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Spurred by the strong year end (2011) demand, the solar energy market posted positive growth in the upstream segment over the past week. Much of the inventory glut has been cleared due to the spike in installations and significant demand from regions such as Germany, USA and Italy. The clearence...

With energy efficiency becoming the buzzword (and rightly so, as this is a real low hanging fruit), every industry is looking at processes and concepts through which better gains on the power / energy used can be achieved. One of the simplest ways to achieve much higher efficiency gains is...

The Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (BESCOM) proposed to increase tariff by about 50% and is expected to file their proposal with the Karnataka Electricity Regulatory Commission (KERC) by the end of the month. This comes following the news late last year of proposal various state electricity regulatory bodies including Tamil...

It is no secret that despite the best efforts by the government, the rooftop solar PV segment in India has not really kicked off. The reason for this has been attributed to the lack of availability of net metering – a mechanism through which the excess electricity that is generated...

=========================================== Are you looking to get energy security for your company through reduction in the use of diesel, furnace oil, LPG and costly grid power? EAI can do a feasibility study for the use of solar PV & thermal, biomass for heat and power, waste heat recovery and energy efficiency to dramatically cut down...

Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities begins thus “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” Dickens might have written something similar about the energy position in Tamil Nadu were he alive today. On the one hand, the state is the undisputed number one in...

A tip from one of my colleagues at EAI (Nanda Kumar) got me to this site New Energy India. While the site appears to be in its early stages and is still evolving, what I liked most about the site were the statistics provided as a nice summary, on India’s...

Loyalties die hard, don’t they. Eyebrows surely must have been raised when Manmohan Singh appointed the nuclear scientist Anil Kakodkar as the head of a renewable energy mission – and that too, the prestigious National Solar Mission. Nothing wrong with it perhaps from a capability/expertise point of view, just that...

NTPC Limited – the largest power producer in the country with an installed capacity of over 36,000 MW has announced their intent to push through into the renewable energy segment with a 5 MW solar PV plant set to be comissioned close to the Port Blair airport in the Andaman...

It is an open secret that the Tamil Nadu state electricity utilities are bankrupt. All right, perhaps they are not technically bankrupt, but for many private power producers, the difference does not matter. Ask especially wind power producers in Tamil Nadu who had not been paid for many months together!...