Since I belong to Telecom world, i always dream of making this world a pioneer in energy saving mechanisms. This is keeping a fact in mind that even a small server digests many many KWA per hour.
See any system which you prepare as a solution, the power consumption is a major factor. I always use to ponder that how do we solve it. There are so many initiatives from IBM, HP, etc they all design ATCA systems or some say we have ATCA compliant systems but there is some lacking of serious efforts it seems.
But I found one organisation which has really found a path breaking solution.
It is Vihaan Networks Limited; company based out of Gurgaon, India.
They have technology called WorldGSM™ which is a new approach to delivering profitable mobile services to rural markets. It’s the first example of microtelecom, the re-engineering of telecommunications to meet the needs of rural and remote communities.
As they put it on their website;
It uses:
#Low-power — at less than 100W per Base Station, the entire system can be run on solar power. No power grid or generator necessary.
# Low cost — a fraction of the cost of traditional GSM Base Stations; profitable at very low densities and ARPUs.
# Self-deploying — an entire WorldGSM™ Base Station packs into two carts and is easily installed by unskilled field staff who may not be able to read or write. No buildings, power, air conditioning. Just point it South and turn it on.
# Near-Zero Maintenance — update software remotely and perform simple swap repairs if needed.
# Cascading Star Architecture™ — a unique, modular architecture optimised for low-cost rural expansion; with local switching to minimise backhaul.
By some estimates, India alone already uses over 1.8 billion litres of diesel fuel every year to power Base Stations when the grid is not present or not available. This does not include the fuel needed to transport fuel to the mobile sites.
WorldGSM™ is the lowest power mobile infrastructure ever invented — by an order of magnitude. This not only directly reduces its carbon footprint, it also allows the system to be entirely solar- and/or wind-powered.
For the first time, mobile communications come without the associated environmental impact.
American magazine FastCompany has come out with a list of most Innovative companies, The only other Indian company the top 50 in the list is Indian technology start-up, VNL.
VNL-article on rediff
More can be read about the company at:
VNL official website
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Friday, October 30, 2009
Can climate change in fact be a money spinner?
There is lots if business in the Green Energy, the Global CEOs also agree.
A recent report by Dalberg, an international consulting firm, titled 'Champions of the Low Carbon Economy -- Why CEOs are ready for a global climate agreement,' undertook a survey of 40 global companies to conclude that business was eager for the opportunities an ambitious deal at Copenhagen would engender.
"The energy revolution is one of the greatest economic opportunities of our time," added SUN Group's Uday Khemka. "It will make the tech sector's growth seem like a minor economic boom."
Suntech's CEO Zhengrong Shi, also interviewed in the Dalberg Report, holds 11 patents and grew his business from a startup to its current size of $2 billion, in just eight years.
The Suntech story has encouraged a slew of companies to join the solar power sector, including Sunvim, a Zhejiang-based textile maker better known for one of the country's popular towel brands.
According to a China Daily report, entire towns in Zhejiang province, the heart of the country's light manufacturing region, are turning from textile production, in which China has long been a world-beater, to polysilicon manufacturing, a key component of the SPV industry.
The report quoted Shen Fuxin, the General Secretary of the Zhejiang Solar Energy Industry Association as saying that the average profits made by companies in the sector were reaching 20-30 percent.
Link to Complete news article
A recent report by Dalberg, an international consulting firm, titled 'Champions of the Low Carbon Economy -- Why CEOs are ready for a global climate agreement,' undertook a survey of 40 global companies to conclude that business was eager for the opportunities an ambitious deal at Copenhagen would engender.
"The energy revolution is one of the greatest economic opportunities of our time," added SUN Group's Uday Khemka. "It will make the tech sector's growth seem like a minor economic boom."
Suntech's CEO Zhengrong Shi, also interviewed in the Dalberg Report, holds 11 patents and grew his business from a startup to its current size of $2 billion, in just eight years.
The Suntech story has encouraged a slew of companies to join the solar power sector, including Sunvim, a Zhejiang-based textile maker better known for one of the country's popular towel brands.
According to a China Daily report, entire towns in Zhejiang province, the heart of the country's light manufacturing region, are turning from textile production, in which China has long been a world-beater, to polysilicon manufacturing, a key component of the SPV industry.
The report quoted Shen Fuxin, the General Secretary of the Zhejiang Solar Energy Industry Association as saying that the average profits made by companies in the sector were reaching 20-30 percent.
Link to Complete news article
Friday, September 4, 2009
EU's ban on incandescent light bulb becomes effective from tuesday.
The ban on the incandescent light bulb can into effect from tuesday ie 1st September 2009.
No one can buy, sell or import/export that bulb. Only existing stocks can be disposed off.
EU believes that they can save €5 billion annually and reduce carbon emissions by around 15 million tonnes.
The new CFLs are considered to be 80% more effecient than the old bulb, which lightened our house for more than a century.
Apart from Europe, there are several other countries in the process of implementing similar orders. In the leage are US, Cuba, Australia and more....
but, it is not so that there is no opposition to this move. There has to be anyways....we are the humans..and changing habits is the last change that we do bring...
Opposition is for emotional reasons...and many industries will come to closure. But i think that they can start fresh in manufacturing of CFL, and many other things which are the future. Infact this blog is about the new opportunities coming out of this Green Revolution.
Read here for more....
No one can buy, sell or import/export that bulb. Only existing stocks can be disposed off.
EU believes that they can save €5 billion annually and reduce carbon emissions by around 15 million tonnes.
The new CFLs are considered to be 80% more effecient than the old bulb, which lightened our house for more than a century.
