy is a solution that works, and we’re ready to meet this challenge.</div>
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I congratulate the Administration on finalizing the Clean Power Plan rule and greatly appreciate the significant outreach and engagement with our sector. They took the time to understand that states and regions are in different starting places and have different opportunities for achieving emission reductions. While we are optimistic about the contributions this rule will make, it is very complex and we must complete an assessment of its impact on our customers, state and region.</div>
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Implementing clean energy is familiar ground for Xcel Energy. We have worked for years with our states to increase the use of renewable resources, to help customers save energy and to modernize and retire our coal plants—all at a reasonable cost. This approach has put our company on a sound course to achieve a 30 percent reduction in carbon dioxide by 2020. We appreciate the EPA’s willingness to work with stakeholders in developing this groundbreaking and complex set of regulations.</div>
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The compliance targets for Virginia have moved in a positive direction that fairly recognizes the role of natural gas generation in reducing emissions. Dominion will work constructively with Governor McAuliffe, the state agencies, and other stakeholders on a compliance plan that has our customers as the first priority, ensures reliability, and maintains a diverse mix of electric generation. I commend Administrator McCarthy for making critical changes to the proposed rule.</div>
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The bishops welcome this important move by the administration to adopt long-awaited standards to mitigate climate change and safeguard public health, which are significant ways to live out our responsibility to care for God’s creation.</div>
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If the news reports are accurate, the EPA will give extra credit to states that move early — and even more credit to states that focus on getting energy efficiency and renewables to low-income communities. That’s a big win for everyone working to get energy bills down and solar panels up in poor neighborhoods.</div>
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The EPA has devised a plan to have clean energy and build a low-carbon economy—and the Clean Power Plan is the solution. The implementation of the Clean Power Plan will reduce health related respiratory risks, create jobs in the clean energy industry and will also set a criterion to be replicated globally. The United States needs to spearhead this initiative of creating new ways to battle and prepare for climate change that has already impacted areas throughout the world. The U.S. Black Chambers, Inc. is committed to supporting the Clean Power Plan. USBC believes this action plan is the first step in combating climate change.</div>
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<a href="http://trumanproject.org/press-releases/statement-fromtruman-project-ed-mike-breen-on-clean-power-plan/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Truman National Security Project</strong></a><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, Executive Director Mike Breen:</strong></div>
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Power plants are currently responsible for 40 percent of America’s carbon dioxide emissions and one-third of domestic greenhouse gas emissions overall. We applaud the EPA for taking this step to reduce carbon emissions that contribute to climate change. This new rule builds upon steps already taken by our military to address the threat of climate change and puts the United States on the right trajectory to be a global leader in slashing emissions that fuel climate change. This is a positive step towards addressing the serious threat climate change poses to our national security.</div>
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The winter sports community applauds these historic standards. We appreciate the Administration’s bold leadership in placing meaningful reduction standards on the largest source of carbon emissions. It’s what’s needed in order to grow our $62 billion industry, support our 964,000 jobs and maintain the vibrancy of our resort communities that depend on tourism dollars throughout the year. These tighter targets and increased incentives for renewable energy and efficiency will help address the impacts of climate change – warmer, shorter winters, drought and wildfires. They will also position the U.S. well for upcoming climate talks in Paris at the end of this year. We know that these standards are good for our businesses and the future of our sports. It’s time now to embrace innovation and clean energy, and we thank The White House and the EPA for taking the first major step towards making that happen.</div>
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<a href="http://www.lcv.org/media/press-releases/LCV-Statement-on-President-Obama-s-Release-of-Clean-Power-Plan.html" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #336699; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">League of Conservation Voters</strong></a><strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">, President Gene Karpinski</strong>:</div>
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In forty years of environmental advocacy, I’ve never been more proud of any President. A challenge as great as climate change requires steps as bold as this. These historic standards, which are the single biggest step our government has ever taken, will finally put a stop to our nation’s largest polluters’ ability to spew an unlimited amount of carbon pollution into our air. The politics of climate change have been steadily evolving over the last several years with poll after poll showing a majority of Americans supporting action to limit carbon pollution. Those politicians who oppose these widely popular new protections and repeat the fact-free talking points of the corporate polluters do so against the wishes of their constituents.</div>
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It’s a simple idea that will change the world: Cut carbon pollution today so our kids won’t inherit climate chaos tomorrow. That’s what this historic plan will achieve.</div>
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The Clean Power Plan is an opportunity for workers, entrepreneurs, and businesses to prosper as we go above and beyond the goals set by this plan. It is a step towards improving the quality of life for low income neighborhoods and communities of color, which have disproportionately borne the brunt of power plant pollution for decades. And it is a signal to the rest of the world that the U.S. is serious about acting on climate disruption and ready to lead the way toward a strong international climate agreement in Paris later this year.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Data available with the government showed that more than 2 crore subsidized LED bulbs had been distributed under the Domestic Efficient Lighting Programme till Thursday evening, helping in daily energy savings of 73 lakh units, which translates into Rs 2.9 crore a day.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><strong style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">READ ALSO: </strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"></span><a class="inline-read" href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/environment/developmental-issues/LED-bulbs-to-save-up-to-Rs-40000cr-says-Piyush-Goyal/articleshow/48941146.cms" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #024d99; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">LED bulbs to save up to Rs. 40,000cr, says Piyush Goyal</strong></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">With the programme gaining momentum, lighting giant Philips and other companies have shown interest in setting up manufacturing facility in the country given that the scale is suddenly looking much bigger than what they had originally anticipated. The government is looking to provide 77 crore bulbs by 2018. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">"Since the order was small, parts of components are being imported. But now everyone is saying we want to manufacture in India," power minister Piyush Goyal told TOI. He said an earlier skepticism is giving way to genuine interest in the Indian market.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><img src="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/photo/49498601.cms" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; height: 386px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 630px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">The DELP was launched by Modi on January 5. The scheme also fits well with the Modi government's strategy for climate talks since it is helping reduce the carbon footprint as well as reducing peak power demand by close to 700 MW through lower energy consumption. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Although some of the states had been slow off the block, they are now gaining pace. Among the states, Andhra Pradesh is currently way ahead of the pack with 65 lakh bulbs, followed by Delhi at a little under 34 lakh and Uttar Pradesh at 33 lakh. Guntur in Andhra appeared to be the top performing district in the country, with 18.6 lakh LED bulbs. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Goyal said hard bargain has seen bulb prices come down from Rs 310 for a 7W bulb to Rs 73 for a 9W bulb last month with "no compromise on technical aspects, or on the qualification criteria". The government is now looking to place an order for 10 crore bulbs, the minister said.</span></div>
Jebaraj Samuel Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090917329531281849noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906121108330139841.post-85916747431465996202015-10-23T06:10:00.002-07:002015-10-23T06:10:07.770-07:00Solar Panel Prices in India - Rooftop Solar PV buying Guide in India<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Electricity is becoming expensive with each passing day and more people are getting interested in using solar energy to meet their electricity needs. Power cuts and dependence on DG sets is making people look for more and better sources. Solar PV panels provide a very good alternative. Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE), Government of India is also promoting solar PV systems under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission in the country. They also provide subsidy to people buying solar panels under this scheme. There are a lot of people keen in buying solar panels in India so we thought of doing a research on price of solar panels. Below is our research on price of solar panels:</div>
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As per our resources from the solar PV industry, cost of a PV module (just the panel) costs anywhere between Rs 30 to Rs 60 per watt of power generated (depending on the quantity you are buying). A good imported module will cost around Rs 40-45 per watt (for bulk transactions, not for retail). Good ones manufactured in India would come as low as Rs 30-32 per watt (for bulk transactions, not for retail). Please note that this is the cost for the panel and in case you are looking for inverter and batteries, the cost would be additional. A good 5 kW system for a <a href="https://www.bijlibachao.com/" style="color: #74a824; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" title="home">home</a> would cost around Rs 5-7 lakhs to setup (at retail price of around Rs 50-60 per Wp) , which can provide electricity for 25 years. The additional operating cost will include the cost of replacing the batteries.</div>
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<a href="http://mnre.gov.in/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #74a824; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">MNRE</a> provides 30% capital subsidy on capital expenditures for rooftop solar systems for both commercial and residential entities for systems up to 100 kW. The government also provides loans at 5% per annum for 50% of the capital expenditure for 5 years tenure for both commercial and residential entities. Commercial entities can claim either capital or interest subsidies. (<strong>note: </strong>As on October 2014, we have heard from several vendors that subsidy is hard to get, as either the applications are not being processed or taking quite a lot of time to get processed. Please check with your vendor if they will be able to get you subsidy or not.).</div>
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MNRE has also published a list of authorized suppliers and manufacturers that is available at the links: <a href="http://bit.ly/1nEVoJh" rel="nofollow" style="color: #74a824; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/1nEVoJh</a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/1qyMv8D" rel="nofollow" style="color: #74a824; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/1qyMv8D</a></div>
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We have also started doing some research on the prices of Solar PV Panels from various manufacturers in the country and here are some numbers from a good indian manufacturer (for bulk transaction) and some retail vendors/suppliers (for retail/small transactions):</div>
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Please note that Mono is for Monocrystaline PV cell and Multi is for Multicrystaline (or Polycrystaline) PV cell. The difference between the two is that Monocrystaline is made of single silicon crystal whereas Multicrystaline PV is made up of multiple crystals. A monocrystaline is more efficient in converting solar energy into electricity per sq meter area than a multicrystaline PV. Thus the space required for the same amount of wattage is less in monocrystaline PV panel. Thus it is costlier than a Multicrystaline PV. The choice between the two depends on the area that you have for PV installation. Also the price increases as you decrease the panel wattage. So smaller the panel you buy, costlier it is.</div>
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More details on Solar PV roof top systems are also available on our link: <a href="https://www.bijlibachao.com/solar/roof-top-solar-pv-system-project-for-home-and-office.html" style="color: #74a824; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;">Roof-Top Solar PV system project for home and office</a><a href="https://www.bijlibachao.com/solar/roof-top-solar-pv-system-project-for-home-and-office.html" style="color: #74a824; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;"><br /></a></div>
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Understand more about basics of Solar PV systems on our link: <a href="https://www.bijlibachao.com/solar/solar-electric-solar-thermal-power-generation-inverters-grid-off-grid-clearing-the-cobweb.html" style="color: #74a824; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;">Solar electric, solar thermal, power generation, inverters, grid, off-grid: clearing the cobweb</a></div>
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Understand more about how to get NABARD subsidy on Solar PV Systems: <a href="https://www.bijlibachao.com/solar/procedure-to-get-subsidy-on-solar-pv-systems-through-nabard-in-india.html" style="color: #74a824; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.3s ease-in-out;">Procedure to get subsidy on Solar PV Systems through NABARD in India</a></div>
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Here is a quick video that can guide you on Rooftop Solar PV buying in India:</h3>
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Jebaraj Samuel Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090917329531281849noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906121108330139841.post-51130072609301679362015-10-23T03:07:00.000-07:002015-10-23T03:08:17.897-07:00Sun shines a light on power<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Whether solar power works out economically cheaper or not, the real benefits are to be found in the DIY approach to understanding how you consume power in your home.</h2>
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The most common questions that I face after we have installed a rooftop solar plant at our apartment are about the government subsidies for green technology or about the savings we make in the bi-monthly electricity bills.</div>
