For those of us glued to the solar radar, most of what we see and hear today are news about solar PV. As if solar thermal simply did not exist. Or matter. And if at all we hear anything on the thermal side, it is about how large scale solar...

From almost nothing in 2010, the Indian solar sector has come a long way, with total installed capacities well above 2500 MW by end of Jul 2014. Sure, that’s a blip on the global solar radar screen that is clocking 150+ GW (1,50,000 MW), but that also shows the kind...

Press release All right, this is a press release, but am posting it in our blog, and there is a reason for this. EAI's Consulting team had worked with wind turbine OEM major ReGen's top management team when they were doing the initial strategic market research and planning for the...

We are all used to solar being a serious industry, with discussions on obscure technologies and business models being the focus most of the time. But it looks like solar has a more colorful side as well. Here is an interesting blog post from Weird Gallery on interesting, sometimes awesome...

You could say that the last one year had been a biomass energy year for me. While the solar sector is where one would have expected most of EAI's consulting assignments to have come from (and indeed we did get quite a few from that sector), surprisingly, there were a fairly...

I am currently working for a client keen on shifting from the use of natural gas to biomass for his heating/drying energy needs. This is a fairly intricate assignment that has provided me an opportunity to see in-depth the real issues involved in both the supply chain and technology feasibility for the use...

Read a rather alarming news article today. This was about how large number of terrestrial vertebrates have become (and are becoming) extinct. Since 150, over 320 terrestrial vertebrates have become extinct, according to the report. Tens of many other terrestrial vertebrates could face extinction. "Tens" might not sound like a big deal,...

It has been the raging debate last few weeks in the Indian solar power circles - Will there or won't there be anti-dumping duties on solar cells and modules? Recall that the Directorate General of Anti-dumping has recently recommended ADD, which will come into force once the Ministry of Finance...

As I am working on an interesting project for a client keen on shifting to biomass instead of natural gas, the current fuel, I am doing a bit of research on similar shifts that have happened elsewhere. I am putting down the list of such case studies. Hope this is...

I and my team might be working on an interesting project where the company is trying to move away from natural gas for its heating purposes and into the use of biomass for the same. The reason of course has to do with economics, with natural gas prices shooting through the...