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Solar PV Research in India – Hot Air or Promising?

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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US Tech Required for Shale Gas

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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“India can become net exporter of crude oil by 2020” – You Kiddin’?

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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ADB Says Indian Solar Projects May Struggle to Get Funds for Development

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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Himin Solar, Solar Water Heater Major, Looks at India

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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Is Rooftop Solar PV Installation a Good Business Idea?

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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Levis Claims 10 Kg of Water Saved by its Water

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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Renewable Energy Funding – Project Finance or Financing with Recourse?

October 25, 2010 by Team EAI

Project finance is the long term financing  of infrastructure and industrial projects based upon the projected cash flows of the project rather than the balance sheets of the project sponsors. Usually, a project financing structure involves a number of equity investors, known as sponsors, as well as a syndicate of...
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Wipro’s IT Pack to Improve Generation in Solar Power Plants

October 25, 2010 by Team EAI

A 40-member from Wipro has developed a software+hardware combination that can improve the performance of solar PV power plants by picking up critical data from the PV panels and inverters and dynamically modelling it to improve generation. It guarantees an improvement in power generation to the tune of 8-20%, which...
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Canadian Water to Be Bottled in India for Middle East

October 24, 2010 by Team EAI

Fact, as they say, is stranger than fiction. Make that much stranger. In a commercial scheme that is said to be an attempt to rectify some of the inequalities inflicted by the beginnings of climate change, water from a lake in Alaska will be sent to a new, yet-to-be-built water...
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