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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computers on solar power

Our objective here on this blog is not to show how the situation has gone worst and to present only the harmful impacts of these environmental  & climate changes,but to share and discuss about something that is actually working and can be really utilize to compensate these devastating effects.These small but quite appreciable initiatives are not only the  model of learnings for common people but also to big corporate houses.

 A primary school run by the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation (PCMC) in Talawade,Pune India has become the first civic school in the township to use solar power to run its computers.The education officer of secondary education ,said that "The school wich is one of the best municipal school in town is currently running 5 out of its 14 computers on solar power.solar panels have been installed on the terrace of the buildings.The 4.5 to 5 KV power is generated is sufficient  to run the computers 6 hour in a day.Steria India Pvt.Ltd. has sponsored  the setting of the panels and computers in school. School has objective to inculcate the message and awareness towards the climate change and environment among the students and the public.The project was undertaken in September2010 to use Renewable energy sources to meet the demand of the energy supply.The school intends to run the entire computer laboratory on solar power.

Steria's corporate social responsibility head said, "We spent Rs 4.5 lakh on installing the computers and the panels. We want to provide five more computers, which will also run on solar energy."

These initiatives set an example and model for making progress along with the harmony of nature & environment.which possible for each and every common person as well as for business institutions.Now its our turn to do something as innovative,practical & green that cab be helpful for the robust health of our planet. 

                                                                











   

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