India to spend $55bn into renewable energy

[eric_cartman]

How many corrupt politicians like Kalmadi would be involved so tht we can have rough idea of real amount tht would be invested in such scheme?

 

[Abhishek_]

How many corrupt politicians like Kalmadi would be involved so tht we can have rough idea of real amount tht would be invested in such scheme?

since you're asking for a number, I say minimal since most of the energy projects are going to be private and hence away from the politicians. thank god

 

[mikey]

How many corrupt politicians like Kalmadi would be involved so tht we can have rough idea of real amount tht would be invested in such scheme?

HOW many people like you to think other way ?? anyway thankz to remind the kalmadi lol

 

[hembo]

Good news.. We and whole world needs to slowly divert their attention from fosil fuel and positive strides in renewable sources are need of the hour. Both for economic as well as environmental viewpoint.

However, I have very lowly opinion on the thugs in IREDA or similar Govt agencies to spend this huge amount in efficient way. When I was in India and I was working in energy sector, I had tried many times to talk to officials from IREDA with my concerns and solutions regarding non-renewable sources of Energy. But true to their reputation of BABUGIRI, no one ever had the slightest courtesy to write back even a one liner.

Anyway I remain the eternal optimist that I am and say: very good investment for future. Hope Faroukh Abdulla brings in some dynamism in renewable energy departmet.

 

[IND151]

dia is both densely populated and has high solar insolation, providing an ideal combination for solar power in India. India is already a leader in wind power generation (Wind power in India) and, Suzlon Energy is one of the India-based pioneering industries in world to generate non-conventional energy. In solar energy sector, some large projects have been proposed, and a 35,000 km² area of the Thar Desert has been set aside for solar power projects, sufficient to generate 700 to 2,100 gigawatts.

In July 2009, India unveiled a US$19 billion plan, to produce 20 GW of solar power by 2020.[1] Under the plan, solar-powered equipment and applications would be mandatory in all government buildings including hospitals and hotels.[2] On November 18, 2009, it was reported that India was ready to launch its National Solar Mission under the National Action Plan on Climate Change, with plans to generate 1,000 MW of power by 2013.[3]



Contents [hide]
1 Annual insolation
2 Present status
2.1 Installed capacity
2.2 Still unaffordable
2.3 Solar engineering training
3 Applications
3.1 Rural electrification
3.2 Agricultural support
3.2.1 Water pumping
3.2.2 Harvest processing
3.3 Cooling
3.4 Solar water heaters
4 Challenges and constraints
4.1 Land scarcity
4.2 Slow progress
5 Latent potential
6 Government Support
7 See also
8 Notes
9 External links
[edit]Annual insolation

With about 300 clear sunny days in a year, India's theoretical solar power reception, just on its land area, is about 5 PWh/year (i.e. = 5 trillion kWh/yr ~ 600 TW).[4][5] The daily average solar energy incident over India varies from 4 to 7 kWh/m2 with about 1500–2000 sunshine hours per year, depending upon location. This is far more than current total energy consumption. For example, even assuming 10% conversion efficiency for PV modules, it will still be thousand times greater than the likely electricity demand in India by the year 2015.[4]

[edit]Present status

[edit]Installed capacity
The amount of solar energy produced in India is merely 0.4% compared to other energy resources.[6] The Grid-interactive solar power as of June 2007 was merely 2.12 MW.[7] Government-funded solar energy in India only accounted for approximately 6.4 megawatt-years of power as of 2005.[6] However, as of October 2009, India is currently ranked number one along with the United States in terms of installed Solar Power generation capacity.[8]

Number of solar street lighting systems: 55,795
Number of home lighting systems: 342,607
Solar lanterns: 560,295
Solar photovoltaic power plants: 1566 kW
Solar water heating systems: 140 km2 of collector area
Box-type solar cookers: 575,000
Solar photovoltaic pumps: 6,818
[edit]Still unaffordable
Solar power is currently prohibitive due to high initial costs of deployment. To spawn a thriving solar market, the technology needs to be competitively cheaper — i.e. attaining cost parity with fossil or nuclear energy. India is heavily dependent on coal and foreign oil — a phenomenon likely to continue until non-fossil / renewable energy technology become economically viable in the country.[9][10] The cost of production ranges from Rs 15 to Rs 30 per unit compared to around Rs 5 to Rs 8 per unit for conventional thermal energy.[11]

[edit]Solar engineering training
The Australian government has awarded UNSW AU$5.2 million to train next-generation solar energy engineers from Asia-Pacific nations, specifically India and China, as part of the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development and Climate (APP).[12] Certain programmes are designed to target for rural solar usage development.[13]

