Electrification of end-uses and the growth of solar and wind is changing how electricity systems operate on all time scales. This report analyses how seasonal variations in both demand and supply affect electricity system operations to 2050 – in Europe, India, Indonesia and Korea – and what sources will be …
Most Sub-Saharan African countries try to promote rural electrification through both centralized and decentralized approaches. This guide focuses on the decentralized approach, providing practical guidance on how small power producers and mini-grid operators can deliver both electrification and renewable energy in rural areas. It describes four basic types of on- …
RDRS Bangladesh has set up 1,300 solar power units in char areas and other backwards villages inhabited by the ethnic minority communities so far in the region Use of solar power has changed lifestyle and socio-economic condition of thousands of people living in the remote char villages on the Basin …
Persistent Energy Ghana (PEG) is leading the movement to bring green energy, installing solar-powered micro-grids for the one million Ghanaian households that earn between $1 and $6 a day. PEG, a Ghanaian energy services company that launched last year, hopes to help under-electrified regions leap-frog directly from kerosene to solar …
A state-level panel of the government on Tuesday approved the detailed project reports (DPRs) for electrification of 9,524 habitations in Jammu and Kashmir, having a population of 100 and more, under the second phase of the Rajiv Gandhi Gramin Vidyut Yojana (RGGVY). The total cost of the scheme, which will …
The Andhra Pradesh Government has charted out plans to provide 100 per cent electrification in the rural habitations and remotely located agency areas without power supply. The State has already achieved 100 per cent electrification in villages. The focus is now on to provide power supply in these non-electrified locations …
Standing Committee on Energy present this Forty First Report on Implementation of Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana pertaining to the Ministry of Power. Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojana was launched in April, 2005 with an endeavour to electrify all villages and habitations, provide access to electricity to all households and …
This paper explores energy access, energy poverty, and energy development as energy security concerns confronting Asia and the Pacific. Improved access to energy services is arguably the key defining characteristic of economic development. Lack of access and energy poverty contribute to hunger with women and children spending long hours gathering …
Budge 2014 was tailored to benefit the people and through the allocation of Rs. 4,000 million for rural development, President Mahinda Rajapaksa had decided to focus on the development of villages, Power and Energy Minister Pavithra Wanniarachchi said. She was speaking at the inauguration of several electrification projects in the …
This report gives guidelines for environmental and social impact assessment for the wind power projects. These could be adopted by project developers, government stakeholders, pollution control boards, and forest departments, in order to upscale wind power generation in India while also incorporating sound environmental management practices. This is an attempt …
A solar power plant has been set up at Buruthakanda in Hambantota under a State sponsored clean energy program. The average electricity produced per day in this plant is around 23,000 KWH which will amount to 839,600 KWH of annual generation of power, according to the officials of the Power …
Introduction of solar power in the rural areas of Rangpur, Kurigram and Lalmonirhat districts has ushered in a new hope for the people as electricity supply is not adequate in these areas. As the Rural Electrification Board cannot supply electricity to the 'Char' areas, people of these area are becoming …
One development plan that seems to be moving backwards in poll-bound Mizoram is hydro power. “We have said many times we are going to dam all our rivers,” Chief Minister Lal Thanhawla had said when this journalist asked AICC general secretary Luizinho Faleiro in September how the party intends to …
Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee Draft Election Manifesto 2013. The Election Manifesto states "The Mizoram Pradesh Congress Committee, in its Manifesto for Mizoram Assembly Elections in 2008, made a number of promises to the people of Mizoram. And according to the periodic evaluations conducted by the party over the last 54 …
Solar PV Microgrid– ‘tragedy of commons’ or ‘community wisdom’ - A presentation by Hippu Salk Kristle Nathan, D P SenGupta, and Dilip R Ahuja at the 4th National Research Conference on Climate Change, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, October 26-27, 2013.
All states stand to save electricity where IST is to be advanced - A presentation by Dilip R. Ahuja at the 4th National Research Conference on Climate Change, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, October 26-27, 2013.
Monday, January 21, 2013 - Karachi—Sindh government is working on 40 different power projects in its wind corridor, with a total generation capacity of 2000 MW in next two years, said Mir Hussain Ali, provincial Secretary for Environment and Alternate Energy Department. This will also allow the electrification of about …
Some 500 families who were long deprived of electricity in the remote villages of the Nunggaha Yaya, Gurumada Mw, Omalpe Medawathugoda, Galkandagoda, Vijeriya Udagama, Nandanagama and Ginigalgoda areas, in the Ratnapura district, benefited last week from an Iranian-funded rural electrification scheme. The project under an Iranian RE-8 loan facility was …
Greenpeace India on Saturday laid the foundation for its revolutionary rural electrification micro-grid project at the Dharnai Village in Jahanabad district of Bihar. The model for this project will be based on an innovative smart solar based technology. Earlier on September 4, 2013, Greenpeace had announced the launch of this …
Author(s): Joel Kumar Uttarakhand gets applications for 65 per cent of its target in 15 days of launching scheme Applicants for rooftop solar projects are eligible for a subsidy of 30 per cent (Photo: Joel Kumar) UTTARAKHAND is exploring new strategies to make full use of the state’s solar energy …
The state energy department has already floated a tender in this regard on September 25 The state government today launched the Rs 2,600 crore scheme to strengthen power distribution network and provide seamless electricity supply across the state. The scheme envisages setting up of 500 power substations. In the first …
