I had the opportunity to be present at and be a moderator of yet another interesting conference, this one on financing of power projects. Held at Le Meridien, Mumbai, 15-16 Dec 2010, this was organized by theenergybusiness conferences, a division of UBM. It was held at the nice Le Meridien,...

Welcome to my fourth and final post on the Intersolar India conference and Exhibition held in Mumbai between 13 and 16 December, 2010. My blogs on the Day 1 and Day 2  of the conference is available at Day 1, Part 1: Day 1, Part 2: Day 2:...

This is my third post on the Intersolar India conference and Exhibition held in Mumbai between 13 and 16 December, 2010. My blogs on the Day 1 of the conference is available at Day 1, Part 1: Day 1, Part 2: The 2nd and 3rd days of the...

The Fourth EAI Club Chennai Meet Was held at the EAI office in Nungambakkam High Road on Dec 12 2010. For perhaps the first time since we started having the EAI Club meets, we had a less than full house. Except for the regulars (myself, Abrar Ahmad, Prabhakar, Karthik), the...

The interSolar, the world’s leading exhibition of the solar industry, started its Indian leg on December 13,2010 at The Leela Kempinski in Mumbai. The opening session of the event had eminent personalities from the industry, education and research institutions, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy(MNRE), regulatory agencies and international financial...

This is a season of International conferences for the Renewable Energy industry in India. If it was DIREC 2010 in New Delhi late October 2010, it is the turn of intersolar India now. Intersolar India started on December 13,2010. The conference takes place in The Leela Kempinski in Mumbai during...

I was at Delhi last week two days. I spent two days last week at the TERI University in Delhi last week, attending an interesting conclave on renewable energy, part of an India-US research partnership. The event was organized by Marg Group ( ), and had as its partners Great...

NVVN has announced the list of 30 projects(5 MW each) under grid-connected Solar PV and 7 projects(total 450 MW) under grid-connected Solar Thermal categories. Of the projects selected under Solar PV, only a few names sound familiar(at least to us). These include Indian Oil Corporation Ltd(IOCL), Karnataka Power Corporation Limited,...

To compensate the poor quality of grid supply (low voltage, fluctuating frequency and frequent interruptions), high tariffs (much higher than actual cost of supply), unfair impositions (peak hour restrictions and unplanned load shedding) and unresponsive attitude of State Electricity Boards, many industries were forced to isolate themselves totally from the...

While Solar Energy is a relatively new sector in India, the other high potential sector – Wind energy, has been around for a while. Wind Energy has an installed capacity of about 13 GW and this constitutes about 70% of the total renewables installed capacity. Interestingly, India’s wind power potential...