[edit]Applications

[edit]Rural electrification
Lack of electricity infrastructure is one of the main hurdles in the development of rural India. India's grid system is considerably under-developed, with major sections of its populace still surviving off-grid. As of 2004 there are about 80,000 unelectrified villages in the country. Of these villages, 18,000 could not be electrified through extension of the conventional grid. A target for electrifying 5,000 such villages was fixed for the Tenth National Five Year Plan (2002–2007). As on 2004, more than 2,700 villages and hamlets had been electrified mainly using SPV systems.[4] Developments on cheap solar technology is considered as a potential alternative that allows an electricity infrastructure comprising of a network of local-grid clusters with distributed electricity generation.[6] That could allow bypassing, or at least relieving the need of installing expensive, and lossy, long-distance centralised power delivery systems and yet bring cheap electricity to the masses.3000 villages of Odisha will be lighted with Solar power by 2014 [14][15][16], [17],.

[edit]Agricultural support
[edit]Water pumping
Solar PV water pumping systems are used for irrigation and drinking water. The majority of the pumps are fitted with a 200–3,000 watt motor that are powered with 1,800 Wp PV array which can deliver about 140,000 liters of water/day from a total head of 10 meters. By 30 September, 2006, a total of 7,068 solar PV water pumping systems have been installed.[6]

[edit]Harvest processing
Solar driers are used to dry harvests before storage.[18]

[edit]Cooling
Another e.g. is the cost of energy expended on temperature control — a factor squarely influencing regional energy intensity. With cooling load demands being roughly in phase with the sun's intensity, cooling from intense solar radiation could be an attractive energy-economic option in the subcontinent.[19][20][21]

[edit]Solar water heaters
Bangalore has the largest deployment of rooftop solar water heaters in India that will generate energy equivalent to 200 MW everyday and will be the country's first grid connected utility scale project soon.[22]

Bangalore is also the first city in the country to put in place an incentive mechanism by providing a rebate, which has just been increased to Rs 50, on monthly electricity bills for residents using roof-top thermal systems which are now mandatory for all new structures.

Pune, another city in the western part of India, has also recently made installation of solar water heaters in new buildings mandatory.[23]

[edit]Challenges and constraints

[edit]Land scarcity
Per capita land availability is a scarce resource in India. Dedication of land area for exclusive installation of solar cells might have to compete with other necessities that require land. The amount of land required for utility-scale solar power plants — currently approximately 1 km² for every 20–60 megawatts (MW) generated[6] — could pose a strain on India's available land resource. The architecture more suitable for most of India would be a highly distributed, individual rooftop power generation systems, all connected via a local grid.[6] However, erecting such an infrastructure — which doesn't enjoy the economies of scale possible in mass utility-scale solar panel deployment — needs the market price of solar technology deployment to substantially decline so that it attracts the individual and average family size household consumer. That might be possible in the future, since PV is projected to continue its current cost reductions for the next decades and be able to compete with fossil fuel.[4]

[edit]Slow progress
While the world has progressed substantially in production of basic silicon mono-crystalline photovoltaic cells, India has fallen short to achieve the worldwide momentum. India is now in 7th place worldwide in Solar Photovoltaic (PV) Cell production and 9th place in Solar Thermal Systems with nations like Japan,China, and the US currently ranked far ahead. Globally, solar is the fastest growing source of energy (though from a very small base) with an annual average growth of 35%, as seen during the past few years.[24]

[edit]Latent potential

Some noted think-tanks [4][25][26] recommend that India should adopt a policy of developing solar power as a dominant component of the renewable energy mix, since being a densely populated region [27] in the sunny tropical belt [28] [29], the subcontinent has the ideal combination of both high solar insolation [28] and a big potential consumer base density [4][30][31][32][33]. In one of the analyzed scenarios [26], while reining on its long-term carbon emissions without compromising its economic growth potential, India can make renewable resources like solar the backbone of its economy by 2050.

[edit]Government Support

The government of India is promoting the use of solar energy through various strategies. In the latest budget for 2010-11, the government has announced an allocation of 10 billion (US$ 227 million) towards the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission and the establishment of a Clean Energy Fund. It's an increase of 3.8 billion (US$ 86.3 million) from the previous budget. Also budget has also encouraged private solar companies by reducing customs duty on solar panels by 5 percent and exempting excise duty on solar photovoltaic panels. This is expected to reduce the roof-top solar panel installation by 15- 20 percent. The budget also proposed a coal tax of USD 1 per metric ton on domestic and imported coal used for power generation. [34

---------- Post added at 07:02 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:01 PM ----------

Solar power in India - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[IND151]

Renewable Energy Technologies in India
OCTOBER 25, 2010
By Venkat Raj

Creating an environment conducive to promote renewable energy technologies is the need of the hour. Our country is blessed with plenty of renewable energy resources. Wind Energy, Solar Energy, Biomass, Geothermal Energy, Ocean Energy and the Energy from Wastes constitute the major alternative to the conventional sources. Though the Renewable Energy Scenario in India looks encouraging, we need to look into a long term strategy to manage the future energy needs. In managing the energy crisis, where do we stand and where are we heading to?