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To me, these are redundant and hide the big question that needs to be asked: do you understand electricity better now?</div>
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Wait. Let me rephrase that a bit, to make it sound a little less academic:</div>
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Am I more aware of how much power I consume in everyday life, the same way a lot of us have become aware about water.</div>
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This comparison is apt to the extent that both water and electricity bills take up a huge chunk of our living expenses.</div>
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Water is easy to understand. It is tangible and we get to see it stored. We have always rationed it, and wastages are very noticeable.</div>
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Electricity, on the other hand, is not tangible to quantify and experience. I think it would be fair to say that, by and large, we have compromised a lot on understanding it. At least, I belong to the generation that depends on an electrician even to change a light bulb.</div>
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To me, the biggest takeaway from going solar has been how I have been able to restart my efforts in understanding electricity. That will be my number one reason to go solar.</div>
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Let us first address the elephant in the room. No, it is not an economically prudent decision to install rooftop solar at your home — if you are looking at it in terms of “return on investment”. Such fiscal calculations discount the understanding these systems give.</div>
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I am a Physics graduate but what I studied in college nearly two decades back was hardly in my memory. So, I quite enjoyed brushing up on some chapters of the ‘Fundamentals of Physics’ by Robert Resnick and David Halliday to just to re-grasp some basics.</div>
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There are enough resources online, including videos on YouTube or Wikipedia among others, that can help you get a feel for not just solar power but electricity in general.</div>
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Take a look at this article for example on <a href="http://energy.about.com/od/Solar/a/Pros-And-Cons-Of-Solar-Power-For-Home-Use.htm" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1ec1a2; text-decoration: none;" target="_top">About.com</a>. The website is written for an American audience but has been my go-to website when it comes to DIYs especially (I have become a bit of a coffee snob of late, and keep checking the site for some barista tips, but let us save that for a future post).</div>
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Here is the absolute break-down of the essentials of installing a rooftop solar plant. It required setting up an array of photovoltaic cell panels, connecting all the panels to an array junction box, running a DC electrical wiring up to the inverter that was placed in a room, assembling an array of gel batteries to store the power and some substantial civil engineering work.</div>
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Although I was aware of the specifications of the components used by our vendor to set up the system, I did not bother myself with the nitty-gritty much.</div>
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I was present during the initial site visits that my solar vendor's engineering team made to assess our terrace’s viability to hold a power plant. Having a terrace alone is not a criterion. We needed to know exactly which portions of the terrace did not have a “sun shadow” region and would be ideal for the photovoltaic cells to be placed at.</div>
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One of my first learnings was that assessing this space availability was key to determining various important factors, the most important of which was just how big a plant we could put up.</div>
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We decided to allocate enough space for an ‘off-grid’ 2-KW plant that would power the lights and fans in a couple of rooms in each of the flats. The decision to go for an ‘off-grid’ plant was made keeping in mind the shared cost of the project by all the apartment-owners. I am unable to go into all the reasoning in this post, but let me just say in an ‘on-grid’ setup, sharing the power load evenly across flats is not feasible. I would still recommend an ‘on-grid’ system whole-heartedly for independent houses.</div>
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Solar cells are not necessarily the best option for independent houses, where on-grid systems work better. But for shared electricity, such as in apartment complexes, the off-grid solar cells are a great option. ~ Photo: D. Chakravarty</div>
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Once the rooftop plant was installed, the big challenge was to create a scenario where the stored power could be evenly distributed to all the homes in the three-storey apartment complex of ours.</div>
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This was where even the smallest of details posed the hardest of challenges. In our case, I can boil that down to a quarter of an inch. The electrician who did the wiring for the apartment apparently decided to save on a few hundreds of rupees by opting for the 3/4-inch pipe, instead of the one-inch pipe, for the concealed wiring.</div>
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This became a big headache when we had to run the additional wiring from the inverter/battery room down to the individual apartments to power the rooms we had identified for solar.</div>
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There is an important detail to be clarified here. In the case of our apartment, which was constructed as a joint venture between my family and a private builder, the original contract provided for the setting up of a Diesel Generator that would provide power back-up for all the three phases of the entire building in case of a power-cut.</div>
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To me, going to the diesel generator back-up ticks all the wrong boxes. I am going to keep the arguments of 'diesel generator vs solar powerplant' out of this post though. But somehow, this option is most preferred by many real estate developers in Chennai. Most apartment builders either run their own franchisee operations in diesel generators or have tied up with other such operators. Why they do not proactively promote solar power is beyond my understanding. The one-shot solution of "fill up on diesel for power-cuts" does not make any sense, be it from an economical or environmental point of view.</div>
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Getting back to the challenge at hand: how do we evenly distribute 2KW of solar power to all the homes in a three-storey apartment? We decided to keep the peak production at 1,600 watts and conservatively broke it down to 500 watts per floor. That meant 250 watts per apartment.</div>
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So each apartment could have up to three fans and four lights that would run entirely on solar power during the day, when the photo-voltaic cells operate to convert the solar energy into power. These fans and lights would also have battery back-up during non solar-generation hours. That would address the power-cuts we might face during nights.</div>
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The Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore became the first cricket venue to go solar earlier this year. The array of 400-KW rooftop solar power panels are designed to produce as much power as 200 All-electric Homes.</div>
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Let us not forget that Chennai, like most cities in Tamil Nadu, has had very severe power cuts in recent years, and almost every home has had a tryst with the inverter. We opted for special gel batteries for the solar power, and these came with the promise of longer life. This also led me on a bit of a research on the charge-drain cycles of batteries.</div>
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The <a href="https://www.bijlibachao.com/solar/solar-panel-cell-cost-price-list-in-india.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1ec1a2; text-decoration: none;">Bijli Bachao website</a> is a handy online resource on the topic of power savings — solar power in particular. Here is their recently updated article on the cost of photovoltaic cells for solar homes in India. The median costs vary from Rs.30 per watt up to Rs.60 per watt. (We opted for a solar panel that cost nearly Rs.49 per watt.)</div>
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Vendors quote anything between Rs.1.2 lakh to Rs.2 lakh per KW for an end-to-end installation plus first-year maintenance of an ‘off-grid’ rooftop solar system. The components whose costs vary dramatically are the photo-voltaic cells and, most critically, the batteries.</div>
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We opted for a costly gel-based battery that had a substantially longer ‘charge-drain’ cycle than other batteries and also had a five-year replacement warranty. In the ‘off-grid’ solar system, which runs with a battery back-up, I see no reason to cut corners when it comes to battery costs.</div>
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As I kept drilling further into the topic, there were more learnings on how home appliances consume electricity. We could not connect the power lines from the solar plant to “heavy load” devices like high-wattage blenders or ovens. I also found out what the “idle power” was for computers (go ahead, try and Google this for the devices that you put on standby. You would be surprised. <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT201918" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #1ec1a2; text-decoration: none;">This is what I found about my iMac</a>).</div>
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Ultimately, everything just boiled down to this. Going solar has helped cut my electricity bills, but it is mainly because I am more aware today. I feel a lot more responsible about using the power we generate in a judicious manner.</div>
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The fans we have installed operate at a much lower wattage than most fans of big brands that are available off the shelf. I switch off my Mac when I know that I am not going to be operating for a duration of more than an hour or so.</div>
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In order to be truly power-efficient, we picked fans that would operate effectively at much lower power consumption. In fact, I read the power specification labels a lot more closely these days whenever I am out shopping for electrical appliances.</div>
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Going forward, whether or not you go solar, this understanding is going to be critical. After all, electricity ain’t gonna get cheaper.<br />
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Source - http://www.thehindu.com/thread/technology/article7784382.ece</div>
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Jebaraj Samuel Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090917329531281849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906121108330139841.post-44020200921843110602015-10-19T06:31:00.002-07:002015-10-19T06:31:37.645-07:00Cricket stadium in Rajkot to be solar powered<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">RAJKOT: The Governing body of Saurashtra Cricket Association (SCA) has announced that Saurashtra Cricket Stadium in Rajkot has become the second cricket Stadium in the country to have Installed 50 kWp solar rooftop system. Saurashtra Cricket Association has also plans to put up additional capacity in the near future to pioneer green power generation. </span><img src="http://www.saucricket.com/images/stadium09.jpg" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Saurashtra Cricket Association (SCA) sources said that the plant of 50 kWp installed now is designed to generate 6833 units per month and yearly 82,000 units(Eighty two thousand units) of solar power, and will be used for captive consumption purpose and monthly saving of electricity bill of approximately Rs 54600. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">In terms of saving of carbon emission, it translates to a saving of about 50 tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually. German based Solar Company PV Line Pvt Ltd has designed, engineered, supplied and executed the project. The stadium is now eco-friendly. The stadium has utilised the space for helping to protect the environment. </span><br />
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The solar system shall be officially inaugurated on Sunday before the match between India vs South Africa starts. India and South Africa will play their second ODI at SCA stadium on Sunday.</div>
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Jebaraj Samuel Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090917329531281849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906121108330139841.post-44457015851055861002015-10-09T22:41:00.001-07:002015-10-09T22:44:57.761-07:00The President Speaks at the National Clean Energy Summit<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very much. (Applause.) Thank you, everybody. Please, please, have a seat. We're all about saving energy here. (Laughter.) Sit down. </div>
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Hello, Las Vegas! (Applause.) It’s good to be back on the road after spending a little downtime with my family -- recharging my own batteries, so to speak. And it is great to join you at this clean energy summit to see the work that you’re all doing on what I consider to be one of the most important issues not just of our time, but of any time. </div>
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I want to thank Mandalay Bay and MGM’s chairman, Jim Murren, for hosting us today. I want to thank my dear friend, your outstanding Senator, Harry Reid, for holding this summit -(applause) -- and for keeping us focused on this challenge. I want to thank him, by the way, for his strong statement over the weekend in support of a deal that is going to make sure that Iran does not get a nuclear weapon, which is a top priority of my administration. (Applause.) And Harry’s leadership matters. It sends a message that Congress should support this historic diplomatic breakthrough, and not block it over the objections of most of the world. It reflects the best of American foreign policy. We don't rely on bluster or bravado; we focus on strong, principled diplomacy that prevents Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon -- and showing once again to the entire world what American leadership really means.</div>
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Now, we’re here today because we believe that no challenge poses a greater threat to our future than climate change. It’s something that I’d spoken at length about a few weeks ago; it’s something that I’ll speak about at length next week when I travel throughout Alaska. </div>
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But we’re also here because we hold another belief, and that is we are deeply optimistic about American ingenuity. We think we can do good and do well at the same time. We believe we have the power, the dynamism, the creativity to solve a big problem while keeping the engines of the American economy moving. </div>
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Six and a half years ago, I took office after decades in which our addiction to fossil fuels and foreign oil perennially threatened our planet and our national security. And together, we’ve begun to change that -- a lot of people in this room working with us. Yes, we’ve become the world’s number-one producer of oil and natural gas, but we've also become a major player in clean energy. And these advances have helped to grow our economy and created a steady stream of well-paying jobs. They’ve also helped us reduce the dangerous emissions that contribute to climate change. And we’ve done it in three big ways.</div>
