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India has significant expertise and manufacturing operations strengthening it as a potential hub for renewable energy, hopes Amit Kumar, Partner, Energy & Utilities, PwC while giving a glimpse of Indian Renewable Energy Sector during an e-mail interaction with Electrical India...

The power generation shortfall in India is estimated at 11% of the total energy, and 15% of the peak capacity requirements and these figures are likely to increase. This is despite the fact that the country is already consuming more than 2 million barrels of imported oil a day – a figure that is growing by about 10 percent annually... - Jay B. Thakar

The World institute of Sustainable Energy (WISE) is a not-for-profit institute established in 2004 in Pune, India, committed to the cause of promoting sustainable energy and sustainable development, with specific emphasis on issues related to renewable energy, energy security, energy efficiency, and climate change. In an exclusive interview with Electrical India, G. M. Pillai, I.A.S., Founder Director General, WISE (Pune), is detailing their activities to PK Chatterjee. Excerpts...

It is always useful to recycle the waste material. Recycling process consumes about half of the energy to produce same quantity of products, which would have been otherwise made from the virgin materials... - Nidhi M J, Shaikh Shamser Ali

Keeping in view the falling tariff in Solar PV, there has been talk of having competitive bidding in wind power also, however it would be a challenge to opt for competitive bidding in case of wind as the wind power is very site specific – even in locations which are high wind zone as compared to solar which is more widespread phenomenon... - Vijay Singh Bisht

Our government has formulated an Integrated Energy Policy (IEP) document that gives a roadmap to develop energy supply options and increased exploitation of renewable energy sources. This article tries to explore how far our power industry is aligned to the global trend… - P K Chatterjee

A fuel cell system that includes a 'fuel reformer' can obtain hydrogen from any hydrocarbon fuel like natural gas, methanol and even gasoline. Researchers are developing new diagnostic techniques to help optimise cost and lifetime of fuel cell systems... - Dr N Rajalakshmi

Globally, the energy demand is very acute and to meet the requirement, every nation has to take energy efficient measures to stand before the world...  - Dr. Vikramaditya Dave, Dr. Sujit Kumar

The continuous threat of increasing the fossil fuels cost and its availability questions the security of continuous energy supply – and it also threats the economic growth locally and globally... - Dr (Mrs) P. Valsalal

As a country, we can boast of our six major strengths as well as we do have our own weaknesses... - T. Harinarayana

In the last around two years, Indian power sector has grown at a very fast pace. Some of the plans, although made by the previous government, they could not accelerate their execution process. The present government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal and New & Renewable Energy Piyush Goyal; has been successfully driving the sector towards an all round success. They have for the first time outpaced the growth rate of several areas under this sector…  - P K Chatterjee

A hybrid power generation system basically can be formed by using individual converters with each renewable energy source...  - M Ankush Kumar, PM Menghal, Dr A Jaya Laxmi

India still needs to add about 218 Giga Watt power to satisfy electricity demand for year 2016-17 and 298 GW for year 2021-22. As renewable energy is becoming more accessible, electric power is decentralising. So, the solution to overcome the challenge lies in Micro-Grid (Gram Power) development... - Prof. Harpreet Singh, Prof. Rahul Shankar Bhagat

India needs reliable and high quality power supply at all places for its all round growth. As the major portion of our power comes from thermal power plants, where coal is the mostly used fuel, the union government has already taken steps to ensure a smooth supply of coal to all those plants. The government is also working on expanding our transmission capability and modernising the distribution system… -P K Chatterjee

Renewable energy is the most economical and suitable one for distributed generation and integration to the grid. Owing to its many other advantages, it is also most preferred for rural electrification... - B.S. Srikanthan,R.S Nagalakshmi 

How can we aim at energy security unless we reduce losses and consumption and explore the possibility of internal resources? But the first question is: is the matter being taken up seriously by us? - G Harihara Iyer

This article describes a Building Energy Management System (BEMS) that operates on an hourly basis and is designed to be implemented in a building, which consists of essential loads, facilitated with a utility grid connection and equipped with renewable power sources... - Asha Radhakrishnan, M P Selvan

In the recent past, there has been lot of talk about likely dangers due to ‘Global Warming’ and how it is going to adversely affect our day to day life. - Sunil Kumar Sood