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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,...

VCs and PEs would love to invest in companies that are unique in what they provide; but it is very difficult to identify such companies, and more so in the Indian cleantech sector. This post provides some inputs on what some of these interesting niches could be. It will be...

Just as I was about to give back my finished breakfast tray to the flight attendant while on a flight from Delhi to Mumbai last week, I observed the person sitting next to me doing something interesting. He segregated all the stuff in the meal that he had not used...

For the past one month, I have been doing some research on the opportunity in India for solar ingots and wafer manufacturing. Based on the preliminary data I have, it is difficult to infer whether it is indeed a good opportunity for an entrepreneur. As you might know, there is...

The last one week, I was really jet-setting. Ok, that’s a bit of an exaggeration, as one of the planes I went by was actually an ATR propeller plane 🙂 Turning serious, what was really interesting about the trip was that I was able to meet a whole lot of...

While world over, biofuels are always in the news, in India, the biofuels segment is a rather low-profile segment with little or no newsworthy events ever reported. Does this really mean that there is nothing innovative happening in the biofuel sector in India, or is it that the media is...

Last week, I had the opportunity to meet a wide range of youngsters from all over India (Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore and of course Chennai) who were keen on joining EAI – in industry research, marketing and finance. Many of them had some kind of acquaintance with renewable energy, and...

This was another post I picked up from the EAI Club (Thanks to Madhavan) Siemens and IBNLive.com are instituting a hunt for India’s Ecovatives – initiatives by Organizations who are combining protection to environment, reducing harmful effects to the environment with innovations to create leadership positions. These could range from...