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Interesting Rooftop Solar Installations on Hotels Worldwide
In our Rooftop Solar series, I look at some interesting rooftop solar installations in hotels around the world. To make it easy on your eyes, I have provided as many pictures as possible, with links to the original news articles. Hope you like these. The 1.6 MW rooftop array at...
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Biomass Gasifier for Thermal and Power from IIT Mumbai Startup
A few weeks back, I had the opportunity to meet up with some interesting engineers at IIT Mumbai. But these engineers were entrepreneurs too, and they have set up a bio-energy technology company named Urjas Gasifiers. Urjas, based out of the business incubation cell at IIT Mumbai, specialises in biomass gasifiers....
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Aspiring High with Solar Thermal – Aspiration Energy Shows Solar Thermal PAYS
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...
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ReGen’s 2 MW Water Cooled Solar Inverter – Made for India with International Expertise
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...
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ReGen Powertech 2 MW Solar Central Inverter Launch, Chennai, Aug 12, 2014
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...
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Solar Can be Weird and Crazy too
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...
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Strategy to Validate Biomass Supply Chain in India and Identify Reliable Suppliers
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...
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Shifting to Biomass Energy from LPG, Natural Gas, Furnace Oil or Diesel – Potential and Challenges
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...
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Earth heading towards sixth mass extinction? Ah, those elephants…
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,...
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Ajay Goel – Anti Dumping Duties on Solar Won’t Lead to Sharp Price Increases
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...
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