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Here are thoughts, insights, perspectives and opinions from the consulting & research team members at EAI (Energy Alternatives India) - a clean-energy and climatetech-focussed management consulting firm. More about us and our services from www.eai.in
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October 17, 2014 by Team EAI
An interesting news report in The Hindu on a Kenyan effort to manage human waste, "Turning Human Waste into Clean Energy", got me down recent memory lane. Two years back, my team had helped out the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in their efforts on finding solutions to fecal waste in India. Putting jargons aside,...
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October 2, 2014 by Team EAI
Colleges (and to a certain extent schools) are likely to be some of the earliest adopters of solar power from their premises. There are three reasons for this: 1. Most colleges are running during the same hours as the sun is up and running. Thus, the need for storage (batteries) is reduced...
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October 2, 2014 by Team EAI
Schools are great places for solar. Not only do they provide many schools a nice, alternative way to generate power. Most schools have that ideallic streak in them - what better time to teach folks to be idealistic than when they are, well, not yet folks. Indian schools are just warming to...
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October 1, 2014 by Team EAI
In our Rooftop Solar series, I look at some interesting rooftop solar installations in hotels around the world. To make it easy on your eyes, I have provided as many pictures as possible, with links to the original news articles. Hope you like these. The 1.6 MW rooftop array at...
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September 25, 2014 by Team EAI
A few weeks back, I had the opportunity to meet up with some interesting engineers at IIT Mumbai. But these engineers were entrepreneurs too, and they have set up a bio-energy technology company named Urjas Gasifiers. Urjas, based out of the business incubation cell at IIT Mumbai, specialises in biomass gasifiers....
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September 25, 2014 by Team EAI
For those of us glued to the solar radar, most of what we see and hear today are news about solar PV. As if solar thermal simply did not exist. Or matter. And if at all we hear anything on the thermal side, it is about how large scale solar...
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September 21, 2014 by Team EAI
From almost nothing in 2010, the Indian solar sector has come a long way, with total installed capacities well above 2500 MW by end of Jul 2014. Sure, that’s a blip on the global solar radar screen that is clocking 150+ GW (1,50,000 MW), but that also shows the kind...
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August 10, 2014 by Team EAI
Press release All right, this is a press release, but am posting it in our blog, and there is a reason for this. EAI's Consulting team had worked with wind turbine OEM major ReGen's top management team when they were doing the initial strategic market research and planning for the...
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August 9, 2014 by Team EAI
We are all used to solar being a serious industry, with discussions on obscure technologies and business models being the focus most of the time. But it looks like solar has a more colorful side as well. Here is an interesting blog post from Weird Gallery on interesting, sometimes awesome...
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August 1, 2014 by Team EAI
You could say that the last one year had been a biomass energy year for me. While the solar sector is where one would have expected most of EAI's consulting assignments to have come from (and indeed we did get quite a few from that sector), surprisingly, there were a fairly...
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