Research shows that an energy mix, with wind energy providing 30%, solar energy 20% and gas turbines (biogas and natural gas) a further 20%, is technically and economically viable. It may soon be possible to imagine a scenario where most of the electricity we use comes from renewable energy sources. We will thus be able to prevent climate change by lessening the emission of greenhouse gases.

But we also need to understand that there are some conceptual hurdles that we have to overcome. Recent research reveal that all the carbon dioxide emissions, in combination with other greenhouse gases, from all the cars and trucks, has emerged as one of the primary causes of global warming.

We know well how global warming endangers human health and welfare. The switch from coal and other fossil fuels to greener wind-based energy will mitigate CO2 emissions, thereby reducing pollution. Even though wind power is mainly an energy resource that replaces fossil power generation, it can also be used for replacing existing power plant capacity.


Solar Cell Panel
In areas where wind power production is high during peak demand, wind power can be used to replace the fall in capacity by up to 40% of the installed wind power capacity. Wind energy might one day become a commonly used clean, renewable, viable source of energy for everyone to use, which would counter the environmental damage occurring from our current use of fossil fuels as our main source for energy.

In India, Solar Power systems are primarily used to cut down on energy costs that most households consume. Solar energy is a concept that excites researchers because of its ability to tap a resource that is so obvious. Though we have unlimited sunlight to tap, we have limited technology to use. Hence, more R &D needs to be promoted to enhance the technical potential of Solar Energy Generation. Turning Garbage into Energy is slowing being adopted in India. There are ways to draw energy from the garbage which we dispose off. Bio-gas also has the potential to generate electricity for homes and offices.

India has developed to a stage where it is generally accepted that renewable energy is the most substantial and sustainable solution to its future needs. Balancing mankind’s need for energy with the environmental cost to our planet is a major challenge. I think it is a clear fact that there will be demand, driven by population growth if nothing else, for large additional amounts of primary energy. Hence, we need to provide the new chemistry to support an evolving energy mix if we are going to produce much carbon-free power. Role of NGOs, Academicians, Journalists and Activists will be essential in creating more awareness in India about the renewable energy scenario!

The above article has been contributed by V.Venkat Raj, Director of Centre for Media & Public Affairs, Chennai. Website sites.google.com/site/centreformediaandpublicaffairs
About CMPA
Centre for Media & Public Affairs is the registered public body at Chennai committed to strengthening the roots of democracy by empowering media people and enhancing the journalistic standards. CMPA organizes meetings, seminars, debates, media programs, workshops and lectures on issues concerning the various development sectors at national, regional and global levels. Functioning effectively as the central ingredients of a democratic society, journalists must realize the need to combine social outlook with professional skills.
In converged social environments, media people are required to communicate everything in global and scientific view points which will provide the perspective to understand the correlation between communities. CMPA recognizes and honors innovative and impactful communication practices adopted by organizations. Showcasing such practices will provide useful case studies on effective strategies to address the contemporary challenges.


---------- Post added at 07:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:03 PM ----------

Renewable Energy Technologies in India

 

[IND151]

uzlon Energy (BSE: 532667) is a global wind power company based in India. In terms of market share, the company is the largest wind turbine manufacturer in Asia (and the 3rd largest worldwide (Suzlon + REpower)[2]). In terms of net worth, it is the world's most valuable wind power company,[3] but measured by market value, the company is smaller than Vestas[4] and possibly GE, Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica, Enercon and Siemens, of which the market value is harder to know because they are not traded as independent entities. With headquarters in Pune, it has several manufacturing sites in India including Pondicherry, Daman, Bhuj and Gandhidham as well as in mainland China, Germany and Belgium. The company is listed on the National Stock Exchange of India and on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

Contents [hide]
1 Company description
2 History
3 Wind parks
4 See also
5 External links
6 References
[edit]Company description

Suzlon is a vertically integrated wind power company. Suzlon delivers end-to-end wind power solutions from assembly, installation to commissioning.[5] The company manufactures blades, generators, panels, and towers in-house, as well as gearboxes through its partial ownership of Hansen Transmissions and state-of-the-art large or offshore turbines through its subsidiary REpower. The company is integrated downstream and delivers turnkey projects through its project management and installation consultancy, and operations & maintenance services. Suzlon is a multinational company with offices, R&D and technology centers, manufacturing facilities and service support centers spread across the globe.

Suzlon has design and R&D teams and facilities in Germany, India and The Netherlands to retrofit blades for clients. The international sales business of Suzlon is managed out of Aarhus, Denmark, while its global management office is in Pune, India.

