Plan to light up the abodes –Plugging into the Sun

Energy, one of the essential entities required to run a small household, somewhere in far countryside to the big industries in industrial corridors of metro cities, is backbone of world’s economic growth and business sustainability. Expansion of the economies and emerging markets across the globe, have led to an unprecedented demand of energy coming from brutal devastation of natural resources. which is being main accused of the changing environmental scenarios, made us to look for some alternatives to meet the energy demands, i.e. something from renewable sources like solar, hydro and wind energy sources and many countries has already achieved remarkable feats in this regard. 

With the advent of solar power and proof of its feasibility, various new prospects of green & sustainable business models in energy domain has already emerged in many countries including India. Indian households to industries which have been receiving energy supply primarily from thermal or nuclear energy plants, now have solar energy option too. Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission(NSM), launched in 2010 has not only opened the way for solar energy entrepreneurs to come up but also reflected the vision & mission of the government for its solar program by setting up a target of 22000MW solar power generation by 2022. India has renewable energy sources accounting for 28000MW as of now. 

Learning from exceptional solar power growth in Germany, which accounts for more than 37000MW from sun rays & china’s rapid solar energy installations projects, Indian states are doing a fair job in solar field and NSM is giving a boost to their plans.  The commencement of India’s largest solar plant in M.P with 137MW and many more solar projects in pipelining is a good trend to meet the ever since growing demand of power. 

Gujrat being the first state, to take lead in solar power setup ,much before the launch of national solar mission, has also achieved remarkable feat with total 800 MW setup across the state as of now, which includes PV cells over canal of length more than 1 Km and solar plants on ground. More and more states are joining the row with the time and at the same time opening the new avenues for innovative entrepreneurs to extend their helping hands to meet the power requirements of at least households, to light up the street lamps, for agri works and for lighting the local markets. 

Encouraging move by states has helped in developing a new entrepreneurial eco-system across the country which is continuously helping in establishment of centralized solar power grids, off-grids and solar powered home systems. These solutions are not only affordable to a vast fraction of power deprived population but also are more eco-friendly & clean. New startups like Kiran Energy, Naturaltech, Mera Gao Power, Azure Power, Lumos , Sunkalp Energy, LEDPrince and many more are playing a vital role in achieving the goal set by national solar mission and also establishing their entrepreneurial roots too.

This is an overview of growing solar power web in India , which I think is very important for a nation with such a huge head count to meet its power demand and also for reducing its dependency upon coal, gas and oil based energy. The move is much in favour of our planet and eco-system and is encouraging for other developing & developed nations to adopt it aggressively. We'll discuss more about the India's solar power regime in coming posts too. I'll love to hear your thought over this story in comments.

 "I’d put my money on the Sun and Solar Energy, what a source of Power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out, before we tackle that." -Thomas Edison

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Let’s Power The Future-Here Comes The Sun.!

After the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the German government decided to abandon nuclear power, closing eight plants immediately and shutting down the remaining nine by 2022. Their solar power plants were able to produce a world record 22 Giga watts of electricity per hour - equal to 20 nuclear power stations at full capacity..!!

If they can do it, why can't we? Wind energy alone could provide enough power ten times over to provide for all of our needs!

Nuclear plants will be replaced by renewable energy sources such as wind, solar and bio-mass. 22 Giga watts of solar power per hour fed into the German power grids, met nearly 50 percent of the nation's midday electricity needs.

It should be seen as a great auger for bright, clean and safe energy environment for the entire world and hope for every developing and underdeveloped countries to cut their huge cost, they are bearing for energy requirements.

Never before anywhere has a country produced as much photovoltaic electricity. Germany came close to the 20 GW mark a few times in recent weeks. But this was the first time they made it over. The record-breaking amount of solar power shows one of the world's leading industrial nations was able to meet a third of its electricity needs on a work day, Friday, and nearly half on Saturday when factories and offices were closed.

Government-mandated support for renewable has helped Germany became a world leader in renewable energy and the country gets about 20 percent of its overall annual electricity from those sources.

Germany has nearly as much installed solar power generation capacity as the rest of the world combined and gets about four percent of its overall annual electricity needs from the sun alone. It aims to cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent from 1990 levels by 2020.

SUNSHINE

Some critics say renewable energy is not reliable enough nor is there enough capacity to power major industrial nations. But Germany is eager to demonstrate that is indeed possible.

The jump above the 20 GW level was due to increased capacity this year and bright sunshine nationwide. The 22 GW per hour figure is up from about 14 GW per hour a year ago. Germany added 7.5 GW of installed power generation capacity in 2012 and 1.8 GW more in the first quarter for a total of 26 GW capacities.

This shows Germany is capable of meeting a large share of its electricity needs with solar power, it also shows Germany can do with fewer coal-burning power plants, gas-burning plants and nuclear plants.

This should be an eye opener of the nations involved in dangerous nuclear deals or in nuclear plantation. What for and where they are heading for to keep their promise of giving light to people or disastrous, dangerous and unlivable environment to their gen –next. 