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First of all, we’re wasting less energy. We’ve set new fuel economy standards on cars and trucks, new efficiency standards on appliances like refrigerators and dishwashers -- and these advances are already saving folks money at the pump; it's saving money on their electricity bills. And steps like these also mean that factories and businesses aren’t just paying for energy, they’re getting paid not to waste energy. The economy as a whole is producing a lot more using less energy. And we’re also using less dirty energy. </div>
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Earlier this month, I unveiled our Clean Power Plan -- the first set of nationwide standards to end the limitless dumping of carbon pollution from our power plants, the single most important step America has ever taken to combat climate change. The Clean Power Plan is also going to accelerate the third way that we’re cutting emissions, creating jobs, saving folks money -- and that’s by generating more clean energy. </div>
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When I took office, I pledged to double our production of wind and solar by the end of my first term. We met that goal ahead of schedule. (Applause.) As Harry just mentioned, six years ago, the Recovery Act marked the single biggest investment in clean energy in our history. And by the way, what we did was not revolutionary. We did what the federal government has always done -- we invested in promising new technologies to spur private sector investment and innovation all across the country. </div>
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Today, there are thousands of renewable energy projects employing tens of thousands of Americans all across the country. Right here in Nevada, for example, renewable energy generation has increased 180 percent since I took office. Today, America is number one in wind power, generating three times as much wind energy as we did in 2008. There are now more than 500 wind manufacturers across 43 states supplying the wind industry -- an industry that supports more than 50,000 jobs and supplies enough energy to power 16 million homes. </div>
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Some states have made even greater strides. Last year, for example, Iowa generated nearly 30 percent of its electricity from the wind. And if we keep investing in wind, rather than making shortsighted cuts or chasing mindless austerity, wind could provide as much as 35 percent of America’s electricity and supply renewable power in all 50 states by the year 2050. (Applause.) </div>
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As well as we're doing in wind, we're making even more progress on solar. (Applause.) I notice you got a lot of sun around here. (Laughter.) America generates 20 times as much solar power as we did in 2008 -- 20 times. Last year was solar’s biggest year ever. Prices fell by 10 percent; installations climbed by 30 percent. Every three minutes, another home or business in America goes solar. Every three weeks, we install as much solar capacity as we did in all of 2008. And the world’s largest solar installation came online last year, with 9 million solar panels generating enough electricity to power more than 100,000 homes with clean, renewable energy -- not in Germany, not in China, not in Saudi Arabia -- right here in the United States of America. (Applause.)</div>
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In fact, over the past six years, the federal government has approved 34 commercial-scale solar projects and the transmission infrastructure that goes with them on public lands across the West. We approved one new project just today in California that will ultimately power another 100,000-plus homes. And right here in Las Vegas, we’ve cut the time it takes to permit solar projects in half. (Applause.) </div>
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And one of the reasons we’ve done this is not just because it’s good for the environment and good for the overall economy -- it takes workers to install all this new capacity. And that’s why, last year, the solar industry added jobs 10 times faster than the rest of the economy. Solar has helped a lot of construction workers find work while Congress was dragging its feet on funding infrastructure projects. In fact, the solar industry now employs twice as many Americans as mining coal. (Applause.) We’re helping more veterans find work with our Solar Ready Vets Program, with a goal of training 75,000 solar workers who have been veterans by 2020. That is a goal we can achieve. (Applause.) </div>
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So federal investments have helped support all this innovation, and now is not the time to pull back on those investments. Now is not the time to insist on massive cuts to the investments in R&D that help drive our economy, including the hundreds of millions of dollars in cuts that many Republicans want to take from these successful, job-creating clean energy programs. It’s thanks in part to these investments that there are already places across the country where clean power from the sun is finally cheaper than conventional power from your utility -- power often generated by burning coal or gas. (Applause.) </div>
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And it’s impossible to overstate what this means. For decades, we’ve been told that it doesn’t make economic sense to switch to renewable energy. Today, that’s no longer true. (Applause.) And you don’t have to take my word for it. Many of our biggest businesses are backing up that fact. Walmart has the most installed on-site solar capacity of any company in America. They’re not in the business of giving away money. (Laughter.) Google is the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the world; companies like Apple and Costco close behind. They’re not doing this just out of altruism. They’re doing it because it means big cost savings. And that can mean big things for local communities. </div>
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I’ll just give you one example. Google plans to retrofit the site of a retired coal plant in Alabama into a data hub run entirely on renewable energy. Recently, they created a new online tool that lets you plug in your address to see if solar power is the smart choice for you. </div>
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So if you care about climate change, the very fact that companies realize clean energy and energy efficiency are not only cost-effective but cost-saving should give you a big jolt of hope. </div>
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The point is America is making incredible progress on this issue. And that’s one of the reasons why I recently committed this country to getting 20 percent of our energy from renewables beyond hydroelectric power by 2030. (Applause.) And, by the way, when we do smart things in America, that wakes up the world. So Brazil’s President joined me for that announcement, committed her country to the same goal. But to meet that goal, we have to triple where we are today. So I’m here to give you hope, but not complacency.</div>
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The private sector is increasingly all in. Cities and states are increasingly doing their part. Just today, 15 cities from Seattle to Chicago to New York are joining 19 cities that have already pledged to reduce emissions and invest in climate resilience. Leaders in California are aiming to generate 50 percent of their electricity from renewables by 2030 -- 50 percent -- while cutting carbon pollution from oil by 50 percent. (Applause.) <br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" /> <br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />And as long as I’m President, the federal government is going to do its part beyond the investments that we’ve already made to promote this issue. So last month, we announced a new initiative to make it easier for businesses and low-income households to install low-cost solar. Today, we’re announcing new public- and private- sector commitments that will add new solar capacity on more than 40 military bases. (Applause.) And that’s an investment that will create jobs, save taxpayer dollars and reduce emissions. </div>
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The Department of Energy is announcing a new push to deploy innovative “distributed energy” resources like micro-grids or rooftop solar with battery storage, and will offer loan guarantees for projects like these. And we’re going to make it even easier for individual homeowners to put solar panels on their roof with no upfront cost. So specifically, we’re going to take steps to expand the use of a tool we call PACE, which helps you pay for solar panels through the future savings on your energy bills. (Applause.) </div>
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So we’re taking steps that allow more Americans to join this revolution with no money down. You don’t have to share my passion for fighting climate change. A lot of Americans are going solar and becoming more energy efficient not because they’re tree huggers -- although trees, you know, are important <br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />-- (laughter) -- just want you to know -- but because they’re cost-cutters. They like saving money. And I’m all for a consumer saving money, because that means they can spend it on other stuff. Solar isn’t just for the green crowd anymore -- it’s for the green eyeshade crowd, too. (Laughter.) </div>
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Now, we’ve still got a lot of work to do and significant obstacles remain. And obviously, all of you know that very well. For all the promise of solar, it’s still a small share of our economy in energy mix -- less than 1 percent. Wind makes up almost 5 percent. But here’s the thing: Solar made up almost one-third of all new generating capacity last year. Wind power made up another 20 percent. So we see the trend lines. We see where technology is taking us. We see where consumers want to go. And that, let’s be honest, has some big fossil fuel interests pretty nervous -- to the point where they’re trying to fight renewable energy. (Applause.) </div>
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Now, it’s one thing if you’re consistent in being free market. It’s another thing when you’re free market until it’s solar that’s working and people want to buy, and suddenly you’re not for it anymore. (Laughter.) That’s a problem. </div>
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There’s a big shift going underway that goes beyond simply putting solar panels on your home. Yes, the number of homes with rooftop solar has grown from fewer than 20,000 to about 600,000 over the past decade or so. More than 80 percent of that capacity was added in the past four years. But the real revolution going on here is that people are beginning to realize they can take more control over their own energy -- what they use, how much, when.</div>
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For decades, our energy system basically worked one way: Utilities generated power, usually by burning fossil fuels. They ran lines into the home or business. We paid for it. It wasn’t a real exciting business, there wasn’t a lot of innovation. We didn’t think about it much in our daily lives -- until the energy bill came in the mail. And the economy grew under that model, at a time when we were less worried about dependence on foreign fuels, and at a time when we were less conscious about the impacts it was having on the environment.</div>
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But in just a few short years, that’s begun to change in a profound way. Six years ago, smart meters were pretty rare. Today, 60 million consumers have access to detailed information about how much energy we use, how we use it, when we use it. So we can use that information to change our habits, use energy more efficiently, save more money without a whole lot of sacrifice. We can control our thermostats from our smartphones. New appliances and smart devices can tell when energy prices are cheapest, and do laundry, or wash the dishes, or charge our car at those times. </div>
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We’ve got windows and building materials that can actually generate power. And we can even tell our utility company that we want our homes powered by renewable energy, or we can call up a contractor and put solar panels on our roof by the weekend -- and that empowers us not only to generate affordable clean energy, but to store it in battery packs, or sell it back to the grid. </div>
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That’s power. That’s the future. That's happening right now. It’s an American energy revolution that’s like evolving from the telegraph to the smartphone in less than a decade. It's happening fast. </div>
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Now, the good news is some utilities recognize this; they see what’s happening. They’re adapting their business model to seize the opportunities of this emerging energy reality. We have to lift up some of those success stories and the innovations that are taking place. </div>
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So San Antonio’s municipal utility is standing up its own rooftop solar program. Southern Company is partnering with Nest and Tesla on power storage so we can use renewable energy better. Oklahoma Gas and Electric is empowering its customers to enroll in smart metering that uses electricity when it’s cheaper, not when it’s most expensive.</div>
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But while change this fast presents new opportunities, it is invariably going to create resistance from some fossil fuel interests who want to protect the old, outdated status quo. And there are some legitimate issues around how does a new distributed system work, and folks have some costs and how do we deal with those things, and those are important for us to address. But when you start seeing massive lobbying efforts backed by fossil fuel interests, or conservative think tanks, or the Koch brothers pushing for new laws to roll back renewable energy standards or prevent new clean energy businesses from succeeding -- that's a problem. That's not the American way. That's not progress. That's not innovation. That’s rent seeking and trying to protect old ways of doing business and standing in the way of the future. </div>
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I mean, think about this. Ordinarily, these are groups that tout themselves as champions of the free market. If you start talking to them about providing health care for folks who don't have health insurance, they’re going crazy -- “this is socialism, this is going to destroy America.” But in this situation, they’re trying to undermine competition in the marketplace, and choke off consumer choice, and threaten an industry that’s churning out new jobs at a fast pace. (Applause.) And that has the potential to hurt a lot of communities -- and set back America’s leadership in fighting climate change. They’re even fighting to protect billions of dollars of taxpayer dollars in corporate welfare each year that's going to fossil fuel companies. </div>
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Now, what’s interesting is that their actions have conjured up some pretty strange bedfellows. In some states, we got Green Party and Tea Party teaming up to protect our freedom to choose clean energy. It is rare that the Tea Party leaders and I are on the same side of an issue. (Laughter.) I agree with them here. (Applause.) And just because I agree with them, I don't want them to change their minds now. (Laughter.) I promise there are all kinds of other things you can whoop me. (Laughter.) </div>
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But this is important, and they are absolutely right on this fight. This is not, and should not be, a Republican-versus-Democratic issue. (Applause.) This should be an issue that can bring everybody together. (Applause.) If you're a progressive, you should care about this. If you're a libertarian, you should care about this. If you just want to save some money, you should care about it. And if you care about the future of our children and grandchildren, you should care about it. (Applause.)</div>
