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EDITORIAL
Dear Readers,
Welcome to Energetica Indias May
2012 issue. This is a special issue be-
cause Energetica India is the only power
sector focused Indian magazine to nd
its way to InterSolar Europe June 2012
event in Germany.
As we reach mid 2012, the Indian
Solar sector is moving ahead with im-
plementations of its on-grid projects,
bankers are studying the generation
information that is being gathered from
live projects and companies are looking
at innovative ways of business.
The Ministry of New and Renewable
Energy (MNRE) has published details
of commissioned solar projects in the
country and you can nd these details
in our article Indias Renewable Energy
Statistics. Businesses looking to enter
the Indian Renewable Energy sector are
also invited to read MNREs Renewable
Energy Strategy for India. The article
covers Indias focus on renewable en-
ergy and the short-term & long-term
vision plans.
Solar Off-Grid is an important aspect
in Indias Decentralized Power Genera-
tion focus and this segment is doing
pretty well; taking advantage of power
breakdown, diesel replacement and
governments rural electrication pro-
grams. Based on this, the issue has a
case study of solar thermal in an urban
hotel.
Another article studies the genera-
tion pattern of solar PV rooftop systems
and compares it to the expected trend.
A good read to understand how things
work on the ground.
Another read on these lines is the ar-
ticle on Green Building- New Market
for Renewables which lists ways of in-
tegrating renewable energy in building
segment.
Energetica India has many Firsts to
its name. We were the rst magazine to
initiate LIVE Updates from conferences
and also the only power sector maga-
zine from India to be selected for Ontar-
ios Smart Grid 2012 Tour. We continue
this trend with two novel concepts in
our May 2012 issue- Investment Pro-
jects and Leaders Speak. Invest-
ment Projects will showcase cleantech
and energy projects looking for funding
whereas Leaders Speak will cover in-
dustry leaders discussing the trends and
challenges of the sector.
We launch the new concepts with
Electric Scooter Project looking at
implementation funds and we cover
Indias wind industry in our Leaders
Speak concept.
On the wind side, Governments step
to remove tax benets for wind energy
projects is expected to decrease (only
for short-term) sales of wind turbines.
But the industry is not very bothered
about this. Wind turbine manufacturers
feel that this step will result in quality
generation projects. Meanwhile there
are more serious issues that the Industry
and Government need to address. The
article Leaders Speak to Energetica In-
dia brings out the industry trends and
challenges.
Energetica India also covers the up-
coming smart grid space. As a follow
up to Ontarios Tour, we bring you On-
tarios achievement in Smart Grid and
also what India is looking to do in this
sector. India can use Ontarios success in
smart grid as an inspiration to achieve
its goals.
In its normal course of business, to
partner with power companies and
help them reach their market, Ener-
getica India continues to innovate. We
are always open to partner with events
(Energetica India is more than a Media
Partner), look at partnering on brand
building, marketing new ideas, prod-
ucts & concepts and leveraging our me-
dia tools for business improvement.
We hope you will enjoy reading our
work. Please feel free to share your
feedback with us.
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Take advice 8
Energy News 10-24
Products 75-78
Service Guide 79-81
ELECTRICAL VEHICLES
Electrical scooter; a clean way of life - Looking at implementation funds- Bharat
Vasandani, Energetica India 74
INTERVIEW
Mr. Charles Chen, Sales & Marketing Vice President of NexPower 58-59
Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Business development manager, Power Management, Texas
Instruments India 30-31
Mr. Peter Winter, Product Manager for turnkey solar cell lines, Centrotherm 28-29
MARKET OVERVIEW
Securing energy: Present challenges and plan for future Alstom 26-27
RENEWABLE ENERGIES
Ministrys strategic plan for growth of renewable energy in India Bharat
Vasandani & Blessymol Thomas, Energetica India 52-57
Green buildings A new market for renewable Sandeep Goswami, COO,
Fountainhead II Cleantech India 66-68
Case study Decentralized renewable energy changing rural India Blessymol
Thomas, Energetica India 60-62
Indias renewable energy statistics - Blessymol Thomas, Energetica India 64
SOLAR POWER
Continent of the rising sun: The potential of off-grid PV in Asia Simon Rolland,
Secretary General of the Alliance for Rural Electrication 36-37
Expected generation vs actual generation Results from the ground Ashish
Nepal, Product engineer, Green Brilliance 32-34
Success of solar thermal is critical for India Ankit Singhvi, Founder, NN4Energy 38
Solar thermal energy in the hospitality industry Clique Solar 40-41
Solar desalination- Decentralized way to address Indias water needs Dr. Anil
Kurchania & Mr. Chirah Shah 42
SMART GRID
Smart grid vision of India - Bharat Vasandani & Blessymol Thomas, Energetica
India 44-46
Ontarios smart grid progress - Bharat Vasandani, Energetica India 48-50
WIND POWER
Leader speak to Energetica India at Renewable Energy 2012 Wind Conference -
Bharat Vasandani, Energetica India 70-73
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WORLD ELECTRIC VEHICLE (EV) SUMMIT 2012
Date: 12-14 June 2012
Place: Copenhagen, Denmark
Organizer: Danish Electric vehicles Alliance &
Liberty Electric Car
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7017 6333
Email: ieee@informa.com
Website: http://www.informaglobalevents.com/
event/ElectricVehicles
20TH EUROPEAN BIOMASS CONFERENCE AND
EXHIBITION
(ENERGETICA INDIA IS A MEDIA PARTNER)
Date: 18 - 22 June 2012
Place: Milano, Italy.
Organizer: Sun & Wind Energy
Tel: 390555002280
Email: martina.querforth@etaorence.it
Website: http://www.conference-biomass.com/
Welcome.404.0.html
INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT ON WASTE-TO-ENERGY
Date: 9-10 July 2012
Place: New Delhi, India
Organizers: Mission Energy Foundation
Tel: +91 9819984644
Email: a.bagwan@missionenergy.org
Website: www.missionenergy.org
POWER INDUSTRY INDIA 2012
Date: 3031 August 2012
Organizers: ITE Group PLC
Tel: +44-20-75965000
Email: enquiry@ite-exhibitor.com
Website: http://www.ite-exhibitions.com/
events.aspx
2ND WORLD SMART GRID CONFERENCE INDIA
WEEK
Date: 12-14 September 2012
Organizers: SZ&W Group
Tel: +86-021-58300710
Email: teal@szwgroup.com
Website: http://www.szwgroup.com/2012/
sgindia
THE UKS PREMIER RENEWABLE ENERGY EVENT
Date: 30 Oct-1 Nov 2012
Place: Glasgow, United Kingdom
Organizer: Wales Cymru
Tel: +44 (0)20 7878 2481
E-mail: cassandra.gray@renewableuk.com
Website: http://www.renewable-uk.com/events/
annual-conference/index.html
INTERSOLAR EUROPE
Date: 13-15 June 2012
Place: Munich, Germany
Organizer: Solar Promotion GMBH
Tel: 497231585982
Website: http://www.intersolar.de/en/intersolar.
html
CSP TODAY USA
Date: 27-28 June 2012
Place: Las Vegas, United States
Organizer: CSP Today
Tel: 442073757206
Email: heidi@csptoday.com
Website: http://www.csptoday.com/usa/
PV PROJECT DEVELOPMENT SUMMIT INDIA 2012
Date: 30-31 July 2012
Organiser: PV Insider
Tel: +44-207-422-4307
Email: laura@pv-insider.com
Website: http://www.pv-insider.com/
development-india/
INDIA OIL & GAS REVIEW SUMMIT &
INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
Place: Mumbai, India
Organiser: Oil Asia Publications
Tel: +91-22-6681 4900
Email: oilasia@vsnl.com
Website: http://www.oilasia.com/IORS/about_
IORS.html
SOLAR POWER INTERNATIONAL 2012
Place: Orlando Florida, USA
Organizer: SEIA, SEPA
Tel: 001-866-229-3691
Email: info@solarpowerinternational.com
Website: http://www.solarpowerinternational.
com/2012/public/enter.aspx
INTER SOLAR INDIA 2012
Date: 5-8 November 2012
Organizers: Messe Munchen International
(India) Pvt. Ltd.
Tel: +91-22-42554707
Email: info@mmi-india.in
Website: http://www.intersolar.in/en/intersolar-
india.html
3RD WORLD CLEAN COAL WEEK INDIA FOCUS
Date: 13-15 June 2012
Place: Delhi, India
Organizers: SZ&W Group
Tel: +91 862158300710
Email: info@szwgroup.com
Website: http://www.szwgroup.com/
wccwindia2012/
WORLD WIND ENERGY CONFERENCE
Date: 3-5 July 2012
Place: Bonn, Germany
Organizer: World Wind Energy Association
Tel: 492283694080
Website: http://www.wwec2012.net/
ENERGY POSITIVE HABITATS
Date: 30 July-1 August 2012
Place: Auroville, India
Organizer: Aurovilla Green Practices
Tel: +91 948 614 4076
Email: agp@aurovilleconsulting.com
Website: http://www.agp.aurovilleconsulting.
com/
WIND POWER DEVELOPMENT FORUM INDIA
Organizer: Wind Energy Update
Tel: 442073757224
Email: will@windenergyupdate.com
Website:http://www.windenergyupdate.com/
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INDIA NUCLEAR ENERGY 2012
Organiser: UBM
Tel: +91-22-6612 2600
Email: abhijit.mukherjee@ubm.com
Web: http://indianuclearenergy.net/
introduction.htm
6TH RENEWABLE ENERGY INDIA 2012 EXPO
Date: 7-9 November 2012
Organiser: UBM India
Tel: +91-22- 3953 0529
Email: sandhya.dhir@ubm.com
Website: http://renewableenergyindiaexpo.
com/index.asp
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Ministry Of New And Renewable Energy Update
The MNRE has submitted
capacity addition
proposals for the period
2012-2017
The Ministry of New and Re-
newable Energy has proposed
specic targets for capacity ad-
dition from wind power, small
hydro power, solar power and
bio-power in the country for the
period 2012-17 in its Twelfth
Five Year Plan proposals submit-
ted to Planning Commission.
A proposed target of 29,800
MW comprising 15,000 MW
wind power, 2,100 MW small
hydro power, 10,000 MW so-
lar power and 2,700 MW bio-
power has been proposed for
capacity addition of grid-inter-
active renewable power dur-
ing the Twelfth Five Year Plan.
State-wise targets for renew-
able power capacity addition
during the Plan period are not
xed / proposed by the Union
Government. However, as per
the policy for development of
renewable energy declared by
the state of Maharashtra, re-
newable power capacity addi-
tion of 2805 MW is envisaged
in the state during the Plan pe-
riod.
Preference for Domestic
Solar Cells
No restrictions have been im-
posed specically for Chinese
manufactured solar cells sold
in the country. The details of
condition of domestic content
in various schemes under Jawa-
harlal Nehru National Solar Mis-
sion (JNNSM) are given below.
DOMESTIC CONTENT PROVISION
One of the important objec-
tives of the Jawaharlal Nehru
National Solar Mission (JNNSM)
is to promote domestic manu-
facturing. In view of this, the
developers are expected to
procure their project compo-
nents from domestic manufac-
turers, as far as possible. The
provisions (table 1) have been
made in various schemes re-
lated to domestic content.
States are free to have
their own schemes and the
Government of India does not
impose the domestic content
requirement on them.
As per the Mission docu-
ment of JNNSM one of the
objectives is to take global
leadership role in solar manu-
facturing (across the value
chain) of leading edge solar
technologies and target a 4-5
GW equivalent of installed ca-
pacity by 2020.
It is expected that the do-
mestic market would also grow
to these level by then.
Renewable Energy Parks
in India
State Level Energy Parks (SLEP)
upto two numbers per State
are supported by the Min-
istry of New and Renewable
Energy (MNRE) under its Spe-
cial Area Demonstration Pro-
ject Scheme. The Parks could
be established by the State
Nodal Agencies or Depart-
ments at an appropriate loca-
tion where a large number of
visitors are expected.
During the last three years
and in current year, MNRE
has supported SLEPs at Bilas-
pur in Chhatisgarh, Hamir-
pur and Solan in Himachal
Pradesh and Srinagar in Jam-
mu and Kashmir.
The Ministry has supported
30 SLEPs in various States and
UTs so far. The States/UTs-wise
details are given in table 2.
The scheme is an on-go-
ing scheme. No proposal for
setting up of SLEPs has been
received from the States of
Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Mad-
hya Pradesh, Manipur, Rajas-
than and Union Territory of
Lakshadweep. The Ministry
provides support up to 100
lakhs per SLEP.
Programme Allocation
Domestic Content Requirement
Solar PV Solar Thermal
Grid connected solar power projects
Batch 1, Phase-1 of JNNSM
Solar PV Projects 150 MW
Solar Thermal Projects 470 MW
Crystalline Silicon Technology -
to use modules manufactured in
India.
Thin lm and CPV technology
allowed to be imported.
30% of the total project cost to
be indigenous
Grid connected solar power projects
Batch 2, Phase-1 of JNNSM
Solar PV Projects 350 MW
Crystalline Silicon Technology
- to use cells and modules
manufactured in India.
NA
Roof top and small Projects (up to 2
MW)
Crystalline Silicon Technology -
to use modules manufactured in
India.
NA
Off Grid
Use of imported complete
system is not allowed. Imported
components allowed.
NA
Table 1.
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Production of Bio-Diesel
Bio-diesel production plants
with an aggregate capacity of
3470 tonnes per day have been
set up in the country by private
companies. State-wise break up
of bio-diesel plants installed in
the country is given in table 3.
The National Policy on Bio-
fuels notied by the Govt. of
India in December, 2009 has
laid down guidelines for pro-
motion of production and
utilization of bio-diesel for
blending with high speed die-
sel. Research on development
and cultivation of improved
varieties of Jatropha for in-
creasing the production of bio-
diesel has been taken up under
projects funded by the Minis-
tries of Agriculture, New and
Renewable Energy and Science
& Technology.
STATE/UT WISE LIST OF STATE LEVEL ENERGY PARKS
SUPPORTED UNDER SADP
Sl. No. State Number of Parks
1 Arunachal Pradesh 1
2 Assam 1
3 Chhattisgarh 2
4 Delhi 1
5 Goa 1
6 Gujarat 1
7 Haryana 1
8 Himachal Pradesh 2
9 Jammu & Kashmir 2
10 Jharkhand 1
11 Karnataka 1
12 Kerala 1
13 Maharashtra 1
14 Meghalaya 1
15 Mizoram 1
16 Nagaland 1
17 Orissa 1
18 Pondicherry 1
19 Punjab 1
20 Sikkim 1
21 Tamilnadu 1
22 Tripura 1
23 Uttar Pradesh 1
24 Uttaranchal 1
25 West Bengal 1
26 A&N Island 1
27 Chandigarh 1
TOTAL 30
S.No. State
Installed capacity
(in tonnes per day)
1. Andhra Pradesh 2510
2. Chhattisgarh 13
3. Gujarat 60
4. Haryana 30
5. Maharashtra 210
6. Uttrakhand 50
7. West Bengal 500
TOTAL 3373
Table 2.
Table 3.
Project on Development and Promotion
of Solar Heating Applications Launched
Secretary, Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Shri
Gireesh B. Pradhan launched a project on development and
promotion of solar concentrator based heating applications
in India. The project namely Market Development and Pro-
motion of Solar Concentrator based Process Heat Application
in India aims to reduce GHG emissions from low and me-
dium temperature process heat applications through the use
of Concentrated Solar Heat systems.
Speaking at the inception workshop of the project, Shri
Pradhan underlined the need to develop renewable sources
of energy to meet the growing energy demand. Referring
to the renewable energy growth in India, he said that with
25,000 MW installed capacity, renewable energy today ac-
counts for about 12% of total installed capacity. He said that
by the end of the 12th Plan, renewable energy capacity is
expected to reach 55,000 MW. Pointing out that the solar
heating systems need to be tailored to Indian conditions, Shri
Pradhan said that concentrating solar technologies have to
come in a big way for off-grid applications. He emphasized
the need of providing post installation support structures for
maintenance of systems such as solar water heaters to build
up credibility of these applications in the market.
Pilot Projects on Village Energy Conservation
Energy Efcient LED Technology was used for household
lighting in villages by the Bureau of Energy Efciency under
its scheme of providing nancial assistance to State Desig-
nated Agencies (SDAs). The existing incandescent bulbs in
the households of a village were replaced by LED lights in
identied villages, comprising 200 to 250 households. The
SDAs were provided nancial support to implement the pilot
project by Bureau of Energy Efciency under the Scheme.
According to the Bureau of Energy Efciency, the house-
hold incandescent bulbs were replaced by LED bulbs in 27
states during the 11th Plan.
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Sunlumo enters India
With its own ofce in Mumbai,
Sunlumo is now also present in
India, in addition to Austria and
China. Approximately 300
days of sunshine per year make
India an ideal location for using
solar energy, underlines Sun-
lumo CEO Robert Buchinger.
Local providers tend to rely on
the know-how of European
countries.
The new Sunlumo ofce is
ideally located in the Nariman
Point district, right at the heart
of Mumbai.
The Indian agency is man-
aged by solar expert Sohrab
Pavri. The Indian-born manager
has lived in Germany for many
years and is trained as a Solar-
teur application manager at
the Centre for Solar Energy in
Stuttgart.
Partners in India appreci-
ate our wide-ranging research
and development know-how,
reports Robert Buchinger. They
are especially interested in the
One World Solar Collector. The
special feature about this inno-
vative product for the volume
market is that it consists of 100
per cent plastic. It is thus pos-
sible to reduce the production
cost of the Solar Collector by up
to 50 per cent as compared to
conventional collectors, says
the solar expert. The innovative
collector withstands thermal
and climatic inuences and is
easy to integrate in any solar
system. Another positive feature
is its light weight. The collector
is easy to assemble and can be
ecologically recycled. The One
World Solar Collector has been
designed to support both boil-
ers and heating systems.
ExxonMobil Launches Online Industrial Lubricant
Selector Looble
ExxonMobil Lubricants & Pe-
troleum Specialties have intro-
duced Looble, a user friendly,
online industrial lubricant se-
lector designed to help main-
tenance professionals make
informed lubricant decisions
for optimizing equipment per-
formance and minimizing un-
planned downtime.
Looble simplies the lu-
bricant selection process by
providing targeted Mobil-
branded product recommen-
dations with performance
ratings based upon users spe-
cic industries, applications
and equipment.
With just a click of the
computer mouse or a touch on
most Internet-capable smart-
phones, Looble enables users
to access:
sLubricant recommendations
and application guidance
based on their specic ap-
plications and operating
conditions for a wide range
of industries.
sOriginal Equipment Manu-
facturers recommended lu-
bricants and schematics for
numerous types of equip-
ment makes and models.
sDetailed descriptions and
ve-star performance rat-
ings for each recommended
lubricant.
sPrintable recommendation
reports.
With the introduc-
tion of Looble, maintenance
and production professionals
now have a readily accessi-
ble resource for lubricant and
maintenance best practices
that can help them optimize
equipment performance and
ultimately, enhance their com-
panies bottom line and gain
a global competitive advan-
tage, said Paul Grives, Global
Industrial Marketing Advisor,
ExxonMobil, Looble is pow-
ered by ExxonMobils valuable
application-specic expertise
and unique insights that we
have gained during more than
a century of working with cus-
tomers and the worlds leading
industrial equipment manufac-
turers.
SEC and DTU sign MoU
to boost solar energy
research in India
Solar Energy Centre (SEC), an
R&D institution of the Ministry
of New and Renewable Energy,
Government of India and Delhi
Technological University (DTU)
signed a Memorandum of Un-
derstanding (MoU) for under-
taking Joint Research and Edu-
cation Programmes in the eld
of Renewable Energy. The MoU
was signed by Dr. Bibek Ban-
dyopadhyay, Director, SEC and
Prof. P.B.Sharma, Vice Chancel-
lor, DTU in the presence of Shri
Gireesh B. Pradhan, Secretary
, Ministry of New and Renew-
able Energy and other ofcials.
The research and educa-
tion programmes initiated un-
der the MoU include Joint M.
Tech Thesis Supervision and
Practical Courses for M. Tech
registrants at DTU, Joint Ph.D.
programme, Joint Research
and Consultancy Projects with
DTU Faculty,
Joint Refresher
Courses for the
Industry and Joint
Co n f e r e n c e s ,
Symposiums and
Workshops. The
MoU seeks to
encourage the
M. Tech. students opting for
solar energy topics i.e. Solar
Thermal, Concentrated Solar
Thermal, Solar Cooling, Solar
Photovoltaic etc.
SEC is an R&D institution
of the Ministry of New and Re-
newable Energy (MNRE) and
works on the development of
solar energy technologies and
practices, and contributes to the
advancement of related science
and engineering. Delhi Tech-
nological University (formerly,
Delhi College of Engineering) is
a premier technology and engi-
neering institute of the country.
A collaboration of these two in-
stitutions is expected to further
the cause of renewable energy
in the country.
The MoU aims to create a
Joint Academic Interface Com-
mittee (JAIC) which will imple-
ment the provisions of the MoU.
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Suzlon Groups update
on FCCB obligations
Mr.Kirti Vagadia, Chief Finan-
cial Ofcer of Suzlon Group
announced an update on the
companys near term repayment
obligations. He said that Suzlon
is at an advanced stage of rais-
ing up to US$ 300 million with
their senior secured lenders for
there nancing of Suzlons June
Foreign Currency Convertible
Bonds (FCCB) obligations.
The banks are aligned and
supportive of the initiatives to
address near-term obligations
and achieving a long-term
capital structure objective. In
order to ensure there is ad-
equate time for the necessary
requisite approvals and admin-
istrative documentation, they
have asked their bondholders
for an extension of maturity of
upto 45 days.
Suzlon continues to work
on plans to raise capital at
their overseas subsidiary lev-
el, as well as their programs
to monetize non-critical as-
sets. With this package of
measures they remain totally
condent of meeting their ob-
ligations.
PTC India Financial Services
Limited (PFS) records total
revenue of 116.06 crores
PFS has recorded total revenue
of 116.06 crores in Q4 FY12
compared to 26.35 crores in
Q4 FY11. PAT increased to
63.27 crores in Q4 FY12 com-
pared to 5.81 crores in Q4
FY11.
Total revenue for the FY12
increased to 307.20 crores
compared to 108.85 crores
in FY11 and PAT increased to
154.04 crores in FY12 com-
pared to 37.03 crores in FY11.
PAT for the current year in-
cludes gain on sale of equity
investments amounting to
105.09 crores compared to
`9.98 crores during FY11. PAT
from other operating activi-
ties during the year increased
by 81% to 48.95 crores from
`27.05 crores during FY11.
During Q4 FY12, PFS con-
cluded the sale of its part stake
in Indian Energy Exchange
Limited and has realized a gain
of 66.51 crores on stake sale.
Excluding the gain on sale of
investment and tax thereon,
PAT amounts to 10.43 crores
for Q4 FY12 compared to
5.81 crores in Q4 FY11. There
are nil NPAs as at 31st March
2012, and return on assets
(ROA) for Q4 FY12 is 3.22%,
on the expanded capital base
post IPO proceeds of `352.70
crores on the last day of the
preceding nancial year. ROA
for year ended 31st March
2012 is 7.84% compared to
2.18% for the corresponding
previous year. Earnings per
share for FY12 is `2.74 com-
pared to 0.85 for FY11.
The Net Interest Margin
(NIM) stands at 8.79% for
Q4 FY12 and cost of funds at
9.89%. The NIM and cost of
funds for Q4 FY11 were 5.38%
and 10.63% respectively. Net
Interest Income considered for
NIM does not include interest
income of `3.36 crores during
Q4 FY12 on xed deposits of
temporary surplus funds.
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Alstom Foundation launches a unique initiative
to electrify rural India
Alstom in its effort to showcase
its commitment towards social
responsibility announced the
launch of yet another ground-
breaking project - Dry Gasi-
er in India in collaboration
with Husk Power Systems(HPS)
USA, one of the worlds low-
est cost providers of biomass
based renewable energy equip-
ment. Launched under the ae-
gis of Alstom Foundation, the
grant will be used for bridging
funding gaps for two identied
critical success factors/areas
that will enable HPS to become
truly scalable in rural electri-
cation business.
A part of the grant from
Alstom Foundation will be
used in nalizing a Dry Gasi-
cation process for low-cost
manufacturing and retro-t-
ting these dry gasiers at the
existing 65 power plant sites of
HPS in Bihar. Another part of
grant will be used for develop-
ing a semi-automated machine
for volume production of in-
cense sticks and deployment of
such systems at existing power
plant sites. Part of the fund-
ing will also go into providing
vocational programmes and
training for women for a con-
sistent and high quality manu-
facturing.
The immediate environ-
mental impact of a successful
Dry Gasication System will
result in dramatic reduction in
water uses by over 80 % and
will also result in reduction of
operational expense. The cost
benet is then directly translat-
ed to customers who get elec-
tricity from HPS power plants.
