Switching to alternative souces of Energy

The Indian wind industry was placed third in terms of total installed capacity of wind electricity in the world some years back. It suffered a great setback when this rank shifted down to fifth after the United States, Germany, Denmark, and Spain in the later years. The falling profitability of private wind farm operations in the country today has been the cause of deep concern to many. As a result of the initiatives taken by the government to promote wind energy, different states have started supporting the wind power companies and investors with liberal policy initiatives. The steps to be adopted by the government agencies in order to ensure the desired growth of the wind industry in the country have been suggested in the paper. The paper also lists suggestions to meet the technical challenges faced by the Indian wind industry and to improve the performance of wind farms in India. It further suggests that a right choice of wind electric generators with an optimum rated wind speed will improve the wind farm performance. Potential markets and the role of utilities have also been described.


Initial cost for wind turbines is greater than that of conventional fossil fuel generation per MW..
the development of wind power in india began in 1990's and has significantly increase in last few years.India has the fifth largest installed wind power capacity in the world.
In 2009-10 India accomplished milestone with highest growth rate among top four countries...


stats....
31 march 2011 installed capacity of 14550MW


Tamil nadu-           6007MW
maharashtra-        2310.70MW
Gujarat-                 2175.60MW
Karnataka-           1730.10MW
Rajasthan-            1524.70MW
Madhya Pradesh-275.50MW
Andhra Pradesh- 200.20MW
Kerala-                  32.8MW
Orissa-                  2MW

West Bengal-       1.1MW
Others-                  3.20MW

                 Windfarm Kayathar India Tamil Nadu


6000MW of additional wind power capacity by the end of 2012.wind power have 6% of India power capacity....
Uttar Pradesh not making any initiative in wind power...


top five country in wind power....


China-         44733MW.
U.S.-            40180MW.
Germany-   27215MW.
Spain-         20676MW.
India-          14550MW.


Suzlon an Indian owned company,manufacturing wind-turbines.
Suzlon in currently the leading manufacturer of wind turbines for the Indian market holding some 52% of market share in India.....
There are many reasons why people start looking into the advantages of wind energy.  The individual focus of each person probably depends on where exactly they are in their life.  


Global Wind Power Cumulative Capacity...

India's Largest Wind power production facilities (10MW and greater)

Power Plant	Producer	Location	State	Total Capacity (MWe)
Vankusawade Wind Park	Suzlon Energy Ltd.	Satara Dist.	Maharashtra	259
Cape Comorin	Aban Loyd Chiles Offshore Ltd.	Kanyakumari	Tamil Nadu	33
Kayathar Subhash	Subhash Ltd.	Kayathar	Tamil Nadu	30
Ramakkalmedu	Subhash Ltd.	Ramakkalmedu	Kerala	25
Muppandal Wind	Muppandal Wind Farm	Muppandal	Tamil Nadu	22
Gudimangalam	Gudimangalam Wind Farm	Gudimangalam	Tamil Nadu	21
Puthlur RCI	Wescare (India) Ltd.	Puthlur	Andhra Pradesh	20
Lamda Danida	Danida India Ltd.	Lamda	Gujarat	15
Chennai Mohan	Mohan Breweries & Distilleries Ltd.	Chennai	Tamil Nadu	15
Jamgudrani MP	MP Windfarms Ltd.	Dewas	Madhya Pradesh	14
Jogmatti BSES	BSES Ltd.	Chitradurga Dist	Karnataka	14
Perungudi Newam	Newam Power Company Ltd.	Perungudi	Tamil Nadu	12
Kethanur Wind Farm	Kethanur Wind Farm	Kethanur	Tamil Nadu	11
Hyderabad APSRTC	Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corp.	Hyderabad	Andhra Pradesh	10
Muppandal Madras	Madras Cements Ltd.	Muppandal	Tamil Nadu	10
Poolavadi Chettinad	Chettinad Cement Corp. Ltd.	Poolavadi	Tamil Nadu	10
Shalivahana Wind	Shalivahana Green Energy. Ltd.	Tirupur	Tamil Nadu	20.4

HPCL initiative.....
Being an energy company, HPCL has been in the forefront in experimenting with alternate sources for harnessing of renewable energy resources. It has an installed capacity of 50.5 MW of Wind Power as of  31st. March 2011 . 

Maharastra: HPCL's maiden renewable & alternate energy Wind Energy Generator was commissioned at Dhule in Maharashtra State in May 2007. This 3.75 MW pilot turnkey project, costing about Rs 19 Crores, comprised of just 3 Wind Turbine Generator (WTG) units, each with an installed capacity of 1.25 MW. This was executed by M/s Suzlon Energy Limited. 
Power generated from this venture is being sold to the Maharashtra State Electricity Board (MSEB). 

Rajasthan: HPCL comissioned another Wind power project in Jaisalmer in Rajasthan State on 1st January 2009. The 21.25 MW turnkey project, executed at Rs 110 Crore by M/s Suzlon Energy Limited, comprises of a 17 unit-farm, each WTG unit having an installed capacity of 1.25 MW.

The 2nd Wind Power Project  in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan was commissioned on 18th December 2010.  The 25.5 MW capacity turnkey project, executed at the cost of Rs. 154.57 Crore by M/s Suzlon Energy Limited, comprises of a 17 unit wind farm, each WTG unit having an installed capacity of 1.50 MW.
The power generated is wheeled through the Rajasthan State Electricity grid and is partly consumed by HPCL’s centres at Ajmer, Jaipur, Kota, Pali and Jodhpur. Surplus power is being sold to Rajasthan State Electricity Board. (RSEB)

HPCL remains committed to enhance use of renewable energy resources and exploration of alternate sources of energy.

