Backdrop: Energy Efficiency at the moment is not in the priority list of the policy making. The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) has a miniscule staff of only 50, with a paltry annual budget of Rs. 350 crore, completely disproportional to considering it as a priority task.   There are various disproportions which exists within [...]

In the process of doing the feasibility study for a land for setting up a solar plant there are some general but important considerations: The kind of plant has to be decided upon first of all-whether CSP or Solar PV? The policies that are currently prevalent in the country? Average sunny days per year and [...]

World Renewable Energy Technology Congress & Expo 25 Apr 2012 | Wednesday to 27 Apr 2012 Hotel Le Meredien  New Delhi Energy Technology Congress & ExpoDate: 25-APR-12 to 27-APR-12World Renewable Energy Technology Congress & Expo is the exhibition for energy security and sustainable development sector in India. WRETC-2011 will provide a platform to showcase opportunities [...]

HydroVision India 19 Apr 2012 | Thursday to 22 Apr 2012 Pragati Maidan Hall No 18 New Delhi, DL Powered by biztradeshows.com HydroVision IndiaDate: 19-APR-12 to 22-APR-12HydroVision India 2012 is a new event for the Indian hydropower sector. Co-located with POWER-GEN India & Central Asia, the regions most important power related conference and exhibition, and [...]

POWER-GEN India & Central Asia 2012 19 Apr 2012 | Thursday to 21 Apr 2012 Pragati Maidan Exhibition Centre Pragati Bhawan, Pragati Maidan POWER-GEN India & Central Asia combines with HydroVision India and Renewable Energy World India to showcase state-of-the-art services and technologies across the entire thermal, renewable and hydro power sector, all under one [...]

Renewable Energy World India 2012 Apr 19-21, Delhi Renewable Energy World India 2012 combines with HydroVision India and POWER-GEN India & Central Asia to showcase state-of-the-art services and technologies across the entire renewable, hydro and thermal power sector, all under one roof. Exhibiting at Renwable Energy World India 2012 presents an unrivalled opportunity for start-up [...]

IBRX India – 2012 – International Battery Expo & Recycling Conference Hotel Novatel Hyderābād, AP 2 Apr 2012 | Monday to 4 Apr 2012 | Wednesday International Battery Expo & Recycling ConferenceDate: 02-APR-12 to 04-APR-12. IBRX India – 2012 will bring together from world over leading battery manufacturers interested in technology and business cooperation, battery [...]

CSP Today India 2012 Date: Mar. 14-15, 2012 Venue: The Leela Kempinski Hotel & Residences Now in its third year, the leading CSP event in India will provide you with your road map for CSP market dominance, by hearing from international developers, EPC Groups and service providers, as well as financial and government institutions, on [...]

Energy Bengaluru 9 Mar 2012 | Friday to 10 Mar 2012 Energy 2012 will act as a comprehensive resource for the renewable energy industry and its members, prospective business visitors and customers by providing in-depth information of this industry and its latest trends influencing its progress. Energy 2012 is a platform for prominent manufacturers and [...]

The Solar Future India II 29 February 2012 to 1 March 2012 Jaipur, Rajasthan, India On 29 February 2012 Solarplaza will be organising ‘The Solar Future: India II’, a high-level market-oriented conference focused on the growing Indian solar PV market. 2011 has been a remarkable year for the Indian Solar PV Market. The country’s huge [...]

ICPDRE 2012 – 2012 International Conference on Product Development and Renewable Energy Resources 18 to 19 February 2012 Coimbatore, India The primary goal of the conference is to promote research and developmental activities in Product Development and Renewable Energy Resources. Another goal is to promote scientific information interchange between researchers, developers, engineers, students, and practitioners [...]

Renewable Asia – Bengaluru 16 Feb 2012 | Thursday to 19 Feb 2012 Renewable Asia is regarded as one of the most focused events that deals with the alternative energy sector including everything right from solar energy, wind energy, bio fuels, hydro electric and to geothermal energy, tidal waves and nuclear energy. Bringing within its [...]

Fifth National Conference on Advances in Energy Conversion Technologies (AECT 2012) 2 to 4 February 2012 Manipal, Karnataka, India The Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of Manipal Institute of Technology is organising “Fifth National Conference on Advances in Energy Conversion Technologies (AECT 2012)” from 02-04 February 2012 at MIT, Manipal. The theme of the [...]

Date & Venue : 6-10 February 2012, Seminar Hall, DCRUST, Murthal The theme of the conference is “Energy Effi cient Design of Buildings: Seeking Cost effective Solutions” The general objective of the conference is to provide a forum for the presentation of the latest advances in – Architectural Science and Building Technology – Transformative Effects [...]

Date : 2012-02-02 Place : Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi The Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS), organized annually by The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) since 2001, is an international undertaking that provides a platform for the exchange of knowledge on all aspects of sustainable development. Over the past ten years, DSDS has emerged as [...]

Chennai city is doing great in terms of waste water management / sewage treatment, managing to get recognition from the prestigious United Nations. However, on another note the problem of e-waste is looming the city and is growing to be a matter of serious concern. The Chennai Metropolitan Water Supply and Sewerage Board (CMWSSB) has [...]

While efforts are on-going to find out more environmentally friendly solutions to energy production and supply one factor that we have to contend with is that the current energy production technologies, primarily coal, are here to stay for much longer (BP in its 2007 report, estimated that there were several billion tons of proven coal [...]

The REC trading for the month of January 2012, concluded yesterday. Keeping up with the trend last, the opening month of this year has posted strong gains in both price and volume. The total non-solar REC volume traded surged to 1,71,524 RECs, showcasing an impressive 53% growth over last month’s trading session. In total 1,71,524 [...]

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 of the inventory, followed by [...]

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 through combined heat and power [...]

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 Nadu and Delhi looking to [...]

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 by a rooftop installation can [...]

Was doing some research on green buildings in Tamil Nadu and was surprised to find that the state is doing reasonably well. Why surprised? Let’s say it’s just the “familiarity breeds contempt” syndrome. Some updates on the status of green buildings in Tamil Nadu. You might be pleasantly surprised too, if you were from Tamil [...]

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 wind in India (the state [...]

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 position in the various aspects [...]