The project will also create em-
ployment opportunities thereby
increasing the local economic
activities fueled by renewable
energy. This also enables HPS
to scale faster and hence light
more off-grid villages.
Commenting on the occa-
sion, Sunand Sharma, Country
President, Alstom India and
South Asia, said, At Alstom,
commitment towards social
responsibility is rmly rooted in
our philosophy. I am glad that
this unique project will not only
benet the rural population of
India but also contribute sig-
nicantly to the cause of In-
dias energy goals of attaining
energy security, energy access
& clean power. Alstom
Foundation plays a key
role in initiating projects that
combine economic develop-
ment, social progress and en-
vironmental protection. And
thanks to such programmes
we at Alstom are able to reach
out to different communities
and at the same time also fulll
our goals.
In line with the Govern-
ment of Indias drive towards
rural electrication, the objec-
tive of this initiative is to meet
the energy requirements of
the rural population in India
by bridging the funding gaps
required for rural electrica-
tion business. Presently, a total
of 125,000 Indian villages lack
access to reliable power. The
Indian government has desig-
nated 18,000 of these villages
as economically impossible to
reach via conventional means.
Without electricity, these villag-
ers lack basic education, and
healthcare infrastructure re-
quired in modern life which im-
pedes their economic and social
development. Thus, through
this endeavor, Alstom Founda-
tion aims to mark a new kind
of cooperation with companies
addressing the issue of access
to electricity for all.
3rd World Renewable Energy Technology
Congress 2012 held in New Delhi
The 3rd World Renewable
Energy Technology Con-
gress served as an excel-
lent energy platform for
the global renewable en-
ergy industry to address
various industry issues in-
cluding innovations, new
technologies, investment
opportunities and project
nancing.
Mr. Jaime Nualart, Ambas-
sador, Embassy of Mexico in
India delivered the inaugural
address and highlighted the
importance of promoting re-
newable energy, green energy
for sustainability. During the in-
augural ceremony of the con-
gress, Energy and Environment
Foundation awarded the pres-
tigious Energy and Environ-
ment Excellence Award-2012
in the Renewable Energy Sec-
tor.
Energy and Environment
Foundation conferred the Ex-
cellence Award to Mr. Deepak
Gupta, Former Secretary to
the Government of
India (MNRE); Dr. Pat-
rick Hofer-Noser, Chief
Technology Ofcer and
Deputy CEO Meyer
Burger Technology AG
and President, Clean-
tech, Switzerland; Ms.
Sunita Kumar, Country
Manager, AREVA Solar;
Mr. Sunil Jain, Chief
Operating Ofcer, Green Infra
Limited; Mr. Satish Sharma,
President & CEO-Hydro, Jindal
Power Limited and Mr. Simon
Hobbs, Director, Honeywell
India Technology Center, UOP
India Pvt Ltd for their excellent
contribution in Renewable En-
ergy Sector.
3rd World Renewable En-
ergy Technology Congress delib-
erated various issues related to
Photovoltaic, Centralized Solar
Thermal Power, Decentralized
Solar Thermal: Solar Heating
& Cooling, Off-Grid Solar and
Rural Electrication, Emerging
Market in Rooftop, Applied Ma-
terials and Energy Storage, Wind
Energy, Small Hydro, Bio-Energy
and creation of renewable green
energy for sustainability. The
congress was attended by 237
of national and international
delegates from Canada, France,
Germany, Japan, Malaysia,
Mexico, Portugal, Singapore,
Sweden, Switzerland, UK and
USA. The congress brought to-
gether leading international and
domestic players, policy makers,
government ofcials and tech-
nocrats on a common platform.
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University in Andhra Pradesh gets to
bath with Solarizer from Emmvee Solar
Emmvee Solar Systems
Private Limited supplies
and installs Solarizer for
the KL University in Vi-
jayawada in the state of
Andhra Pradesh. Solar
water heating systems
with a total capacity
of 24,000 LPD were in-
stalled in the universitys boys
and girls hostel for bathing
purpose.
KL University boast a great
history in the way of engineer-
ing education and research in
the state of Andhra Pradesh.
It is a private institution. KL
University is situated in a spa-
cious 50-acre campus on the
banks of Buckingham Canal
of river Krishna, eight kilome-
tres from Vijayawada city. The
Institute has a built up area of
around 8,00,000 sq. ft. with
some 84 laboratories. There
are boys and girls hostels built
in the campus.
Solarizer with at plate
collectors and horizontal ori-
entation tanks were installed.
The installation was completed
in April 2012. Four 3000
LPD and six 2000 LPD
systems which includes
of 240 collectors were
used for the installation.
It is important
that we are realising
the importance of solar
energy. Renowned insti-
tutions such as the KL Univer-
sity help promote solar energy
amongst the youth by practic-
ing it. We are happy that we
have installed our solar water
heating systems in various edu-
cation institutions and we are
eager to do much more in the
future. says Mr. D.V Manju-
natha, Founder and Managing
Director of Emmvee.
EFC approves NEEPCOs investment proposal
for 46 MW Agartala gas based extension plant-I
The Expenditure Finance Com-
mittee (EFC) has given the
green signal to NEEPCOs Rs
297 crore investment proposal
for its 46 MW Agartala gas
turbine plant- combined cycle
extension project.
The plant will consist of two
units of 23 MW each which are
expected to be commissioned
within a period of 26 months
(unit-I) and 30 months (unit-
II). NEEPCO envisages the funds
to be disbursed over a period of
three years--Rs.64.614 crore in
the rst year, Rs.192.638 crore
in the second and Rs.39.621
crore in the third year.
Of the total fund require-
ment of Rs 296.872 crore,
89.062 crore will come form eq-
uity, and the remaining 207.811
crore from debt sources. With
the addition of the extension
plant, the tariff of the entire
Agartala project will come down
from Rs 3.13 per unit to Rs 2.64
per unit. The extension unit
alone will have a tariff of Rs 2.10
per unit of electricity.
Both, the Planning Com-
mission as well as the Finance
Ministry have found the project
proposal to be very attractive.
All that now remains is for the
funds to be disbursed.
It may be noted that NEE-
PCO has set up the 4x21 MW
Agartala Gas Turbine Plant
(AGTP) at Ramchandranagar,
Tripura (West). The existing
plants set up consists of four
Gas Turbines of 21 MW each
that run on an open cycle
mode and operate on natural
gas supplied by GAIL. This ex-
isting 84 MW power plant has
now been proposed to be con-
verted into a combined cycle
power project by installing two
(23 MW) steam turbine units.
India and USA reinforce R&D in clean energies
Indo US Joint Clean Energy Re-
search and Development Centre
(JCERDC) a joint initiative of the
Government of India and the US
Department of Energy, aims to
facilitate Research and Develop-
ment on clean energy by teams
of scientists, technologists and
engineers from India and the
United States, and related joint
activities, needed to deploy clean
energy technologies rapidly. This
Centre also proposes to support
multi-institutional network pro-
jects using public-private partner-
ship model of funding.
The Indian and US Gov-
ernments have committed an
amount equal to US $25 Mil-
lion spread over a period of 5
years for 3 priority areas of Solar
Energy , Second Generation of
Bio-fuels and Energy Efciency of
Buildings.
ReNew Power
commissions
its rst wind
project
In keeping with its com-
mitment to become the
leading renewable en-
ergy producer in India,
ReNew Wind Power Pvt.
Ltd., an independent
power producer, com-
missioned its rst wind
farm project at Jasdan,
Rajkot district, Gujarat.
Honble Chief Min-
ister of Gujarat, Shri
Narendra Modi graced
the occasion and inau-
gurated the 25.2 MW
wind farm at Jasdan.
This facility comprises
of 12 units of Suzlon
S88 wind turbines with
2.1 MW capacity each.
Construction of the
project began in Octo-
ber 2011 and was com-
pleted in March 2012.
The project is selling its
output under a under
long-term PPA contract
to Gujarat Urja Vikas
Nigam Ltd (23.1 MW),
and the remaining out-
put to Philips India (2.1
MW).
The project demon-
strates ReNew Powers
vision in recognizing
the challenge of climate
change, and its responsi-
bility to combat it.
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KEI Industries Ltd
unveils special range
of Fire Survival Cables
KEI Industries Ltd unveils their
special range of Fire Survival Ca-
bles. The cables are designed
such that they continue to oper-
ate for a dened minimum pe-
riod of time in-case of re. The
technology that goes into the
manufacturing of the cables en-
sures that they have high accu-
racy and consistency in their per-
formance. This product range is
tested in NABL accredited labs
which is considered as the high-
est decree of recognition for
being a competent laboratory
in India, thus ensuring products
of high quality. The FS cables
have also been tested and have
received the approval of BRE for
Fire survival.
KEIs Fire Survival Cables
are supplied to Oil reneries, Oil
Wells , Steel Plants and Power
Plants with KEI already reach-
ing out to ONGC
(On Shore and Off
Shore oil platform)
Petro chemicals,
DMRC, BHEL to
name a few.
Tradi ti onal l y,
the main applica-
tion for re survival cables is in
re alarm systems, as this cable
continues to operate for a spec-
ied period in the event of a
re. In addition to re alarm sys-
tems, these cables are also used
in other safety-critical wiring
circuits, such as those power-
ing emergency lighting, data
recording system and sprinkler
pumps.
Fire Survival cables are re-
quired in commercial/residential
buildings for more sophisticat-
ed alarm systems, emergency
telephone lines, CCTV systems
and public address systems that
have to continue to operate
during a re and also in critical
equipments such as elevators.
Over the years the usage is on
the increase with newer ap-
plications emerging in Cinema
Halls & Hospitals.
Cummins India Limited announces
price increase on generator set engines
The Power Generation Business
of Cummins India Limited an-
nounced a price increase of up
to 3 percent for its diesel gen-
erator sets and generator set
engines in the range of 7.5 kVA
and 3000 kVA, owing to the
current industry dynamics and
projected market conditions.
The price increase will be
effective from June 1, 2012.
Cummins powered genera-
tor sets, transfer switches and
paralleling systems are used for
continuous, prime and standby
power in a variety of commer-
cial and industrial applications.
Cummins Power Generation
will continue to deliver the
highest quality and value to
its customers while remaining
competitive in the market.
AWS introduces 25MW Line concept in India
Besides the development of PV
parks, the country intents to de-
velop a strong local manufactur-
er base in terms of solar modules
and cells. Up to barely 100 small
and medium sized PV panel
manufacturer are transforming
this potential into reality.
Those manufacturer with
average production capaci-
ties of 15-30 MW are target-
ing different markets, which
are mostly crystalline standard
modules for the export and the
upcoming domestic market and
12V off grid modules for rural
electrication and lightening
purposes.
To serve these different
markets the companies run
mostly semi automated produc-
tion lines for standard modules
and parallel a manual line for
the off grid modules. AWS de-
veloped together with its part-
ners a new 25 MW line con-
cept, which is integrating both
product lines in one.
Honeywell introduces Attune
Advisory Services, connects cloud
computing and facility know-how to
cut energy and operating costs
Honeywell has introduced its
new Attune Advisory Services,
a suite of professional services
that combines cloud-based tools
and analytics with a global net-
work of operations centers, and
energy and facility experts to
provide enhancements that can
reduce utility bills and operating
expenses up to 20 percent.
Attune Advisory Services
help building owners wherever
they are on the energy- and
operational-efciency spectrum,
providing technology and sup-
port to gain baseline awareness
of building performance, make
improvements to reduce en-
ergy and operations costs, and
dene an ongoing strategy to
manage and optimise a facility.
The performance of build-
ing systems and equipment can
degrade by as much as 5 percent
every year, which translates to
energy and operating costs that
continually escalate, said Paul
Orzeske, president of Honeywell
Building Solutions. Companies
are starting to realise the signi-
cant impact this can have, as well
as the opportunity it presents for
bottom-line savings. With At-
tune, were providing the ease
and convenience of cloud-based
technology with expert advice
and actionable guidance so com-
panies can capture and maintain
those savings.
Facility managers are under
increased pressure to go beyond
simply monitoring building sys-
tems and providing base-level
comfort. They are being asked
to translate facility information
into actions that deliver energy,
operational and environmen-
tal outcomes. However, many
dont have the resources to
assess building performance,
identify opportunities to up-
grade infrastructure and opera-
tions, or prioritise retrots.
In fact, according to the In-
ternational Energy Agency (IEA),
buildings account for nearly 40
percent of energy used in most
countries. The IEA says the po-
tential for savings is signicant,
and can often be achieved at
low or no costs. However, many
barriers work against energy ef-
ciency in buildings, including
lack of useful information.
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Indus Towers joins hands with TERI to light rural
villages and homes
Indus Towers made an an-
nouncement that the com-
pany would provide high
efciency Solar LED Lighting
Systems, to rural areas.
Speaking on the occa-
sion, Mr. Pankaj Mittal, Chief
Human Resources Ofcer,
Indus Towers said, As a re-
sponsible corporate citizen,
Indus Towers has always
tried to strike a balance be-
tween the corporate gains
and social upliftment. Our
commitment to good gov-
ernance, ethical conduct and
social responsibility is core
to our way of doing busi-
ness, and is strongly aligned
with our drive to create and
increase value for all stake-
holders. This initiative will
help the villagers of the Dis-
trict of Kanpur -Dehat, Ut-
tar Pradesh, by making their
lives better and also teach
them the power of alter-
nate sources of energy. Indus
Towers will continue to intro-
duce similar innovative initia-
tives in future as well.
Speaking of the com-
panys Green Vision, BS
Shantharaju, CEO, Indus
Towers says, One of Indus
core Values is Environment.
We are committed to our
values framework and have
already reduced usage of 62
million litres of diesel in the
last 2 years and our endeavor
will be to reduce it further
every year. We will take this
campaign to as many cit-
ies as possible and recreate
the image of our country as
a Green Nation. We, as a
company, are dedicated to an
eco- friendly India. Over 1.4
billion people in the world
lack access to electricity and
25% of them live in India. For
these people, life comes to a
standstill after dusk.
Inadequate lighting is
not only an impediment to
progress and development
opportunities, but also has a
direct impact on the health,
environment, and safety of
people who are forced to
light their homes with kero-
sene lamps, dung cakes, re-
wood, and crop residue after
sunset. Solar lanterns rented
through the LaBL charging
stations provide bright clean
and affordable light to the
rural households, eliminat-
ing the hazards of kerosene
smoke and providing proper
lighting for children to study.
Indus Towers commitment
to the cause is laudable,
said Mr. Shafat Sultan Marazi,
Strategic Advisor- LaBL The
5 year partnership of Indus
Towers and TERI would spon-
sor clean energy and rural
entrepreneurship through
the Lighting a Billion Lives
Program (LaBL) to over
165,000 people across 660
villages in India.
The rst villages chosen
for implementation under
this partnership are in Kan-
pur Dehat district. TERIs local
partner organization sup-
porting the program is Shra-
mik Bharti, who will help in
identication and selection
of the villages and also pro-
vide ground support for long
term sustainability of the
initiative. LaBL is a unique
and measurable sustainabil-
ity initiative that effectively
demonstrates how Public-
Private-People (PPP) partner-
ships easily support clean
energy schemes and initia-
tives, particularly in the area
of rural development. In the
process, Indus Towers will
help mitigate approx. 5,000
tonnes of CO
2
per year and
create over 660 green jobs.
MWH Global lights 13 villages in Rural India
MWH Global, a sustainable
engineering company, dis-
tributed high efciency solar
LED lighting systems and lan-
terns to 13 villages in Aurang-
abad, India. MWH Global,
through the Lighting a Billion
Lives (LaBL) program, has lit the
lives of 2,500 villagers; further
expanding the rms commit-
ment to sustainability and re-
newable energy projects.
Consequently, contribu-
tions to the LaBL Program
have helped mitigate ap-
proximately 750 tonnes of
CO
2
and have created 14 jobs
for the villagers as well as sig-
nicant number of indirect
employment opportunities
in manufacturing and sup-
ply chain. In January, MWH
contributed a $50,000 USD
donation to The Energy and
Resources Institute (TERI); an
India-based, non-prot re-
search organization focused
on nding solutions for criti-
cal energy, environmental
and sustainable development
issues.
The funds directly sup-
ported TERIs LaBL program
that aims to bring light into
the lives of rural communi-
ties through solar lighting,
thus providing clean energy
and rural entrepreneurship.
61 million rural households in
India use kerosene and wicker
lamps for lighting. Inadequate
lighting has a direct impact on
the livelihood, health, environ-
ment and safety of these ru-
ral residents. LaBL, a program
that launched in 2008, sets up
a solar charging station in en-
ergy poor villages and offers
certied, bright and quality
solar lanterns for rent to the
local community. Each village
charging station is managed
and operated by a local en-
trepreneur who leases the
lanterns to village residents
for an affordable fee, creating
opportunities for renewable
energy education and entre-
preneurship in the villages.
The donation supports
the multi-faceted climate
change commitment program
MWH developed through its
partnership with the Clinton
Global Initiative (CGI) in 2007
to advocate for sustainable
practices, reduce energy use
and greenhouse gas emissions
and educate young people in
our communities on the water
cycle, energy use and climate
change.
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Suzlon crosses 1,000 MW (1 GW) in Jaisalmer;
creates Indias largest wind park
The Jaisalmer wind park, be-
ing developed by the Suzlon
Group crossed 1,000 MW of
installed capacity at the end of
FY12, reaching 1,064 MW on
1st April, 2012. This achieve-
ment makes the wind park the
largest of its kind in India, a
proud accomplishment for the
state of Rajasthan and Suzlon.
Speaking on this achieve-
ment, Mr. Tulsi Tanti, Chair-
man, Suzlon Group, said: Su-
zlon is proud to be playing such
a vital role in powering the
state of Rajasthan. Completing
1 GW of installed capacity is a
great achievement for us as a
company and for wind energy
in India. We credit this achieve-
ment to the support from the
Government of Rajasthan, our
customers and the local com-
munities. The Jaisalmer wind
park is a powerful illustration
of how Suzlon serves its cus-
tomers and the communities
we work in. We take this op-
portunity to renew our com-
mitment to Rajasthan and to
harness the incredible wind
potential in the state. Suzlon
credits this achievement to the
trust, support and encourage-
ment of the state government,
customers, policy makers, state
power utilities, suppliers and
local communities who have
played a vital role in bringing
this dream project to fruition.
The rst S9X wind turbine
in India was commissioned at
the Tejuva site in Baramsar,
Jaisalmer and was dedicated
to the nation by Union Min-
ister of New and Renewable
Energy Dr. Farooq Abdullah
in July 2011. This wind park
lights up the lives of the local
community through Suzlon
Foundations interventions.
Implemented under Suzlons
commitment to sustainable
development, the Foundation
has positively impacted more
than 5,000 families in over
70 villages in the Jaisalmer
district through initiatives like
livestock health care, water
conservation, tree plantation
and solar lighting as well as
community organization and
education support.
The development of the
wind park was initiated by
Suzlon in August 2001 and
comprises Suzlons entire wind
portfolio ranging from the
earliest 350 kW model to the
latest S9X 2.1 MW series. The
wind park comprises of a clus-
ter of wind farm sites within
the Jaisalmer district including
Amarsagar, Badabaug, Bar-
amsar, Tejuva and Soda Mada
among others. The wind park
houses projects of some of Su-
zlons key customers including
Mytrah Energy, Hindustan Zinc
Ltd., Hindustan Petroleum Cor-
poration Ltd., Rajasthan State
Mines & Minerals, Rajasthan
Renewable Energy Corporation
Ltd., and Rajasthan Gums.
Ex-Im Bank approves nearly $3 billion
in export nancing for LNG project
The Export-Import Bank of
the United States (Ex-Im
Bank) has authorized a $2.95
billion direct loan to support
U.S. exports to the Australia
Pacic liqueed natural gas
(LNG) project. The transac-
tion is Ex-Ims second-largest
single-project nancing in
history and is also the Banks
rst LNG project in Australia.
The project on Curtis Island
in south-central Queensland will
produce natural gas from coal-
seam wells and will have total
capacity of nine million metric
tons per year. China Petroleum
and Chemical Corp. (Sinopec)
and Kansai Electric Power Co.
Inc. of Japan will purchase most
of the LNG produced. China
Ex-Im Bank and commercial
lenders are also providing debt
nancing for the project.
Ex-Ims nancing is ex-
pected to support an esti-
mated 11,000 American
jobs. Principal U.S. exporters
are ConocoPhillips Co. and
Bechtel International, both of
Houston, Texas. Additional ex-
porters and suppliers include
numerous small businesses in
Texas, Colorado, Nevada, Cali-
fornia, Oregon and Oklahoma.
Our authorization paves
the way for U.S. companies to
export equipment and services
to this major LNG project and,
in so doing, to maintain thou-
sands of American jobs across
the country, said Ex-Im Bank
Chairman and President Fred
P. Hochberg. This nancing
also demonstrates how the
United States and China can
work together for our mutual
benet to foster trade and de-
velop critically needed energy
resources.
The transaction, approved
by Ex-Ims board of directors on
May 3, was announced follow-
ing Chairman Hochbergs trip
to China, where he participat-
ed in the fourth round of the
Strategic and Economic Devel-
opment Dialogue (S&ED) with
Treasury Secretary Timothy F.
Geithner and other ofcials.
The S&ED was held in Beijing
on May 3-4.
Bechtel ofcial Jay C. Far-
rar, who manages the com-
panys ofce in Washington,
D.C., cited the importance of
Ex-Ims nancing for U.S. ex-
porters to large international
projects. Since 1992, Ex-Im
Bank has been instrumental in
the successful awarding and
completion of projects involv-
ing Bechtel that have support-
ed thousands of jobs for highly
skilled employees at our com-
pany. The Banks nancing also
has helped to maintain thou-
sands of additional jobs related
to the supply chain for these
projects, Farrar said. Bechtel
Corp. is an international engi-
neering, construction and pro-
ject management company.
The Australia Pacic LNG
project will involve develop-
ment of coal-seam natural-gas
elds, two gas transmission
lines to a collection hub, a natu-
ral gas liquefaction plant and
an adjacent marine shipping
export terminal on Curtis Island
near the city of Gladstone.
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IFC to invest up to $55M in SunEdison
to help increase access to RE
IFC, a member of the World
Bank Group, and SunEdison, a
leading worldwide solar energy
services provider, announced
that IFC is providing approxi-
mately $14.5 million (about
Rs. 75 crores) of equity to Sun-
Edison at rst close, and up to
a total of $55 million (about
Rs. 290 crores) if certain con-
ditions for future funding are
met, to support the growth,
development and construction
of SunEdisons photovoltaic
power projects in South Asia,
South East Asia and sub-Saha-
ran Africa.
The IFC investment will
help facilitate IFCs and SunEdi-
sons goal of expanding access
to clean energy and address
climate change by avoiding
up to 700,000 tons of green-
house gas emissions by 2014.
As part of the transaction, IFC
is acquiring a 15 percent stake
in SunEdison Energy Holding
(Singapore) Private Limited
and Sun Edison Energy Hold-
ings B.V., two holding com-
panies incorporated by Sun
Edison LLC, in Singapore and
the Netherlands, respectively.
SunEdison recognizes the po-
tential of the South Asian and
Sub-Saharan regions for solar
power generation and is one
of the leading Solar Energy
platforms across the region,
said Pashupathy Gopalan, Sun-
Edisons Managing Director,
South Asia and Sub-Saharan
Operations. Driven by eco-
nomic growth and an emerg-
ing focus on energy security
in these regions, countries in
the region are assessing and
supporting alternative energy
sources. We are pleased that
IFC shares these beliefs, and
we look forward to working
together to change the en-
ergy fabric of these markets.
IFC is engaging across the
entire solar photovoltaic sup-
ply chain to improve its eco-
nomics, said Anita George,
IFC Director for Infrastructure
in Asia. We are doing this by
enabling pioneering projects
under new regulatory support
schemes and increasing econ-
omies of scale in downstream
installations.
Toshiba wins order for Steam Turbines
and Generators Island Package
Toshiba Corporation (Tokyo:
6502) and Toshiba JSW Turbine
and Generator Pvt., Ltd. (Toshi-
ba JSW), a Chennai-based
Toshiba Group company, an-
nounced that Toshiba Corpora-
tion has been awarded a con-
tract for the supply of two units
of 660MW super-critical steam
turbine and generator island
by Meja Urja Nigam Pvt. Ltd, a
joint venture of NTPC Limited,
India\s largest state-owned en-
ergy service provider, and Uttar
Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utapa-
tdan Nigam Ltd. (UPRVUNL)
following the contract award
of Kudgi Super Thermal Power
Project, Stage-I (3x800MW) in
February this year.
