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I had a visitor fairly early this morning. Karthik, the person who had so diligently come to meet me, was an aspiring entrepreneur (currently a software programmer). His question whether it was a good idea to start a business for the rooftop solar PV installation for Chennai. To cut a...

For a moment, I thought TreeHugger had missed some zeros. And then I realized the site had simply fallen prey to marketing hype. Here’s what I am talking about. Levis is going to town about its new Water<Less jeans whose production process it claims saves about 10-20 liters of water....

Project finance is the long term financing  of infrastructure and industrial projects based upon the projected cash flows of the project rather than the balance sheets of the project sponsors. Usually, a project financing structure involves a number of equity investors, known as sponsors, as well as a syndicate of...

A 40-member from Wipro has developed a software+hardware combination that can improve the performance of solar PV power plants by picking up critical data from the PV panels and inverters and dynamically modelling it to improve generation. It guarantees an improvement in power generation to the tune of 8-20%, which...

Fact, as they say, is stranger than fiction. Make that much stranger. In a commercial scheme that is said to be an attempt to rectify some of the inequalities inflicted by the beginnings of climate change, water from a lake in Alaska will be sent to a new, yet-to-be-built water...

Quite a few people I meet these days ask me about the most prominent renewable energy and cleantech companies in India, so I thought I’d spend some time putting down my list: Already in the fray Asian Genco (thermal and hydro power plants) – site Astonfield (diversified renewables) – site...

When folks call India a developing country, I wonder. Developing? Very initial stages of developing, perhaps? Or, better still, just about think of starting to develop? You get the idea. With over 500 million people below utter poverty line, hey, it takes some imagination to call ourselves a developing country....

An average India consumes about 500 kWh of electricity per year (a kWh is what we call a Unit in common language!). An average American consumes about 13500 kWh of electricity per year. Hmmph. An average American consumes over 25 times the amount of electricity as does an average Indian!...

If you are a private equity or venture capital firm looking at investing in solar PV companies in India, you might want to look beyond the obvious PPAs for solar PV power plants. For one solar PV is not just grid connected power plants and presents many other opportunities. For...

At a cost of about Rs 15 crores per MW, solar PV developers will do well to ensure that they install some critical support systems to ensure that they get the most bang for the buck. Of special focus for them should be monitoring systems. What are these monitoring systems,...