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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...

I have been in Delhi last couple of days, and today I had to travel the length and breadth of Delhi for three meetings - from near the airport to Noida, to Oberoi hotel (Lodhi Road) and from there to Gurgaon, and back to the airport; and all within 7...

It's not everyday I gallivant around my city...it's not everyday (even during winter) that it rains heavily in Chennai...and it is a very rare day indeed when I see absolutely verdant localities with deers roaming right next to the road. And when all the three happen on the same day...

Read an interesting article in today's Financial Express (Nov 29) that the government of India is considering providing tax breaks to companies if they can prove that the total carbon content of their operations had been on the lower side. In this context, it is reported that the ministry of...