Wind energy initiatives of Tata Power

Tata Power, India’s largest integrated private power utility, as part of its sustainability initiative is committed to the addition of “clean and renewable energy” generation capacity to its portfolio. The company endeavours to substantially enhance its green energy generation through various renewable opportunities including a substantial presence in wind power. 




Tata Power today is one of the leading private wind generation companies with an installed capacity of 273 MW and plants spread across four states, Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, the leading states in promoting wind power generation in India. In the state of Maharashtra, the company’s wind farms are located in Visapur and Sadawaghapur in Satara District; Khandke and Supa in Ahmednagar district, and Bramanvel in Dhulia district.


The company had placed an order for 150 MW additional wind capacity to be set up in Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, of which 45 MW was commissioned in April 2011 and the balance is expected to be commissioned till December 2011.


The collective generation by the wind farms was 349 MUs during FY2010-11 as against 320 MUs in FY2009-10.

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ExpressEye: Unique Id Project - AADHAAR

ExpressEye: Unique Id Project - AADHAAR: UNIQUE ID is the greatest, toughest and the most complex test for Indian software industry's expertise and efficiency... If India is...

Unique Id Project - AADHAAR

UNIQUE ID is the greatest, toughest and the most complex

test for Indian software industry's expertise and efficiency...

If India is the world's software services mecca, Unique Id is its biggest challenge to show its prowess. UID can bring out a social transformation never seen before and if it fails, it will be the biggest disaster in Indian software industry. 

Some statistics...

India has

• 96 million PAN cards
• 65 million passports
• 100 million Drivers License
• 280 million bank account holders
• 200 million LIC policy holders
• 150 million Below Poverty Line cards (BPL)

 There are literally millions of people across India who cannot get a SIM card, cannot get a ration card, cannot get a PAN card, can't open a bank account simply because there is no proof of their identity. On the other end millions of people manage to get fake Driver Licenses, fake Ration cards, fake Electoral ID and even fake PAN. This is a headache not only for govt and government agencies, but also for Election Commission. One of the main reasons corruption thrives is also because of this extremity.

The project though has gone far ahead from then till now and there is a proper structure with efficient people, and honest officials and have already begun to implement the Unique Id in certain districts and villages.

Very recently, there was a competition which received 2000 entries and finally the logo was unveiled by a farmer and the project was named AADHAAR - which means support.

Tumkur, Mysore, Nalanda (Bihar), some villages in Andhra - the pilot biometric collection has been kicked off.  The targets that are set up are 2500 profiles within 20 days and so forth.

The Scope of  UID Data...

While UID will not be mandatory, slowly everyone will mandate the usage forcing everyone to have one. The ENROLLMENT FEE IS Rs. 25. However, the coastal and border region inhabitants will have to mandatorily enroll to know who is an illegal immigrant and who is not. This is very crucial. The non-availability of distinction is one of the main reasons a lot of terrorists escape.

A crucial area where UID is expected to make wonders is the way of identifying extremely poor people (people below poverty line or BPL). Once their biometrics are identified, the systems will be changed to ensure it is only those who get the real welfare benefits like food, subsidized kerosene, employment benefits, etc. Even if UID is able to achieve a 15% change, it will force it to become more than 70% as Govt would want to call itself transparent and garner votes. 42% malnutrition and 75% of Indian children suffer from anemia - data is enough to understand how corruption cuts off the real beneficiaries from Govt's welfare programs.

Another huge scope of this project is bringing banking to people who are outside its gambit. Almost 50% of people don't have any bank account. Even if we reach 100 million through UID, it would have done great wonders to Indian economy and people. Currently, government has mandated all wages, government payments, pensions, compensations, etc to be dispersed only through bank accounts. But with absence of bank accounts, corruption thrives and there is no way to track them. Hence, RBI has tied up with UID so that it can provide banking services to all those whose names enter UID database.

LIC has tied with UID to share its database to ensure the UID can verify the identity as majority of them would not give wrong address on an insurance policy.

Income Tax is planning to issue biometric PAN once UID is in place so that the number of fake PAN will reduce.

Rampant corruption has plagued those places where people work as laborers under Rural Employment Gaurantee Program and the govt has decided to use biometric verification to plug the leaks in wages being sent to people who do not have bank accounts.

Enrollment Procedure...

Attributes of UID...

If you notice, Unique Id will only act as an identification service. So, it can be used as a web service and interfaced with all other agencies and govt/private organizations to verify people in their respective databases are indeed the right people. So, UID won't store more than this, but is going to be the single point of confirmation/verification for all departments and agencies.

Questions that comes in my mind...

• No one knows how much personal information will be exposed and to whom and how. It can be serious privacy breach. Hence, Nilekani is working towards a draft legislation which has to be passed in Parliament and there is going to be a fierce discussion on this. 

• Can states misuse the info if they are allowed to manipulate? Who will be given read-only access?

• When the verification step is involved, will it be done against all the registrars or only a few of them? If few are involved, will it be genuine? If all are involved, will it not be an overkill?

• How will UID be generated for people who have no identifiable documents? They will be introduced into the system without proper identification. In some villages the only verification registrar used is panachayat offices and Election Commission records. But will all those records be genuine? If not (so many are full of errors), what is the way the person will be identified other than by generating a number for them?

• What private agencies can share this data and what rules govern their usage?

• One of the listed registrars is Gas agencies. How can gas agencies verify if they don't have any computerized mechanism? Definitely, not all have it.

• All other agencies which plan to use UID will have to modify their softwares (if at all they have) to adapt to the data in the format UID will provide. This may be a headache only for banks as only they have computerization to the maximum extent.

Interesting Case Studies..

biometric gadgets provider...

An Indian based company 4G Identity Solutions: http://www.4gid.com/

Florida based Crossmatch Technologies. http://www.crossmatch.com/

UID official website. http://www.uidai.gov.in/