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So here, and across the country, this is about whether big polluters control the system, or whether consumers have freedom to choose cleaner, cheaper, more efficient energy; whether we protect old ways of doing business even when they’re not efficient, or we dream up new business models that bring new technologies into our homes and businesses, and new jobs into our communities. This is about the past versus the future. And America believes in the future. </div>
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And to make that future a reality, we got to have everybody -- utilities, entrepreneurs, workers, businesses, consumers, energy regulators, tree huggers, Tea Partiers -- everybody has got to seize the opportunities before us. </div>
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There is something big happening in America right now. For the first time, we can actually see what our clean energy future looks like. And, yes, the closer we get to this future, the opposition will fight even harder to keep things the way they’ve been. Folks will get louder in some of the backlash, and they’ll put out press releases suggesting that somehow this is bad for America. We can't pay attention to that. Folks whose interests or ideologies run counter to where we need to go, we've got to be able to politely, but firmly say, sorry, we're moving forward. (Applause.)</div>
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And anybody who suggests that moving to a clean energy economy is going to somehow cripple our economy, or lead to fewer jobs, if they hold up snowballs in February as if that somehow disproves decades of scientific data -- (laughter) -- if they suggest that we've got to set our sights lower and do less or delay action because we can't figure this stuff out -- I just want everybody to remember, we've heard these arguments before. We have engaged in this debate many times before. It's taken different forms, but this is an age-old debate in America. It's a debate between the folks who say, “no, we can't,” and the folks who say, “yes, we can.” (Applause.) Between those who fear the future and those who are eager to seize the future. <br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />And although sometimes there are some growing pains, America always comes down on the side of the future. We’ve always been a people who reach -- proudly and boldly and unafraid -- for that more promising future. We refuse to surrender the hope of a clean energy future to those who fear it and fight it, and sometimes provide misinformation about it.</div>
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Because the naysayers always underestimate what the American people are capable of. We prove that every day. All across this country, right now, you’ve got once-dusty plains and rundown buildings that are now solar fields and rooftop arrays. All across this country, right now, once-shuttered factories are humming, retraining workers to build wind turbines -- technology that we’re not just importing now, now we’re making it here and we’re exporting it -- technology made in America. (Applause.) All across this country, once-darkened plants are now full of rehired autoworkers manufacturing some of the world’s most energy-efficient cars -- cars that make you proud to be an American. (Applause.) </div>
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This generation of Americans is hammering into place the high-tech foundations of a clean energy age. It’s the same people who first harnessed the power of the atom, the power of the sun; the same spirit of people who connected the continent by road and by rail, who connected the world through our science and our imaginations; the same people who set foot on the Moon, and put a rover on Mars, and probes the farthest reaches of our solar system. </div>
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That’s what Americans do. We can do anything. And you guys are proving it every single day, and I’m going to be right there beside you. Congratulations. (Applause.) </div>
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God bless you. God bless this country we love. Thank you. (Applause.) </div>
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Cochin International Airport is all set to emerge as the world’s first ‘Green Airport’ by tapping solar power to meet its energy requirements.</div>
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The company has installed a 12 MW solar plant with more than 46,000 panels on 45 acres at an investment of ₹62 crore (₹5.17crore per MW).</div>
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“With the commissioning of the plant, Cochin International Airport will become the world’s first airport to be completely powered by solar energy — as its entire power requirements of about 50,000 units each day will be met through solar energy generated from these plants,” V.J. Kurien, Managing Director, CIAL, said.</div>
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The project will be inaugurated by Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy on August 18, he told reporters here on Thursday.</div>
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The setting up of the project has enabled the company to produce 18 million units of power annually, which is adequate to feed 10,000 homes for one year, he said, adding that KSEB has given permission for banking the energy produced.</div>
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The contract was awarded to Bosch Ltd, Bangalore, through a global tender and the work has been completed in a short span of six months.</div>
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CIAL’s initial entry into the solar sector was during March 2013 when a 100 KW peak solar power plant was installed on the rooftop of the arrival terminal with 400 panels. This was subsequently scaled up to 1000 KWp in the same year. Inspired by the success, the company decided to set up a large 12 MW plant, he said</div>
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Jebaraj Samuel Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090917329531281849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906121108330139841.post-68325705350781757532015-08-12T04:53:00.005-07:002015-08-12T04:53:36.875-07:00MNRE urges Indian institutions and government ministries to take up rooftop solar<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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India’s central government ministries, state government departments and institutions such as schools have been requested to take up rooftop solar by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE).</div>
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After 2-3 years of falling prices, it is now economical to generate power through grid-connected rooftop solar according to a letter from MNRE joint secretary Tarun Kapoor to all government parties and other institutions. With an installation life of 25 years, the payback period for rooftop solar is now around 5-6 years.</div>
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Kapoor wrote: “There is huge roof space available in Govt. buildings including offices, PSUs buildings and institutions.”</div>
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He said that this can be used to generate thousands of megawatts of solar power and save money for the institutions and ministries. Kapoor also noted that some ministries and their PSUs have a significant amount of spare land that can be utilized for solar.</div>
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Government incentives include a 15% subsidy for rooftop solar, although this does <a href="http://www.pv-tech.org/news/indias_mnre_cannot_subsidise_every_rooftop_solar_scheme_under_40gw_target" style="color: #551a8b; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">not include private, commercial and industrial rooftop solar</a>.</div>
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Kapoor also highlighted the Reserve Bank of India’s recent inclusion of renewable energy projects under priority lending.</div>
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State Electricity Regulatory Commissions in 19 states have also brought in net-metering or feed-in tariff mechanisms as a further benefit to rooftop solar.</div>
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To conclude the letter Kapoor wrote: “You are requested to take appropriate actions to install the grid connected solar rooftop systems in available roof space in the buildings and let your buildings to produce clean and green power.”</div>
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MNRE also released a “tentative” year-by-year <a href="http://www.pv-tech.org/news/india_releases_individual_state_targets_for_40gw_rooftop_solar_by_2022" style="color: #551a8b; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">breakdown of individual state targets</a> to reach its overall 40GW rooftop solar installation goal in July.</div>
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In the following week, the Indian Renewable Energy Development Agency (IREDA) launched a <a href="http://www.pv-tech.org/news/india_launches_rooftop_solar_loan_scheme" style="color: #551a8b; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;">loan scheme for grid-connected rooftop solar</a> projects.</div>
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The Union Government has drawn up plans to facilitate the setting up of 26 solar power plants at 26 locations in the country and increase the installed power generation capacity by 20,000 mw, said Tarun Kapoor, Joint Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Resources, at the international conference on ‘Renewable Energy and Sustainable Environment’ held at the Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology in Pollachi on Tuesday.</div>
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The organisers had received 200 papers and chose 90 of those based on peer reviews. The release added that M. Manickam, Chairman of the College, C. Ramasamy, Secretary of NIA institutions, Ibrahim Alladin, International Advisor to the College, and others spoke at the inauguration. <i style="outline: 0px;">The Hindu</i> is the media partner for the conference.</div>
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Last month, during a trip to Europe, I <a href="http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/4f66ff5c-1a47-11e5-a130-2e7db721f996.html#axzz3fQV6Vzbl" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3379be; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">mentioned</a> that I plan to invest $1 billion in clean energy technology over the next five years. This will be a fairly big increase over the investments I am already making, and I am doing it because I believe that the next half-decade will bring many breakthroughs that will help solve climate change. As I argued in <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates?language=en" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3379be; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">this 2010 TED talk</a>, we need to be able to power all sectors of the economy with sources that do not emit any carbon dioxide.</div>
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But when it comes to preventing the worst effects of climate change, the investments I make will matter much less than the choices that governments make. In Europe I got to talk about these choices with several political leaders, and in this post I want to share the steps that I encouraged them to take.</div>
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I think this issue is especially important because, of all the people who will be affected by climate change, those in poor countries will suffer the most. Higher temperatures and less-predictable weather would hurt poor farmers, most of whom live on the edge and can be devastated by a single bad crop. Food supplies could decline. Hunger and malnutrition could rise. It would be a terrible injustice to let climate change undo any of the past half-century’s progress against poverty and disease—and doubly unfair because the people who will be hurt the most are the ones doing the least to cause the problem.</div>
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In addition to mitigating climate change, affordable clean energy will help fight poverty. Although the Gates Foundation does not fund energy research (my investments are separate), we see through our work with the poorest how the high price of energy affects them by adding to the cost of transportation, electricity, fertilizer, and many other things they need.</div>
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I do see some encouraging progress on climate and energy. Environmental advocates deserve credit for getting climate change so high on the world’s agenda. Many countries are committing to put policies in place that reflect the impact of greenhouse gases. The cost of solar photovoltaic cells has dropped by nearly a factor of ten over the past decade, and batteries that store energy created by intermittent sources like solar and wind are getting more powerful and less expensive. Since 2007 the United States has <a href="http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/indicators/ghg/us-ghg-emissions.html" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3379be; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reduced</a> its greenhouse gas emissions nearly 10 percent. Since 1990 Germany has<a href="https://unfccc.int/files/ghg_emissions_data/application/pdf/deu_ghg_profile.pdf" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3379be; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reduced</a> its energy-sector emissions by more than 20 percent.</div>
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World leaders will take another critical step this December at a major meeting in Paris called <a href="http://www.cop21paris.org/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3379be; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">COP21</a>, where they will discuss plans to reduce global CO<span style="bottom: -0.25em; box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline;">2</span> emissions significantly. COP21 can build a strong foundation for solving the climate crisis—but we will need to go even further.</div>
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Scientists generally agree that preventing the worst effects of climate change requires limiting the temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius, and that doing so requires the biggest emitters to cut emissions 80 percent by 2050 and all countries to essentially eliminate them by the end of the century. Unfortunately, while we can make progress with today’s tools, they cannot get us to an 80 percent reduction, much less 100 percent. To work at scale, current wind and solar technologies need backup energy sources—which means fossil fuels—for windless days, long periods of cloudy weather, and nighttime. They also require <a href="http://www.vaclavsmil.com/wp-content/uploads/docs/smil-article-power-density-primer.pdf" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3379be; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">much more space</a>; for example, to provide as much power as a coal-fired plant, a wind farm needs more than 10 times as much land.</div>
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These are solvable problems. If we create the right environment for innovation, we can accelerate the pace of progress, develop and deploy new solutions, and eventually provide everyone with reliable, affordable energy that is carbon free. We can avoid the worst climate-change scenarios while also lifting people out of poverty, growing food more efficiently, and saving lives by reducing pollution. </div>
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One step is to lay the foundation for innovation by drastically increasing government funding for research on clean energy solutions. Right now, the world spends only a few billion dollars a year on researching early-stage ideas for zero-carbon energy. It should be investing two or three times that much.</div>
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Why should governments fund basic research? For the same reason that companies tend not to: because it is a public good. The benefits to society are far greater than the amount that the inventor can capture. One of the best examples of this is the creation of the Internet. It has led to innovations that continue to change our lives, but none of the companies who deliver those innovations would ever have built it. Similarly, the government’s research into hydraulic fracturing helped create today’s natural gas boom.</div>