The equipment will be
installed in the Meja Thermal
Power Plant in Uttar Pradesh
State, India. The value of the
contract is about USD 315 mil-
lion. The scope of the contract
covers engineering, procure-
ment, manufacturing, installa-
tion and testing of the steam
turbine generator islands.
Setting up a local manufac-
turing facility and a phased man-
ufacturing program with tech-
nology transfers in India was a
mandatory requirement for the
tender. Toshiba embraced this,
and established Toshiba JSW in
Chennai in 2008. The company
is a 75% Toshiba-owned sub-
sidiary and the very rst Toshiba
Group turbine and generator
manufacturing facility outside of
Japan. Steam turbine and gener-
ator for the Meja thermal power
plant will be manufactured at
Toshiba JSW and at Toshibas
Keihin Product Operations in
Japan. Commercial operation
of the rst unit is scheduled in
48 months from the contract
award and the second unit in 54
months.
Rapid economic and indus-
trial growth is driving demand in
India for increased capacity with
equipment that meets the high-
est environmental standards.
Toshiba Group has responded by
establishing a network of com-
panies that provides localized
one-stop EPC solutions, from
plant conceptualization to com-
missioning. Toshiba India Private
Limited in Gurgoan undertakes
overall project management;
TPSC India in Hyderabad carries
out installation and commission-
ing; and Toshiba JSW, the jewel
in the crown, manufactures
steam turbines and generators.
Toshibas technical expertise
and its strong commitment to
localization assured that Toshiba
Group secured the order for
the Meja Thermal Power Plant
against stiff competition.
Suzlon Group wins 50 MW order from GMDC
Suzlon Group has signed a con-
tract for a 50 MW project with
Gujarat Mineral Development
Corporation Ltd. (GMDC). The
project comprises of 24 units
of Suzlons S95 2.1 MW wind
turbines, featuring DFIG tech-
nology. The project is set to be
commissioned in the Jamnagar
district of Gujarat and is worth
Rs. 305.32 crore.
Speaking on the order, Mr.
Tulsi Tanti, Chairman Suzlon
Group, said: Suzlon is pleased
to once again partner with
GMDC in driving forward their
commitment to sustainable ener-
gy, and through this contribute to
the development of Gujarats low
carbon economy. The state of
Gujarat is blessed with immense
wind potential and we are proud
of our contribution in harnessing
this potential.
GMDC currently has an ex-
isting installed base of 100.50
MW, out of which the major
part over 60 MW has been
supplied by Suzlon and is oper-
ating in sites across Gujarat. The
new order takes GMDCs total
installed capacity to 150.50 MW.
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Jakson takes a new step
with the inauguration
of its manufacturing
plants in Jammu
Responding to the growing
demand for power gen-
eration solutions to sup-
port greener and efcient
products, Jakson has com-
menced production recently
at its two manufacturing
facilities in Kathua, Jammu.
The rst plant is the DTA
plant for Domestic Custom-
ers are the other plant is
100% Export Oriented Unit
to serve specic segment of
customers. With these two
new plants, Jakson reinforc-
es and strengthens its posi-
tion as a market leader in
the powergen Industry. The
two plants would be manu-
facturing Generating Sets,
Gas Generating Sets and
Special Application Gener-
ating sets.
Sameer Gupta- Manag-
ing Director, Jakson Group,
said: With these two new
plants commissioned, we
now have enough capacity
in place to keep pace with
our aspirational growth rate
of 20% for next ve years
which actually has been our
CAGR for past 10 years.
The plants are modern hav-
ing world class facilities and
positions Jakson once again
much ahead of the compe-
tition.
The plants which are
fully operational employ
around 60 persons which
also contributes to the local
cause of creating jobs and
opportunities for people in
state of Jammu & Kashmir.
Both the facilities adhere
to the exceptionally high
standards for quality and
performance.
The plants will be able
to cope up with the de-
mand scaling up the pro-
duction capacity of Jakson
to approximately 15000 DG
sets per annum. The plants
have been envisioned as the
hub of operational excel-
lence and the focus is on
delivering quality products
to the customer.
TUV Rheinland accredited
for Energy Management
Systems certication
Bangalore based TV Rhein-
land India, a worldwide leader
in Testing, Inspection, Certica-
tion & Training, announced that
it has been globally accredited
by DAkkS(Deutsche Akkredit-
ierungsstelle), the national ac-
creditation body for the Federal
Republic of Germany, to provide
third-party auditing and certi-
cation of energy management
systems in accordance with EN
ISO 50001:2011.
TV Rheinland now joins
the ranks of the few Certica-
tion Bodies worldwide that can
provide accredited certication
according to this internationally
recognized standard. TUV Rhein-
land envisages a major opportu-
nity in India as industries are in-
creasingly going in for reduction
in energy consumption with a
view to offset energy shortages
and rising cost, through imple-
mentation of Energy Manage-
ment Systems. In addition to cut-
ting costs and GHG emissions, a
TUV Rheinland certied Energy
Management System can en-
hance an enterprises reputation
by demonstrating its commit-
ment to environmental sustain-
ability. ISO 50001:2011 species
requirements for establishing,
implementing, maintaining and
improving an energy manage-
ment system, whose purpose
is to enable an organization to
follow a systematic approach
in achieving continual improve-
ment of energy performance,
including energy efciency, en-
ergy use and consumption. ISO
50001:2011 species require-
ments applicable to energy use
and consumption, including
measurement, documentation
and reporting, design and pro-
curement practices for equip-
ment, systems, processes and
personnel that contribute to en-
ergy performance.
Said Mr. Enrico Ruhle, Man-
aging Director of TUV Rheinland
India, With this accreditation,
TV Rheinland expands its wide
range of services in the areas of
energy and the environment.
Given the energy crunch and ris-
ing energy costs today, the En-
ergy Management for all size of
industries, be it small or medium
or large is increasingly gaining
importance. Therefore imple-
mentation and certication of an
Energy Management System ac-
cording to ISO 50001 is the basis
for greater energy efciency and
associated economic benets.
ISO 50001:2011 is applicable to
any organization wishing to en-
sure that it conforms to its stated
energy policy and wishing to
demonstrate this to others, such
conformity being conrmed ei-
ther by means of self-evaluation
and self-declaration of conform-
ity, or by certication of the en-
ergy management system by
an external organization. The
EN 16001 standard is going to
be superseded by the new EN
ISO 50001 in April 2012. TV
Rheinland recommends those
organizations certied to EN
16001 to deal with the issue at
an early stage. Early migration
to the new standard will help
organization to benet from a
continuous and long-term posi-
tive energy efciency culture.
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I N T E R N A T I O N A L
Nominees for the Intersolar AWARD 2012
On June 13, the worlds largest
exhibition for the solar industry
honors the innovative strength
of the industry for the fth
year running by presenting the
Intersolar AWARD for pioneer-
ing products and services from
Photovoltaics, Solar Thermal
Technologies and PV Produc-
tion Technologies categories.
For the rst time, exhibitors
from Intersolar China were in-
vited to enter the competition
alongside those from Intersolar
Europe, Intersolar North Ameri-
ca and Intersolar India. The best
entries from each category have
now been nominated for the
Intersolar AWARD. The Inter-
solar AWARD is presented in a
ceremony at Intersolar Europes
Innovation Exchange in hall B3,
booth B3.450 at 4:30pm on
June 13, 2012.
The organizers of Interso-
lar Europe Solar Promotion
GmbH, Pforzheim and Freiburg
Wirtschaft Touristik und Messe
GmbH & Co. KG (FWTM), in as-
sociation with the German Solar
Industry Association (BSW-Solar)
are once again presenting the
Intersolar AWARD to pay trib-
ute to the industrys innovative
strength and drive it forward.
The award goes to the three
most innovative companies from
each category of Photovoltaics
and Solar Thermal Technologies,
as well PV Productions Tech-
nologies in cooperation with the
SEMI PV Group.
To mirror the solar industrys
globally expanding network, In-
tersolar Europe has once again
broadened the pool of eligible
attendees this year. For the rst
time, exhibitors from China in
Beijing ware invited to put for-
ward their applications along-
side those from Intersolar Eu-
rope in Munich, Intersolar North
America in San Francisco and
Intersolar India in Mumbai.
The following companies
were nominated for the Inter-
solar AWARD in the Photovol-
taics category: Canadian Solar
Inc. (USA), MBJ Services GmbH
(Germany), Solon Corporation
(USA), Solare Datensysteme
GmbH (Germany), Pr.En.Al. srl
(Italy), U. I. Lapp GmbH (Ger-
many), SolarEdge Technologies
GmbH (Germany), Jurawatt
GmbH (Germany), skytron
en-
ergy GmbH (Germany), Nedap
Energy Systems (Netherlands).
Nominees in the Solar
Thermal Technologies category
The nominees for the Intersolar
AWARD in the Solar Thermal
Technology category are: Chro-
magen Ltd. (Israel), Ritter Ener-
gie- und Umwelttechnik GmbH
& Co. KG (Germany), TVP Solar
SA (Switzerland), Tigi Ltd. (Is-
rael), Fath Solar GmbH (Germa-
ny), Conico Innovations Pty Ltd
(Australia), Magen eco-Energy
A.C.S Ltd. (Israel), Soltigua - Lat-
erizi Gambettola SRL (Italy), me.
Ahrendt GmbH (Germany).
Nominees in the PV Pro-
duction Technologies category
The following companies were
nominated in the PV Production
Technologies category: Isra Sur-
face Vision GmbH (Germany),
Oerlikon Solar Ltd. (Switzer-
land), Pasan SA (Switzerland),
Pfeiffer Vacuum, Inc. (USA),
Saint-Gobain Performance
Plastics S.A. (Belgium), Gebr.
Schmid GmbH/Schott Solar AG
(Germany).
The winners of the Inter-
solar AWARD 2012 are an-
nounced on June 13, 2012 at
4:30pm in an award ceremony
at the Innovation Exchange in
hall B3, booth B3.450.
Intersolar Europe 2012
takes place from June 1315 at
the Messe Mnchen.
New Trade Show for Power
Transmission and Control in Milan
Deutsche Messe is further ex-
panding its foreign trade fair
business with a new show in
Milan. It will be the rst time
the German-based trade fair
operator has ever taken one
of its agship HANNOVER
MESSE showcases to another
EU country.
The new show, TPA ITA-
LIA, is a trade fair for power
transmission & control (uid
power), hydraulics and pneu-
matics - a specialty area
in which Deutsche Messe
has many years of inter-
national experience. TPA
ITALIA will be staged in the
town of Rho, near Milan, in
May 2014 as part of a joint
venture between Deutsche
Messe and Fiera Milano. It
will be held every two years
so as to alternate with MDA
(Motion, Drive & Automa-
tion), Deutsche Messes trade
show for power transmission
and control held in the odd-
numbered years as part of
HANNOVER MESSE in Han-
nover, Germany.
We already stage MDA
in Hannover and PTC ASIA in
Shanghai - the worlds larg-
est and most important trade
fairs for power transmission
and control. We therefore
have unrivalled expertise and
an extensive network of inter-
national contacts which we
and our long-standing trade
fair partners at Fiera Milano
will now leverage to create
a strong regional tradeshow
presence in Italy, comment-
ed Dr. Andreas Gruchow,
Member of the Managing
Board at Deutsche Messe.
This will further strengthen
our global tradeshow port-
folio and give companies in
the power transmission and
control industry a high-calib-
er, well-run platform in the
industrial heartland of one of
Europes leading industrial na-
tions.
TPA ITALIA is endorsed by
Italys leading power transmis-
sion and uid power industry
associations, including ASSO-
FLUID and ASSIOT, which will
eld exhibitors for the new
show and have input into its
design and format. The show
will comprise an exhibition
and a supporting program of
conferences and networking
forums.
TPA ITALIA will replace
the Fluidtrans Compomac and
Mechanical Power Transmis-
sion shows, which were held
for the last time on 8 to 11
May 2012 in Milan. Deutsche
Messe AG and Fiera Milano
have a long-standing and
highly successful joint-ven-
ture partnership for trade fair
events in China and Italy.
Deutsche Messe has been
steadily expanding its foreign
trade fair portfolio, which
currently spans 6 continents.
In 2012, the lineup features
nearly 50 events being staged
around the globe.
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KREMPEL takes the offensive
for greater economic efciency
AKALIGHT
ECS, the new PV

backsheet laminate, the spe-
cialist for solar materials has
supplemented its product
portfolio, which offers reliable
quality for every requirement
at prices appropriate to the
market. On the basis of prac-
tical experience gathered in
20 years, KREMPEL provides
advice to its customer world-
wide to make sure they select
the material most suitable for
their application. In order to
improve customer service even
more throughout Asia, the all-
round supplier has ofcially
opened a new solar material
factory in China in May 2012.
Safety and reliability are
decisive factors in the selec-
tion of materials for solar mod-
ules\, said Klaus Bernhardt,
head of KREMPELs solar ma-
terials division, but, on the
other hand, the drop in prices
on the solar market was fore-
seeable.
KREMPEL developed the
new AKALIGHT
ECS prod-
uct in order to ensure that
the quality standards of the
well-known German company
remain in line with market
requirements. These stand-
ards are based on experience
gained in relation to twenty
years of use in practice of the
company\s own PV backsheet
laminates.
The classical AKASOL
PTL & AKASOL
PVL products
with uoropolymer lms as
the inner and outer layer have
proven their quality in many
years of use all over the world.
AKASOL
PTL/PVL 2 has been

developed as a more cost-ef-
fective solution. Its inner side is
designed as a primer layer with
high-quality UV absorbers and
it is characterised as a whole
by its optimum ratio of poly-
ester lm thickness to bonding
agent. The least expensive new
development, AKALIGHT
ECS,
combines the tried-and-tested
inner layers of this second gen-
eration with a special lm that
is unaffected by UV radiation
and has been dened for reli-
able use in the outer layer in
accordance with the highly de-
manding standards that KREM-
PEL has set itself. The layer for
the cell side is a high-quality
lm with UV absorbers that
has already proven its worth in
AKASOL
products.
Tour de-Bike - Emmvee takes
to the roads of Germany
In July 2012, the tour
de-bike is to start in the
very north of Germany,
right by the North Sea.
The tour will meander
its way to the Zugspitze,
Germanys highest point.
We are not going to
cycle up the Zugspitze,
though. Our destination is
Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Our
real aim is the promotion of
electro-mobility, says Frank
Hilgenfeld, spokesman of Em-
mvee Photovoltaics GmbH, a
manufacturer of solar-mod-
ules. The tour will stop in
Cloppenburg, seat of Raleigh,
the supplier of the bikes,
Bielefeld, Kassel, Fulda, Wuer-
zbug, Ingolstadt and Munich.
Within nine days, the cyclists
will cover some 1000 km.
There are spectacular land-
scapes, challenging mountains
and a few surprises.
15 enthusiastic cyclists
have already registered for the
tour and only few places are
left. If you are interested in
taking part, you can contact
the organisers via info@tour-
debike.de.
The tour is challenging but
it is not a competition, fun,
technology and the aim
to promote clean mo-
bility are more impor-
tant than quick times.
We want to dem-
onstrate the reliability
of e-bikes, say Frank
Hilgenfeld of Emmvee.
The German-Indian
producer of solar-modules
has started a network of like-
minded companies and insti-
tutions to ensure success of
the tour.
Here, one nds Radclub
Germany, the Federal Associa-
tion for E-Mobility, Raleigh and
other companies contributing
to the tour.
All information regard-
ing the tour can be found un-
der: www.tourdebike.de
JinkoSolar Renews
Sponsorship
for Valencia Club
de Ftbol
For the second year in a row,
the company will act as the
teams main sponsor, with its
logo to be displayed on the
team shirts for both home
and away games. Valencia
Club de Ftbol will be play-
ing in the European Football
Champions League (UEFA)
next season.
Continuing our partner-
ship with JinkoSolar is a re-
ection of our ongoing joint
commitment to integrate sus-
tainable energies into our facil-
ities wherever possible, stated
Manuel Llorente, President of
Valencia C.F. Our new stadi-
um is a catalyst to promote ur-
ban regeneration, and partner-
ing with leaders like JinkoSolar
helps spread awareness of the
benets of solar.
Valencia C.F. is in the
process of reconstructing its
home stadium, which is one
of the biggest in the world.
The 75,000 seat stadium in
Valencia, Spain features state-
of-the-art design and includes
numerous facilities to house
catering, food service, parking,
conference rooms and shops.
Jinko is one of the lead-
ing providers in advancing
solar power. IMS Research In-
stitute also ranked Jinko Solar
as one of the top 6 crystalline
PV manufacturer in their lat-
est report. Collaborating with
a team that has such interna-
tional prestige like Valencia C.F.
is a great way to augment the
visibility of these efforts, said
Arturo Herrero, Chief Market-
ing Ofcer for JinkoSolar. We
are honored to work alongside
Valencia C.F. again and look
forward to an exciting year of
football.
photovoltaics
Emmvee
26 MAY12 energetica india
Energy has been universally recognized as one of the most important inputs for economic
growth and human development. Indias energy requirements have grown signicantly
since market reforms initiated by the Government of India in the 1990s.
ALSTOM
I
ndia is projected to become the third-
largest energy consumer in the world
by 2020.Strong reforms and policy
changes in recent years have further
opened up avenues for investments in the
sector, and have resulted in private partici-
pation across its various segments. Going
forward, the private sector contribution
during the Twelfth Plan period is expected
to be about 60-65% of total capacity ad-
dition. In order to step up power genera-
tion, renewable energy development has
also been placed on equal priority. The
scope for expansion is signicant as the
energy sector offers vast investment op-
portunities in the next decade and beyond.
Challenges
Demand for energy hinges on a number
of complex, interconnected factors. These
include not just economic growth, envi-
ronmental concerns and ageing power
plants, but also volatile fuel prices, security
of supply and the economic efciency of
producing electricity.
India currently has an installed generat-
ing capacity of more than 200 GW. In order
to boost power generation and bridge the
demand-supply gap, massive addition plans
have been proposed in the sector. The gov-
ernment is relooking at its large installed
base and energy mix as a signicant source
of growth for its power activities as power
demand continues to grow and shortages
in energy and peaking requirements con-
tinue to plague the country.
Indias electricity generation capacity is
mainly coal based which provides 55 per-
cent of Indias electricity. However, Indian
coal is of low quality with high ash content.
Also, the domestic coal production volumes
have stagnated and the gap between de-
mand and supply has increased thus derail-
ing the thermal power projects. In addition
to this, burning of coal and other fossil fuel
poses severe environmental consequences
in the form of high GHG emissions. Gas
availability also remains an issue and over
13 GW of power projects under construc-
tion are likely to get stranded. Apart from
that, huge T&D losses, environmental clear-
ances, land acquisition hurdles and limited
nancing ability to fund infra sector projects
are some of the major challenges slowing
down the Power sector.
Other than fossil fuels, hydro & nu-
clear power are other potential source for
meeting the growing energy needs of the
country. Indias hydroelectric potential has
been estimated to be 600 billion kWh per
annum corresponding to a capacity of 145
GW of which only 36 percent has been
realized so far because of issues like land
and environmental clearances associated
with this sector. Further, India continues
to pursue its nuclear ambitions with the
Government planning to add 20 GW of
nuclear power by 2020. However, the seg-
ment is facing concerns over environmen-
tal effects and geological issues. Further,
technological expertise and education to
increase efciencies regarding the seg-
MARKETOVERVIEW
Securing Energy:
Present challenges and plan for future
MARKETOVERVIEW
27 energetica india MAY12
ment is important to bring down the per-
unit costs as well.
With abundant reserves well distrib-
uted across the country, coal is still the
mainstay of the Indian power sector.
Solutions
The dwindling supply of coal and natural
gas in the country has forced the govern-
ment to look overseas for securing long
term fuel resource. The government is
augmenting domestic capacity for building
critical and ultra-super critical technologies
based power plants to meet the growing
need for electricity. Alstoms superior su-
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and advanced class Gas turbine technol-
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Indian market condition.
Renewable energy sources offer vi-
able option to address the energy security
concerns and at the same time reduce
GHG emissions. The chief sources of re-
newable energy in India are Hydro, Wind,
Solar, Biomass and conversion of waste
to energy. India is the worlds fth largest
producer of wind power. There is a signi-
cant potential in India for generation of
power from small hydro, biomass. There
is a potential of 64 GW in Solar and Gov-
ernment has plans to add 20 GW by 2022
under National Solar Mission initiative.
The State Electricity Regulatory Commis-
sions (SERCs) are mandating a minimum
Renewable Purchase Obligations (RPOs)
to Discoms and a mechanism of trading
of Renewable Energy Certicates (RECs)
through power exchanges has also start-
ed working in India.
Also, the government needs to play
an active role to create an enabling ecosys-
tem for promoting newer business models,
technical and market innovations as well as
promotion of R&D to support the introduc-
tion of carbon-free energies in the power
mix of the country.
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Increasing pressure of population and
growing use of energy in different sec-
tors of the economy is an area of concern
for India. Driven by the rising population,
expanding economy, and a quest for im-
proved quality of life, per capita energy
consumption which is currently 814 kWh,
is expected to increase manifold in the
coming years thereby translating into en-
ergy supply gap.
Switching on! Without giving up light-
ing, heating or travelling, is the challenge
that every nation and government is facing.
Alstom is geared up to help the Indian
government fulll its vision of Power for
All by 2020. Alstom is already develop-
ing technologies to meet growing power
needs in decades to come. Not only is it
committed to making these technologies
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meeting Indias inextricable demands for
economic development, social progress
and environmental protection.
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T
he current pressure on PV system
costs, taking effect along the entire
PV value chain, increases the need of
differentiation towards more cost efcient
production methods and devices with a bet-
ter performance. Solutions for high efcien-
cy solar cells are already available, but many
different questions arise.
Today the PV industry is facing a
challenging market situation. What is
Centrotherms concept to improve the
business situation?
Currently the market situation in PV indus-
try is very tough. The worldwide capacity for
solar cell and module production is much
higher than the demand. This dramatically
increases pressure on the manufacturers
to stay competitive. We see two successful
strategies to withstand this pressure. On one
hand, there are a few solar cell manufactur-
ers in the market, who have implemented a
very advanced crystalline solar cell manufac-
turing technology, achieving efciency levels
of above 21% in mass production. But al-
though they announce continuously cost im-
provements, the cost structure is not optimal
today. In parallel, the declining silicon wafer
price sets steadily new bottom lines of target
prices in the silicon PV. Therefore, it is costly
and risky to follow that so called revolution-
ary approach.
On the other hand, there is the possi-
bility of stepwise technological upgrades to
continuously improve the performance of
the production line. Centrotherm follows
this evolutionary approach for several years
now, offering upgrade packages to their
customers, implementing a state-of-the-art
manufacturing technology in existing pro-
duction lines. Therefore, we settle our newly
developed technologies as far as possible on
well proven PV production equipment. Addi-
tionally, the process ow for new technolo-
gies is designed in a way that the equipment
of preceeding lines can be re-used (almost)
completely. This reduces both, risk and ad-
ditional costs and results in a robust process.
With respect to the cost structure we have a
very strict policy: All upgrades have to dem-
onstrate an equal or improved total cost of
ownership. This will secure the competitive-
ness of our customers.
How is your experience in upgrade
packages, especially with the Selective
Emitter?
As rst step of the technology roadmap,
Centrotherm has introduced their selective
Emitter Technology, an improvement of the
solar cells front side. The phosphor content
and distribution in the emitter layer has a
very strong inuence on the solar cell per-
formance. Unfortunately, the dependence
of different performance parameter of the
solar cell on emitter doping and prole are
converse: the higher the phosphorous con-
tent, the lower are the contact and lateral
resistance leading to better lling factor. Fur-
thermore, the lower the phosphorous con-
tent, the better are the emitter properties
responsible for a higher current and voltage
of the device.
Thus, the conventional emitter diffusion
is always a compromise to achieve as high
as possible voltage and current while estab-
lishing a reasonable contact. To improve the
solar cell performance, the selective emit-
ter technology separates the emitter region
on the front side in areas of high and low
phosphorous concentration. The low con-
centration area is exposed to light and the
high concentration area establishes a good
contact underneath the metallization.
For implementation Centrotherm ap-
plies a one-step laser diffusion process, as
this process requires very little additional in-
vest and only minor operational costs. After
a light POCl3 diffusion process, the c.LAS
laser tool diffuses phosphor from the PSG
layer into the silicon substrate. In these areas
the sheet resistance is reduced and the con-
tact properties are signicantly improved.
This upgrade package has shown a strong
demand from the market, improving the
solar cell efciency, in direct comparison to
Centrotherms reference process with homo-
geneous emitter.
Our Chinese customers have been able
to deliver solar cells with about 17% average
efciency on multi-crystalline material and
about 18.8% average efciency on mono-
crystalline material to the market.
After the Selective Emitter, you
announced last year the Centaurus
Technology. What is Centaurus?
