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November 15, 2010 by Team EAI
IBM, which is at the forefront of the US electricity ‘smart-grid' project, is eyeing the Indian market. On the heels of piloting a grid technology with Shanghai Electric Power last week, IBM plans to offer solutions for the Indian grid managers. ( ) “IDOP, an online, real-time outage-planning tool, integrates...
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November 15, 2010 by Team EAI
The DIREC hardly got over and the next interesting trade fair with the green theme is in – The India International Trade Fair. This year, the India International Trade Fair (IITF) will showcase energy efficient technologies and green products. Prototypes of various technologies which use renewable sources of energy such...
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November 15, 2010 by Team EAI
Until a few months back, only those in the natural gas industry had heard about shale gas (more from But now, it will be surprising if anyone in the energy industry and related domains had not heard about it. From some quarters, I hear that it is a bit...
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November 15, 2010 by Team EAI
At EAI, we do a fair bit of work along the entire solar PV business value chain. This gives us the opportunity to interact with a number of machinery and equipment providers for the solar PV industry. One thing that strikes you when you look at the machinery and technology...
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November 15, 2010 by Team EAI
Read an interesting news item earlier today in The Financial Express about India's dependence on US for shale gas technology and know-how. "The peculiarity of shale gas exploration is that it requires specialized technnology for horizontal drilling and hydro fracturing. US is the only country to have started commercial production...
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November 11, 2010 by Team EAI
It appears that not everyone has given up on biofuels (OK, at least biodiesel). I came across an interesting math in Altenergymag that showed how India could actually become an exporter of crude, yep, exporter. Here’s how the train of logic runs: “At present India imports around 800 million bbl...
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November 11, 2010 by Team EAI
Oh well, what was earlier a national suspicion has suddenly gone international. You might recall that banks have always been wary about investing in solar, even after the National Solar Mission was announced. Yeah, you theoretically had an IRR (equity) of 19%, but that did not do enough to convince...
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November 8, 2010 by Team EAI
China Himin Solar Co. Ltd., is forming up a Joint Venture manufacturing plant in India. Its chairman, Huang Ming, said at the Delhi International Renewable Energy Conference 2010, that his firm was in talks with the Indian side to build a 50:50 Joint Venture in Delhi area to produce solar...
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November 8, 2010 by Team EAI
I had a visitor fairly early this morning. Karthik, the person who had so diligently come to meet me, was an aspiring entrepreneur (currently a software programmer). His question whether it was a good idea to start a business for the rooftop solar PV installation for Chennai. To cut a...
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November 4, 2010 by Team EAI
For a moment, I thought TreeHugger had missed some zeros. And then I realized the site had simply fallen prey to marketing hype. Here's what I am talking about. Levis is going to town about its new Water<Less jeans whose production process it claims saves about 10-20 liters of water....
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