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Expanding the government’s support for energy research will lead to another important step: attracting more private investment to the field. As early-stage ideas progress, private capital will pour in to build the companies that will deliver those ideas to market. We need hundreds of companies working on thousands of ideas, including crazy-sounding ones that don’t get enough funding, such as high-altitude wind and solar chemical (using the energy of the sun to make hydrocarbons). No one knows which of these technologies will prove powerful enough and easy to scale, so we should be exploring all of them. </div>
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My own personal investments include companies working on new batteries and other storage methods and advances in solar technology. The <a href="http://terrapower.com/" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3379be; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">nuclear design</a> I am investing in would be safer than previous designs and would go a long way toward solving the nuclear waste problem. I spend a lot of time with the CEOs and scientists at all these companies discussing how to build a business around an innovative idea and take a product to market. If government research budgets open up the pipeline of innovation, not only will I expand my investments, but I believe other investors would join me in taking these risks.<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"></strong></div>
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Governments need to act quickly, because <a href="http://www.vaclavsmil.com/wp-content/uploads/scientificamerican0114-521.pdf" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3379be; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">energy transitions take time</a>. Today, renewables account for less than 5 percent of the world’s energy mix. It took four decades for oil to go from 5 percent of the world’s energy supply to 25 percent. Natural gas took even longer. I believe we can make this transition faster—both because the pace of innovation is accelerating, and because we have never had such an urgent reason to move from one source of energy to another. The sooner we start, the more suffering we can prevent.</div>
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Another important step will be to ensure that the energy market accurately reflects the full impact of emitting carbon. Today the market is not factoring in what economists call the negative externalities—the health costs, environmental damage, and so on. If the market takes these into account, renewable energy will be more competitive with fossil fuels, which will attract more innovators to the field. Many countries and states are experimenting with different ways to price carbon. Whatever approach we take, it should create incentives to develop new energy solutions while also giving energy companies enough certainty to plan and execute the transition to zero-carbon sources.</div>
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We can also be smarter about how we use subsidies. The IMF <a href="http://www.imf.org/external/np/pp/eng/2013/012813.pdf" style="background: transparent; border-bottom-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3379be; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">estimates</a> that direct subsidies for fossil fuels amount to nearly $500 billion a year worldwide, shielding consumers from their true costs. Some subsidies for deploying renewable energy are also very inefficient, creating big incentives to install solar panels where it’s often not sunny or wind turbines where it’s not windy. We should be looking for ways to reduce these subsidies and invest the savings in the basic R&D that will help solve the problem.</div>
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Unfortunately, even if we could roll out the ideal zero-carbon solution tomorrow, some climate change is inevitable, and it will hit the world’s poor the hardest. The countries that have done the most to cause this problem have a responsibility to not only invest in mitigation, but also help poor countries adapt to a changing climate. For our part, the Gates Foundation is concentrating on one key aspect of adaptation: helping small farmers—who make up the majority of the world’s poor—adjust to hotter, more unpredictable weather by raising agricultural productivity. I will be writing more about this work later this year.</div>
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As for next steps, I’m optimistic that the spotlight of the COP meeting in Paris will help motivate governments to step up their research budgets. In my view, innovation is essential to human progress. Some people would say that it is the lens I use to look at every problem, and I have to admit that there is some truth to that. But I believe it is justified by history. In my lifetime innovation has helped eradicate one deadly disease (smallpox) and put us on the brink of a second (polio). We have cut the fraction of children who die every year by a factor of four. Digital technology has revolutionized the way people live. We can create a zero-carbon future too, if we commit to it.</div>
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Jebaraj Samuel Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090917329531281849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906121108330139841.post-74292613305105946712015-07-31T23:51:00.001-07:002015-07-31T23:51:42.567-07:00Infosys to set up 7MW solar plant at Hyderabad campus<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The transfer is a step in attaining the objective set to meet the complete electrical energy wants via renewable sources within the subsequent few years, the corporate stated in a press release.</div>
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It additionally claimed that Infosys’s Hyderabad campus is the primary in India to have radiant cooled business constructing, with the most important comparability of HVAC (heating, ventilating, and air con) system on the earth.</div>
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“Daylight and imaginative and prescient panels within the buildings be sure that over ninety one% of occupied areas have pure mild and all staff have entry to views, including to consolation and productiveness,” it added.<br style="border: 0px none; box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px;" /><img src="http://www.fluor.com/FluorProjectPhotos/CopperCrossingSolarPowerPlant/copper-crossing-solar-power-2-fw.jpg" /></div>
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Appropriate water remedy applied sciences have been set up to deal with the water coming from the sewage remedy plant thus making it appropriate for the cooling tower necessities and handled waste water is used for all the cooling tower at the Hyderabad campus, the corporate stated.</div>
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This initiative has helped the corporate scale back dependency on freshwater for cooling tower water wants, Infosys stated.</div>
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The firm additionally stated it has planted 15,758 saplings at the Hyderabad campus throughout fiscal 2015 taking the whole variety of sapling plantations throughout campuses to over 4,15,000 within the final Times of India</div>
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In a bid to reduce diesel consumption in trains, the Indian railways have sort to harness solar energy to run their trains. This will prove to be highly cost-effective to the railways by saving upto Rs 1.24 lakh per coach year.</div>
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The train in trial has one of its non-AC coach fitted with solar panel on the rooftop. Out of the 40 sq metre of space on the roof of the coach, about 24 sq metre is covered with solar panels. Each coach generates nearly 17 units of power every day. This reduces the railways diesel consumption by 90,000 litres. The train however will use diesel engines to be pulled forward, while the solar panels will provide power to the lights, fans, AC’s, etc. <img alt="dnaTechLaunch, Indian Railway, solar powered trains, technews" src="http://static.dnaindia.com/sites/default/files/2015/07/29/360232-359382-indian-railways.jpg" /></div>
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On success of the prototype trials, the entire train will be fitted with solar panels. The Indian Railways have also been focusing on alternate source of fuels with trials already on to use sources like CNG, biodiesel and natural gas among others.</div>
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<span class="place_cont" style="box-sizing: inherit; text-transform: uppercase;">NEW DELHI: </span> As many as 55 cities in 27 states and union territories are currently being developed as solar or green cities, parliament was told today.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />So far, 55 existing cities in 27 states/UTs are being developed as solar cities in the country under 'Development of Solar Cities programme', Power and New and Renewable Energy Minister Piyush Goyal told the Lok Sabha in a written reply.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />The new and renewable energy ministry has been implementing the programme under which a total of 60 cities and towns are proposed to be supported for development as "solar or green cities".<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />Mahabubnagar in Andhra Pradesh, Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, Indore in Madhya Pradesh, Jaipur in Rajasthan and Leh in Jammu and Kashmir have only got in-principle approval till date, said Mr Goyal.<br style="box-sizing: inherit;" /><br style="box-sizing: inherit;" />The criteria set by the ministry for the identification of cities include a city having population between 50,000 to 50 lakh (with relaxation given to special category states including northeast states), initiatives and regulatory measures already taken along with a high level of commitment in promoting energy efficiency and renewable energy.</div>
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Jebaraj Samuel Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090917329531281849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906121108330139841.post-70681348908673022712015-07-18T02:46:00.000-07:002015-07-18T02:46:20.034-07:00Lanco Inaugurates 10.50 MW Solar Power Plant in Punjab<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Lanco Group subsidiary Omega Solar Projects today inaugurated a 10.50 MW solar power plant here. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">The project has been set up at a cost of Rs 84 crore over 45 acres of land, according to an official release. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" /><a class="storyTags" href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Punjab" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 255) !important; cursor: pointer; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Punjab </a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">New & Renewable Energy Minister </span><a class="storyTags" href="http://www.business-standard.com/search?type=news&q=Bikram+Singh" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 255) !important; cursor: pointer; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Bikram Singh</a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Majithia said the tiny steps started three years ago in renewable energy sector have now become giant leaps with world renowned solar power companies investing liberally in the state, keeping in view its progressive and investor friendly approach. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">He said major solar power developers like Lanco, Solairedirect and Acme have come to Punjab. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">Majithia said Acme Group is all set to operationalize their 100 MW solar projects in district Mansa by March, 2016 and French solar giant 'Solairedirect' will add 54 MW in its present capacity of 34 MW solar power in district Fazilka. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Georgia; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22px;">He said Punjab is all set to operationalise 500 MW solar power projects by March, 2016 and with finalization of two more schemes for farmers and major solar companies, the target is to achieve 1,000 MW solar power generation by March, 2017</span><br />
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Jebaraj Samuel Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090917329531281849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906121108330139841.post-35053642723122107062015-07-18T02:42:00.002-07:002015-07-18T02:42:17.710-07:00Risen Energy, Raasi Green Team up for 100-MW PV Park in Tamil Nadu<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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July 16 (SeeNews) - Chinese firm Risen Energy Co Ltd (SHE:300118) and the solar power arm of Bangalore-based Raasi Group have joined hands to invest in 100 MW of photovoltaic (PV) capacity in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu.</div>
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The solar module maker said on Wednesday it had signed a cooperation agreement with Raasi Green Earth Energy Pvt Ltd (RGEE). Under the terms of the deal, they will set up a joint venture (JV) with 51% and 49% stakes, respectively.</div>
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In particular, RGEE will be in charge of securing the required licenses and approvals, as well as a power purchase agreement (PPA) with state-owned utility Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Ltd (Tangedco). In turn, Risen Energy will supply the PV modules and provide the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services for the solar complex.</div>
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Apart from Tamil Nadu, the partners plan to expand their future solar operations to other Indian states, such as Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. The Chinese firm explained that this move will not only strengthen its business in India, but is also in line with its overseas development strategy for emerging solar markets.</div>
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A definitive agreement will be signed following the completion of a due diligence report and obtaining the relevant approvals. </div>
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Jebaraj Samuel Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090917329531281849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906121108330139841.post-17672553211705286192015-05-05T21:05:00.001-07:002015-05-05T21:05:17.636-07:00Tesla introduces Tesla Energy<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NvCIhn7_FXI" width="480"></iframe><br />Jebaraj Samuel Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090917329531281849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906121108330139841.post-28457254456356104592015-02-09T18:26:00.001-08:002015-02-09T18:26:10.173-08:00Replacing Diesel with Solar - Comprehensive Guide for Indian Businesses<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">
A Comprehensive Guide for Indian Businesses </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;"><br />
</span><i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">This e-book provides
representative sample content to assist a reader in evaluating the Replacing
Diesel with Solar Report </span></i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Replacing
Diesel with Solar – A Complete Guide to Installing Solar PV for Backup Power </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
Preface <br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">With its economy
growing at a fast clip, the Indian industry is in a time of unprecedented
opportunities for growth. Along with this growth comes the need for higher
energy consumption, as energy demand / consumption are highly correlated to
economic growth. <br />
Until recently, India’s energy demand has been met to a large extent by
non-renewable resources, mainly coal and oil. Recently, natural gas has started
playing an important role as well. But with the global concerns over climate
change and the depleting nature of fossil fuels, not to mention the
geopolitical risks attached with depending on foreign countries for these
