Consultation Meeting for TN Solar Policy – Nov 23, 430 PM . A Consultation Meeting has been convened at TANGEDCO Head Quarters, 144 Anna Salai on 23rd Nov 4.30 PM with Prospective Bidders for installation of 1000 MW Solar Power Plants. This is a follow up to the Tamil Nadu...

The creative lady (Uma Maheswari) in EAI's team was asked to do a cool animation on wind power, and she came up with a creative animation. We did it as part of our promotional efforts for the Wind Power India Conference organized by IWTMA, which EAI is supporting. Here's the...

Some interesting links for trends and innovations in wind turbine manufacturing Sandia National Labs Wind Power Engineering Middle East Technical University == Interested in buying/selling wind farms and wind power plants? Talk to EAI Wind B2B  

The two Asian giants - China and India - can be expected to power the wind market for the foreseeable future. Here are some interesting links for those keen on understanding the growth prospects and bottlenecks for the Asian markets for wind power. From Folkecenter -Refer the Asia Pacific Market...

This has not been the best year for India, for wind power. Investments in wind farms are down in double digits. And there are of course reasons. The government gave the industry a double whammy by removing both the GBI (generation based incentives) and AD (accelerated depreciation). But things are...

It is an open secret that renewable power requires incentives - these usually are in the form of capital subsidies, tax incentives and most importantly, via feed in tariffs. It is a million dollar (make that Billion Dollar) question what the future of feed in tariffs will be for the...

Here are some interesting web resources that provide tariff guidelines from the CERC, for the various states From the Hindu BusinessLine From the Horse's Mouth - from CERC - Link 1 & Link 2

For a highly intermittent power source such as wind, forecasting and scheduling are critical aspects. When wind provides less than 3% of the total electricity produced in India, this volatility could be acceptable. But when we are looking wind scaling to 50000 MW by 2020 ( from the current 17000...

Many individuals and industry professionals had enquired me about the penalties for non-compliance for RPO (renewable purchase obligations). Of course, implementing obligation compliance is a difficult thing indeed. In countries such as India, which are considered "soft states" when it comes to implementing any policies against anyone, leave alone against...

If you are in the Indian wind power sector, you would have definitely heard the terms IEGC and RRF often. IEGC stands for Indian Electricity Grid Code, while RRF stands for Renewable Regulatory Fund. Why are these two terms important in the context of wind power? Wind power being a...