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OIL Gets Exploration License Extensions in Assam, Arunachal Pradesh
Oil India Limited (OIL) has secured an extension for petroleum licenses for 10 out of 16 independently held blocks in Assam and AP. Through these blocks (some of which it had to surrender for lack of potential), OIL held a total area of over 5,000 sq km. OIL produced 3.6...
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Trina Solar Plans Indian Solar PV, Focus on BIPV
Changzhou Trina Solar Energy Company intends to enter the solar energy market. It has signed an agreement with Chennai-based GEMAC Energy Ltd for entry into the Indian market. Trina manufactures mono and multi-crystalline silicon cells and modules. It is China's third and the world's eighth largest solar cell manufacturer and...
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Shale Gas Race Begins – Reliance One of the Players
RIL had acquired two shale gas assets in the US in the last couple of months, and this should not have surprised anyone. There is currently a shale gas mania, with analysts predicting that shale gas based natural gas could become the leading energy component in the US and perhaps...
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Decontrol of petrol prices – long due or a short try?
Oh, well, we finally did have the decontrol of the petrol and other fossil fuel prices. Economics experts have almost unanimously lauded it saying it is a step in the right direction. Well, it is going to be a bit of discomfort - with prices of petrol and diesel rising...
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Solar CSP in India – Latest Trends
Despite there being more than 10 different Solar CSP technology combinations in the market now, and more than 400MW installed capacity worldwide, India's role in the CSP sector has been comparitively reticent - However, latest government incentives are set to reverse that trend. Writing for CSP Today, Giles Parkinson notes that the...
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Thin Film Based Solar PV Power Plant – Pros and Cons
Since they were first developed in the 50s, there have been no major changes to the basic crystalline silicon solar cell. But significant improvements are now taking place with several competing innovations vying for the first position; in fact, crystalline silicon cells are now being referred to as "first generation"...
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The second generation of Solar Cells: Thin-Film PV
Thin-films are being called 2nd generation solar PV cells, and it is a tradition nowadays to classify them by virtue of differences in the technologies involved in their manufacturing. We will presently have a look at the 3 currently popular types of Thin-Film 1. The first to be established, selling...
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Monitoring Systems for Solar PV Power Plants
Among the many small factors which contribute in small ways to the profitability of a solar plant, monitoring and control of photovoltaic systems is one of the more important; it is required for reliable functioning, and for ensuring the maximum yield of any solar electric system. The simplest monitoring involves...
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Solar PV Value Chain
From the production of silicon to the end use in solar power plants or in solar panels used for distributed power generation, the solar PV value chain consists of a number of steps, and brief inputs about the business entities in the various stages of the value chain are provided....
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Moser Baer’s Plans for Cells and Power Plants
Potential Thin-film production Giant from India Ratul Puri, the 35-year-old executive director of Moser Baer India- a $400 million high-tech company that straddles business as diverse as the optical media, home entertainment, consumer electronics and solar energy sectors – says that “India has a massive opportunity in solar. Five years...
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