fuels, have made it imperative for the Indian industry to look at renewable
sources of energy. <br />
As a result of the nature of fossil fuels, their costs have been on the
increase. Use of diesel in this regard should merit special mention, especially
as a fuel for backup power for diesel gensets. While large factories and
industrial set ups have their own captive power plants (usually powered by
coal), tens of thousands of small and medium plants use diesel for a
significant portion of their power needs. With the consequent increase in the
cost of both grid power and that of diesel used as a fuel for backup power,
businesses are looking for alternative and more sustainable sources for power
production. It is well known that India has abundant sunlight that could
support robust solar-based power production. Solar photovoltaic (PV) based
power production could thus be an effective alternative. <i>The Replacing
Diesel with Solar PV </i>report has been developed for those companies and
institutions keen on installing a solar PV based captive power production
facility, especially as a replacement for their diesel use. The focus of the
report is to facilitate a much deeper and more comprehensive understanding of
the captive solar PV segment, specifically in the context of costs and
technology aspects. The report is developed by Energy Alternatives India (EAI),
leading business intelligence and market research firm from India focused on
the renewable energy and cleantech industries. This report was last updated in
the first week of January 2014. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">What
Will You Know after Reading This Report? </span></i></b><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">ü</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Why should I go
for solar based captive power? </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">ü</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">How
much solar PV capacity do I need? </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">ü</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">How much will it cost to install a
solar PV captive system? </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">ü</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">How
much maintenance does a solar PV system require? </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">ü</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">What are the
key things I should look out for before installing a solar PV system? </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">ü</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">What are the
mistakes I should avoid? </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">ü</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">How much space
will I need for the captive PV installation? </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">ü</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Should I use
solar as a backup power or as a mainstream power source? </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">ü</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Will I be able
to depend completely on solar energy for my day time operations? </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">ü</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">If I operate
night shifts, will I need a storage system (battery) for my energy needs?</span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">ü</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Can I sell my excess energy to the
grid? </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">ü</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">What are the
components of the solar PV system? </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">ü</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">What is the
lifetime of the system? </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">ü</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Am
I eligible for availing government incentives? </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">ü</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Can I install a
hybrid captive system (mix of solar and wind OR solar and diesel)?</span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-language: ZH-TW;">ü</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">When should I consider using a
generator with my solar PV system? </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<b><br />
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</b><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
<br />
List of Contents <br />
</span> </b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">1 </span><b>CAPTIVE
POWER IN INDIA </b><o:p></o:p><br />
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1.1 Introduction <br />
1.2 Captive Power Plants in India <br />
1.3 Diesel in India <br />
1.4 Why Solar for Captive Power <br />
1.4.1 The Business Case for Captive Power Plant (CPP) Using Solar PV (SPV) <br />
1.5 Attractive Market Segments <br />
1.5.1 Large Industrial Facilities <br />
1.5.2 Large Commercial Buildings/Facilities <br />
1.5.3 Communication Sector <br />
1.5.4 Water Pumping <br />
1.5.5 On-shore and Off-shore Oil & Gas <br />
1.5.6 Desalination <br />
1.5.7 Remote Monitoring Stations <br />
1.5.8 Warning Signals <br />
1.5.9 Lighting <br />
1.5.10 Refrigeration <br />
1.6 Solar Power vs. Diesel Generator <br />
1.7 Key Bottlenecks <br />
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2 </span><b>TECHNOLOGY OPTIONS FOR CAPTIVE SOLAR PV </b><o:p></o:p><br />
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2.1 Introduction <br />
2.2 Stand Alone PV Systems <br />
2.3 Grid-tied Captive Power Plant <br />
2.3.1 Grid-tied Systems With No Battery Backup <br />
2.3.2 Grid-Interactive With Battery Backup <br />
2.4 Hybrid Systems <br />
2.4.1 Solar Photovoltaic-Diesel Generator Hybrid System <br />
2.4.2 Solar Photovoltaic-Wind Hybrid System <br />
2.5 Summary of Solar PV Technology Options <br />
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3 </span><b>SETTING UP SOLAR CAPTIVE POWER PLANT IN INDIA </b><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">3.1 Steps Involved in
Setting Up a Captive PV Power Plant <br />
3.2 Steps Involved in Setting up a Hybrid System <br />
3.3 Key Requirements to Set Up a Captive Power Plant (CPP) <br />
3.3.1 Essential Components <br />
3.3.2 Optional Components <br />
3.4 Setting up PV Captive Power Plants - Key Factors to Consider <br />
3.5 Indian Companies and Entities Involved in Setting up of a Captive Power
Plant <br />
3.5.1 Moser Baer <br />
3.5.2 Sharp <br />
3.5.3 Reliance Solar <br />
3.5.4 Tata Power Solar Systems Limited <br />
3.5.5 Photon Energy Systems Limited <br />
3.5.6 Vimal Electronics <br />
3.5.7 BHEL <br />
3.5.8 Conergy<br />
3.5.9 Vikram solar <br />
3.5.10 Titan Energy Systems (TITAN) <br />
3.5.11 Solar Semiconductor <br />
3.5.12 Topsun Energy Limited <br />
3.5.13 L&T Solar Limited <br />
3.5.14 Wipro EcoEnergy <br />
3.5.15 Solarsis <br />
3.5.16 Refex Energy <br />
3.5.17 Chemtrols Solar Pvt. Ltd <br />
3.5.18 Aspiration Energy <br />
3.5.19 Headway Solar <br />
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3.5.20 Solar - Apps <br />
3.5.21 Eco-Save India Pvt. Ltd <br />
3.5.22 Swelect Energy Systems Limited <br />
3.5.23 SunEdison <br />
3.5.24 Zynergy <br />
3.5.25 Su-Kam <br />
3.5.26 Mahindra Solar <br />
3.5.27 Juwi <br />
3.5.28 Lanco solar <br />
3.5.29 EverSun Energy Private Limited <br />
3.5.30 Ravano Green Power <br />
3.5.31 ILIOS Power Pvt Ltd <br />
3.5.32 Sterling and Wilson Ltd. <br />
3.5.33 Enfinity Solar Solutions Pvt Ltd - India <br />
3.5.34 Gensol Solar <br />
3.5.35 Enerparc Energy Pvt Limited <br />
3.5.36 Solid Solar <br />
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4 </span><b>POLICIES, REGULATIONS; INCENTIVES </b><o:p></o:p><br />
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4.1 Introduction <br />
4.2 Government Incentives and Policies <br />
4.2.1 Captive SPV and the NSM <br />
4.2.2 Electricity Act <br />
4.3 Frequently Asked Questions <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><b>ECONOMICS OF CAPTIVE POWER PLANTS </b><o:p></o:p><br />
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5.1 Introduction <br />
5.2 Capital Costs and Breakups <br />
5.2.1 Inputs Used in the Financial Model <br />
5.2.2 Performance of Solar PV System <br />
5.3 Results of the Financial Model <br />
5.4 The BOO(T) Model <br />
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6 </span><b>FINANCING OF CPPs </b><o:p></o:p><br />
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6.1 Introduction <br />
6.2 Project Finance Characteristics <br />
6.3 Asset Finance Characteristics <br />
6.4 Corporate Finance <br />
6.5 Most Likely Routes for Financing of Solar PV CPP<br />
6.6 Nodal Agencies that Support Renewable Energy Financing in India <br />
6.6.1 IREDA <br />
6.6.2 Power Finance Corporation Ltd <br />
6.7 Financial Institutions that Fund RE Projects in India <br />
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7 </span><b>NEXT STEPS TO BE TAKEN BY A SOLAR PV CAPTIVE POWER DEVELOPER </b><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">7.1 Introduction <br />
7.2 Preparing Prefeasibility and Detailed Project Reports <br />
7.3 Meeting Government Departments <br />
7.3.1 List and Contact Details of State Nodal Agencies (SNA) in Various States <br />
7.3.2 Central Government Relevant Department Details and Contacts <br />
7.4 List of System Integrators of Solar PV Captive Power System <br />
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8 </span><b>Solar PV in India – Industry Status and Trends </b><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">8.1 Introduction <br />
8.1.1 Introduction to Alternative Energy Sources <br />
8.2 Solar PV Technology <br />
8.2.1 Solar PV – Crystalline Solar Cells <br />
8.2.2 Solar PV – Thin Film Solar Cells <br />
8.2.3 Solar PV - Concentrating Photovoltaic <br />
8.2.4 Photo-electrochemical, Polymer, Nano-crystal and Hybrid cells <br />
8.3 Solar PV Market Status and Trends <br />
8.3.1 Market Share of Thin Film Photovoltaics <br />
8.3.2 Solar Photovoltaic in India – A Snapshot <br />
8.4 Solar Energy Potential in India <br />
8.4.1 Regional Potential for Solar Power <br />
8.4.2 Current Solar PV Scenario in India <br />
8.4.3 Future Solar PV Scenario <br />
8.4.4 Solar PV Future Contribution in Indian Electricity Supply <br />
8.5 Status of Solar PV Technology in India <br />
8.5.1 Solar Cells and Solar PV Production <br />
8.5.2 Foreign Trade of Solar PV <br />
8.6 Prominent Solar PV Power Projects & Companies in India <br />
8.6.1 Solar PV Power Projects Installed <br />
8.6.2 Solar PV Power Projects Approved by the Central Government under Phase I
of JNNSM Scheme <br />
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8.6.3 Solar PV State Projects <br />
8.7 Key Challenges to Growth of Solar PV in India <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">9 </span><b>Case Studies of
Indian Use of Captive Solar PV </b><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">9.1 Captive Solar PV
Systems – Experience of L&T, Chennai <br />
9.2 Captive Solar PV Systems – Experience of SSN Research Center, Chennai <br />
9.3 1 MW Hybrid Energy Supply for a Cotton Mill, Tirupur, TN, India <br />
9.4 Captive Solar PV Systems – Experience of Omax Auto Ltd, Gurgaon, Haryana <br />
9.5 Captive Solar PV Systems at Daimler India, Chennai <br />
9.6 Solar PV Captive Power Installations in India <br />
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10 </span><b>Highlights and Key Takeaways from this Report </b><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">11 </span><b>Useful
Resources </b><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">11.1 Useful Government
Links<br />
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11.1.1 MNRE Accredited Manufacturers, Suppliers and Channel Partners <br />
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11.1.2 Subsidies and Incentives <br />
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11.1.3 Policies and Regulations <br />
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11.1.4 FAQ Links <br />
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11.2 Other Useful Links <br />
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11.3 Free PV Books! <br />
12 </span><b>Annexure </b><o:p></o:p><br />
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12.1 Details of Solar PV Power Projects Commissioned in India <br />
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12.2 SECI – Grid Connected Rooftop Solar PV Phase II <br />
12.3 Procedure for the issuance of Renewable Energy Certificates </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Captive Power in India <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Compared to the hectic
growth in electricity demand, India has seen only a modest pace of growth in
the supply of electricity. Power shortages have had a significant impact on
companies and industries, especially manufacturing industries. As a result,
quite a few businesses have started generating their own power, using
conventional sources (usually diesel for small backup power and relatively
larger coal based power plants) and in later periods wind based captive power
plants were also set up. For these companies, in recent times, solar is
emerging to be an attractive option. This chapter gives an overview of
conventional captive power plant status and explains the advantages of using
solar for captive power generation. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">CHAPTER-1 </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
<br />
Key Sections <br />
</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">1.1
Introduction <br />
<br />
1.2 Captive Power Plants in India <br />
<br />
1.3 Diesel in India <br />
<br />
1.4 Why Solar for Captive Power <br />
<br />
1.4.1 The Business Case for Captive Power Plant (CPP) Using Solar PV (SPV) <br />
<br />
1.5 Attractive Market Segments <br />
<br />
1.5.1 Large Industrial Facilities <br />
<br />
1.5.2 Large Commercial Buildings/Facilities <br />
<br />
1.5.3 Communication Sector <br />
<br />
1.5.4 Water Pumping <br />
<br />
1.5.5 On-shore and Off-shore Oil & Gas <br />
<br />
1.5.6 Desalination <br />
<br />
1.5.7 Remote Monitoring Stations <br />
<br />
1.5.8 Warning Signals <br />
<br />
1.5.9 Lighting <br />
<br />
1.5.10 Refrigeration <br />
<br />
1.6 Solar Power vs. Diesel Generator <br />
1.7 Key Bottlenecks </span><b>Solar Power vs. Diesel Generator Uncertainty
in Weather: </b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The design of
a solar power generation system involves either the use of historical weather
data or weather forecast methods to predict the future temporal evolution of
the solar energy system. Despite the use of such methods, the behaviour of
weather conditions always involves high uncertainty. Unless such uncertainty is
accounted for during the system design, the performance of the solar-based
system will only be optimum within the range of the considered weather
conditions. Potentially unpredictable weather fluctuations will result in
suboptimal system operation. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<b>Solar Irradiance: </b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Solar
irradiance is one of the most important factors in the operation of the PV
systems and it can have a significant impact on the efficiency and power
quality response of the whole system. The variable power flow due to the
fluctuation of solar irradiance and temperature are some of the parameters that
affect the power quality of photovoltaic systems. With high connection
densities of photovoltaics in the distribution grid, low irradiance can lead to
undesirable variations of power and supply quality (voltage and current) at the
connection point which might even exceed acceptable limits. The system injects
a highly distorted current (with respect to the fundamental frequency current)
to the distribution network during low solar irradiance conditions. It has been
found that low solar irradiance has a significant impact on the power quality
of the output of the PV system. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<b>Initial Cost: </b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The
high initial cost of solar PV systems is one of the most significant barriers
to PV adoption. However, the recent results of MNRE’s bidding under JNNSM phase
1 batch 2 process show that the cost of solar system have fallen significantly.