Centaurus, our second upgrade technology
combines the selective emitter with a dielec-
tric passivated backside and was announced
as a product in 2011. This year we offer and
implement it at customer sites, already com-
bined with ne line printing. This combina-
tion reduces the paste consumption of the
front side silver paste by more than 20%.
Present standard industrial solar cells
with screen printed Al-BSF backside are lim-
ited by the rear surface recombination ve-
locity and the low internal reection of the
Al-backside. To reduce both losses, Centro-
therm developed a solar cell rear side with
local aluminium BSF in combination with a
dielectric reector. The reduced surface re-
combination velocity increases the Voc by
above 10 mV. The improvement of the in-
ternal light reection for long wavelengths
leads to a gain in Jsc of about 1.5 mA/cm.
Both effects result in an overall efciency
improvement of about 1% (abs.), allow-
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Our Chinese customers have
been able to deliver solar cells with
about 17% average efciency on
multi-crystalline material and about
18.8% average efciency on mono-
crystalline material to the market
In a chat with Energetica India,
Mr. Peter Winter explains
Centrotherm Photovoltaics path
to sustainable state-of-the-art
solar cell manufacturing.
Mr. Peter Winter,
Product Manager for
Turnkey Solar Cell Lines,
Centrotherm
ing average production efciencies of more
than 19.5%.
The advantage of this technology,
which is already in ramp-up, is its availability
for mass production at the same cost level as
the standard process. In comparison to other
passivated backside concepts, it is based on
well proven processes and materials, allow-
ing a fast and easy implementation into run-
ning production lines.
Which equipments are required for mass
production?
In addition to the laser tool for selective emit-
ter, three additional equipments are required.
For the formation of the rear dielectric layer
Centrotherm uses its well known PEVCD
system, which is especially for the rear pas-
sivation improved regarding
throughput. But also exist-
ing PECVD systems can be
upgraded to process the rear
dielectric layers. Furthermore,
another laser tool, is required
to ablate the local BSF frac-
tion of the dielectric layer.
This c.LAScentaurus laser
tool is based on the c.LAS
machine platform for the
selective emitter formation
which has been introduced
to the market in 2009. To achieve optimal ef-
ciency, an additional wet chemical tool, the
c.SIDEcentaurus is needed, to smooth the rear
side for optimal reection and passivation.
How is the implementation status and
which efciencies have been reached
with Centaurus Technology?
The achieved conversion efciencies on
156x156mm monocrystalline (cz) wafers
have already reached the 20% level. This
result has been independently conrmed
by the Fraunhofer-ISE CalLab. Nevertheless,
single cell results can hardly show indus-
trial relevance. The production feasibility is
the key to success for any newly developed
technology. Currently, we have more than
50 MW of the Centaurus technology under
ramp-up. The results are very promising as
currently the typical experimental batches
achieve approximately 19.5% efciency on
cell level, with best cell efciencies of up to
19.8%. In total we have already processed
more than 50,000 Centaurus cells in the
existing projects and several projects will be
realized even in 2012.
Beside cell performance the module
performance is very important. How
is the module performance of your
technologies?
Since 2011 Centrotherm combines all cell
and module activities in one business unit.
Hence, we have combined R&D Projects se-
curing an optimum module performance.
The selective emitter technology is often
said to loose a major share of its gain in the
module.
According to our analysis and the eld
experience of 1 GW selective emitter pro-
duction capacity the loss is very little. In all
experiments under controlled process condi-
tions and correctly calibrated IV-testers the
selective emitter kept more than 90% of
its gain in the module. If we look into the
theory, there is no physical reason why the
embedding loss of voltage or lling fac-
tor shall be different compared to standard
cells. Only the current will obtain a certain
loss, due to the difference in blue response
of the selective emitter. Selective emitter
cells show an improved spectral response in
the short wavelength area up to 900 nm. In
standard module production EVA is used as
encapsulant, blocking the incident light be-
low 380 nm wavelength.
If you reference these facts with the
power content of the daylight spectrum, the
conclusion is that at least 75% of the cur-
rent gain on cell level will be found in the
module. Together with the fully kept gain in
voltage, this results in above 90% total gain
of the benets on cell level in the module.
For the Centaurus Technology we have
had a special eye on the module produc-
tion of this technology. As many of our cus-
tomers have no combined cell and module
production, the new technology has to be
compatible to standard module production
to ensure that our customers can use the
same distribution channels as before. Thus,
our Centaurus Technology is compatible to
standard H-type cell layouts with busbars or
discrete pads on the backside. They can eas-
ily be assembled to modules by the conven-
tional module manufacturing technologies.
This is everything else than self-evident for
solar cells which are capable of 20% ef-
ciency.
What is the scope of supply of
Centrotherm upgrade packages?
Our target is to supply our customers a mar-
ket leading technology. Therefore, we sup-
port them much further beyond the sole
delivery of equipment. Alongside the equip-
ment we deliver a technology
package including the follow-
ing major aspects: Beside in
depth knowledge of the tech-
nology, we will implement the
technology into the custom-
ers production line. This im-
plementation is accompanied
by a xed schedule guaran-
teeing throughput, yield and
efciency. The stability of our
processes allow a simple intro-
duction into the production
line and a very fast up-scaling to full capacity.
What makes Centrotherms upgrade
products suitable for the Indian market?
Centrotherm has been active in India since
1984 supplying furnaces to the electron-
ics and semiconductor industry. We have
worked with Tata BP, BHEL, Websol energy
and Jupiter solar to equip their solar cell lines
and Shan Solar for a turnkey module line.
Thanks to our distinguished technologies,
our customers are able to lead the Indian
market in terms of efciency and perfor-
mance and to further optimize their prod-
ucts in mass production. Today it is more
important than ever, to listen to the needs of
the customer to withstand the harsh market
conditions together. With Centaurus Tech-
nology we provide a solution, to be one step
ahead of the market. After three months of
implementation the full production will yield
in high quality cells with above 19.5% ef-
ciency at a very good cost structure, which
are completely compatible to conventional
module manufacturing.
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Cell structure of the
Centaurus Technology.
What has changed after Texas
Instruments acquisition of National
Semiconductors in terms of product
portfolio, revenue and market access?
With the acquisition of National Semicon-
ductor, Texas Instruments (TI) has a com-
bined portfolio of analog as well as digi-
tal products along with customer design
tools catering to the needs of Indian cus-
tomers. TI has a variety of products under
the Power Management Portfolio which
has been further enriched by the recent
acquisition of National Semiconductors.
This now caters to the Indian power mar-
ket needs in a better way. The company
is committed to deliver products, support
and ideas to help the customers meet the
market demand and develop innovative
products.
In an effort to support customers be-
yond its extensive product offerings, TI
also understands the need for design sup-
port. TI provides free design tools such as
WEBENCH which is a powerful software
algorithms and visual interfaces that de-
liver complete power, lighting, and sens-
ing applications in seconds. This enables
the user to make value based speedy deci-
sions.
Energy Innovation is considered the
next big revolution after online space?
What is the focus of TI on this side?
Energy is a prime mover of economic
growth and is vital for the sustenance of
a growing economy like India. With the
growing energy supply-demand gap, the
need for energy efcient solutions is of
prime importance. India is one the larg-
est energy consumers in the world and
the available power is insufcient for the
countrys needs. It has therefore become
imperative to accelerate the development
of the sector to meet the countrys growth
aspirations.
Texas Instruments (TI) is closely fol-
lowing the energy innovations happening
around and we are collaborating with our
customers to understand their product
needs from a semiconductor perspective
and come out with appropriate products.
Sustainable technology design and pro-
duction promises to be a great growth
frontier for TI. The innovations are already
helping dozens of industries make their
products safer, greener and more efcient.
A key factor to remember is that,
apart from power generation, it is also im-
portant that the products should be highly
efcient which in turn will consume less
power. TIs products are focussed on in-
creasing overall system efciency which
results in less power consumption. This
also helps, in a broad way, to reduce the
demand supply gap.
What are some of the next generation
products that you currently have for
India in the Energy Space?
Energy is a segment that has always been
a focus at Texas Instruments (TI). To ad-
dress the growing energy demands of an
increasingly power-hungry world, TI has a
dedicated array of products that help in
economizing power consumed. In todays
world, where the demand is more for de-
vices that give more for less, TIs products
portfolio t right into the picture.
Today, the traditional sources of en-
ergy are fast depleting. There is a trend
of moving towards renewable energy as
a source like solar, wind, bio gas, etc. The
system efciency is key in these applica-
tions and TI products are dedicated to pro-
vide highest efciency possible for these
applications. Another care-about is that
the product should work at very low volt-
age inputs (such as solar applications) and
TI products are designed to work at low
input voltages like 0.4V
To address the growing needs of the
world today, TI has numerous offerings in
its portfolio of power management prod-
ucts:
s AC/DC and DC/DC Power supplies
s DC/DC Regulators
s Linear Regulators
s Boost Converters
s Hot Swap & Power Distribution Con-
trollers
s Power management ICs and functions
s Battery management solutions
s Lighting and Display/ OLED solutions
s Power products for energy harvesting
and renewable energy sources
The application of these products is
across verticals, with ease of availability
and a capable support network from TI in
place.
How has 2011 been for TI? What are
the expectations from 2012?
2011 has been a great year for TI both
globally and India. We have been a cata-
lyst for the semiconductor industry in India
over the last 25 years, and have extended
this to being a catalyst for todays growing
electronics industry in India.
Over the past years, we worked with
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Promising areas for Texas Instruments include LED Lighting,
Solar, Smart Metering and Battery based applications
Texas Instruments (TI) acquired
National Semiconductor in 2011
for $6.5 billion acquisition. Texas
Instruments had announced that
the combination of TIs sales
team and Nationals portfolio of
analog products will help increase
the joint companys protability
and help expand to additional
markets.
Energetica India analyses the
results of Texas Instruments
acquisition of National
Semiconductor, for the Indian
power market.
Abhishek Kumar, Business Development Manager, Power Management,
Texas Instruments India
our customers to understand their needs
from the early stages of their product
design. By collaborating with customers
well in advance, in their product design
cycle, we are in a position to offer solu-
tions that are appropriate to their needs.
TIs strategy and success in India is based
upon how well we help our customers be
successful in their markets. TI believes in
Indias future as both a market and as an
innovation centre with a role in the global
semiconductor industry.
We are extremely excited about the
market potential in India. Promising areas
include LED Lighting, Solar, Smart Meter-
ing, Battery based applications, etc.
What are the future plans of TI in India?
Texas Instruments (TI) is in a unique posi-
tion to cater to the requirements in this
market. TIs its wide range of products
which positions company strongly in the
growing Indian power market. And with
the integration of National Semiconduc-
tor, TI promises to expand its market pres-
ence with more leading-edge products
in the power and energy space, greater
manufacturing capacity, and the largest
sales and applications team in the indus-
try consequently serve more customers in
more markets in India.
TI also has the industrys broadest and
most diverse product portfolio which ena-
bles it to address the Indian manufactur-
ers needs. This together with an extensive
support network in India with 11 ofces
across 10 cities enables us to be present at
times when our customers need us. Being
very close to our customers is critical for us
to best address their needs.
TIs product portfolio coupled with
its knowledge base is unmatched. Texas
Instruments semiconductor innovations
help customers unlock the possibilities of
the world as it could be smarter, safer,
greener, healthier and more fun. Our
commitment to building a better future
is ingrained in everything we do. Texas
Instruments serves the worlds most in-
novative electronics companies, helping
them develop new ideas that change the
way we live. By providing semiconductor
technologies that promote greater power
efciency, enable more features, enhance
performance and deliver more value, TI
expands the possibilities every day for how
we learn, connect, grow and discover.
With the integration of National
Semiconductor, TI promised to expand its
market presence with more leading-edge
products in the power and energy space,
greater manufacturing capacity, and the
largest sales and applications team in the
industry consequently serve more custom-
ers in more markets.
TI recognises areas such as Smart
Grids and Solar Inverters as potential
growth markets and is aligned with its
customers to provide the right solutions.
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The article compares the actual production of a residential rooftop PV system with the
theoretical production (predicted by production estimation software). The software used
for this is PV Watts.
ASHISH NEPAL, PRODUCT ENGINEER, GREEN BRILLIANCE
Expected Generation vs Actual
GenerationResults from the Ground
T
he gure aside shows a schematic
of a typical grid-tied solar photovol-
taic (PV) system.
The solar panels each have an ar-
rangement of PV cells that, when exposed
to sunlight, produce electricity in the form
of Direct current (DC). This DC power is
passed through an inverter, a device that
converts the DC power into alternating
current (AC), the power we all use for our
household lighting and appliances. In such
a system, if the actual usage of power is
less than the power being produced by
the solar system the excess power is trans-
ferred back to the utility grid. Almost
every state in the United States has a law
that allows renewable energy systems to
sell excess power to the utility under the
net-metering law.
The performance and production of
a photovoltaic grid-tied system depends
greatly on the geographical location, ori-
entation, clear access to sun (shade or no
shade) and last but not the least the qual-
ity of the solar photovoltaic panels itself.
For example, a typical system in Ger-
many would have a complete different
production pattern and numbers as com-
pared to the exact same system in India. A
good engineering plays a very important
role in designing and installing a system
which would give the maximum return for
the money by giving the maximum pro-
duction annually.
The quality of the cells, all other raw
materials used and workmanship commit-
ted in making a solar panel are extremely
important for the high performance and
production.
It has become increasingly common to
ask if the solar grid-tied system has been
engineered smartly to provide the most
optimal production. In general, EPC (En-
gineering, Procurement and Construction)
companies or solar consultants provide
services to their clients (project developers
or investors) with the use of some com-
mon tools available in the market to come
up with some theoretical and forecasted
production data reports. It is the clients
who are left to bare the risk of relying on
these forecasted reports.
The purpose of this paper is to com-
pare the actual production of a residential
rooftop PV system with the theoretical
production as predicted by production es-
timation software. The software used for
this are PV Watts.
The actual production of the system
was determined using Enphase M190
microinverter. Enphase Energy Inc. is an
inverter manufacturer that only manufac-
tures microinverters. Microinverters are in-
verters that can be attached to the back
of each module and convert DC to AC at
the source itself. They have a capability
of individual panel monitoring. The mod-
ules used in this study are GreenBrilliance
GB60P6-225W modules.
GreenBrilliance engineers conducted
a study which entailed monitoring of the
actual energy production of solar systems
and analyze the actual production in rela-
tion to estimated energy production.
Three systems ranging in size from
4kW to 8kW were monitored for an entire
year. The production estimation software
THE PERFORMANCE
AND PRODUCTION OF A
PHOTOVOLTAIC GRID-TIED
SYSTEM DEPENDS GREATLY ON
THE GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION,
ORIENTATION, CLEAR ACCESS
TO SUN AND THE QUALITY OF
THE SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC
PANELS ITSELF
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used for this study is PV Watts. PV Watts
is a free online tool provided by National
Renewable Energy Laboratory or NREL
(www.nrel.gov). NREL is United States
government laboratory based in Golden,
Colorado. It monitors the weather pat-
tern and solar data throughout the world.
The monthly energy production estimated
by this tool is based on the solar radiation
received by the systems location. The resi-
dential systems chosen for this study are
from Washington, DC metropolitan area.
This area covers the states of Maryland,
Virginia and Washington, DC.
Hardware Description:
PV Modules: GB60P6-225 PV modules
are manufactured by in India by Green Bril-
liance Energy. These modules are 60 cell
polycrystalline modules with output power
of 225 W. The technical specications are
as follows:
s Power rating: 225 W
s Open circuit voltage: 36.48 V
DETAILS HOME 1
Number of
Panels
System Size Tilt Azimuth
36 8.1 kW 18 180
Date
Enphase (kWh)-
Actual
PV Watts (kWh)-
Expected
Cloudy/ Rainy
Days
% Difference
over / below
expected
Jan-11 542 645 8 -15,97%
Feb-11 733 728 8 0,69%
Mar-11 969 957 10 1,25%
Apr-11 917 1065 13 -13,90%
May-11 1140 1108 9 2,89%
Jun-11 1170 1173 6 -0,26%
Jul-11 1310 1122 3 16,76%
Aug-11 1120 1067 16 4,97%
Sep-11 695 933 15 -25,51%
Oct-11 733 847 6 -13,46%
Nov-11 699 597 8 17,09%
Dec-11 590 510 8 15,69%
Total 10618 10752 110 -0,81%
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s Short circuit current: 8.0 A
s Maximum power voltage: 30.24 V
s Maximum power current: 7.45 A
Enphase Microinverter: The projects
used Enphase M190 manufactured by En-
phase Energy Inc. The specications are as
follows:
s Maximum output power: 190 W
s Nominal output current: 920 mA
s Nominal voltage range: 208V/183-229V
s Power factor: >0.95
Interpretation of Results
From the above tables and graphs we can
see that there is a variation in the actual
energy produced by the system, and pro-
duction estimated by PV Watts.
From Figures 1, 2 and 3 it can be
noted that the graph of PV Watts follows
a unique pattern. The plot is in a shape
of bell curve. It is consistent in all three
graphs. The two half of the graph are al-
most similar. Also the actual energy pro-
duced by a system completely varies from
the estimated energy production. But the
plot of the actual energy produced by the
system is very similar in all three graphs.
They are almost identical to each other.
In the months of April and September
the actual energy production goes down
signicantly than estimated by PV Watts.
In these months the numbers of rainy and
cloudy days are very high. That is the rea-
son for this sharp decrease in production.
Also in the month of July the production
is highest, that is the result of minimum
number of rainy and cloudy days.
It has been noticed that for the total
energy produced by the system, the differ-
ence between actual and expected is not
huge. It shows that the production estima-
tion done by PV Watts is very accurate.
Conclusion
Ability to give our reliable generation data
to customers and bankers is the need of
the hour for module manufacturers, EPC
players and solar developers.
There could be some variation be-
tween expected and actual generation
and a certain % difference will also be ac-
cepted.
As Indian investors and bankers start
working on solar, the industry will look for
reliable data on expected solar generation
to take better investment decisions.
DETAILS HOME 3
Number of
Panels
20 4.5 kW 18 110
Date
Enphase (kWh)-
Actual
PV Watts (kWh)-
Expected
Cloudy/ Rainy
Days
% Difference
over / below
expected
Jan-11 297 359 8 -17,27%
Feb-11 416 404 8 2,97%
Mar-11 519 532 10 -2,44%
Apr-11 489 592 13 -17,40%
May-11 571 616 9 -7,31%
Jun-11 586 652 6 -10,12%
Jul-11 638 623 3 2,41%
Aug-11 557 593 16 -6,07%
Sep-11 349 518 15 -32,63%
Oct-11 431 470 6 -8,30%
Nov-11 397 331 8 19,94%
Dec-11 366 283 8 29,33%
Total 5616 5973 110 -3,91%
Results of Actual Generation vs Expected Generation; Home 3.
DETAILS HOME 2
Number of
Panels
18 4.05 kW 18 110
Date
Enphase (kWh)-
Actual
PV Watts (kWh)-
Expected
Cloudy/ Rainy
Days
% Difference
over / below
expected
Jan-11 201 254 8 -20,87%
Feb-11 315 312 8 0,96%
Mar-11 448 424 10 5,66%
Apr-11 443 500 13 -11,40%
May-11 572 539 9 6,12%
Jun-11 599 588 6 1,87%
Jul-11 656 552 3 18,84%
Aug-11 536 510 16 5,10%
Sep-11 325 431 15 -24,59%
Oct-11 342 364 6 -6,04%
Nov-11 288 234 8 23,08%
Dec-11 249 192 8 29,69%
Total 4974 4900 110 2,37%
Results of Actual Generation vs Expected
Generation; Home 2.
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Asia the most populous and the most widespread of all continents comprises around 60
percent of Earths population and nearly 10 percent of its landmass. According to a study
by the European Photovoltaic Industry Association (EPIA), India and China (combined) have a
PV potential of 228GW by 2030 while South East Asia has a combined potential of 46GW
by 2030. Without doubt, the area presents endless opportunities for the implementation
of solar power. The peripheral nature of many villages, towns and cities in Asia means that
within PV, off-grid has particular market potential. Approaching the 2012 International Year
of Sustainable Energy for All, it is the ideal time to consider this potential.
SIMON ROLLAND, SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE ALLIANCE FOR RURAL ELECTRIFICATION
Continent of the Rising Sun:
The Potential of Off-Grid PV in Asia
A
lthough the rapid sector growth
in Europe has taken the indus-
trys attention away from the po-
tential of other parts of the world, it has
helped overcome at least one bump on the
road to a healthy renewable energy mar-
ket in more challenging economies: scaled
production and affordable technology. The
huge production capacity of PV manufac-
turers today motivated by FiT markets has
driven prices to a point where they start
becoming attractive to even the worlds
lowest income communities.
The importance of Feed in Tariffs is high-
lighted by the case of China which has intro-
duced a new FiT scheme (August 2011) to
attract investment in the renewable sector.
With high levels of sun irradiance in many
parts of China, this initiative could be an in-
credible driving force, and specialist say that
China alone could have a 40-50GW installed
photovoltaic capacity by 2020!
A technology that people can actu-
ally afford is a perfect starting point for
two great business opportunities for RES
companies in general and the PV sector in
particular: supply of electricity to the pop-
ulation still in the dark and the hybridisa-
tion of the diesel systems on which much
of the world is currently so dependent on.
Although investments in both cases
have already been proven protable and
sustainable, they still have common barri-
ers. The investments necessary for creating
and developing a new market are a barrier
common to every industry, but other chal-
lenges are specic to renewable energies
in new and developing economies. These
include among others capacity building,
condence in consumers and their govern-
ments and specic energy credit schemes.
If countries in Asia begin to embrace
the policy advice of business organizations
like ARE, these structural problems could
be addressed and remedied. Given the re-
cent events in Japan, we can see that re-
newable and solar power has a signicant
role to play in energy production. Solar
power in Asia has the potential to change
electricity supply forever. Now is the time
to start the change.
Why mini-grids?
According to the International Energy
Agency (IEA), 1.4 billion people dont have
access to electricity and a billion more have
only an unreliable and intermittent supply.
799 million in Asia alone.
The traditional solution connection
to the grid is often very costly and not
feasible in isolated rural areas, which ac-
count for around 85% of that popula-
tion. It is estimated that in the developed
world and under normal terrain condition,
grid extension costs $5.000 per kilometer,
while that gure can be as much as four
times higher in developing countries and
markets. The demand in rural areas is gen-
erally small so it doesnt usually justify such
an investment.
In such isolated areas, off-grid renew-
able energy systems are often the best solu-
tion. Through mini-grids, they can provide
centralised electricity generation at the local
level using a village distribution network.
Another option - stand-alone systems - can
cover the needs of single households, pub-
lic buildings or commercial needs.
The IEA has recently published gures
which should have inspired every business
developer in the energy sector. According
to them, to reach universal electricity ac-
cess by 2030, 949TW will be needed in the
developing and emerging markets. Of this,
35% (339TW) should be supplied through
mini-grids and 18% (171TW) by isolated off-
grids.
This might not translate as a huge im-
mediate prot for the off-grid renewable en-
ergy sector, but it is a strong nod from one of
the most inuential voices in energy issues in
the world, a voice that in the past not exactly
known for its support of renewables.
Replacing diesel
One of the other most powerful argu-
ments supporting the upcoming natural
expansion of off-grid renewable energy
markets in emerging economies is the
current extensive use of diesel. Roberto
Zagha, World Bank Country Director in In-
dia, said that in that country alone there
is a minimum of 20GW of diesel-installed
capacity. This represent a short term huge
potential for renewable energy technolo-
gies, and especially PV, considering the
impact this technology can have on the
generation costs of diesel system.
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Despite the fact that the economic sit-
uation of rural areas naturally pushes peo-
ple towards technology choices made on
a short-term least-cost basis, in the long-
term those are rarely the best solution,
especially in isolated communities where
diesel is an expensive resource difcult to
distribute. A recent study nanced by the
USAID concluded that when compared to
100% diesel-based systems currently the
most used solution to supply mini-grids
a renewable/diesel hybrid mini-grid offers
lower operating costs, making electricity
production more affordable over the life
time of the system. This is good news for
these populations, but it also opens new
market perspectives for the private sector.
Challenges and solutions
For both the supply of electricity to popula-
tions currently living without it and the hy-
bridisation of existing systems, the barriers
to a healthy and fully-functioning market
are rather similar. They range from unsub-
stantiated stereotypes to macro-economic
challenges that require many inuential
heads to come together.
When one considers that people in
lower income countries pay (and dearly) for
diesel generators, fuel, dry cell batteries and
candles as well as the hours spent gather-
ing wood, for example, it becomes clear
that time and resources could be better
spent on an sustainable and reliable energy.
Not to mention that the WHO believes
that the burning of simple household bio-
mass fuels wood, crop residues, animal
dung, shrubs and grasses is responsible
for some 1.4 million premature deaths
annually in developing countries, mainly
among women and young children.
