Net Zero Journey: A Collective Responsibility
In different contexts, one very common thing is communicated to all management students – that is if the top level of management really wants,...
UNDERSTANDING THE GENERATION ADEQUACY
In parallel with the radical changes that are happening in the structure of Electrical Industry, there is dramatic increase in the amount of Renewable...
Speeding up RE GENERATION is Necessary
Whatever be the global situation and progress towards embracing the carbon emission-free era, India is creditably committed to achieve its target of 500 GW...
Unifying Nutritional and Electrical World Part 2
For simplicity, consider food as a vegetarian diet. Plants are autotrophs - produce their own food using the process of photosynthesis to transform water,...
Resource Adequacy for Renewable Purchase Obligation
The physical manifestations of climate change are increasingly visible across the globe, and India is not untouched. More than 50% of India’s population is...
Unifying Nutritional and Electrical World – Part 1
Bicycling addresses the health of two major entities – (a) Mother Earth and (b) Millennials and Gen Z. The wildlife population has dwindled down...
A Brief Look at the Future of Clean Energy
Just a few months back, during COP 27 in November 2022, we have seen that globally we are still far behind the set target...
Effects of Solar PV Heat Islanding
One of the main drawbacks of installation of solar panels is the conversion of solar photovoltaic system into heat island. The solar photovoltaic heat...
Titbits of Hydrogen Engines
Hydrogen is an increasingly popular energy carrier. It can be readily produced from water using renewable electricity, and it burns without any greenhouse gas...
A VAST TROVE OF SOLAR ENERGY POTENTIAL Part – 3
Weak Financing Support
High product-side risks compel third-party financiers to avoid lending in the residential rooftop solar segment. Rooftop solar solutions are viewed as ‘high-risk’...
A VAST TROVE OF SOLAR ENERGY POTENTIAL
In February 2019, the centre approved “Phase 2” of the Grid-Connected Rooftop and Small Solar Power Plants Programme to achieve a cumulative rooftop solar...
Global Dynamics of WTE Plants
Although according to EIA (U.S. Energy Information Administration) June 2022 Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory report, in the recent past, U.S. Waste-To-Energy (WTE) electric-generating...
A VAST TROVE OF SOLAR ENERGY POTENTIAL
India has more than 300 million households and is endowed with abundant sunshine almost throughout the year, with an annual average of 300 sunny...
ENERGY SECURITY AND GHG MITIGATION – PART 3
Methane pyrolysis
It is a fundamentally new technology that splits natural gas or biomethane directly into the components of hydrogen and solid carbon. This process...
PHOTOVOLTAIC MANUFACTURING OUTLOOK IN INDIA – PART 4
The steep rise in module prices over the past 1.5 years has been due to a severe shortage in polysilicon, translating to a massive...
ENERGY SECURITY AND GHG MITIGATION Part 2
Conversion of waste into hydrogen first requires the production of a synthesis gas (syngas), composed of CO and H2. Gasification is used to directly...
SINGLE PHASE ROOFTOP SUPPLY SYSTEM
India is one of the economically developing countries with growing populations, thus the demand for electrical energy is rapidly increasing here. To fulfill this...
PHOTOVOLTAIC MANUFACTURING OUTLOOK IN INDIA – PART 3
The Pradhan Mantri Kisan Urja Suraksha evam Utthaan Mahabhiyan (PM-KUSUM) scheme was launched in 2019 and in FY2020/21 was expanded to add a total...
OUR JOURNEY TOWARDS NET-ZERO EMISSIONS
Whether India will be able to achieve its ambitious target of net-zero emissions by 2070 that is a debatable question, however, the current trend...
ENERGY SECURITY AND GHG MITIGATION PART 1
We have arrived a long way from the days when people debated whether global warming is real, some of us would ridicule our ageing ...
