Monthly Archives: April 2014

India may not impose anti-dumping duty on solar power gear imports

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Ritesh Pothan

The government may refrain from imposing anti-dumping duty on cheap solar power gear imports, as it tries to pin down the cost of renewable energy. The government may refrain from imposing anti-dumping duty on cheap solar power gear imports, as … Continue reading →

Posted in Anti Dumping Duty, Anti-Dumping, Batch I, Cells & Modules, Commercial, Grid Connected, JNNSM, News, Phase II, Power Generation, PV, Renewables, Solar | Tagged anti-dumping, Solar | Leave a comment

Rebuttal to Quality Related points brought by National Solar Energy Federation of India (NSEFI) by Indosolar

Posted on April 28, 2014 by Ritesh Pothan

Printed in TOTO Click here for the original letter submitted to SECI and here for the detailed reply by IndoSolar NSEFI submitted the following quality related issues to SECI and MNRE on March 24th 2014 with regard to crystalline silicon solar … Continue reading →

Posted in Cells & Modules, MNRE, NSEFI, Power Generation, PV, Renewables, Subsidy | Tagged Dr. D.N. Singh, India, Indosolar, mnre, NSEFI, SECI, Solar cells | Leave a comment

Air pollution 5th largest killer in India: Study

Posted on April 26, 2014 by Ritesh Pothan

(The study has claimed that…) Air pollution is the fifth largest killer in India taking 6.2 lakh lives per year and Delhi is among one of the five most critically polluted regions in the country, a study by a US-based … Continue reading →

Posted in Global Warming, News | Tagged Delhi, Ghaziabad, Gwalior, India, Pollution, Raipur, West Singbhum district in Jharkhand | Leave a comment

Panasonic Sets New Solar Cell Efficiency Record of 25.6%

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Ritesh Pothan

Panasonic has a long history of breaking solar efficiency records. The company recently announced that it has broken an efficiency record again. Its HIT solar cell has achieved a conversion efficiency of 25.6%, a new world record and “a major … Continue reading →

Posted in Cells & Modules, Crystalline, PV, Renewables, Solar | Tagged Panasonic, Panasonic solar cell, Panasonic solar cell efficiency, Panasonic solar cell efficiency record, Panasonic solar efficiency | Leave a comment

Where Is The Real Innovation In Wind Energy?

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Ritesh Pothan

Wind energy is a tremendous success story world wide, with staggering amounts of innovation. It isn’t given sufficient credit for that and is even unfairly attacked by those opposed to it as old technology. Every aspect of construction, operation, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Power Generation, Renewables, Wind | Tagged disruptive innovation, Feed-in tariff, fit, incentives, incremental innovation, innovation, logistics, production tax credit, PTC, Supply chain, Wind, Wind Energy, Wind Power | Leave a comment

Hybrid Cars Significantly More Fuel-Efficient In India & China Than US

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Ritesh Pothan

Hybrid vehicles are significantly more fuel-efficient in India and China than they are in the US, according to new research from the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This disparity in efficiency between the different markets is down … Continue reading →

Posted in Electric and Hybrid Vehicles, Global Warming | Tagged Berkeley Lab, China, china electric cars, India, India electric cars, India hybrid vehicles, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Leave a comment

7 Interesting Nuclear Energy Graphs

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Ritesh Pothan

One of our readers recently passed along a couple of very interesting charts about nuclear energy as well as the nuclear energy report from which they came. The report, World Nuclear Report 2013, is well worth a more careful look, … Continue reading →

Posted in Nuclear, Power Generation, PV, Renewables, Residential, Rooftop, Rural Lighting, Solar, Solar Thermal, Tidal, Waste, Wind | Tagged Biomass, Data Source, IAEA-PRIS, nuclear energy, nuclear energy report, Nuclear Power, PV, Renewable Energy, Solar, Wind | Leave a comment

Solar Power: Cost of production dropped 60%; price to equal thermal power’s in three years

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Ritesh Pothan

Earlier this month, when Madhya Pradesh accepted the bid of Himgiri Energ y Ventures to supply solar power to the state grid at Rs 6.5 a unit, it was a figure to note even by the industry’s standards of smashing … Continue reading →

Posted in Commercial, DISCOM, Grid Connected, Power Generation, PV, Renewables, Solar | Tagged Grid Parity, LCOE, Photovoltaic, PV, Solar, solar energy, Thermal | Leave a comment

The top 5 trends in India on Energy

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Ritesh Pothan

1. There isn’t enough coal to supply India’s need for the next decade 2. Clean Energy is the next evolution which has come of age with Solar energy generation now equivalent to Thermal 3. Nuclear isn’t going to solve even … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Coal, Commercial, DISCOM, Grid Connected, Grid Storage, Hydro, Micro Grid, Mini Grid, Nuclear, Off-grid, Power Generation, PV, Renewables, Ritesh Pothan, Solar, Transmission and Distribution | Tagged Biomass, Coal, energy, Hydro, Nuclear, Photovoltaic, Power, Solar, Solar PV | Leave a comment

Biomass Emissions Question Arises Again

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Ritesh Pothan

It’s called “urban biomass,” and it’s ours (spsmw.org). Hard to imagine a subject that would find The Wall Street Journal and Grist in line with each other’s thinking, but burning wood for energy has achieved it. Neither outlet seems to … Continue reading →