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Increasing demand from industrial consumers, who are suffering from inadequate power supply and high tariff rate charged by State Electricity Boards (SEBs), find captive generation as the best alternative for meeting their demand. As a result, Captive Power Plant (CPP) capacity grew at a CAGR of 5% during the period...

The first EAI Club Meet of 2011 was held last week (31st January). This edition of the meet was quite different from the past Club Meets and had many firsts. The meet for the first time was held at a new place, Integree Projects Limited, Nungambakkam. Integree is one of...

A hybrid remote power system combines two energy sources; the sun and a diesel generator (genset), and uses intelligent controls to manage the system operation. PV Hybrid systems generally use diesel generating set (genset)-capable of providing full rated power on demand as the second energy source. Beneficial in terms of...

Once an entrepreneur has decided to set up a solar captive power plant, he has to tread carefully planning each step forward. The first step would be local assessment to calculate the system capacity. This would be succeeded by prefeasibility studies to analyze system capacity and structuring, climatic parameters, stability...

While we are striving hard to switch to more sustainable modes of living, there arise lots of issues questioning the efficiency of our choice of green.  Despite all the issues they might have, they have more benefits than their petroleum counterpart. After all, petroleum is not going be here forever....

Sustainability is coming of age –that at least is the message that came out of last week’s event on Triple Bottom Line, “L’Attitude” organized by Great Lakes Institute of Management(GLIM) at Chennai. The event, which aptly advocated “Prosperity with Accountability” focused on the need for corporates to focus not just...

With rapidly increasing energy demand and with one sixth of the world’s population, India ranks sixth in the world for total energy consumption and certainly needs acceleration in the development of the sector to meet its growth and demand. The Indian Solar PV Industry is at a very nascent stage...

This is my second and final post on L’Attitude 13’05. The first post is available at (Link) After the inaugural address by Dr. Kalam was the CEO conclave. The CEOs shared their ideas and success stories of how they got the people together, how they created a sustained business model...

Some of us at EAI had a great opportunity to attend L’Attitude 13’05 which was organized by the Great Lakes Institute of Management. Great opportunity because it was not a run-of-the-mill festivity but a 2 day jamboree (Jan 6-7 2011) centering on the theme of SUSTAINABILITY. All the events where...

Biomass is a valuable physical mass of biotic factors and ideally suited for the energy generation in different forms for the fulfillment of human demands over time. Even though deep ground fuel resources of biological origin satisfy it comprehensively, the way it is oxidized today on a time scale for...