 Hopes lies everywhere and trends, for what have been achieved so far, are also in favor, now one need a strong will power to get the things on track for better tomorrow. 

"Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us" ~Henrik Tikkanen

Source: Reuters  Photo Credit: Rooftop Revolution

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Could The World Reach A 100 Percent Renewable Energy Goal

Could the world reach a 100 % renewable energy target in less than 20 years? New research reveals some facts regarding this milestone that gives a firm hope and strengthen our initiatives,thinking in this field.  

A report published in the journal Energy Policy claims that by 2030, we can achieve 100 % renewable energy if the proper measures are taken.

What exactly are these measures? According to PhysOrg, over 80 percent of our world's energy supply currently comes from fossil fuels. We would need to build approximately four million wind turbines, nearly 2 billion solar photovoltaic systems, and about 90,000 solar power plants. The 5 MW wind turbines needed are up to three times the capacity of most of our current wind turbines. Possible? Perhaps.

Germany and China have both already built 5 MW offshore turbines. A few dozen utility-scale solar plants already exist. Plus, the researchers believe that all of the major necessary resources are available - the only "material bottleneck" lies in obtaining rare earth materials, supplies which could be increased with more mining or recycling.

Human beings are probably the biggest blockade in achieving a renewable energy goal.

What do you think? Can the world achieve 100 percent renewable energy by 2030?
Look at the some facts regarding solar and wind power energy..
1.The unit cost of wind and solar are coming down.the time to transition is NOW before PEAK OIL raises the cost of oil and damages the world economy. Rising demand for oil from China and India will soon exceed the world supply raising the price of oil for all.We saw what $147/barre­l oil did to the economy in 2008, and exceeding day by day.

2. Is this a joke right? The authors of the study list the following needed investment­s for this to happen:
3,800,000  5 MW wind turbines,
49,000  300 MW concentrat­ed solar plants
40,000  300 MW solar PV power plants,
1.7 billion  3 kW rooftop PV systems,
5350 100 MW geothermal power plants,
270 new  1300 MW hydroelect­ric power plants,
720,000  0.75 MW wave devices, and
490,000  1 MW tidal turbines
This cost of the first 3 items on the list is a cool $159 Trillion dollars compared to world GDP of $67 Trillion in 2007.

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An Amazing Eco Park Over Garbage

Tirupati Nature Park on Vijapur Road at Derol, around 15 km from Himmatnagar (Gujrat), has become Eco fun place to those who want to enjoy a pleasant time when the district is recording over 41.8 degrees celsius temperature in the summer months. The park is unique for it landscaping, nursery fencing and reservoirs and sits over one-metre deep garbage fill and has been reclaimed from a creek.

It has been developed by a well-known environment activist of Mehsana Jitendra Patel. It is spread over 128 acres and has 45 check dams on Sabarmati river, which flows through the park. "I am planning to grow as many as 10 lakh trees of different species," said Patel, a recipient of Priyadarshini Indira Gandhi Vruksha (Tree) Mitra(Friend) national award. He added that over 4.50 lakh trees have already been planted in the park.

  The park is lighted from the solar energy system installed on the top of a mound on the side of the river. The park's main attraction is an 80-feet high Vruksha Narayan Mandir. The 'aarti' of the trees is performed both in the evenings and mornings.

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Solar Energy On The Way To Lightup The Street Of Desert

Most of the Indian states suffer from the shortage of power supply through out the year and this not only brings a huge pressures on power production & distribution system but also disturbs the financial & economic activities in the country.All most every state rely on the thermal power production which is not only costly but also very polluting as well.

In a major change the Govt.of Rajasthan has cleared its solar energy policy. Rajasthan has huge potential in the solar energy field which is worth to capitalized, specially in its western part.Solar energy potential of the sate could easily make the state a "Self dependent" in  power sector at very low cost in comparison to thermal power.Most of the Indian states has to invest a great amount of their budget in the power generation, which is  basically coal based and one of the most polluting element
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Solar energy production is even more favourable in cost wise apart from its Eco-friendly nature. If we compare the cost of a 500MW energy production by thermal plants,  usually takes 30 crore whereas  the cost of producing the same units of energy by solar system costs 16 crore.This is a significant advantage of solar system over the polluting and dirty way of energy production.

Rajasthan cabinet okays solar energy policy for promoting solar energy production.The Division of Solar Energy and Wind Power Utilization in the Central Arid Zone Research Institute at Jodhpur has amply demonstrated the potential for exploitation of solar energy in western Rajasthan from 1975 onwards and it took a most three decades for the Government of Rajasthan to evolve a policy on Solar Energy utilization.Of course not too late!



So question is if the solar system is so much Eco-friendly and most importantly so cost effective then why too late?, why  The Govt. is relying & looking for various other dirty and even more dangerous power generation technologies i.e atomic plants,huge thermal plants etc ?. It is time to implement it not even of thinking about it.
Happy Sun light to the people in the desert, even in night..!! & hope rest of citizens will also enjoy the same very soon.   
 

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