Financing is, as expected, still a com-
plex problem to solve in this context.
Along with technology and political will,
new models are needed to translate this
reality on the ground.
An example of a solar photovoltaic
mini-grid which employs a combination
of government and community nanc-
ing comes from India. The objective of
this project was to implement a sustain-
able nancing scheme based on a mix of
subsidies and revenues. The central state
covered the initial cost of the generating
unit; state and local area development
funds nanced the distribution networks;
and nally the revenue achieved through
the sale of electricity covers the facilities
operation and maintenance costs.
West Bengal Renewable Energy Devel-
opment Agency (WBREDA) owns all of the
assets and has been implementing a fee
for service model scheme, guaranteeing a
reliable generation and supply of electricity
to the consumers. Operation and mainte-
nance (O&M) is sub contracted to a local
enterprise that remains under supervision
of the WBREDA. Management of the mini-
grid is facilitated by village communities,
and revenues are collected through the
account of the co-operative society in the
Rural Bank. Each consumer invested about
45 US dollars in connection fees and pays
about 2.5 US dollars per month for con-
suming 18-20 kWh.
Several partnerships have been set up,
some between WBREDA and their PV sup-
plier to set up and maintain the utility and
between the state and the community.
Thanks to this approach, the village com-
mittees have been successful in managing
the entire scheme under the technical su-
pervision of the state.
Where there is a will theres a way
This particular project incorporated com-
binations of government and commu-
nity nancing schemes with many more
schemes funded by social investors,
foundations and visionary venture-capital
funds. Once proven and applicable own-
ership, nancing and operational models
have been established in the market, the
sky will be the limit for solar power in Asia.
For that to happen, experts believe
that micronance institutions will have
a major role to play especially for small
scale solution, but even then energy loans
are not smooth sailing. In a household
that buys a solar lamp to save money on
kerosene or candles, the investment takes
several months to pay off, and there is no
actual income from the lamp. For bigger
energy projects, such as a PV/hybrid mini-
grid which is able to supply a village, the
loan needed is much larger and projects re-
quire time and effort at all stages of project
development as well as along its lifetime.
However, there are a number of inno-
vative instruments which can help to offset
the cost of such loans such as the aggrega-
tion of credits for the carbon market.
It is clear that there are numerous av-
enues open to the spread of PV. Where
there is a will, there is a way.
Let there be light
In Asia, like everywhere else, there is not
a one-size-ts-all energy solution. But if
private companies are willing to take a
chance and invest on the extraordinary
potential of this continent, there is no tell-
ing the proportions that the market might
take. ARE and its members believe there
are major opportunities for accelerating
the implementation of PV there.
If past experiences involving solar pro-
jects are applied to new ones by PV dealers
and project developers, multilateral and
bilateral agencies and host governments,
then the future of PV (and the general off
grid market) will be bright. In the next few
years, renewable energy can become both
a formidable boost to Asias economic de-
velopment and the answer to the problem
of energy access.
About ARE
The Alliance for Rural Electrication (ARE)
is the only international business associa-
tion in the world focusing on the promo-
tion and the development of small scale
renewable energy solutions for rural elec-
trication in developing countries. ARE
serves as an international platform for
sharing the knowledge and experience of
the private sector interested in operating
in developing countries.
Ankit Singhvi discusses why the success of solar thermal (for electricity generation) is
critical for India in its pursuit of sustainable low carbon growth.
ANKIT SINGHVI, FOUNDER, NN4ENERGY
Success of Solar Thermal is Critical for India
S
olar power has been gaining mo-
mentum globally and is emerging
as a credible source in the electricity
mix. The primary challenge for mass adop-
tion is still the high levelized cost of solar
power thus requiring government support
in terms of generation based incentive.
Even though solar PV installations domi-
nate globally, solar thermal (CSP) plants
continue to provide reliable source for
grid dispatchable power (CSP plants have
been running for over 30 years) with aver-
age installations size in excess of 50 MW.
Solar integration with existing steam cycle
based power plants can result in most cost
effective solar power in the country due to
CAPEX saving on turbine (and BOP) and
higher conversion efciency. Additionally,
it can reduce carbon emissions from exist-
ing plants by improving overall turbine uti-
lization. India is uniquely positioned given
the large number of captive power plants
and a strong engineering talent pool to
modularize CSP systems. It is imperative
that the government should promote
adoption of solar thermal solutions which
can deliver cheapest grid connected solar
power in the country today.
CSP technology has the ability to in-
tegrate with existing (steam cycle) based
plants (Coal, nuclear, CCGT, biomass) at
different stages in the process (feed water
heating, direct steam generation). These
systems can reduce CAPEX by 30-40%
(savings on turbine costs and balance of
plant) in todays cost and increase the en-
ergy conversion efciency by 10-15% by
avoidance intermittent operations of a
standalone solar plant. A combination of
these two can result in levelized solar tariff
of <Rs 7.5/KWh at todays cost with proven
parabolic trough technology. This is with
pure engineering system design requiring
no technology innovation. Once the rst
set of plants come up and local ecosystem
develops, these costs will go down further
for existing and proven technologies to hit
grid parity at around Rs 5/KWh.
India presents a signicant opportu-
nity for solar integration. Firstly there ex-
ists a capacity of over 12000 MW of steam
cycle based captive power plants (Figure
1) spanning across industries e.g. cement,
iron and steel, textile, sugar etc. (Figure
2). Add to it biomass plants and cogen-
eration plants and we have a portfolio of
over 20000 MW of underutilized turbine
and power systems (Average PLF of 41%)
with new systems beings added every year.
Secondly, new conventional power plants
are being built to meet growing demand
of electricity. Solar systems can be prede-
signed thus making them more cost ef-
fective and efcient than retrots. Thirdly,
most of the energy intensive industries
have their own captive power plants and
RPO obligations thus making them a will-
ing customer.
The challenge for CSP has been re-
quirement of building large scale plants
(>=50 or 100 MW). This has been primar-
ily due to constraints on system efciency
(TG block, HTF systems) and engineering
costs. Integrated solar plants are relatively
more efcient due to 24x7 operations of
TG block even at sub 10 MW level. India
with its engineering pool can help ef-
ciently create small size solution.
Integrated solar plants will reduce the
subsidy support, build a services industry
with signicant export potential and most
importantly improve the carbon footprint
of existing underutilized power plants.
Policy makers should make a concert-
ed effort to get some projects executed on
ground in the short term by way of dem-
onstration projects. This will set bench-
marks and help in standard setting for new
green eld facilities in an expanding power
market.
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Figure 1: Captive power plants by Fuel source (CEA 2008). Figure 2: Captive power plants by industry and PLF.
Sun in, electricity out.
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could be so predictable.
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Clique Solar shares with Energetica Indias readers the installation of solar thermal
system at ITC Hotel in New Delhi. In addition, Energetica India chats with Clique Solar to
understand more details.
CLIQUE SOLAR
Solar Thermal Energy
in the Hospitality Industry
Situation Analysis
With rise in awareness levels about the
renewable sources of energy, people are
becoming more and more eco-sensitive.
Some of them are even interested to nd
out what energy sources does a hotel
use and what amount of harmful gases
it emits in the atmosphere. So as con-
sumers demand more eco-friendly vaca-
tion choices, the tourism industry must
respond with energy-efcient resorts and
hotels.
In providing a large variety of services,
luxury, comfort, entertainment and prod-
ucts, the hospitality industry consumes
enormous amount of energy. A large
part of this energy is in thermal form & is
still supplied by fossil fuels. Different ap-
proaches can be taken in attempting to
combine healthy economic returns with
environmentally responsible activities.
What can be done?
Today there are several solutions for hotels
which are ready to think green, are visionary
and are ready to invest in the future of their
business as well as the global environment.
Adapting to renewable sources of energy
is one of the most benecial and sensible
long-term decisions that any company can
take. A large portion of the energy needs
in a hotel can be catered to by proven solar
technologies. The use of an appropriate so-
lar technology for various applications can
have a positive impact on the Indian energy
and environmental scenario.
Clique Solar has developed patented
ARUN
dish for industrial process heating

and comfort cooling applications.
The pioneer in the industry: ITC,
The Maurya
In India, ITC, The Maurya has set an ex-
ample by pioneering the successful use of
solar technology for satisfying its thermal
energy needs in laundry, cooking, bath-
ing and other applications. ITC Limited is
credited with being a pioneer in initiating a
number of environment friendly changes.
It is one of the few carbon positive com-
panies in India. It is a classic example of
ITCs philosophy when not many hotels
in the world are even thinking of the nega-
tive impact they have on the environment,
ITC is already reaping the benets of solar
energy for over two years now.
Clique Solar has installed 2 ARUN
dishes at ITC, The Maurya in New Delhi.

This installation saves ITC an equivalent
of almost 28,000-30,000 litres of fos-
sil fuel (furnace oil) per annum. This has
also resulted in a reduction in CO
2
emis-
sions by almost 120-130 tons per annum!
The ARUN dish is a completely indigenous
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Solar Concentrator System developed by
Clique Solar.
As is the case with pioneers, ITC, The
Maurya faced several hurdles when it de-
cided to go for the use of solar systems
to reduce the use of polluting fuels. There
was no precedent of any such installation.
There were issues from economic feasibil-
ity to space constraints (being located in
the heart of New Delhi).
There were even more basic questions
like the best application of such a solar sys-
tem in a hotel keeping in mind the cost vs
benets and the integration requirement;
how to hide such a system so as to main-
tain the aesthetic look of the hotel; and
how to ensure that the system performs
as promised, when many solar installations
are either dysfunctional or operating at
very low effeciencies.
After studying the various require-
ments and constraints of the hotel, and
understanding how these can be tech-
nologically and economically met by har-
nessing solar energy, ITC, The Maurya
concluded that the use of solar thermal
concentrating systems for all their thermal
requirements is most suitable.
s The two-dish ARUN system generates
steam which is used for the hotels laundry,
cooking and other heating requirements.
s One of these ARUN dishes is installed
on top of the existing banquet hall,
while the other ARUN dish is installed on
ground in the backyard of the hotel with
a footprint area of less than 3m x 3m.
s The civil engineering challenges were
innovatively handled by Clique Solar.
s The ARUN dish tracks the sun from sun-
rise to sunset on two axes.
s Water circulates through the receiver
coil which is placed at the focus of dish
transferring the thermal energy from
the sun to the circulating water and
converting it to pressurized steam at
175C at 8 bar(g).
Flow of Operation
The process of generating steam & hot wa-
ter with the help of ARUN is as explained
in the gure.
Step 1: At the start of the day, the Dish
extracts water from the feed water tank to
generate steam at 175C and pressure of
5 to 8 bars.
Step 2: Steam delivery from dishes to
various applications starts as soon as the
required steam delivery pressure i.e. of 6
bars & 160C is achieved.
Step 3: The steam is fed to the Common
Header. It gets distributed to various ap-
plications from this common header. In
the absence of sun, the existing boilers
are used to feed steam to the common
header.
Due to the limited supplies, high cost
and pollution problems associated with
fossil fuels there is an urgent need to
make use of renewable sources of energy
to meet the thermal energy requirements
in industries as well as for cooling.
India is the place where large advanc-
es in the solar technologies for satisfying
the thermal energy needs of industries are
taking place. The ARUN solar concentrator
dish is a ne example of this.
With government subsidies, the ac-
celerated depreciation benets, and the
rising fuel prices, investment in such solar
thermal systems has become economically
attractive too!
Clique chats with Energetica India > Installation data & details
What is the total capacity of the
installation at ITC Maurya?
Two number of ARUN160 dishes deliver about
1,400-1,500 kg/day of steam on average. Peak
output is around 2,000 kg/day on a clear sunny
day in New Delhi.
When was this installation done?
The installation was commissioned in March 2010.
Could you explain the cost and
benet analysis (for the hotel) for this
particular installation?
The benet is more than the monetary benet
alone.
s Since space availability was a constraint, we
were not able to comply with the government
regulation w.r.t the use of solar water heaters.
But with each ARUN dish occupies less than
10sq.m. area, ITC could comply with the gov-
ernment regulations w.r.t use of solar for water
heating.
s ITC has always strived to achieve the highest
energy efciency in all its hotels. ITC is proud
of this fact and likes to communicate this to the
audience through the various media. The ARUN
dishes have contributed in helping ITC Maurya
achieve the coveted LEED Platinum rating.
s The ARUN dishes help to save about 100-120
tons of CO
2
per annum
From purely monetary point of view, the payback
period after including the government subsidy and
accelerated depreciation is around 4-5 years. And
the fuel saving benets will continue to benet for
the entire system life of 25+ years.
What is the reaction of the hotel
guests when they see the use of
solar?
We took utmost care that the aesthetic look of the
hotel is not disturbed and decided to install the so-
lar system in the backyard. Today many guests are
impressed by the installations and request a closer
look at the dish. The hotel guests also appreciate
the hotels commitment towards the environment.
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ANIL KURCHANIA & MR. CHIRAG SHAH
Solar Desalination- Decentralized way
to address Indias water needs
T
his article traces the availability
of potable water problem in gen-
eral. Non availability of pure water
causes major threat to human lives in vari-
ous parts of the world. Some 70% of the
earths surface is water, but most of that is
ocean. By volume, only 3% of all water on
earth is fresh water. Various technologies
are already commercialized for converting
the saline water into useful one.
Further certain facts and gures re-
ported by various institutes on water qual-
ity, uoride and arsenic content in water
in India as well as other countries are eye
opener. With the recent event of Interna-
tional World Water Day; 22 March 2012;
the authors bring to attention the use of
solar energy for water production method.
Solar Still and Desalination
Solar energy has the greatest potential of
all the sources of renewable energy and
can be used for water desalination. In re-
mote areas, the household water needs in
few liters per day per family can be met
by local production method based on solar
energy. The solar still is an answer to this
requirement and can distil water from im-
purities.
A simple solar still has been shown
in the above gure. The solar radiation is
transmitted through the glass or plastic
cover and captured by a black surface at
the bottom of the still. A shallow layer of
water absorbs the heat which then pro-
duces vapor within the chamber of the
still.
The vapour condenses on the glass
cover, which is at a lower temperature be-
cause it is in contact with the ambient air,
and runs down into a channel from where
it is fed to a collector.
This device is lightweight, cheap,
strong, and durable and can be used with
a wide range of available dirty water in any
sunny location.
Approximately, one sq. meter of glass
area will distil around 4-5 litres of water
per day with six to seven hours of full
sunlight. Apart from lowering the salinity
level, solar still also help to reduce the uo-
ride and arsenic content in water.
Water Quality
India faces challenge in providing its citi-
zens with clean potable water free from
pathogenic bacteria, viruses, and other
impurities. Ground water quality has also
been now deteriorated and levels of con-
taminants like arsenic and uoride have
increased over the years.
Fluoride is found in all natural waters
at some concentration. In ground waters
low or high concentrations of uoride can
occur, depending on the various variables
like nature of the rocks, occurrence of u-
oride-bearing minerals and others.
Fluoride has a signicant mitigating
effect against dental if the concentration
is approximately 1 mg/l. (many parts of
North Africa, water is brackish and con-
tains over 1.5 mg/l uoride.
Water contaminated with Arsenic at
0.01mg/Litre, which is less than 0.2% of
the fatal dose, can lead to problems with
the skin, circulatory and nervous systems.
In India, states like Rajasthan, Gujarat,
Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal con-
sume water with high uoride content,
while neighboring country Bangladesh
faces arsenic content water problem.
Indian government is pushing vigor-
ously the agenda of clean drinking water
and has called for issues like drinking wa-
ter and sanitation becoming the main na-
tional agenda to ensure a healthy national
outlook.
The Central Government has accel-
erated efforts to provide water facilities
to rural areas and had even carved out a
separate Ministry of Drinking Water and
Sanitation last year.
In the recently announced budget, al-
location for rural drinking water and sani-
tation for 2012-13 has increased by about
27 per cent to Rs 14,000 crore from Rs
11,000 crore last year.
Conclusion
Solar still device can be placed at each
house for producing at least the drink-
ing water. Features like simpler design,
less maintenance and ease of operation
makes solar still a perfect solution to ad-
dress problem related to drinking water in
villages.
One of the limitations of solar stills is
the low productivity but this technology
has interesting potential for further de-
velopment with respect to increasing the
output. This device could serve need of
potable water for rural sector. With sup-
port from Government and other institute
such technologies can be rolled out on
large scale.
Dr.Anil and Mr.Chirag put forward the option of using solar to address Indias need of
potable water.
Dr. Anil Kurchania is Professor, Department of
Renewable Energy Sources, College of Technology
and Engineering, Maharana Pratap University of
Agriculture & Technology, Udaipur. Mr. Chirag Shah
is an independent Renewable Energy Advisor
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Smart Grid Vision of India
I
ndia is currently one of the worlds
fastest growing economies with inter-
est from investors across the globe. At
the same time, the intense appetite for
energy has left the country hard-pressed.
Many parts in the Country still face black-
outs and in some villages there is no expe-
rience of power. The Indian Government
does recognise the impending Energy-
Crisis that the Countrys growth can face.
According to International Energy
Agency, India relies on coal for about 40%
of its total energy consumption, oil for
about 24%, and natural gas for 6%, ac-
cording to the International Energy Agen-
cy. But the country is looking beyond fos-
sil fuels; at nuclear energy and renewable
energy in a big way.
At the same time, India is looking at
the Smart Grid also. So what is Smart
Grid?
Smart Grid is an automated widely
distributed energy delivery network char-
acterized by a two-way ow of electricity
and information, capable of monitoring
and responding to changes in everything
from power plants to customer preferenc-
es to individual appliances.
We can also dene Smart Grid as:
Electricity delivery system (from the
point of production to the point of con-
sumption); integrated with communica-
tion and information technology.
To better understand smart grids, we
can look at the features:
s Fully automated power delivery net-
work for monitors and controls electric-
ity ows.
s Two-way ows of electricity and infor-
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mation between the power plant and
the point consumption.
s Lowered carbon footprint and reduced
emissions; increased access to renewable
energy resources (like solar and wind).
s Use of digital technology to save en-
ergy, reduce cost and increase reliability.
s Improved power quality as per the need
of 21st century economy.
s Reduced disruptions, improved efcien-
cy and better asset utilization.
Plans of Smart Grid for India
The effect of Smart Grid towards Indian
power sector is promising and fore sight-
ing to transform and develop secure,
adaptive, efcient and sustainable system
by 2027 to provide the citizens with reli-
able and competitive energy by usage of
innovative technologies and policies to ful-
l the needs and aspirations of all by active
participation of stake-holders.
Smart Grid has a very wide view to-
wards the future and is passionately pro-
gressing to achieve the targets and goals
propagated in the ve year plans. These
ve year plans are divided as:
a. Near Term Plan (2012-17)
b. Mid Term Plan (2017-22)
c. Long Term Plan (2022-27)
The focus of the Near Term plan
(12th ve year plan from 2012 till 2017) is:
s Access to electricity for all
s Reduction of Transmission & Distribu-
tion (T&D) losses below 15% in all utili-
ties
s Reduction in Power Cuts
s Improvement in Power Quality
s Renewable integration
s Standards for smart appliances- energy
efcient and Disaster Recovery (DR)
ready
s Increase in inter-regional power ex-
change capacity
s Wide Area Monitoring
s Efcient Power Exchanges
s Training and capacity building in utilities
and in the industry to build, operate and
maintain smart grid systems and appli-
cation.
This time period will see some smart
grid pilot projects, low cost smart me-
ter specications nalization and testing:
2012-13, Verication of technology trials
in terms of scalability, sustainability and roll
out of smart grid projects in major metros.
The goal of the Mid Term plan
(13th give year plan from 2017-2022) is:
s Reduction of T&D losses to below 10%
in all utilities
s End of load-shedding
s Improvement in power quality
s Efcient forecasting and dispatching of
renewable
s Infrastructure and standards for Electric
Vehicles
s 1200kV AC system in operation
s Mandatory standards for appliances re-
garding DR readiness, energy efciency
and emission
s Export of Smart Grid products to over-
seas.
This time period will see Smart Me-
ters for all new connections all across the
country, Demand Response for peak load
management to avoid power cuts, systems
for load forecasting and generation fore-
casting integrated with weather forecast-
ing, Outage Management Systems and
Mobile Crew Management systems, Utility
wide smart grid roll-outs in select utilities
metros and large urban areas and Smart
(Green) Buildings integration with utilities.
The Long Term plan (14th ve year
plan from 2022-2027) will look at:
s Economically viable utilities
s Stable 24x7 power supply to all
s 33% or more renewable in power system
s EV infrastructure leveraged as Virtual
Power Plant (VPP)
s Export of Smart Grid products, solutions
and services overseas.
s IT network and CRM system for electric
utilities provided to other service provid-
ers such as water and gas distribution,
land revenue collection, etc.
During this time period, the industry
will experience utility wide smart grid roll-
out in all major utilities, Real time pricing
- price signals and choice of tariff plans to
all categories of customers, Smarter Cities
Utility Corridors that can leverage com-
mon eld infrastructure for automation
and control of electricity, water, gas and
district cooling/heating networks; com-
mon control and command centers, auto-
mated mobile crew systems etc, Robotics
for live-line maintenance and Trials of su-
per conductivity (HTSS).
The plans for beyond 2027 include:
s Smart utilities managing other pieces of
vital infrastructure sector. For example,
water and gas distribution and surface
transport, etc.
s Electrify almost all economic activates
including transport and much of agri-
cultural process and decarbonizes the
power sector through dramatic increase
in renewable and nuclear carbon cap-
ture and storage technologies.
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steps in the Smart Grid area, Ontario State
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BHARAT VASANDANI, ENERGETICA INDIA
Ontarios Smart Grid Progress
O
ntarios Energy Sector includes
Electricity, Natural Gas and Petro-
leum sub-sectors; accounting for
2.2% of provincial GDP. Ontarios Energy
sector is a $16billion annual industry, em-
ploying 95,000 Ontarians.
Ontarios Electricity System consists of
the following stakeholders
1. Generation: - Ontario Power Generation
(58%), Bruce Power (29%), Brookeld,
Northland Power, Trans Canada.
2. Transmission:- Hydro One (97%), Re-
maining 3%: Great Lakes Power Inc.;
Five Nations Energy Inc.; Canada Nia-
gara Power Transmission Inc.
3. Distribution: - Local distribution compa-
nies (Over 80), Suite metering companies.
4. Consumer: - Residential (4.3 million),
Commercial & Industrial (500,000),
Wholesale (Over 100).
In November 2012, the State Govern-
ment of Ontario released a Long Term En-
ergy Plan (LTEP); a 20-years energy plan for
the province, which among other things,
addressed:
5uppIy Mix- The Plan projected mod-
erate demand growth while supply mix
is too transitioned away from coal and
aggressively towards renewable. At the
same time the plan maintained the nu-
clear contribution and use of natural
gas to support other generation source.
ConservaIion- The Plan set ambitious
conservation targets building on On-
tarios already recognized efforts in con-
servation with over 1,700 MW of peak
demand saving over the past 5 years.
TransmissionlDisIribuIion- Five major
priority transmission projects are geared
to improve reliability, enable clean en-
ergy and serve new load are moving
ahead while the distribution system is
modernized as a smart grid.
Supply Mix
The power supply mix is changing as On-
tario eliminates the use of coal and in-
creases its share of conservation and re-
newable.
s Conservations
s Since 2005, Ontarios conservation pro-
grams have saved over 1,700 MW of
peak demand the equivalent of tak-
ing over 500,000 homes off the grid
s LTEP commits to reduce peak demand
by 7,100 MW and overall demand by 28
TWh by 2030.
s New conservation programs, together
with programs for very large industrial
customers, will require an investment
of about $3 billion over next 5 years in
new conservation programs, with an ex-
pected net benet to Ontario ratepayers
of $7 billion over the life of the conser-
vation measures.
s Local electric utilities are a big part of
the conservation efforts:
- Mandatory conservation targets
- Smart Meters and Time-of-Use billing
Smart Grid
The Long Term Energy Plan (LTEP) con-
Conservation
4%
Nuclear
51%
Water
19%
Bioenergy
1%
Gas/Oil
15%
Coal
8%
Wind
2%
Conservation
15%
Nuclear
48%
Water
7%
Bioenergy
11%
Solar PV
2%
Wind
10%
Gas
7%
2010 PROJECTED GENERATION (TWh) 2030 PROJECTED GENERATION (TWh)
SMARTGRID
rmed the need for and drive towards
modernizing grid infrastructure, also
known as smart grid to enable:
s More efcient grid operation,
s Connection of diverse and exible gen-
eration, including renewable,
s Enhance conservation opportunities for
customers and
s Adoption of new and innovative tech-
nologies, like electric vehicles
Ontarios Frame Work for Smart
Grid
The Green Energy Act and subsequent
directive has provided guidance on smart
grid for Ontario.