Suzlon and Elin EBG Motoren GmbH of Austria have entered into a joint venutre Suzlon Generators (P) Ltd to manufacture slip ring generators required for wind turbine generators (WTGs) at the former's manufacturing facility at Pune in Maharashtra.[6] Suzlon acquired Hansen Transmissions, Belgium in 2006. The acquisition of the world’s second leading gearbox maker gives Suzlon manufacturing and technology development capability for wind gearboxes, enabling an integrated R&D approach to design even more efficient wind turbines. It Plugs a critical gap in Suzlon’s supply chain as the Gearbox is one of the longest lead-time products in WTG value chain. It also develops a long-term growth driver in form of Wind and Industrial gearbox business of Hansen Transmissions.

Suzlon Energy Limited (SEL), India’s largest wind turbine manufacturer, announced crossing 5,000 MW (megawatt) of cumulative installations in India, underlining the strong momentum in India's fast growing wind energy market. This cumulative power generation capacity has the potential to light up four million homes annually; thereby accentuating the key role that Suzlon continues to play in the electrification of India. Suzlon has cumulatively added over 5,000 MW of wind power capacity for over 1,500 customers in India across 40 sites in eight States. Suzlon accounts for nearly half of the country’s total wind installations. In the key states of Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Gujarat, Suzlon’s installation base is over 1,000 MW each. Leading corporates such as the Bajaj Group, the Birla Group, MSPL, DLF, the Tata Group, the Reliance Group, the ITC Group, L&T, as well as public sector companies like GSPL, HPCL, Indian Railways, Rajasthan Mines & Minerals, GACL, GSPC, GSFC, Indian Oil, ONGC and State Bank of India (SBI), amongst others, have chosen Suzlon for their wind power projects. Suzlon is India's largest wind turbine manufacturer and has been leading the wind energy market in India for the past 12 years with nearly 50 percent YoY market share. The company has a workforce of 9,000 employees in India, and eight manufacturing facilities across the country.

[edit]History

Suzlon was founded by Tulsi Tanti in 1995, when he was working in a family-owned textile company. In that year, India's shaky power grid and the rising cost of electricity offset any profits the company would make.[7] With the help of some of his friends of Rajkot, he moved into wind energy production as a way to secure the textile company's energy needs, and founded Suzlon Energy.[8] In 2001, Tanti sold off the textile business, so he could focus on the development of his wind energy business. In 2009, Suzlon is still actively run by Tulsi Tanti, now in the role of Chairman and Managing Director.

In 2003, Suzlon got its first sale in USA, with an order from DanMar & Associates to supply 24 turbines in southwestern Minnesota.[1]

Suzlon Rotor Corporation in 2006 began producing the blades in Pipestone, Minnesota in the United States. Among its clients is Wind Capital Group.[9]

In the year 2006, Suzlon reached a definitive agreement for acquisition of Belgium firm Hansen Transmissions, specializing in gearboxes for wind turbines, for $565 million. In 2007, the company purchased a controlling stake in Germany's REpower which valued the firm at US$ 1.6 billion.

In June 2007, Suzlon had signed a contract with Edison Mission Energy (EME) of US for delivery of 150 wind turbines of 2.1 MW in 2008 and a similar volume to be delivered in 2009. EME had an option not to purchase the 150 turbines due to be delivered in 2009, which it has chosen to exercise.

In November 2009, the company decided to sell 35% stake of Hansen through placing new shares. It appointed Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley as the managers and book runners for the same.[10]

[edit]Wind parks

Suzlon operates the largest wind park in the world, the 584 MW wind park in the Western Ghats-Tamil Nadu. Also, the company operates what was at the time of construction Asia's largest wind park, a 201MW park near the Koyna reservoir in Satara district of Maharashtra - The Vankusawade Wind Park.[11]

Suzlon will install 45 units of its S88 – 2.1 megawatt wind turbine for AGL at the Hallett Wind Farm to be located approximately 220 kilometers north of Adelaide, in South Australia.[12]

[edit]See also

---------- Post added at 07:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:06 PM ----------

Suzlon Energy (BSE: 532667) is a global wind power company based in India. In terms of market share, the company is the largest wind turbine manufacturer in Asia (and the 3rd largest worldwide (Suzlon + REpower)[2]). In terms of net worth, it is the world's most valuable wind power company,[3] but measured by market value, the company is smaller than Vestas[4] and possibly GE, Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica, Enercon and Siemens, of which the market value is harder to know because they are not traded as independent entities. With headquarters in Pune, it has several manufacturing sites in India including Pondicherry, Daman, Bhuj and Gandhidham as well as in mainland China, Germany and Belgium. The company is listed on the National Stock Exchange of India and on the Bombay Stock Exchange.

 

[sensenreason]

Which means more money for Chinese solar manufacturers (panels, batteries, inverters etc etc)

just curious...what are you gushing about??

 

[vikramaditya AC]

India need to generate more energy,To increase the economy