As the initial cost of PV system decreases and the cost of diesel fuel
increases, these systems will become more economically competitive. It is
important to note that solar has already achieved grid parity when compared
with diesel based power generation. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Sample
Topic Captive Power Plants in India </span></i></b><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Technology
Options <o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Selecting the best system
design for a particular application is more important. Often a combination of
techniques can dramatically reduce costs and improve the reliability of a
system, or provide the design flexibility to cover a wide range of
applications. This chapter explains three different types of solar PV systems </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">·</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Stand-alone PV System </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">·</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Grid-tied PV System </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">o</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Grid-Interactive
Without Battery Backup </span><span style="font-family: "Courier New";">o</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Grid-Interactive With Battery Backup
</span><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">·</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Hybrid Solar PV System Designing and
implementation of each of these categories is different, and would need to be
treated accordingly. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">CHAPTER-2 </span></b><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<b><br />
<i><br />
</i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
<br />
Key Sections <br />
</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">2.1
Introduction <br />
<br />
2.2 Stand Alone PV Systems <br />
<br />
2.3 Grid-tied Captive Power Plant <br />
<br />
2.3.1 Grid-tied Systems With No Battery Backup <br />
<br />
2.3.2 Grid-Interactive With Battery Backup <br />
<br />
2.4 Hybrid Systems <br />
<br />
2.4.1 Solar Photovoltaic-Diesel Generator Hybrid System <br />
<br />
2.4.2 Solar Photovoltaic-Wind Hybrid System <br />
2.5 Summary of Solar PV Technology Options Replacing Diesel with Solar – A
Complete Guide to Installing Solar PV for Backup Power www.eai.in Beneficial in
terms of improved reliability, energy services, operational life and energy
efficiency, the hybrid system has brought forth the highest form of perfection
in electricity generation. This system combines two energy sources; the sun and
a diesel generator (genset), where the genset supplies excess load and recharge
the battery during overcasts. The hybrid system is meant for backup power in
case of a power shortage, say during the peak demands. It also reduces downtime
during maintenance or repairs since the system on its own, ensures that all the
components are used efficiently at an optimum rate. For example, during the
day, the solar modules will generate energy in the form of Direct Current (DC)
and is stored in the battery or straight away put to use by converting it into
AC through the inverter. So, when night time falls and the solar modules do not
generate energy, the DC stored in the battery is put into use. However, the DC
stored in the battery is not necessarily enough to support the energy demand
throughout the night since during day time, it may rain or the sunlight might
be blocked by thick clouds, reducing the energy production. This will maximize
the discharge level of the battery, causing its operational life to decrease,
in other words, exhausting the battery. Here is where the genset comes in. The
genset produces AC and can be immediately used and simultaneously rectified to
produce DC to recharge the battery. The mechanism can also happen during peak
loads or when a prolonged period of overcast occurs. In addition, due to this
alternate operation, the overall system has prolonged life proven by the
discharge level of the battery is being kept optimum. The hybrid system adopts
an environment-friendly technology whereby the diesel generator is used
discontinuously and the whole operation itself is much quieter. All this is
governed by a micro-processor-based controller unit. The first installation may
take up a high cost, but the maintenance cost afterwards is very low. In
addition, we can save fuel consumption of the genset because the solar
photovoltaic (PV) modules support the base electricity load while the genset
provides additional energy should there be a sudden peak in the energy demand. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<b><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Sample
Topic Solar Photovoltaic-Diesel Generator Hybrid System </span></i></b><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Setting up Solar CPP
in India </span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Once an
entrepreneur has decided to set up a solar based captive power plant, there are
seven steps involved in designing a successful captive solar PV installation.
Whether the solar electric system is going to be small or large, and whether it
is going to be off the shelf lighting kit or designing something from scratch,
it is worth following these steps to ensure one gets the best from the system. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">CHAPTER-3 </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
<br />
Key Sections <br />
</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">3.1 Steps
Involved in Setting Up a Captive PV Power Plant <br />
<br />
3.2 Steps Involved in Setting up a Hybrid System <br />
<br />
3.3 Key Requirements to Set Up a Captive Power Plant (CPP) <br />
<br />
3.3.1 Essential Components <br />
<br />
3.3.2 Optional Components <br />
<br />
3.4 Setting up PV Captive Power Plants - Key Factors to Consider <br />
3.5 Indian Companies and Entities Involved in Setting up of a Captive Power
Plant</span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<b>Sizing for a Diesel-Solar Hybrid System with Batteries </b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Integrating solar power with diesel
generator sets without affecting the daily operations has proved to be more
challenging than originally thought. A whole host of issues related to frequency
synchronisation, reverse current flows, and efficiency losses have contributed
to solar system sizing limitations which have a direct bearing on the savings
possible and consequently, the economics of the investment. </span><b>Frequency
& Power Quality: </b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">As
the loading factor of the diesel generator varies (as a result of introducing
an intermittent solar power source into the mix), the frequency of the output
AC power can vary beyond acceptable levels reducing the quality of power. Some
modern day devices require high quality power to operate. </span><b>Reverse
Current Flow: </b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">When the
output of the solar power exceeds that of the load demand, some reverse current
will flow in the diesel generator. Normally, there are acceptable levels to
which this can happen beyond which the diesel generator trips cutting off the
reference voltage for the solar and the system breaks down. </span><b>Efficiency
and Minimum Loading: </b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Diesel
generators operate in various modes. Running a generator at loads below the
minimum load factor</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 7.5pt;">1
</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">for prolonged periods
affects the efficiency of operations which in turn has a bearing on fuel
consumption, maintenance costs and useful life. Operating below the minimum
load is possible if a sizeable solar system is integrated into the supply and
results in decreased lifecycle savings of the solar-diesel generator system. </span><b><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Sample Topic Steps
Involved in Setting a Captive PV Power Plant </span></i></b><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Policies,
Regulations & Incentives </span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">For
setting up an enabling environment for solar technology penetration in the
country both at a centralized and decentralized level, in June 2010, government
of India announced the guidelines for solar off-grid and decentralized power,
under the National Solar Mission. Under this scheme, the Ministry of New and
Renewable Energy (MNRE) provided central financial assistance for setting up of
solar power projects for captive use. This chapter gives details on the
financial assistance, eligibility criteria, and process involved in obtaining
this assistance.</span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">CHAPTER-4 </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
<br />
Key Sections <br />
</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">4.1
Introduction <br />
<br />
4.2 Government Incentives and Policies <br />
<br />
4.2.1 Captive SPV and the NSM <br />
<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">·</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> Guidelines for Off-grid and
Decentralized Solar Applications <br />
<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">·</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> Central Financial Assistance
& Eligibility <br />
<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">·</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> How to Apply <br />
<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">·</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> Commissioning of the Projects <br />
<br />
4.2.2 Electricity Act <br />
4.3 Frequently Asked Questions</span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<b>Wind-Solar Hybrid Systems </b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">a)The
MNRE support for wind solar hybrid/ aerogenerator systems will be provided on
per kW basis. The support will be provided on the basis of type of users.
Following two slabs of CFA will be available: Government/ public/charitable,
R&D, academic and other non-profit making institutions. Rs. 1.50 lakh
per kW Other beneficiaries not covered in the above given category (individuals
and private/corporate sector will come under this category) Rs. 1.00 lakh per
kW For 25 demo projects in North-Eastern states including Sikkim &
J&K including Leh-Laddakh Rs. 2.25 lakh per kW b)The remaining cost of
the system and all other expenditure related to packing & forwarding,
transportation, installation and commissioning of the system will be a part of
the system and will be met by the beneficiary of the system. c)In case of
installation of systems to be done through SNAs, an administrative charge @ 2%
of CFA will be provided to SNAs at the time of final release. </span><b><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Sample Topic
Captive SPV and the NSM</span></i></b><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Economics
of Captive Power Plants </span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The
costs involved in setting up and running solar PV power plants are
significantly different from those for coal based or natural gas power plants.
Solar power systems are much higher in capital costs and much lower in
operating costs. This chapter explains in detail the capital and operating
expenses of captive PV systems and provides a comprehensive comparison of a
captive solar system with a diesel genset system. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">CHAPTER-5 </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
<br />
Key Sections <br />
</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">5.1
Introduction <br />
<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">·</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> Solar PV and Grid Parity <br />
<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">·</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> Solar PV’s Diesel Parity <br />
<br />
5.2 Capital Costs and Breakups <br />
<br />
5.2.1 Inputs Used in the Financial Model <br />
<br />
5.2.2 Performance of Solar PV System <br />
<br />
5.3 Results of the Financial Model <br />
<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">·</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> Pessimistic Scenario <br />
<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">·</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> Likely Scenario <br />
<br />
</span><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">·</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> Optimistic Scenario <br />
5.4 The BOO(T) Model Replacing Diesel with Solar – A Complete Guide to
Installing Solar PV for Backup Power www.eai.in Cost break up of a 100 kW solar
captive system – without batteries </span><b>Items Cost range </b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">PV modules 31.5 - 33.8 Lakhs
Inverters (grid tie) 7.7 - 8.3 Lakhs Balance of System (transformers, cables
and wires, tracking devices, etc.) 23.8 - 25.5 Lakhs Installation (civil
& general works) 6.3 - 6.8 Lakhs </span><b>Total 70.0 – 75.0 </b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">As can be seen from the above table,
the capex of a 100 kW system without batteries (i.e. a grid tie system) will be
approximately 70.0-75.0 lakhs Note: The cost range is given here because
different manufacturers price their products differently. </span><b><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Sample Topic
Capital Costs and Breakups </span></i></b><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> </span><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Financing of Solar
CPPs </span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">One of the key
challenges in installing a Solar CPP is the financing aspect. This being a
nascent industry, project developers would be keen to know how to finance the
projects, especially when banks and other financial industries do not have much
exposure in this area. This chapter describes various financing options
available in the country for setting up captive power plants. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">CHAPTER-6 </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
<br />
Key Sections <br />
</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">6.1
Introduction <br />
<br />
6.2 Project Finance Characteristics <br />
<br />
6.3 Asset Finance Characteristics <br />
<br />
6.4 Corporate Finance <br />
<br />
6.5 Most Likely Routes for Financing of Solar PV CPP <br />
<br />
6.6 Nodal Agencies that Support Renewable Energy Financing in India <br />
<br />
6.6.1 IREDA <br />
<br />
6.6.2 Power Finance Corporation Ltd <br />
6.7 Financial Institutions that Fund RE Projects in India Replacing Diesel with
Solar – </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Project Debt Financing
for Renewable Energy – Highlights </span></i><b>Parameter Value </b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Debt: Equity 70:30 Loan Tenure 6-8
years (including 1 year moratorium) Interest 11-11.5% </span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Note: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">All details provided are only indicative in
nature; </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">The table above
provides the highlights of renewable energy financing in India. A similar
pattern is expected for solar PV captive financing as well. Financial
Institutions that Fund RE Projects in India: The primary debt providers in
renewable energy project financing are commercial banks. Prominent domestic
banks that currently fund renewable projects are: Industrial Development Bank
of India (IDBI), Export-Import Bank of India, ICICI Bank, the Industrial
Finance Corporation of India (IFCI), State Bank of India, Yes Bank, and PNB. </span><b><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Sample Topic
Project Finance </span></i></b><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Next
Steps to be taken by a Solar PV Captive Power Developer </span></b><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Solar PV captive power
developers need to undertake a series of steps before they can start the
implementation of the solar PV power system. These steps include efforts for
both analyses (technical and economic feasibility) as well as interactions with
government departments and prospective suppliers. This chapter provides
detailed inputs on how institutions and entrepreneurs can undertake each of
these activities. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">CHAPTER-7 </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
<br />
Key Sections <br />
</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">7.1
Introduction <br />
<br />
7.2 Preparing Prefeasibility and Detailed Project Reports <br />
<br />
7.3 Meeting Government Departments <br />
<br />
7.3.1 List and Contact Details of State Nodal Agencies (SNA) in Various States <br />
<br />
7.3.2 Central Government Relevant Department Details and Contacts <br />
7.4 List of System Integrators of Solar PV Captive Power System</span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Next Steps to be taken by
a Solar PV Captive Power Developer</span></i><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Solar PV
in India – Industry Status and Trends </span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">India
presents an attractive opportunity for captive solar PV developers and
investors. Apart from PV (especially polycrystalline technology) based captive
solar, standalone solar power plants can also be set up using other
technologies. The objective of this chapter is to provide an introduction to
alternative energy sources and discuss in detail about the status and trends of
the Solar PV technology in India. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
<br />
<b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">CHAPTER-8 </span></b><b><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
<br />
Key Sections <br />
</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">8.1
Introduction <br />
<br />
8.1.1 Introduction to Alternative Energy Sources <br />
<br />
8.2 Solar PV Technology <br />
<br />
8.2.1 Solar PV – Crystalline Solar Cells <br />
<br />
8.2.2 Solar PV – Thin Film Solar Cells <br />
<br />
8.2.3 Solar PV - Concentrating Photovoltaic <br />
<br />
8.2.4 Photo-electrochemical, Polymer, Nano-crystal and Hybrid cells <br />
<br />
8.3 Solar PV Market Status and Trends <br />
<br />
8.3.1 Market Share of Thin Film Photovoltaics <br />
<br />
8.3.2 Solar Photovoltaic in India – A Snapshot <br />
<br />
8.4 Solar Energy Potential in India <br />
<br />
8.4.1 Regional Potential for Solar Power <br />
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8.4.2 Current Solar PV Scenario in India <br />
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8.4.3 Future Solar PV Scenario <br />
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8.4.4 Solar PV Future Contribution in Indian Electricity Supply <br />
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8.5 Status of Solar PV Technology in India <br />
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8.5.1 Solar Cells and Solar PV Production <br />
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8.5.2 Foreign Trade of Solar PV <br />
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8.6 Prominent Solar PV Power Projects & Companies in India <br />
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8.6.1 Solar PV Power Projects Installed <br />
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8.6.2 Solar PV Power Projects Approved by the Central Government under Phase I
of JNNSM Scheme <br />
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8.6.3 Solar PV State Projects <br />
8.7 Key challenges to growth of Solar PV in India. Total available potential
India lies in a sunny tropical belt (High insolation) Total theoretical
potential – annually over 5,000 trillion kWh Exploited potential
(production/installed capacity) Exploited potential (production/installed
capacity) is very little; total installed capacity (grid and off grid) is
approximately about 2,220 MW, and of that about 2,080 MW is grid-connected (as
of Oct 2013) Future expected production/installed capacity For solar CSP and PV
together, National Solar Mission attempts to reach an installed capacity of </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">·</span></span> <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">By 2013: 1-2 GW </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">·</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> By 2017: 4-10 GW </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">·</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> By 2020: 20 GW Moreover, large
areas of the Thar Desert has been set aside for solar power projects,
sufficient to generate 700 to 2,100 GW Specific government incentives National
Solar Mission and other Generation Based Incentives (GBI) are available through
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Amount of investments happening in this
now, expected in future Government is expected to spend $19 billion until 2022.