CusIomer ConIroI
Enable more conservation through a shift
to smarter homes
Expected Outcomes: MORE CONSER-
VATION
s Smart Meters
s Time- of- use Rates
s Home energy management
s Load control
Pover 5ysIem fIexibiIiIy
Enable more renewable and better ef-
ciency in grid operation
Expected Outcomes: CLEANER SUP-
PLY AND LOWER COSTS
s Customer based micro-generation
s More distributed generation,
s Used more efciently
s (i.e. less transmission investment)
AdapIive infrasIrucIure
Encourage more innovation and ensure
adaptability to future conditions (e.g. elec-
tric vehicles)
Expected Outcomes: MORE INNOVA-
TION
s Mobile charging infrastructure to
s Support electric vehicles
s Storage opportunities
s Enabling innovative technologies
Ontarios Smart Grid
5marI MeIer Through being a world
leader in smart meter deployment im-
plementing time-of-use pricing, Ontario
is releasing FIRST MOVER Competitive
advantages.
ehind Ihe MeIer Ontarios Smart
Meters & AMI system will serve as the
backbone for the adoption of Smart
Homes, as well as, an economically
protable industry geared towards pro-
viding consumers with control of their
energy usage.
DaIa ManagemenI the Meter Data
Management/Repository and other
energy data
has potential
value to im-
prove system
planning and
allow com-
panies to en-
hance their commercial products.
Grid AuIomaIion A more efcient,
exible, and reliable electricity system
can improve economic performance in all
sectors. Ontario is home to sophisticated
utilities that have already made signicant
progress in modernizing the grid.
Load ConIroI, DG & 5Iorage com-
panies in Ontario are responding to the
communications system connecting
generation through to consumption by
developing innovative technologies that
are helping to manage DG/renewable
integration.
EV-Grid InIegraIion Ontario has at-
tracted multiple Electric Vehicles (EV)
charging infrastructure rms to the
province as local utilities seek to ready
their system and take advantage of the
potential grid benets of EVs.
Smart Meters
The Smart Meters
s Enable time-of-use pricing and conser-
vation
s Provide basis for smart grid/smart homes
Ontarios has been in the forefront
of implementing smart meters and has
achieved many rsts to their names.
s 1st in North America to implement (be-
ginning in 2004)
s 5 different Advanced Metering Infra-
structure (AMI) systems (Trilliant, Elster,
Sensus, Silver Springs, Tantalus)
s Integration with Meter Data Manage-
ment/Repository.
s Toronto Hydro: POWERGRID Smart Me-
tering Project of the Year
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Time-Of-Use Pricing.
s Ontario State is the 1st in the world to
mandate for all residential and small
business customers (2010)
s Prices set independently to Ontario En-
ergy Board
s Implemented following successful pilot
studies across a variety of utilities
Behind the Meter
A smarter grid provides opportunities for
homeowners to better manage their ener-
gy use and costs. Modern electricity tech-
nology will enable homes with built-in in-
telligence that can be accessed/controlled
via the web.
Homes will be able to:
s Use power when its least expensive.
s Generate power when its needed.
s Charge electric vehicles when its most
efcient.
Data Management
Data Management forms the core of Smart
Grid Sector and Ontario has not forgotten
that importance. The Data Management
area of Smart Grid Sector in Ontario features
s The Smart Meter Data Warehouse
s Privacy by the Designing & the Smart
Grid
s System Planning at the utility and pro-
vincial grid level
Grid Automation
Smart Grid technologies can help reduce
outage duration and limit the number of
customers affected. Ontario is home to
many grid automation leaders including
GEs grid IQ Centre, Canada Power Prod-
ucts, and others.
The utilities are being encouraged to
roll out sophisticated systems to enable
fault detection, feeder automation, etc.
Load Control, DG & Storage
Ontario is taking a lead in developing ways
to optimise grid performance through Load
Control and Energy Storage technologies.
Load ConIroI.
Ontario has been able to develop and im-
plement sophisticated demand response
programs that can cycle down a variety of
loads in response to changing grid condi-
tions due to Smart Meters, Advanced Me-
tering Infrastructure (AMI) Communica-
tion System and Distribution Automation.
Energy 5Iorage.
Technologies like Li-Ion Batteries and Fly-
wheels are being developed in Ontario to
serve as grid asset, storing and dispatch-
ing power at operator command and
providing ancillary services. Storage busi-
ness models will become protable due to
Time-Of-Use pricing.
Electric Vehicle (EV) Integration
EVs are expected to be an important future
economic growth area for the province
given Ontarios strong automotive sector
and its emerging strength in smart grid. It
is interesting to note that Ontario has 1 in
20 target for electric vehicle by 2020.
Many utilities in Ontario are studying
the system requirements for smart charg-
ing- EV as dispatchable load and storage
system. For example:
s Toronto Hydro EV demonstration pro-
ject (Mercedes Smart Cars)
s Powerstream charging infrastructure
pilot with Better Place
s Durham Strategic Energy Alliance
charging station project (w/ Verdian
Connections & Siemens Canada)
Ontarios Smart Grid Fund
Ontario is expected to invest $399 million
per year over the next 5 years on smart grid
projects. To further support the sector, the
Ministry of Energy has also launched a $50
million grant program. The purpose of
the fund is to assist the development of a
smart grid through targeted nancial sup-
port for a technologically and geographi-
cally diverse portfolio of projects.
The Fund builds upon the policy
framework and existing policy initiative to
catalyze growth of a robust smart grid in-
dustry in Ontario.
The objectives of the smart grid fund
are to:
s Develop and advance the smart grid in
Ontario in the near term (next 5 years)
s Create economic development opportu-
nities for Ontario organisations seeking
to commercialize smart grid technologies.
s Reduce risk and uncertainty of electricity
sector investments by enabling utilities
and other electricity industries stakehold-
ers to develop, test, and evaluate smart
grid technologies and business models.
Conclusion
Ontarios focus and determination as seen
the country emerge as a Smart Grid Lead-
er. Some of the main points of Ontarios
Smart Grid Sector are:
s Aggressive integration of renewable, distrib-
uted generation into the distribution grid
s One of the North Americas most ambi-
tious conservation targets
s One of the largest smart meter and time
of use rollouts globally
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Energetica India studies Ministry of New and Renewable Energys Strategic Plan (period
2011-2017) for growth of Renewable Energy in India.
BHARAT VASANDANI AND BLESSYMOL THOMAS, ENERGETICA INDIA
Ministrys Strategic Plan for Growth of
Renewable Energy in India
Indias Energy Status
Indias substantial and sustained economic
growth is placing enormous demand on its
energy resources. The demand and supply
imbalance in energy sources is pervasive
requiring serious efforts by Government
of India to augment energy supplies. India
imports about 80% of its oil. There is a
threat of these increasing further, creating
serious problems for Indias future energy
security. There is also a signicant risk of
lesser thermal capacity being installed on
account of lack of indigenous coal in the
coming years because of both production
and logistic constraints, and increased de-
pendence on imported coal. Signi cant
accretion of gas reserves and production
in recent years is likely to mitigate power
needs only to a limited extent. Difculties
of large hydro are increasing and nuclear
power is also beset with problems. The
country thus faces possible severe energy
supply constraints.
In view of electricity supply shortages,
huge quantities of diesel and furnace oil
are being used by all sectors industrial,
commercial, institutional or residential.
Lack of rural lighting is leading to large-
scale use of kerosene. This usage needs to
be reduced, as it is leading to enormous
costs in form of subsidies and increasing
the countrys import dependence.
At the same time, a very large propor-
tion of the citizens continue to live with
no access to electricity and other forms of
commercial energy. More than 50% of the
population has little or no commercial en-
ergy access for their living and livelihood.
Others with access often have to cope
with poor and erratic availability of elec-
tricity and other fuels. With constraints
faced in resource availability and in deliv-
ery mechanisms, traditional means of en-
ergy supply are falling short. This is likely
to be the case in the foreseeable future so
that energy access will continue to remain
a problem.
Role of Renewable Energy in India
Renewable energy can make a substan-
tial contribution in each of the above
mentioned areas. It is in this context that
the role of renewable energy needs to be
seen. It is no longer alternate energy,
but will increasingly become a key part of
the solution to Indias energy needs.
Renewable energy has been an impor-
tant component of Indias energy planning
process since quite some time. The im-
portance of renewable energy sources in
the transition to a sustainable energy base
was recognized in the early 1970s. At the
Government level, political commitment
10%
54%
22%
3%
11%
Gas
Thermal
Hydro
Nuclear
Renewable
Technology Hydro Gas Renewable Nuclear Thermal
Installed Capacity 37.367 17.385 18.655 4.560 90.978
Resource
Estimated
Potential (MW)
Capacity Addition (in MW)
Upto 9th Plan During 10th Plan
Target for 11th
Plan
During 11th Plan
Upto 31.12.2010
Total Capacity as
on 31.12.2010
Wind Power 48.500 1.667 5.427 9.000 5.973 13.066
Small Hydro Power 15.000 1.438 538 1.400 963 2.939
Bio Power* 23.000 390 795 1.780 1.427 2.632
Solar Power 20-30 MW/Sq.Km 2 1 50 14 18
Total 3.475 6.761 12.230 8.377 18.655
*Note including biomass power, bagasse cogeneration, urban and industrial waste to energy.
Figure 1: Fuel Wise Installed Capacity Break-up in
Percentage; as of 31.12.2010.
Table 2: Plan-period-wise capacity addition in grid connected renewable energy based power generation installed capacity.
Table 1: Fuel Wise Installed Capacity Break-up in absolute number; as of 31.12.2010.
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to renewable energy manifested itself in
the establishment of the rst Department
of Non-Conventional Energy Sources in
1982, which was then upgraded to a full-
edged Ministry of Non-Conventional En-
ergy Sources (MNES).
Energy Status at the point of
MNREs 2011-2017 Plan
The Indian power sector, at the launch of
MNREs 2011-2017 Strategy plan, looked
as in gure 1.
Table 2 gives an idea of the growth of re-
newable energy capacity in the last dec-
ade. Major contribution has come from
wind power which is about 70% of the
total capacity.
The Near Term Vision of the
Ministry: Plan from 2011-2017
For ve years (2011-16), which is the
focus of the present Strategic Plan, an
attempt has been made to quantify the
aspirations in terms of SMART (Specic,
Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, Time-
bound) targets for different renewable
resources/ application areas, as detailed
in next section. Targets for an additional
year 2016-17 have been included so that
the exercise becomes co-terminus with
the 12th ve-year plan period of 2012-
17.
OFF -GRID/DECENTRALIZED RENEWABLE ENERGY
Year-wise targets for deployment of vari-
ous decentralised systems for off-grid
applications for 2011-17 have also been
formulated on similar basis and are sum-
marised in Table 5 below. It will be noticed
that there is reasonable growth proposed
year on year. Rural energy supply, rural
electrication and rural solar lighting are
areas that are receiving increasing impe-
tus. In most cases, there are considerable
savings of diesel and kerosene requirement
of funds for Generation Based Incentive in
the coming years.
STRATEGY FOR 2011-17
s Promote concept of small power plants
at tail-end of grid for both solar and bio-
mass and developing nancial support
structures.
s Development of entrepreneurship for
rural electrication through biomass
wastes, rice husk, solar, etc. and ena-
bling availability of banks/ grant funds
s Large-scale deployment and movement
towards indigenisation as already incor-
porated in the Solar Mission.
s Incremental improvements in technolo-
gies for achieving greater efciencies to
make them more viable and acceptable,
especially for solar cooling and cook-
ing.45
s Identifying niche areas for application
of RE technologies and reducing con-
sumption of diesel and evolving suitable
mechanisms for o for off-grid deploy-
ments.
s Identifying possible business models to
promote large-scale adoption of im-
proved cook-stoves with limited govern-
ment support.
s Developing new nancial instruments
including Risk Guarantee Fund.
s Promoting energy plantations of fast
growing species of bamboo/ other trees
to provide feedstock for small capacity
biomass power plants for captive/ local
use.
s Capacity building and awareness gener-
ation in Green buildings and campuses.
s Demonstration projects for new tech-
nologies such as solar thermal hybrid
for small plants, rice straw boilers, pine
needles based gas gasiers, solar ther-
mal gas hybrids and solar thermal with
storage for large plants.
s Development of independent concur-
Resources
Cumulative
Achievements
(in MW) (upto
31.12.2010)
Off-Grid/Distributed Renewable Power
(including Captive/Cogeneration Plants)
Biomass Power /
Cogen.(non-bagasse)
274 MW
Biomass Gasier 128 MWeq
Waste-to- Energy 68 MWeq
Solar PV Power Plants 3 MWp
Aero-Generators/
Hybrid Systems
1 MW
TOTAL 460 MWeq
Decentralized Energy Systems
Family Type Biogas
Plants
42.70 lakh
SPV Home Lighting
System
6,19,428 nos
Solar Lantern 8,13,380 nos.
SPV Street Lighting
System
1,21,227 nos
SPV Pumps 7,495 nos.
Solar Water Heating -
Collector Area
3.77 mln. sq.m.
Table 3: Deployment of Off-Grid / Decentralized
Renewable Energy Systems
Technologies/ Year
Biomass/
Agri
Waste
1
Bagasse
Cogen
2
U&I
Energy
3
SHP
4
Solar
5
Wind
6
Total
Target
Cumulative (anticipated
upto 31.03.11)
1025 1616 84 3040 35 13900 19683
2011-12 100 250 20 350 300 2400 3420
2012-13 80 300 25 300 800 2200 3705
2013-14 80 300 35 300 400 2200 3315
2014-15 80 250 45 300 400 2200 3275
2015-16 80 250 55 350 1000 2200 3935
2016-17 80 250 60 360 1100 2200 4050
Total target for the 6
years period
500 1606 240 1960 4000 13400 21.700
Cumulative Total target 1525 3216 324 5000 4035 27300 41383
Basis:
1 Considering average achievement ~100MW /year during 11th plan; competitive local use of traditionally
available biomass is a limiting factor.
2 Limited by overall surplus power generation potential of 5000 MW from existing Sugar Mills.
3 Urban/Municipal Waste projects limitations due various factors.
4 Considering average SHP capacity addition of ~300MW /year during 11th plan period so far.
5 As envisaged under National Solar Mission. Larger capacities will actually be installed after the end of
Phase I and Phase II.
6 Considering withdrawal of AD incentive; may be only GBI route to continue beyond FY 2011-12. (In
general there is no real increase year on year)
Table 4: Year-wise Targets for Grid interactive RE Power for the period 2011-17. All gures in MW.
RENEWABLEENERGY
rent monitoring systems.
s Develop pilot projects for off-shore
wind generation.
s Pursue the compliance of renewable en-
ergy purchase obligations with regula-
tory authorities and states.
Long Term Vision of the Ministry
The Ministry of New and Renewable Ener-
gy also has in place its long term vision on
power generation in India; Power in 2022.
Table 6 summarizes the sector-wise
aspirational goals that have been formu-
lated for grid-connected renewable power
for 2022.
Considering the projections reected
in the Integrated Energy Policy Report
(IEPR) and the Perspective Plan of Min-
istry of Power in respect of conventional
power capacity addition, it is estimated
that the total power generation installed
capacity (conventional and renewable)
will reach around 4,65,500 MW by 2022,
corresponding to electricity generation of
around 2540 BU. The contribution of re-
newable power to the total installed ca-
pacity and electricity mix would be around
18% and 7.3% respectively. Of course,
these percentages could change depend-
ing on actual achievements of the pro-
posed conventional power capacity, and it
is quite likely that these will be higher than
visualised.
DECENTRALISED SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS
The greatest potential area of off grid re-
lates to solar technologies. These include
solar water heating systems, home light-
ing systems which include solar lanterns,
Table 5: Year-wise Targets for Off-Grid RE application for the period 2011-17.
Table 6: Aspirational Goals for Grid Connected Renewable Power for 2022. All gures in MW.
RE Applications/ Years
Cumulative
(likely by
31.3.11)
2011-12 1012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17
Total Target
for 6 Years
Period
Cumulative
Total Target
Family Biogas Plants Nos. in
million
4,5 0,15 0,15 0,2 0,2 0,2 0,2 1,1 5,6
Remote Village Electrifn
No. of Villages
7500 500 0 0 0 0 0 500 8000
Biomass Gasiers- Rural
No. of villages
150 100 120 130 140 160 200 850 1000
Rural Electrifn SPV No. of
villages covered
30 30 40 40 50 50 60 270 300
Decentralised SPV System-
MWp
132 68 100 150 200 200 250 968 1100
Rural Solar Lights Nos. in
millions
0.2
(Sanctioned)
0,6 1,2 1,2 1,2 1,3 1,3 6,8 7
Micro-hydel Water Mills- Nos. 1550 200 250 300 350 400 450 1950 3500
Solar Thermal- Water Heating,
etc- million Sqm
4,4 1,1 1,1 1,1 1,1 1,1 1,1 6,6 11
Urban WTE Plants MWeq 4 10 10 10 10 10 10 60 64
Industrial WTE/ Biopower- Weq 330 50 60 70 80 90 100 450 780
Industrial WTE/ Biopower-
MWeq
330 50 60 70 80 90 100 450 780
Improved Cookstoves-
million numbers
Data not
available
0,2 0,4 0,6 0,8 0,1 0,12 0,42
0.42
(excl.
previous)
Basis:
Biogas plants : Considering trend of yearly achievements so far and the increased levels of CFA from Current FY.
Remote Village Elect: Considering likely availability of villages after exclusion from RGGVY.
Biomass Gasiers Rural : New initiative.
Rural Electrication through SPV: As envisaged under National Solar Mission.
Decentralised SPV systems : As envisaged under National Solar Mission.
Rural Solar Lights : The MW equivalent power from such lights are already incorporated in the Decentralized SPV system targets.
Micro-hydel/ Water Mills: Considering trend of yearly achievements so far.
Solar Thermal for water heating,
etc:
Considering total achievement of 2.5 mln. during 11th plan till Oct 2010.
Urban WTE Plants : Urban/Municipal Waste projects limitations due various factors.
Industrial WTE/ Bio power in
Industry :
Covers biomethanation of liquid efuents; combustion/ gasication of biomass and rice-husk (new initiative)
Improved Cookstoves: Additional component not included in 11th plan document; Subject to Planning Commissions approval.
Technologies
Biomass/ Agri
Waste
Bagasse
Cogeneration
U&I Energy SHP Solar Wind Total
SMART Targets
for 2022 (MW)
2.500 4.000 800 6.600 20.000 38.500 72.400
Aspirational
Goals (MW)
5.000 4.000 800 8.000 20.000 45.000 82.800
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solar cooking systems, solar pumps, small
power generating systems. Under the So-
lar Mission, it has been proposed to cover
2,000 MW equivalent off-grid power
systems by 2022 which includes all the
above, except solar water heating systems
for which there is a separate target of
20 million sq. metres. Within the off grid
component, there is a separate target of
covering 20 million rural households with
solar lights. This includes both, coverage
under the Remote Village Electrication
Programme as well as through loans given
by banks in areas where grid is available
to meet unmet demand. These seem to be
very ambitious targets.
However, aspiration goals would be
an additional 2,000 MW in the same pe-
riod. This would entail coverage of niche
areas like solarisation of telecom towers,
large scale use by industrial establishments
in the manufacturing sector where diesel
generating sets have been installed for
partly mitigating daytime use of diesel,
increased coverage in areas like Ladakh
where diesel is the prime source of energy
generation, etc.
RURAL ELECTRIFICATION THROUGH RENEWABLE
ENERGY
An extension of off-grid relates to rural
electrication. Over 40% of the countrys
population is currently denied energy ac-
cess. This has become a major problem
and, inspite of large investments under the
RGGVY for rural transmission, it has been
found increasingly difcult to provide this
access, especially in certain identied
areas, partly because of continuing sup-
ply constraints. But biomass and Solar PV
based solutions are possible. Biomass based
solutions are relatively more viable com-
mercially and can be implemented with
some Government support. The Ministry
would like to cover about 10,000 villages
from biomass-based systems and over 1000
villages from solar power up to 2022. The
latter 25 will, however, require substantial
Government support or nancial support
which may come as grants through some
fund or the other to meet the initial capital
cost. This would be apart from the target
of coverage of 20 million households to be
covered with solar lights. These achieve-
ments would make a huge dent in the criti-
cal matter relating to energy access.
GREEN BUILDINGS
Almost 40% of the total energy is utilized
in the building sector. A green building de-
signed through solar passive concepts and
including active renewable energy systems
can save substantial conventional energy
apart from generating energy for meeting
various requirements in different seasons.
Keeping in view Indias climatic conditions,
a National Rating System - Green Rating
for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA)
has been developed which is suitable for
all types of buildings in different climatic
zones of the country. It is expected that
the Rating system will promote the design
and construction of green buildings in
the country. The Ministry wants to pursue
promotion of green buildings in a mission
mode and intends to undertake a huge
capacity building effort in this regard. It
aspires to have 200 million sq. mtr. GRIHA
rated buildings by 2022.
RENEWABLE ENERGY BASED COOKING SYSTEMS
Another important area of off grid relates
to rural cooking needs. This involves the
family size Biogas Plants Programme as
well as covers the issues of cook stoves,
both at the level of the individual house-
holds or the community level. The Ministry
has been traditionally doing about 1 lakh
family size biogas plants annually. Normal-
ly, 1.5 lakh would continue as an increased
annual target, but the Ministry would like
to increase this further and reach coverage
of over 2 million by 2022.
Cook stoves is a big problem as either
biomass is inefciently burnt, creating both
emissions and health hazards and substan-
tial higher consumption of rewood as far
as community cook stoves are concerned
or the cost of the stove becomes too high.
The Ministry has launched a National bio-
mass cook stove initiative to address both.
A research programme has also been ini-
tiated to identify the right stoves which
could be used by households. At the same
time, a pilot project has been launched
to test the efciency and marketability of
improved community cooking stoves. The
Ministry would like to enable distribution
of over 10 million stoves for households
with some limited Government support
by 2022 which would require additional
funds and half a million community stoves
to be installed in market mode.
In addition, Ministry would like to
cover at least 1000 solar cooking systems
by 2022. All institutions including large
institutions with hostels, hospitals/medical
colleges, military/para-military establish-
ments, industrial organizations wherever
large number of meals is cooked are the
targets of the Ministry. Many such systems
have already been installed and technolo-
gy renements are taking place. Essential-
ly, these reduce the consumption of cook-
ing gas. Reduction in subsidy on cooking
gas would make this target much easier to
achieve. That may also help growth of so-
lar dish cookers for individual use.
The Ministry has initiated research into
various solar cooling applications. Aspira-
tional goals would include commercially
viable system s to be developed in the next
ve years. Thereafter, this could be an area
for upscaling.
Conclusion
MNRE has initiated systematic pro-
grammes for renewables including for
research and development. Renewable
energy is currently experiencing increasing
vibrancy across all sectors of the economy
driven by sustained economic growth and
growing global concerns regarding climate
change. There are various stakeholders
that directly/indirectly contribute towards
Decentralised /Off-grid SPV systems 2000 MW-under Solar Mission 4000 MW- aspiration
Solar Lighting 20 mln. households as under the Solar Mission
Solar Thermal collectors 20 mln. sqm.- as under Solar mission
Solar Concentrating Systems for
heating / cooling applications 100-200 on routine basis 1000 aspiration
Rural Electrication (New
Initiatives) -Through Solar
-Through Biomass
Reach 1,000 villages/ hamlets Reach 10,000 villages/ hamlets
Improved Biomass Cook-stoves
-Family
-Community
10 million
0.5 million
Green Buildings 200 mln. sqm
Table 7: Summary of Aspirational goals for off-grid RE deployment by 2022
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the promotion of renewable energy, and
each one has some aspirations and expec-
tations from this sector, just as they have
a signicant responsibility. This is in a way
laying foundation of a new economy that
is inclusive, sustainable and aspires for de-
carbonisation of energy in a denite time
frame. However, there is a long way to
go. In order to create an enabling environ-
ment, the Ministry as a policy maker will
have a signicant contribution to make.
While policy and budgetary support
for renewable energy have progressively
increased over the years, particularly for
large scale grid connected power, there
continue to exist many barriers that
hinder upscaling of renewable energy
deployment. And perhaps more impor-
tantly, some critical gaps remain, par-
ticularly for decentralized distribution in
the areas of access to capital, technol-
ogy development & adaptation, innova-
tion induction, and strategies to up-scale
deployment.
Nevertheless, India is currently one of
the few top attractive destinations for Re-
newable Energy investments.
Source:
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, India
Table 8: Sector-Specic Implementation Plan.
Action Plan Proposed Time Plan
Wind Power Sector
Repowering of existing wind turbines: A pilot
scheme would be developed.
2011
Wind Resource Assessment: Updating/ expansions
of existing data base
Ongoing activity
Off-shore resource assessment 2013
Regular interaction with all stakeholders to
periodically address policy, regulatory, evacuation
transmission matters of wind power.
