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January 22, 2012 by Team EAI
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...
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January 22, 2012 by Team EAI
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...
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January 22, 2012 by Team EAI
Loyalties die hard, don't they. Eyebrows surely must have been raised when Manmohan Singh appointed the nuclear scientist Anil Kakodkar as the head of a renewable energy mission - and that too, the prestigious National Solar Mission. Nothing wrong with it perhaps from a capability/expertise point of view, just that...
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January 22, 2012 by Team EAI
NTPC Limited - the largest power producer in the country with an installed capacity of over 36,000 MW has announced their intent to push through into the renewable energy segment with a 5 MW solar PV plant set to be comissioned close to the Port Blair airport in the Andaman...
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January 21, 2012 by Team EAI
It is an open secret that the Tamil Nadu state electricity utilities are bankrupt. All right, perhaps they are not technically bankrupt, but for many private power producers, the difference does not matter. Ask especially wind power producers in Tamil Nadu who had not been paid for many months together!...
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January 21, 2012 by Team EAI
When someone thinks about small hydro power in India, he or she thinks mainly about North East or Himachal Pradesh, or sometimes perhaps Karnataka. Tamil Nadu does not usually come to mind for small hydro, and perhaps with justification, because the state does not figure in the country in the...
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January 21, 2012 by Team EAI
Following the allegations from US about solar PV module dumping by Chinese and Vietnamese manufacturers, a new controversy has emerged. The Wind Tower Trade Coalition in the US has now accused Chinese companies of using unfair pricing methods a.k.a predatory pricing to undercut the competition significantly effectively ensuring that they...
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January 21, 2012 by Team EAI
The Indian government recently announced that they would take no actions on the cheap Chinese modules that are being dumped onto the Indian market. India is expected to have a bumper year in terms of solar installations with various state policies - notably Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh expected to...
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January 20, 2012 by Team EAI
Biomass is one of the renewable energy domains in which Tamil Nadu could have significant potential for progress in future. Estimates suggest only about 10% of the potential has so far been utilized. Of course, the lack of a robust supply chain that make create supply and price security is...
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January 20, 2012 by Team EAI
The buzz doing the rounds is that Tamil Nadu will soon be coming out with a comprehensive solar policy. Numbers such as 3000 MW by 2015 are doing the rounds, but there have been no concrete announcements as yet on solar power plant plans. However, some announcements have been made...
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