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This is a season of International conferences for the Renewable Energy industry in India. If it was DIREC 2010 in New Delhi late October 2010, it is the turn of intersolar India now. Intersolar India started on December 13,2010. The conference takes place in The Leela Kempinski in Mumbai during...

I was at Delhi last week two days. I spent two days last week at the TERI University in Delhi last week, attending an interesting conclave on renewable energy, part of an India-US research partnership. The event was organized by Marg Group (http://www.marggroup.com/ ), and had as its partners Great...

NVVN has announced the list of 30 projects(5 MW each) under grid-connected Solar PV and 7 projects(total 450 MW) under grid-connected Solar Thermal categories. Of the projects selected under Solar PV, only a few names sound familiar(at least to us). These include Indian Oil Corporation Ltd(IOCL), Karnataka Power Corporation Limited,...

To compensate the poor quality of grid supply (low voltage, fluctuating frequency and frequent interruptions), high tariffs (much higher than actual cost of supply), unfair impositions (peak hour restrictions and unplanned load shedding) and unresponsive attitude of State Electricity Boards, many industries were forced to isolate themselves totally from the...

With the increase in wind energy penetration, the interaction between the grid and the wind farms generating electricity becomes more and more critical. In this interview with EAI, Mr. Jayateerth Managoli, Country Sales Manager, American Superconductor Corporation., talks about the status of current technology in the electric power infrastructure, advances...

I have been in Delhi last couple of days, and today I had to travel the length and breadth of Delhi for three meetings – from near the airport to Noida, to Oberoi hotel (Lodhi Road) and from there to Gurgaon, and back to the airport; and all within 7...

It’s not everyday I gallivant around my city…it’s not everyday (even during winter) that it rains heavily in Chennai…and it is a very rare day indeed when I see absolutely verdant localities with deers roaming right next to the road. And when all the three happen on the same day...

Read an interesting article in today’s Financial Express (Nov 29) that the government of India is considering providing tax breaks to companies if they can prove that the total carbon content of their operations had been on the lower side. In this context, it is reported that the ministry of...

About a week back, I had gone to Coimbatore to present a brief lecture on green IT, at the VLB Janakiammal College of Engineering, on the outskirts of the city. The college itself is located in a pleasant setting, almost amid the hills, so I must say it was a...

Came across a news item in the Business Line that kind of woke me up to an important area of concern – losing productive soil to erosion. The news item says that “India is losing 5,334 millions tons of soil every year because of indiscreet and excess use of fertilizers,...