Ongoing activity
Regular interaction with states to periodically
address land acquisition, E&F clearance and state
policy issues.
Ongoing activity
Prepare pilot project for off-shore wind. 2011-12
Support development of evacuation & transmission
infrastructure for renewable power.
2011-13
Small Hydro Power Sector
Draw/ update state specic plan for systematically
harnessing Small Hydro Power potential in
consultation with the State Government.
Ongoing activity
Strengthen project-monitoring system (to form part
of overall M&V framework)
Ongoing activity
Regular interaction with States to periodically
address land acquisition, E&F clearance and state
policy issues.
Every 6 months
Bio-Energy- Biogas Sector
Following cluster-saturation approach instead
of scattered one for installation of the plant
and involving entrepreneurs / Renewable
Energy Services Companies in the operation &
maintenance of the plants.
a)
Strengthen project-monitoring system (to form part
of overall M&V framework)
Ongoing activity
Persuade lagging States to take up (e.g. UP, Bihar,
Haryana).
Regular eld visit
Energy from Agricultural/ Crop Residues
Promoting establishment of sustainable fuel
linkage system including biomass collection,
densifying, processing and storage facilities.
Ongoing activity
Encouraging long term fuel supply agreement and
captive energy plantations.
Pilots by 2011
Setting up of such pilot plants. 2011
Setting up of pilot project for pine needles. 2011
Support R&D project for Rice Straw Boilers. 2011
Getting tariff declared for small biomass
gasication plants.
2011
Regular interaction with all stakeholders to
periodically address policy/ Regulatory matters for
the projects.
Ongoing activity
Biomass Gasiers
Focus on areas having surplus biomass
wastes (esp. Rice husk, pine needles) for rural
electrication/ meeting unmet electricity demand.
2011
Action Plan Proposed Time Plan
Biomass Gasiers (Cont.)
Development of entrepreneurs, training of
technicians.
2011
Promotion of Gasiers for meeting captive energy
needs of industry, esp. Rice mills.
Ongoing activity
To encourage Energy Servicing Companies
(ESCOs), Co-operative, NGOs, Local Bodies etc.
Availing the subsidy and balance as bank loan,
equity etc.
Ongoing activity
Bio-Energy in Industry
Awareness creation in target industries- Seminars/
Workshop
2011/12
Urban Waste to Energy
Sensitising Urban Local Bodies about the
advantages, potential and prospects.
Ongoing activity
Solar Water Heating System
Focussed attention in cities and Hill States. 2011
Special attention to cluster based development in
industrial sectors.
2011/12
UNDP/GEF project underway. Policy Guidelines to
be issued to states.
2011/12
Solar Steam Generation/ Cooling/ Cooking System
Interaction Meets with industries/institution. Ongoing activity
Pilot projects to improve technology. 2011/12
Tail-End Solar PhotoVoltaic Power Plants
Installation of approved plants. By Sept 2011
Technological/ Performance analysis of the plants. By March 2012
Off-Grid SPV System including those for Rural Lighting
Rural lighting:
Guidelines formulated; to follow-up with RBI for
Priority Sector lending for the sector
2011
Capacity building of Bankers 2011
Training of Solar Technicians 2011
Special focus on diesel abatement in Industry,
Telecom towers, etc.
2011/13
Biomass Cookstove
Promoting demonstration projects 2011
Interaction with other Ministries for support
policies
2011/12
Evolving new business models 2011
Review / Updation of test protocols and standards 2011
Green Buildings
Huge capacity building exercise 2011
Develop Centre of Excellence 2011
Solar R&D
Implementation of sanctioned projects 2011/12
Sanction of new projects 2011/12
Setting up of Centres of Excellence 2011/12
How has NexPower performed in Indian
Solar market so far?
NexPower had a breakthrough year in
2011, especially by supplying modules
for over 40MW projects in India. I believe
that should stand as the top three market
share of India thin lm market in 2011.
This year NexPower aims higher and based
on our current pipeline we expect a total
of 70MW shipments in 2012.
Are there any particular Indian projects
of NexPower that you would like to
share with us?
Our biggest single order was over 30MW
for various State Projects within the state
of Gujarat. Then there was another re-
markable project in Gujarat; where we
supplied 5MW of our high performance
modules to be used for the largest thin
lm tracker project in the world.
1H12 is going to end soon, how does
NexPower perceive the India market for
the rest of 2012?
The situation looks brighter as we come
closer to the end of the bidding process of
NSM Batch II and also projects from States-
Gujarat, Rajasthan, and MP.
As a result, currently NexPower is in the
nal stage of discussing possible shipments
for over 30MW to be delivered in the third
quarter of 2012. We are condent that we
will push our India shipment volumes to a
new record high again this year.
Earlier this year our readers saw
NexPowers advertisement of being
No.1 in the Photon Module Test. Could
you please explain more on this?
INTERVIEW
We are condent that we will push our India shipment
volumes to a new record high again this year
In a chat with Energetica India,
Mr. Chen talks about NexPowers
progress in the Indian Solar
Market.
Mr. Charles Chen,
Sales & Marketing Vice
President, NexPower
OUR BIGGEST ADVANTAGE IS
THE FACT THAT NEXPOWER IS
PART OF THE UMC GROUP, THE
TOP TWO SEMI-CONDUCTOR
FOUNDRY IN THE WORLD. IT
HAS BEEN RUNNING FOR MORE
THAN THIRTY YEARS WITH
EXPERIENCES AND THE KNOW-
HOW IN SILICON INDUSTRY
Photon Module Test is perhaps the most
recognized third party eld test for the so-
lar industry. Last year there were 46 differ-
ent modules, including most of the well-
known solar brands, around the world
participating in this signicant test.
The test measured the monthly yield
that a module generated. NexPower al-
most nished the test as the overall world
no.1 in 2011, with only 1.3% shy annu-
ally, but was the world no.1 in the thin lm
category.
We know that NexPower Xtreme+
Series is designed for extreme
environment, which also includes higher
temperature. Do you have any back-up
evidence for this?
Yes, interestingly the monthly results of
the Photon Module Test 2011 also found
that during the hotter months of the eld
test site at Aachen, Germany (with an-
nual average temperature around 10c),
NexPowers tested modules generated the
most power among all the tested samples
for every single month between April to
September (the hotter months of the year).
What is the technology roadmap for the
company?
NexPower is known for producing indus-
try leading large powered thin lm mod-
ules. Last year 150W panels were the main
stream, so far we are in the middle of mov-
ing into 160W and will introduce its 170W
thin lm panels by the end of this year.
Does NexPower provide any forms of
nancial support to the India market?
NexPower is able to offer EXIM Bank sup-
port from Taiwan. The Exim bank support
includes upto 85% debt on total contract
price with a much lower interest rate than
from Indian banks; thereby assisting inves-
tors earn a better IRR.
But each projects is looking separate-
ly; so the terms and conditions can vary.
During the last couple of years, the
global industry has seen rise and fall of
solar companies across the countries.
Does NexPower hold any long-term
sustainable advantages under todays
harsh market conditions?
Yes we certainly do. Our biggest advan-
tage is the fact that NexPower is part of
the UMC Group. UMC Group is the top
two semi-conductor foundry in the world.
It has been running for more than thirty
years with sufcient experiences and the
know-how in silicon industry, which is why
NexPowers silicon thin lms can achieve
such great performance and also why we
can have a 99% line yield rate.
Another long term sustainable advan-
tage is that unlike some other technology,
NexPower does not use rare elements as
part of the key components for our mod-
ules. Also silicon thin lms are totally
non-toxic, hence are more environmen-
tal friendly. This may be a critical issue to
some countries. This is part of the reason
that NexPower has sold its thin lms to
more than thirty countries today.
What other solar applications, that
NexPower has, might be an interest to
the India market?
NexPower has always positioned itself
as an all-around solar solution provider.
Besides solar farms our main business in
India, NexPower has also supplied panels
for applications of a wide variety such as,
remote solar power system in the desert,
solar water pumping system, residential
off-grid usage, solar charging stations, and
building integrated applications.
INTERVIEW
59 energetica india
Year World Ranking (by Production)
2009 Not in Top 10
2010 Top 5
2011 Top 4
2012 Top 3 (Target)
NexPower in the Thin Film PV Industry.
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Case Study I:
Kakadpana Test Project in Nasik
District of Maharashtra
The trial run of Gasier in Kakadpana test
project in Nasik District of Maharashtra
was started on 13th April, 2011.
On 16th April, 2011, one Gasier of
10 kW capacity was installed and com-
missioned fully in the project. Kakadpana
consist of 85 households of Warli ST Popu-
lation, majorly known for Warli Paintings.
The hamlet is situated at a distance of
about 110 kms from District Headquarter
and 40 kms from Block Headquarter Trim-
bakeshwar.
The project was implemented by
Gomukh, Environmental Trust for Sustain-
able Development, Pune and Maharash-
tra Energy Development Agency (MEDA)
has been the monitoring & coordinating
agency for this project.
The Gasier met with the requirements
of domestic lighting in all the 85 house-
holds, street lights and other entertainment
activities on daily basis. For these purpose,
each household has been provided with
two light points & one power point.
Electricity changed the lifestyle of the
villagers and all their distant dreams of
light have been fullled.
They now started working late in the
evening, especially women folk and also
go to bed very late at night, which result-
ed increase in their income. The students
are also started studying during night. The
electricity is being provided in the village
for 6-7 hrs everyday i.e. from 7.00 PM to
2.00 AM at night.
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changed the economic and social dynamics of the village. The article shows how Renewable
Energy; in a decentralized generation model; can be used to change the lives of people.
Other technologies can use this as an example to tap the Indian Rural market.
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Case Study- Decentralized Renewable
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The Gomukh NGO is now planning to
dig a bore well in the village to solve their
drinking water, as well as partial irriga-
tional problem, which is at present acute
in the village. On the demand of villagers,
Gomukh is also planning to construct a
Community Hall in the village and place a
Color Television, so that the maximum no.
of villagers may be beneted and watch
the useful programmes of their interest,
including National News.
Electricity has also reduced the fear
of wild animals attacking the villagers at
night, as 10 street lights have been in-
stalled in the village, which provide ad-
equate illumination during night.
The villagers have decided to use the
power generated for many other applica-
tions, such as, our mill, chafe/fodder cut-
ter machines and water pumps.
Two Biogas plants are also being in-
stalled in the village for meeting out their
cooking requirements. The Village Energy
Committee (VEC) has undertaken planta-
tion of Karanj & fuel wood in 5 hectare
land, which would provide biomass for
running the Gasier.
This as in whole has brought a huge
change in the outlook of villagers towards
the development of their village.
Case Study II:
Kandhal Test Project in Cuttack District of Orissa
Kandhal test project in Cuttack District
of Orissa was completed in all respects
and dedicated to the villagers in June,
2009. Two Gasiers, each of 10 kW
capacity have been installed and com-
missioned in the project. Kandhal is
a remote, dominated by Scheduled
Tribe population and most of the fam-
ilies belongs to Below the Poverty Line
(BPL) with 143 households and situ-
ated at a distance of about 125 Kms
from District Headquarter.
This project has been implement-
ed by Orissa Project & Marketing De-
velopment Centre (OPMDC), Cuttack
and Orissa Renewable Energy Devel-
opment Agency (OREDA) has been
the monitoring & coordinating agency
for this project.
The biomass gasier meets the
daily requirement of domestic lighting
in 150 families, community hall and
primary school lighting, street lighting
and other entertainment activities. Each
household has been provided with two
light points and one power point for do-
mestic lighting and entertainment.
One oil expeller of 100 kg/hr ca-
pacity has been installed in the pro-
ject, which is being used for extraction
of oil from Karanj and other edible oil-
seeds. With the introduction of elec-
tricity in the village, the quality of life
of the villagers has improved drastical-
ly and villagers are happy as they have
installed Televisions in their houses for
entertainment and their children are
able to study at night in a proper light.
The fear of wild animals has re-
duced, as 15 street lights have been
installed in the village, which provide
adequate illumination during night.
This has brought a sea change in their
outlook towards development of their
village. The villagers have decided to
use the power generated for many
other applications, such as, our mill,
chafe/fodder cutter machines and wa-
ter pumps.
20 units of biogas plants have also
been installed in the village for meeting
out their cooking & lighting require-
ments. The lighting from biogas plants
is facilitating women to work at night
in making Dona Patta from Sal / Teak
leaves. The role of women in biogas
plants involves feeding of cow dung
and also slurry treatment for use in
agricultural elds. The Village Energy
Committee (VEC) has undertaken plan-
tation of Karanj & fuel wood in 10.5
hectare land, which would provide bio-
mass for running the gasiers and oil
seeds for running the oil expeller.
The smiles on the faces of the
villagers after introduction of electric-
ity speak volumes about success of
the project, which may be termed as
DREAM to REALITY.
Source: Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Ministry
Kandhal-Dungbase Biogas Plant.
Kandhal-Boimass Machine House.
kakadpana-T D Poll with Street Light.
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Indias Renewable Energy Statistics
Energetica India lists down Indias achieved installation in renewable energy and also
tracks the progress of JNNSM.
NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY
Cumulative deployment of various Renewable Energy Systems/ Devices in the country as on 31/01/2012
Renewable Energy Program/System Target for 2011-12
Achievement during
January 2012
Total achievement
during 2011-12
Cumulative
achievement upto
31.01.2012
Table 1: Cumulative deployment of On-Grid Renewable Energy as on 31/01/2012
Wind Power 2400,00 101,00 2023,00 16179,00
Small Hydro Power 350,00 48,00 257,50 3300,13
Biomass Power 465,00 25,00 145,50 1142,60
Bagasse Cogeneration 0,00 285,00 1952,53
Waste to Power -Urban 25,00 0,00 1,20 20,20
Waste to Power -Industrial 0,00 0,00 53,46
Solar Power (SPV) 200,00 291,60 481,48 481,48
Total 3425,00 485,60 23129,40 23129,40
Table 2: Cumulative deployment of Off-Grid Renewable Energy as on 31/01/2012
Waste to Energy -Urban 15,00 0 0 3,5
Industrial 0,94 27,31 89,43
Biomass (Non-Bagasse) Cogeneration 80,00 4,4 51,89 347,85
Biomass Gasier -Rural 3,00 0,192 1,642 15,99
Biomass Gasier -Industrial 10,00 1 10,89 132,27
Aero-Generators/ Hybrid Systems 0,50 0,06 0,33 1,45
SPV System (>1 kW) 20,00 5,02 11 81,01
Water Mills/ Micro Hydel 1.00 (400 Nos.) 52 nos. 35 nos. 2025 Nos.
Total 129,50 11,61 103,06 671,5
Table 3: Cumulative deployment under Remote Village Electrication Program as on 31/01/2012
No. of Remote Village/ Hamlets provided with
Renewable Energy System
500,00 25,00 905,00 9009,00
Table 4: Cumulative deployment of Other Renewable Energy Systems as on 31/01/2012
Family Biogas Plants (No. in Lakhs) 1,50 0,21 0,70 44,75
Solar Water Heating -Collected Areas
(Million m
2
)
0,60 0,10 0,52 4,98
PROGRESS OF THE JAWAHARLAL NEHRU
NATIONAL SOLAR MISSION AS OF 11/5/2012.
Table 5
State / Union
Territory
Capacity In stalled
(MW)
Andhra Pradesh 21,8
Chhattisgarh 4
Delhi 2,5
Gujarat 654,8
Haryana 7,8
Jharkhand 4
Karnataka 9
Madhya Pradesh 2
Maharashtra 20
Odisha 13
Punjab 9
Rajasthan 197,5
Tamil Nadu 15
Uttar Pradesh 12
Uttarakhand 5
West Bengal 2
TOTAL 979,4
State-Wise Commissioning Status of Solar Rooftop and Small Solar Power Generation Programme
(RPSSGP) as on 8/5/2012. Table 6,
State
Solar PV Capacity
to be Commissioned
as per PPA (MW)
Solar PV
Capacity Actually
Commissioned (MW)
Balance Capacity to
be Commissioned
(MW)
Andhra Pradesh 10,50 8,75 1,75
Chhattisgarh 4,00 4,00 0,00
Haryana 8,80 7,80 1,00
Jharkhand 16,00 4,00 12,00
Madhya Pradesh 5,25 0,00 5,25
Maharashtra 5,00 5,00 0,00
Orissa 8,00 5,00 3,00
Punjab 8,50 5,50 3,00
Rajasthan 12,00 8,00 4,00
Tamil Nadu 7,00 5,00 2,00
Uttar Pradesh 8,00 5,00 3,00
Uttrakhand 5,00 5,00 0,00
TOTAL 98,05 63,05 35,00
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Green Buildings. He lists the different ratings under Green Building norms which can
utilize renewable energy.
SANDEEP GOSWAMI, COO, FOUNTAINHEAD II CLEANTECH INDIA
Green Buildings -
A New Market for Renewables
G
reen Build-
ings as we
all know
is the term used
for Energy Ef cient
Buildings (EEB). And
world over there are
various certication
such as BREEEAM,
LEED, GRIHA and
few others that rate a building through
its construction to post occupancy on the
energy efcient measures it has adopted
and rate it accordingly.
India is among the leading Nations,
which is trying to abate Climate Change
or Global Warming, and the program
of LEED and GRIHA are the modes to take
this challenge to the grass-roots. LEED
Leadership in Energy and Environmen-
tal Design was mooted in the USA and
adopted by various Nations including In-
dia and is run under the Conference of
Indian Industries (CII) as the Indian Green
Building Council.
Green Rating for Integrated Habitat
Assessment (GRIHA) is however a Na-
tion program under the Ministry for New
and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and was
mooted as part of the National Action
Plan for Climate Change (NAPCC).
Both have divergent approach to
similar goals and thus many of their pro-
grams overlap. One of them is the use of
renewable energy, namely Solar on roof-
tops of these EEBs. Let us look at the ref-
erence to this as given in the guide books.
Under Green Rating for Integrated
Habitat Assessment one requires:
Commitment: Meet energy require-
ments for a minimum of 10% of the in-
ternal lighting load (for general lighting)
or its equivalent from renewable energy
sources (solar, wind, biomass, fuel cells,
etc). Use renewable energy sources in
buildings to reduce the use of conven-
tional/fossil-fuel based energy resources.
Commitment: Ensure that a minimum
50% of the annual energy requirement
for heating water (for applications such as
hot water for all needs, like for canteen,
washing, and bath rooms/toilets, except
for space heating) is supplied from renew-
able energy source.
There are many subdivisions under
Indian Green Building Council but en-
ergy from Renewable Energy Technology
is more or less common, lets briey look
at the various certication programs and
what they say on Renewable Energy Tech-
nology under LEED:
LEED India New Construction Rating
7.5% Renewable Energy onsite:
Assess the project for renewable energy
potential including solar, wind, geother-
mal, biomass, hydro, and bio-gas strate-
gies. When applying these strategies, take
advantage of net metering with the local
utility.
Green Power:
Demonstrate that the company has in-
stalled green power equivalent to 50% of
the total energy requirement of the build-
ing, anywhere in the country. This invest-
ment should come because of the rated
building and should be 50 % of the build-
ing consumption.
LEED India Core & Shell Rating
1 -35% Renewable Energy onsite:
Engage in at least a 2-year renewable en-
ergy contract to provide at least 35% of
the core & shell buildings electricity from
renewable sources, as dened by the
Center for Resource Solutions Green-e
Energy product certication requirements.
Supply a net fraction of the buildings to-
tal energy use (as expressed as a fraction
of annual energy cost) through the use of
on-site renewable energy systems. Use on-
site renewable energy systems to offset at
least 1% of the building energy costs. Sub-
stantiate the projects compliance on this
aspect by expressing the cost of energy
produced through renewable sources as a
percentage of the buildings total energy
cost, annually.
Green Power:
Demonstrate that the company has in-
stalled green power equivalent to 50%of
the total energy requirement of the build-
ing, anywhere in the country. This invest-
ment should come because of the rated
building and should be 50 % of the build-
ing consumption. Estimate the energy
needs of the building on annual basis.
Install green power plants in the country,
which meets the 100% of the total energy
requirement of the building. Green power
INDIA IS AMONG THE LEADING
NATIONS, WHICH IS TRYING TO
ABATE CLIMATE CHANGE OR
GLOBAL WARMING, AND THE
PROGRAM OF LEED AND GRIHA
ARE THE MODES TO TAKE THIS
CHALLENGE TO THE GRASS-
ROOTS
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is derived from solar, wind, geothermal,
biomass, or low-impact hydro sources.
Green Homes Rating
On site Renewable Energy:
Install renewable energy systems for at
least 5% of the total connected load of
the building.
Green Township Rating
On Site Renewable Energy:
Install renewable energy systems to gener-
ate power through solar, wind, bio-mass,
bio-gas, biodiesel or any other forms of
renewable energy so that their installed
capacity is at least 20% of the annual en-
ergy consumption in areas under the de-
velopers scope.
Green Power:
Demonstrate the project has invested in
off-site green power for at least 50 %
of the total annual consumption in areas
under developers scope. Estimate the en-
ergy needs of the project on annual basis.
Install off-site green power plants which
meet at least 25 % of the total energy
requirement of the project. Green power
can be derived from solar, wind, geo-
thermal, biomass, or low impact hydro
sources.
Green SEZ Rating
On Site Renewable Energy:
Install renewable energy systems to gen-
erate power through solar, wind, bio-
mass/ bio-gas, or any other forms of re-
newable energy for at least 5% of the
annual consumption (in developers/ co-
developers scope).
Green Power:
Demonstrate the project has invested in
off-site green power for at least 25% of
the annual energy consumption in devel-
opers scope for at least 2 years. Estimate
the energy needs of the building on an-
nual basis. Install green power plants off-
site which meet the 25 % of the total en-
ergy requirement of the building. Green
power can be derived from solar, wind,
geothermal, biomass, small hydro power
plants, etc.
Green Co Rating
On Site RE both Electrical & Thermal:
To develop concrete action plan for in-
creasing the share of renewable energy
generation / utilization of the company.
Install on-site renewable energy systems
to generate electrical energy through
solar, wind, biomass, bio-gas, bio-diesel,
or any other forms of renewable energy
and / or generation of thermal energy
(expressed as an equivalent of electrical
energy) to cater to the total energy re-
quirement of the company. Availability of
renewable energy resources is to be as-
sessed and feasibility studies conducted
before deciding on on-site installations.
Green power can be sourced from solar,
wind, bio-mass, bio-gas, bio-diesel or
small hydro sources or any other accepted
sources of renewable energy.
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Energetica India, Ofcial Media Partner, to UBMs Renewable Energy 2012 Wind
Conference discusses the Indian Wind Sector with the Industry Leaders.
BHARAT VASANDANI
Leaders speak to Energetica India at
Renewable Energy 2012 Wind Conference
O
ver the past decade, India has
established itself as one of the
world leaders in the Wind energy
sector. Ranked third globally, the Indian
wind sector added a record 2,827 MW of
capacity in 2011 and is expected to add
over 3,000MW in 2012.
Supply Chain management is key to
wind turbine supply. The relationships be-
tween manufacturers and their compo-
nent suppliers have become increasingly
crucial, with soaring demand, required
faster ramp-up times, larger investments
and greater agility to capture value in a
rapidly growing sector.
With the government roll back of tax
breaks for the wind sector this year, the
industry gathered at the Re-
newable Energy 2012 Wind Conference
held on 29 May 2012 in Pune to deliberate
on cost optimization through lean manu-
facturing, innovative nancing models,
automation technology and effective sup-
ply chain management that dictates de-
livery capabilities, product strategies and
pricing for turbine manufacturers.
SECTION I: POLICY
It is learned that the Indian
Government is working on a draft
policy to develop Indias off-shore
wind potential. What are your
expectations from the policy?
RAVINDRA UTGIKAR.
HEAD- CORPORATE
MARKETING, SUZLON ENERGY LTD.
With a coastline of over 7,500 kms,
India has a natural and inherent
advantage to move ahead
on offshore wind en-
ergy. The expecta-
tion from the
govern-
ment is to provide the industry with policy
guidance for tapping offshore wind energy
potential on sustained basis and approve
plans and proposals relating to offshore
wind energy development in the coun-
try. There is also a need to develop policy
framework and guidelines for awarding
the sites and to create an institutional
mechanism for inter-agency coordination
for integration of offshore wind power. It
is also important to demonstrate off-shore
wind potential, for which the government
should kick start a PPP initiative for a pilot
phase, of around 1,000-2,000 MW size.
What is/will be the impact of removal
of accelerated depreciation on growth
of wind energy in India? Would
you recommend generation based
incentive instead? Why?
MR. RAJARSHI SEN, CEO, LUMINOUS
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS PVT LTD
For small wind turbines both low voltage grid
connected or off grid, there is no generation
based incentives in Government Policy. The
route to subsidy is difcult and sometimes
impossible due to frequent policy change.