Key bottlenecks and barriers </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">·</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Cost of solar
PV </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">·</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">High population density (land
scarcity) </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Symbol;">·</span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">Technology obsolescence Cost of
power generation - and trends in the same over years Current cost of production
(after bidding) – Rs. 7/kWh (weighted average). This includes O&M,
amortized/depreciated capital costs, loan repayment costs, and other expenses
such as insurance. Costs of production expected of Solar PV power plants in the
near future - Rs/kWh: By 2015 – 6 By 2020 – 5 </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 18pt;">Case
studies of Indian Use of Captive Solar PV </span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">This section of the report presents the performance,
impacts and lessons learnt from planning, implementing and monitoring of solar
based captive power plants. Case studies of companies and organizations in India
are provided here. The chapter also provides a comprehensive list of system
integrators. </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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Key Sections <br />
</span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";">9.1 Captive
Solar PV Systems – Experience of L&T, Chennai <br />
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9.2 Captive Solar PV Systems – Experience of SSN Research Center, Chennai <br />
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9.3 1 MW Hybrid Energy Supply for a Cotton Mill, Tirupur, TN, India <br />
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9.4 Captive Solar PV Systems – Experience of Omax Auto Ltd, Gurgaon, Haryana <br />
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9.5 Captive Solar PV Systems at Daimler India, Chennai <br />
9.6 Solar PV Captive Power Installations in India </span><o:p></o:p><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif";"> Provided below is the
sample list of SPV captive Power Installations in India. </span><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Name of Customer Location Project capacity System Type
Impact Tata BP Solar </span></b><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Karnataka
Public Works Department VikasaSoudha - Bangalore 100 kWp Roof-top Grid Connect
Solar Power Plant The 100 kW Peak Solar Array provides power to satisfy the
energy requirements of the building and the housing facilities of the
government offices. Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Limited Mumbai High
Field Standalone solar PV mounted on helideck of 9WPP The solar power
generation system used on the ONGC wellhead offshore platforms powers
telemetry, gas detection, lighting and navigational aid systems. Executive Ship
ManagementPte Ltd Samudra Institute of Maritime Studies, Mumbai. 90kWp BIPV Systems
BIPV installation in India, SIMS successfully satisfies most of the institute’s
power requirements internally West Bengal Renewable Energy Development Agency
(WBREDA) Indrapur, West Bengal 110 kWp Standalone Solar Power Plant The solar
power generated, is utilized to provide power to every household for basic
lighting, commercial utilization and for water pumping system </span><b><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 13.5pt;">Sample Topic
Stand-alone Solar PV Installation in India </span></i></b><o:p></o:p><br />
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Karnataka’s solar energy sector got a boost on Thursday with the signing of an agreement with the U.S.-based Sun Edison to buy power from its proposed 150-MW solar power plant being set up in the State at a cost of Rs. 1,500 crore.</div>
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Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) and Hubli Electricity Supply Company (Hescom) signed agreements with Sun Edison here to buy power from the plant to be set up in about 18 months. The plant will generate about 225 million units of green energy a year.</div>
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The proposed plant, which is the State’s biggest ever, will require 750 acres of land. The company is scouting for land in different districts. Company officials said they were considering options such as setting up the entire plant at one location or in five locations depending on the availability of land.</div>
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The two Escoms will buy power from the proposed plant at an average rate of about Rs. 7 a unit.</div>
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Energy Minister D.K. Shivakumar described the event as “historic”, while maintaining that it was the beginning of the implementation of the State’s mega plan to set up solar power plants with a total capacity of 1,000 MW within 18 months.</div>
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He explained that the proposed 150-MW plant was part of a scheme under which tenders had been called for setting up solar power plants with a total capacity of 500 MW. The other companies chosen under the scheme would soon set up their plants, he said.</div>
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A Must Attend Event for Solar Power Plant Developers</h3>
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Remember, you will be investing tens of crores on a long term, 25 year asset.<br />
It is <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">critical to know from experts</span> how best to go about this investment.<br />
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At the <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">best possible cost</span><br />
Avoid <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">costly mistakes</span></div>
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Specific Topics that will be Covered in the Guidance and Q&A Sessions</h1>
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Returns & Risks</h4>
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Steps Required</h4>
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Choosing Land, Vendors & Components</h4>
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Business Models for MW Solar Power Plants</h4>
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Financing Options for MW Solar Power Plants</h4>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s love for solar is more than evident from the (fun) fact that he chose to lay the foundation stone for this 10 MW canal top project on 14 February 2014! Talk about <a href="http://solarlove.org/" style="-webkit-transition: 0.8s ease-in-out; color: #85d2eb; font-weight: 700; transition: 0.8s ease-in-out;" target="_blank" title="SolarLove">SolarLove</a>. <img alt=":D" class="wp-smiley" src="http://cleantechnica.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif" style="border: 0px;" /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When a <a href="http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/24/indias-solar-canals/" style="-webkit-transition: 0.8s ease-in-out; color: #85d2eb; font-weight: 700; transition: 0.8s ease-in-out;" title="1 MW solar power plant">1 MW solar power plant</a> came up on top of Narmada canal in Gujarat in 2012, it was very well received. The pilot project was developed on a 750-m stretch of the canal by Gujarat State Electricity Corporation (GSECL) with support from Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Ltd (SSNNL), which owns and maintains the canal network. Both are public entities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two quantifiable benefits of building solar power plants on canals as against conventional ground-mounted systems were widely reported — the amount of land it would save and also the amount of water it would save, which would have otherwise been lost due to evaporation. Both excellent points.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The capacity utilization factor works out to be around 18%, which should be easily achievable in Gujarat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The only problem with the project was its high cost. At the time, it came up it cost $2.9 million for 1 MW, about 50% more expensive than a conventional ground mounted solar plant, and was criticised by some. But then, small-scale pilot projects have always been expensive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">About a year back, <a href="http://cleantechnica.com/2013/08/13/indian-state-plans-10-mw-canal-top-solar-power-project/" style="-webkit-transition: 0.8s ease-in-out; color: #85d2eb; font-weight: 700; transition: 0.8s ease-in-out;" title="Mridul reported">Mridul reported</a> on the intentions of the Gujarat government to develop a second 10 MW canal-top solar power plant. As per recent news, installation of this 3.5 km long solar plant has now been completed and it is expected to come online anytime. The project took about eight months for completion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The 10 MW canal top solar power plant has been installed in the city of Vadodara, over a branch of Narmada river canal. The EPC was handled by the Hyderabad-based Megha Engineering and Infrastructure Limited (MEIL). The total capital cost of the system has been about $15 million. MEIL will also be responsible for O&M of the solar power plant for 25 years which would cost another $1.6 million.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The plant will generate more than 16 million units a year, and will help reduce SSNNL’s dependency on state utility. The electricity generated will be used to power five pumping generators situated along Saurashtra branch canals to draw water and supply them for irrigation. It is expected that the cost of electricity would be in the region of Rs.7/kWh (about 11 cents per unit).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">SSNNL also plans to build public gardens around the installation site, so that locals can relax and also be a witness to the marvels of clean energy generation!</span></div>
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Jebaraj Samuel Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01090917329531281849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3906121108330139841.post-88133809150391345822014-10-10T02:24:00.001-07:002014-10-10T02:24:07.074-07:00ICAI Organizes a Workshop on ‘Sustainable Solar Solutions for Companies with Large Energy Needs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mumbai, October 1, 2014 — <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">International Copper Association India (ICAI)</span>, a part of Copper Alliance in association with SMA India organized a special workshop on ‘Sustainable Solar Solutions for companies with large energy needs’ in Mumbai. The objective of the seminar was to create awareness for facilitation of faster decision making towards Solar Power Systems in India.</div>
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This workshop was addressed by a panel of dignitaries comprising <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Sanjeev Ranjan, Managing Director, ICAI, Mr. Virendra Kumar Gupta, Chief Manager, Renewables ICAI, Mr. Piyush Kumar, SMA-India and Mr. Vinay Rustagi, Managing Director, Bridge to India</span>. The event witnessed a large gathering from solar system & component manufacturers, solar system integrators and other industrial units across India who actively participated in the interactive sessions.</div>
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India is currently facing a major challenge of power shortage which is invariably affecting the production targets and interrupting continuous manufacturing processes. The cost of power back up systems, mainly the diesel generators varies from Rs.15/- to Rs. 30/- per unit. However, with technological advancement, this can be drastically reduced to Rs 7/- per unit with use of solar power. According to a recent research by International Energy Agency (IEA), solar power could become the world’s largest source of electricity by 2050 as the solar photovoltaic plants may provide around 16% of global electricity. The report also states, that the explosive growth in solar installations will be driven by further price drops. The cost of electricity from photovoltaic projects will fall by an average 25% by 2020, 45% by 2030 and 65% by 2050.</div>
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Commenting on this occasion, <span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">Mr. Sanjeev Ranjan, Managing Director</span>, ICAI said, “Maharashtra is home to vast range of industrial establishments starting from micro units to very large units. It is imperative to have a steady power backup for such units. With the new government’s plan to provide 24*7 electricity supply, solar energy offers technologically feasible & economically viable alternative. The modular concept helps to design solar power plants to meet tailor made requirements of all sizes of industrial units. This further benefits to increase overall production efficiency and automating the standard processes thereby reducing cost-per-unit”.</div>
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The workshop also highlighted latest trends in Solar PV technologies along with the regulatory framework supporting solar energy in India. International Copper Association India (ICAI) has been very active in the field of promotion of Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy.</div>
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<em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-rendering: optimizelegibility; vertical-align: baseline;">About ICAI</span> – The International Copper Association India (ICAI) is a member of Copper Alliance and the Indian arm of the International Copper Association Limited (ICA), the leading not for profit organization for the promotion of copper worldwide set up in 1959. The objective is to “Defend and grow markets for copper based on its superior technical performance and its contribution to a higher quality of life worldwide”. ICA India conducts various programs in the interest of Electrical Safety, Energy Efficiency and Sustainability.</em></div>
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