The only incentives for a corporate
buyer is the income tax benet he
gets by accelerated depreciation
.In fact we suggest bringing
back 100% deprecia-
tion in the 1st year
and also ex-
tend it
t o
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private individuals to be able to claim
Income tax benet by investing on small
wind turbines for his home.
MR.K BHARATHY, CEO, WINDAR
RENEWABLE ENERGY PRIVATE LIMITED
In India accelerated depreciation will help
all business people to come forward to
invest in wind energy apart from creat-
ing new entrepreneurs in this eld. Bit by
bit development will create a huge power
generating capacity in the future. Mean-
ingful generation depends on many fac-
tors beyond wind farm developers.
NITHIN KAIMAL, DIRECTOR, IDFC
There may be a short term impact on de-
mand; however the wind IPP space is likely
to witness rapid growth over the next few
years driven by entry of new players and
introduction of machines that would be
suitable at lower wind speed sites con-
sequently, the medium-long term impact
may not be signicant.
MR. D.V GIRI, SECRETARY GENERAL,
INDIAN WIND TURBINE
MANUFACTURERS ASSOCIATION
The impact of removal of Accelerated De-
preciation (AD) will have a small dip in the
installation at least the current year. Gen-
eration Based Incentive (GBI) is denitely
recommended since it will attract many
green eld projects who do not require AD
and get an incentive over and above the
feed in tariff. However, the quantum of
incentive needs to be revisited to make the
projects bankable and really attract large
investment into the country.
MR.SHIRISH GARUD, SENIOR FELLOW,TERI
Removal of accelerated depreciation is a
welcome move as it will promote invest-
ments for power generation rather than
for tax benets. However, government
will have to take steps to improve the
ground conditions for pure play power
generation project. These would include
long term stable policies, improvement in
generation based incentives, conducive
regulatory framework for power off-take,
transmission and distribution network etc.
SECTION II: CHALLENGES
Land is still counted as one of the
biggest challenge in wind projects
in India. Why is this still a challenge
after so many years of wind energy in
India? What is the solution or way to
solve this challenge?
MR. RAJARSHI SEN, CEO,
LUMINOUS RENEWABLE ENERGY
SOLUTIONS PVT LTD
Fortunately in small wind, land is not a
problem since
a) A small farm of 20 nos 10 KW grid con-
nected wind turbines can be easily installed
on the steep slope of a hill, mountain, and
small stretches of sea beaches, without
any infrastructure like connecting roads or
bringing heavy cranes etc for installation
b) All the roof tops of cities and towns in
the windy zones can be utilized for install-
ing small wind turbines up to 3 KW capacity
and there is no shortage of roof top space.
Government can reduce the stamp duty
on wind farm lands apart from reducing
capital gain tax of the seller. Also Gov-
ernment speedy redress to address prob-
lems of locals, electric power line, roads,
houses, temples etc., - are need of hour. It
is also suggested Government to create a
windy land bank.
MR. ISH BAGGA, VP-PROJECTS, RRB ENERGY
Land remains a challenge because all wind
farm developers are moving towards high
potential sites which are left, as Class I and
Class II wind potential sites have become
extinct. The government should come up
with a policy for wind power developers to
facilitate land procurement.
INDIAN WIND TURBINE
Yes, Land is counted as one of the biggest
challenges. Unlike Tamil Nadu where the
lands are in private ownership, other states
have mostly revenue and forest lands.
Getting clearances from very many depart-
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ments is a big hurdle and a challenge to
wind power projects and conversion of ag-
riculture to non-agriculture is another long
process. We also have issues with Mining
Department permission, where wind pro-
jects are not in mining activity. This is not
understood and creates delays.
Why is the industry still facing
infrastructure related challenges such
as power evacuation?
INDIAN WIND TURBINE
The industry faces infrastructure challeng-
es on power evacuation as wind power
projects in India have always exceeded the
targets. It is interesting that wind turbine
manufacturers have set up substations for
evacuation and Tamil Nadu Government is
opening up setting up of 400 KV substa-
tions on PPP model. The inter connection
of Southern Grid to National Grid which is
expected to happen in 2013 will ease the
problem.
RAVINDRA UTGIKAR.
HEAD- CORPORATE MARKETING,
SUZLON ENERGY LTD.
Grid connectivity and evacuation remains
the biggest challenge before the Renewa-
ble Energy companies. The state transmis-
sion utilities have to build a network for
renewable capacities that are coming up
under various state initiatives. Amongst re-
newable energy technologies, wind farms
with large capacities require interconnec-
tion with transmission infrastructure. With
integrated regional Grid operations, inter-
mittency or variability of wind generation
needs to be viewed from National per-
spective however, evacuation continues to
be viewed from State as well as Regional
Planning perspective.
Is project nancing from Indian banks
still a challenge for wind projects? What
has been your experience on this?
MR.SHIRISH GARUD, SENIOR FELLOW,TERI
Project nancing from Indian banks for
wind projects is not a challenge for good
wind projects having sufcient data, and
analysis of performance. Banks do under-
stand the project viabilities. However, it is
a bit challenging for new IPPs.
Banks and nancial institutions have been
largely supportive of investments in wind
projects; many of them perceive these
projects to have lower risks than thermal
power projects
SECTION III: TRENDS
What is the current trend in turbine
manufacturing? What kinds of
machines are being produced and
what is the future outlook in terms of
efciencies and sizes?
MR. RAJARSHI SEN, CEO, LUMINOUS
RENEWABLE ENERGY SOLUTIONS PVT LTD
Small wind turbine technology is now get-
ting bifurcated in two parts. The off grid
models are demanded in India, Asia pa-
cic, Africa and even southern America
while the grid tie models are popular in
northern America and Europe.
At locations having 5.4 m/s annual aver-
age wind speed, a certied small wind tur-
bine generates 50% more energy than solar.
The grid connected small wind turbine
provides at least 25% to 30%more usable
energy to the consumer as compared to
megawatt class wind farms which have a
25% to 30% transmission and distribution
loss before it reaches the consumer.
RAVINDRA UTGIKAR.
HEAD- CORPORATE MARKETING,
SUZLON ENERGY LTD.
Current trend in wind turbine manufactur-
ing is to dovetail turbine design and en-
gineering towards providing best- t for
the low wind regime that are prevailing in
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India, or in other words Class III wind tech-
nology This is achieved by incorporating
innovations (advancements) in technology
& raw materials, in the work-horse models
through a process of product evolution.
Thus optimizing technology cost equa-
tion so as to provide lowest possible Cost
of Energy. As for the wind turbine sizes,
global trend is around the 2MW rating due
to the infrastructure & logistic limitations
currently at play in most markets. Suzlons
S9X suite of WTGs is one such example of
WTGs that are designed specially to har-
ness low wind regime around the world
and sales mark of 1GW within year of
launch speaks volumes of how well prod-
uct is received around globe.
INDIAN WIND TURBINE
The current trend wind turbine manufac-
turing is obviously towards MW class and
machines designed for low and medium
wind regime. The tower / hub height is
now gone up to 100 Meters and blade di-
ameter also to 100 meters. Land is a nite
source in wind areas and we need to max-
imise it. The market is shifted from retail
to IPP market and naturally the preference
will be for larger turbines.
Why do we see an integrated sales
model in the Indian wind industry in
India; where a turbine manufacturer
has to become a turnkey solution
provider? This is not the case in solar
or biomass power projects.
Technology, logistics, erection, commis-
sioning and power evacuation are still a
great challenge in India to develop wind
farms. Local developers do not have ex-
pected skill and power to succeed through
these challenges. Hence leading multina-
tional companies are forced to provide
integrated solution to customers, who
also comfortable to be serviced in total by
Wind turbine manufacturers.
The integrated model was well suited for
companies looking to set-up wind projects
for tax benets. This model will change
over time as more IPPs set-up wind farms
and seek to enhance their IRRs by complet-
ing many of the related project develop-
ment activities in-house.
INDIAN WIND TURBINE
Integrated sales model has become histori-
cal. The market ruled by power intensive
users and for tax planning depended on
the manufacturer for a turnkey solution or
as a one stop shop. This trend unlike
other countries has been the major driver
to achieve 17000 MW. However, with the
emerging IPP segment, the IPP (the devel-
oper) may choose to perform purchase of
land and creation of infrastructure on its
own and choose the turbine to suit the
wind requirement to maximise energy pro-
duction.
MR.SHIRISH GARUD, SENIOR FELLOW, TERI
Wind Projects markets in India were domi-
nated by the clients interested in buying
wind machines for tax benets like accel-
erated depreciation, rebates in sales tax
etc. These clients were keen to look at
fully developed project to shorten the in-
vestment time frame. This situation forced
the wind generator manufacturing rms
to invest and develop wind farms to cre-
ate markets for their products. The trend
is likely to change now as new investors
are coming to invest in wind power plants
and such IPPs are acquiring own lands and
developing farms.
Conclusion
Removal of accelerated depreciation in-
centive on wind projects is expected to
temporarily result in a dip in sales. But
overall this move has been welcomed by
the industry because it encourages quality
generation. However, the government will
still need to make sure that wind energy
projects remain nancially attractive for
investors.
Depreciation incentive may be needed
to boost off-grid small wind projects.
Land continues to be a challenge for
the industry. The industry is calling on the
Government to smoothen the process. It
may take some time keeping in mind that
land dealings in India is complicated.
Power Evacuation is another chal-
lenge that not only wind energy develop-
ers but other energy players are also facing
in India. The effort is going on to upgrade
the infrastructure system and the industry
expects some relief from 2013 onwards.
The wind turbine manufacturers are
moving towards designing turbines for
low-wind speed locations, that is more
prevalent in India.
Indian Wind Sector saw an integrated
model where the wind turbine company
provided complete turnkey solution to wind
developers. This was because wind projects
were mostly done by corporates / investors
to avail of tax subsidy and these investors did
not have necessary skills to work on project
management on their own.
This trend is expected to change with
more IPPs in the sector now. The value
chain will attract investments from IPPs to
gain control, cut costs and increase mar-
gins.
M
an is a social being. Basic to his
existence is the need to com-
mute for work or for leisure.
With the invention of the wheel, there has
been a constant search for a mode of com-
muting in a safer and more responsible man-
ner.
The growing population automatically
necessitates more commuting options than
are currently available in the country. And
success or failure of many an economy nay
even the governments depends on how they
tackle this vexing issue. This is particularly
true for the entire Public Transport System
available to the common man in India. Most
available means of commuting are either
overloaded or susceptible to malpractices
mainly because supply far outstrips the
current demand. And this normally results
in more frequent breakdowns resulting in
uncontrolled expenses which normally im-
pact the protability of the business, lest it
become nancially unaffordable to the com-
mon man.
So far the community has relied on the
Internal Combustion Engine powered by
fossil fuels. Poorly maintained vehicles and
overload generally seem to further add to
the environmental woes of the City/Town.
The Civic Authorities almost across the world
are now trying to ght a loosing battle in
protecting the environment. This is particu-
larly true for Cities and Town in India.
And yet the need to commute grows
insatiably and is in many ways one of the
pointers of Economic status of a particular
society.
The Business
ETS is proposing to start operations for hiring
of Electric Vehicles for Corporate and Retail
Customers. The Service is proposed to be
branded to maintain service consistency and
quality.
Based on extensive market survey, the
promoters have joined hands to address the
need of the hour; by providing alternate
commuting solutions at an affordable cost
through use of Electric Scooters. The belief
is that public nds the Public Transport ex-
tremely over-crowded and over-used & not a
great experience overall, given the pressure
on the current complement of public trans-
port and also the sorry state of affairs.
This is more or less similar in each major
city across the country. ETS will ideally ad-
dress this short fall in the market and at an
affordable cost.
ETS intends to use Electric Vehicles
mainly because:
1. Electric Vehicles have no tailpipe emis-
sion; contributing to cleaner air
2. Electric Vehicles are practically noiseless;
helping lower decibels on city roads
3. Since the Service is planned out of large
number of outlets it would be more immi-
nently possible to have them in residential
and crowded places, as there would not
be a need to have petrol stations to refuel
the vehicles (electrical connection being
safely available everywhere)
Market Target
The Target Groups for the business is:
1. Corporate Houses including IT and ITeS
companies
2. Small Businesses/ Self Employed Persons
3. Housewives
4. College Students
5. Entry Level Executives
Operation Plans
On the onset of the full operations, the com-
pany is planning to distribute the service by
more or less replicating the Municipal Trans-
port like Bus Stops and Bus Depots with
number of Switch Franchise Outlets and
Master Franchise Outlets, giving the con-
sumer the convenience of meeting his/her
demand at every convenient location.
The company plans to procure 2100 ve-
hicles in the rst 3 years. This translates to
approx 700 vehicles per year. The approxi-
mate on-road price of these Electric Scooters
is Rs.54,000. In addition there would be a
special device tted into these vehicles that
would help in real time tracking, geo-fenc-
ing and reaching S.O.S help to the users.
Project Stages
The project is planned in 2 phases; the 1st
phase is for hiring vehicles to Corporate,
Government bodies and Educational Institu-
tions. The revenue model would be based
on monthly hiring charge and membership
revenues generated from members.
The 2nd phase is launching to Retail
consumer, wherein the retail customers
would be invited to join as members and
would be charged based on the minutes the
vehicle is utilized. The revenue model would
be based on utilization of the vehicle and
membership fee generated.
Current Status
Currently, all requisite permissions for the
company have been obtained from the
Transport Authority of a metropolitan city in
India.
In addition, the promoters have also
worked out a network of two Master Fran-
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The Service is indeed ready to be rolled out.
The successes achieved in the rst city
would mean extension of this service to oth-
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PRODUCTS
Fronius Agilo 100.0
Fronius Agilo 100.0 an out-
put of 100 kW, the three-
phase device is ideal for
industrial or commercial
photovoltaic systems. De-
spite its high output, the
850 kg inverter is one of the
most compact devices in its
class. The maximum efcien-
cy rating of 97.2% guaran-
tees highest yield levels. The
Fronius Agilo is compatible
with Fronius DATCOM, the
data communication system
for PV system monitoring.
Pre-production testing has
already begun to ensure the
stringent quality standards
are met. Despite its high
power, the inverter is, at
around 1,870 lbs, one of the
lightest in its class, accord-
ing to Fronius. The Fronius
Agilo 100.0 central inverter
will be presented at Interso-
lar 2012.
IPSG CEI 4800 by Manz AG
Hightech-Engineering rm
Manz AG introduced new
equipment for wet-chemical
processing of crystalline silicon
solar cells at SNEC 2012 fair.
Purpose of the tool named
IPSG CEI 4800 is to remove
the highly doped layer from
the backside and the edges of
a wafer and thereby produce
chemical edge isolation (CEI).
In a second process step the
remaining phosphor silicate
glass (PSG) layer on the front
side of the wafer that was cre-
ated during the previous diffu-
sion process step, is removed.
In tests, the new wet-
chemical tool operated with
a breakage rate of no more
than 0.1 percent, including
automation. Due to a mag-
netic coupling system the gear
wheels and drives are com-
pletely separated from the wet
chemical bath. The new IPSG
CEI 4800 is built following a
modular concept which allows
easy maintainability and acces-
sibility to all modules and com-
ponents. This results in a high-
er uptime and an outstanding
process performance-to-price
ratio.
Deltas SOLIVIA 15 and 20
EU G3 TL
The two new
transformerl ess
models SOLIVIA
15 and 20 EU G3
TL has feature
15 and 20 kW
nominal output
power. The invert-
ers have a maxi-
mum efciency
of 98.1 % and a
wide input volt-
age range of 200
up to 1000 V. Two Maximum
Power Point (MPP) trackers en-
able more exibility in design-
ing the PV installation. These
new models, which are being
produced from the beginning
of the fourth quarter of 2010,
enlarge the European SOLIVIA
string inverter line, inverters
with transformers and a nomi-
nal output power ranging
from 2 to 5 kW.
J Flex Products
J Felx Solar mate-
rials are essential
components in
the manufacture
of solar pan-
els. J-Flex Solar
supply exact-
ing, high quality
laminator mem-
branes (a.k.a.
blankets and
diaphragms), un-
der the VAC-SIL
BRAND. This is the preferred
choice for original equipment
specication and for module
lamination. Its worth noting
that VAC-SIL membranes offer
greater interchangeability on
all leading lamination equip-
ment a huge cost-saving
with greatly reduced produc-
tion down-time.
VAC-SIL membranes are
made from premium grade
raw materials in laboratory-
controlled production facili-
ties. They are guaranteed to
offer reliability, durability, con-
sistency & thermal stability.
These membranes have been
successfully cross-referenced
and installed as an approved
replacement on most leading
laminators.
VAC-SIL is generally sup-
plied as 3mm thick sheeting.
When replacing other lower
quality and thicker mem-
branes, tests have revealed no
detriment in life expectancy or
cycle performance. The supple
exibility of 3mm material is a
real bonus in delicate vacuum
application.
PRODUCTS
ECO Transformers by Polylux
POLYLUX the Spanish
leading LV transformer
manufacturer has a range
of three phase transformers
with the POLYLUX ECOL-
OGY signet; a mark that
identies those optimised
products with higher ef-
ciency that thanks to lower
losses helps to reduce the
electrical energy consump-
tion. They are known as
ECO transformers.
The ECO transformers
feature high efciency (from
97,7% to 99,1%) resulting
in much lower losses that a
standard transformer (see
gure 1).
The higher efciency
implies an important reduc-
tion of exploitation costs
meaning that the price dif-
ference is amortised in only
a few years of use. Dur-
ing their lifetime, the ECO
transformers are clearly the
most economic solution
(see gure 2) and help to
save electrical energy and
provide environmental pro-
tection.
The ECO transformers
additionally offer important
technical advantages:
Longer life thanks to the
reduction of thermal load on
the isolation materials.
s Lower heat generation
(reducing necessary cool-
ing provisions in the area
of installation).
s Lower inrush current
(avoiding tripping of pro-
tection devices at the mo-
ment of connection).
s Lower voltage drop
(avoiding uctuation in
the output voltage).
s Lower noise level.
s Suitable for higher ambi-
ent temperatures.
This kind of transform-
ers are available with open
construction (e.g. for instal-
lation inside the PV energy
converter) or with indoor
or outdoor enclosure. Rat-
ing goes from 10kVA up to
400kVA with single input-
output voltage of 400V and
they are in accordance with
IEC/EN 60076. The ECO
transformers can also be
manufactured under cus-
tomer requirements.
Wafer Metrology Sorter System by SCHMID
The Metrology Sorter System
consists of a measuring & sort-
ing unit, which tests the solar
wafers contact free with various
measuring tools for fullment
of the required quality criteria
and puts them down into sort-
ing boxes. They are loaded au-
tomatically in an inline concept
in which the cleaned wafers,
coming from the upstream,
multi-track systems are trans-
ported via a Pick & Place Robot
to one lane. With a continuous
throughput of 3000 wafers per
hour, the wafers are measured
by cameras and laser technolo-
gy. The data are then evaluated
and can be fed to a super ordi-
nate computer system. Within
the sophisticated measuring
software, numerous statistical
evaluations can be conducted.
An extended operator interface
permits continual on-screen
monitoring of the process. Ac-
cording to the results of the
measurements the wafers are
categorized as different qual-
ity classes and correspondingly
deposited into the boxes of the
sorting unit.
Customers Benets
s Various measuring stations
for optimized wafer inspec-
tion
s Excellent graphical display of
the current measurements
s Clear user guidance
s Immediate set-down in dif-
ferent Styrofoam boxes
(Schmid standard)
s Gentle wafer handling dur-
ing inspection and sorting
s Connection to super ordinate
data transfer system OFC
s Robust steel frame construc-
tion reduces vibrations
Technical Data
a) Tool Data :
s Throughput: max. 3.600
wph
s Cycle time: approx. 1 sec per
inspection
s Breakage rate: <0,1%
(160m, TTV <30m)
s Uptime: >95% (to SEMI E
10-0304)
s Supply: 230 V 15% 50/60
Hz 1
b) Wafer Data:
s Types: Mono & multi-crystal-
line wafer, square and pseu-
do-square, non- texturized.
s Size: Standard: 156x156
mm; 125x125 mm, others
on request.
s Tolerances: 0,5 mm
s Thickness: Standard 120
300 m (others in request)
s TTV ) 30m @ Wafer thick-
ness * 180m; TTV ) 20m
@ Wafer thickness ) 180m
s Cutting Method: Slurry cut
wafer/ diamond wire sawn
wafer.
s Bevel width: 0,2 2 mm for
multi-crystalline wafer and
14 17 mm for mono-crys-
talline wafer.
Figure 2.- Exploitation costs simulation
Figure 1.- Difference in efciency
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PRODUCTS
THEIA HE-t solar inverter
The THEIA HE-t won its award in
the industry and crafts category,
one of 17 product design award
categories was announced by
Eltek, the world leader in high
efciency power systems. THEIA
HE-t solar inverters convert
power from photovoltaic pan-
els into AC power that can be
fed into the electricity grid. The
THEIA HE-t range denes a new
level of efciency, exibility and
user friendliness for isolated PV
string inverters. THEIA HE-t rep-
resents industry-best efciency
for isolated string inverters and
is suitable for all PV cell tech-
nologies.
INPUT DATA
Model 2.0 HE-t 1) 2.9 HE-t1) 3.8 HE-t 4.4 HE-t
Nominal DC Power 2100 W 3000 W 4000 W 4600 W
Max. Recommended
PV Power
2625W 3750 W 5000 W 5750 W
Max. DC Voltage 600 Vdc 600 Vdc 600 Vdc 600 Vdc
Max. Input Current 9.5 A 13.5 A 18.0 A 21.0 A
No. of PV String
Inputs
3 3 3 3
No. of MPP Trackers 1 1 1 1
Voltage Range MPPT 230 to 480 Vdc 230 to 480 Vdc 230to 480 Vdc 230to480 Vdc
OUTPUT DATA
Nominal Output
Power
2000 W 2900 W 3800 W 4400 W
Nominal AC Current 9.0 A 13.0 A 17.0 A 20.0 A
Max. AC Current 10.5 A 15.2 A 19.7 A 23.0 A
Main Output Voltage 184 Vac to 276 Vac single or split phase 2)
Mains Frequency 50 Hz/60 Hz (+/- 5Hz) 2)
Power Factor (cos q) 1 1 1 1
MECHANICAL DATA
Protection Degree IP 65/ NEMA 4X
Dimensions 610H x 353W x 154 Dmm/ 24.02 H x 13.90W x 6.06D inches
Weight 19 kg/42 lbs 19 kg/42 lbs 21 kg/46 lbs 21 kg/46 lbs
Cable Access Bottom & Sides
Input Cable
Connection
MC3, MC4, Tyco, Screw Terminals, Cable Clamp, Others on Request
Output Cable
Connection
Screw Terminal, Cable Clamp
Operating
temperature:
-25 to +65 C / -13 to +149 F (possible power derating above +45C / +113F)
Storage temperature: -30 to +80 C / -22 to +176 F
Ventilation Convection cooling
SINGULUS Technologys silicon cleaner- MATERIA
Singulus Technologies (SIN-
GULUS) developed a new
machine concept with the
product name MATERIA for
the cleaning of silicon chunks
and ingot saw off cuts for the
manufacturing of crystalline
solar cells. In the MATERIA,
silicon is cleared of interfering
particles, organic and metallic
contaminations.
With state-of-the-art
technology the fully auto-
mated and intelligent carrier
management, which is oper-
ating in the absence of man-
ual labor, achieves a maximum
throughput with reductions of
operators. With good process
results the efcient process
steps and the economical use
of water and chemical sub-
stances as well as the low en-
ergy consumption reduce the
cost of operation compared
with the traditionally available
machines.
ABB Inverters
extend with
a new 630
kilowatt model
The new 630 kilowatt
(kW) PVS800 central in-
verter has a very high
total efciency with one
of the most compact
designs on the market.
It has a 98.6% maxi-
mum efciency with an
improved efciency at
partial loads to provide a
Euro efciency of 98.4%.
This, together with a
very low auxiliary power
consumption of only 600
watts at nominal power,
results in an inverter with
a very high total efcien-
cy. A 45% higher power
density compared to ear-
lier ABB central inverters.
It is suitable for hot tem-
perature as its operation-
al temperature ranges
from 45c to 55c. At
lower temperatures, the
ABB central inverter pro-
vides up to 10% power
overloading capability,
up to a maximum pow-
er output of 700 kW at
25C. The 630 kW ABB
central inverter is avail-
able with eight 250 A
inputs, suitable for 16
string junction boxes.
There is also op-
tion of four 400 A or
twelve 160 A inputs.
The ABB central inverter
series, rated from 100 to
630 kW, is designed for
multi-megawatt photo-
voltaic (PV) power plants
as well as large and me-
dium sized commercial
and industrial PV instal-
lations.
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