Apart from Europe, there are several other countries in the process of implementing similar orders. In the leage are US, Cuba, Australia and more....
but, it is not so that there is no opposition to this move. There has to be anyways....we are the humans..and changing habits is the last change that we do bring...
Opposition is for emotional reasons...and many industries will come to closure. But i think that they can start fresh in manufacturing of CFL, and many other things which are the future. Infact this blog is about the new opportunities coming out of this Green Revolution.
Read here for more....
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Akshay Urja Park opened in Gurgaon, India
Rajiv Gandhi Akshay Urja Diwas was celebrated at Gurgaon on August 20.
A state level function was organised on Rajiv Gandhi Akshay Urja Diwas at Gurgaon. Irrigation Minister Capt Ajay Singh Yadav was the chief guest of the occasion.
The state-level Rajiv Gandhi Renewable Energy Park set up at a cost of Rs 2.5 crore at Gurgaon to create awareness and to demonstrate Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Technologies, was also inaugurated on the same day. The Park has been constructed on Solar Passive building design concepts and has various working models of devices based on renewable sources of energy like sun, hydro and wind.
The park has a 10 KW solar power plant to meet its energy requirements. It also has an energy information centre to provide advisory services to the public on renewable energy and energy conservation related issues.
A Prize distribution function was also organised at the function to give prizes of Rs 4 lakh to Rs 25 lakh to the selected gram panchayats for their outstanding contribution in renewable energy and energy conservation programmes.
Link
A state level function was organised on Rajiv Gandhi Akshay Urja Diwas at Gurgaon. Irrigation Minister Capt Ajay Singh Yadav was the chief guest of the occasion.
The state-level Rajiv Gandhi Renewable Energy Park set up at a cost of Rs 2.5 crore at Gurgaon to create awareness and to demonstrate Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Technologies, was also inaugurated on the same day. The Park has been constructed on Solar Passive building design concepts and has various working models of devices based on renewable sources of energy like sun, hydro and wind.
The park has a 10 KW solar power plant to meet its energy requirements. It also has an energy information centre to provide advisory services to the public on renewable energy and energy conservation related issues.
A Prize distribution function was also organised at the function to give prizes of Rs 4 lakh to Rs 25 lakh to the selected gram panchayats for their outstanding contribution in renewable energy and energy conservation programmes.
Link
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Nanotechnology in Solar PhotoVoltaic Cells
In a few years, with the use of nanotechnology, the cost of setting up a solar power plant will be reduced by half, thereby negating the argument that mass producing solar power is cost prohibitive.
At present, capital investment in a solar plant is Rs 15-18 crore per mega watt - four times that of thermal energy at Rs 4-5 crore/ MW. The cost is expected to be slashed by half and efficiency doubled when nano technology is integrated in solar cells in 4-5 years.
Even though conventional solar cells are expensive and cannot yet achieve high efficiency, it may be possible to lower the manufacturing costs using nanotechnology. Institutions such as the University of California Berkeley and Konarka Technologies are actively pursuing ways to make this happen. Although solar cells are not efficient enough to replace large-scale electric grids, there are many opportunities for them to be used for low power devices. The effects that a low cost, reasonably efficient (low power) solar cell would have on society are tremendous. It would help preserve the environment, protect soldiers, provide rural areas with electricity, and transform the electronics industry. These dramatic effects, which would all be a result of nanotechnology, would greatly change and even improve society.
At present, capital investment in a solar plant is Rs 15-18 crore per mega watt - four times that of thermal energy at Rs 4-5 crore/ MW. The cost is expected to be slashed by half and efficiency doubled when nano technology is integrated in solar cells in 4-5 years.
Even though conventional solar cells are expensive and cannot yet achieve high efficiency, it may be possible to lower the manufacturing costs using nanotechnology. Institutions such as the University of California Berkeley and Konarka Technologies are actively pursuing ways to make this happen. Although solar cells are not efficient enough to replace large-scale electric grids, there are many opportunities for them to be used for low power devices. The effects that a low cost, reasonably efficient (low power) solar cell would have on society are tremendous. It would help preserve the environment, protect soldiers, provide rural areas with electricity, and transform the electronics industry. These dramatic effects, which would all be a result of nanotechnology, would greatly change and even improve society.
A huge fillip to India’s renewable energy ambitions
An abandoned thermal power plant in Asansol has been converted into a mega solar power generating station - perhaps the only
instance in the world where a high-carbon power unit has been replaced by a zero-carbon one.
What’s more, the 2-MW project marks the first time in India that a solar project has crossed the megawatt threshold and is poised to give a huge fillip to India’s renewable energy ambitions.
News Link
instance in the world where a high-carbon power unit has been replaced by a zero-carbon one.
What’s more, the 2-MW project marks the first time in India that a solar project has crossed the megawatt threshold and is poised to give a huge fillip to India’s renewable energy ambitions.
News Link
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Roof Top Solar PhotoVoltaic(SPV) Systems - Financial Assistance
Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has announced a Special Scheme aiming to reduce the diesel fuel consumption.
Under the scheme come all various commercial institutions like Hotels, Nursing Homes, Govt Buildings, Shopping Malls, Hospitals, Industry & Housing Complexes facing power shortage.
Govt will provide financial assistance to install the SPV systems in these institutions. The Financial Asst. will be between 30 - 40 % of project cost for profit making or non-profit making organisation respectively.
This scheme is for plants generating 25-100 kWp power from SPV module. If there is plant with lesser capacity that can be also considered on case by case basis.
If such a plant is institutionalised then it can start saving after 5-6 yrs of installation. The life of such systems is around 25-30 years.
in my view people should go for this without fail, as this is a good opportunity extended from govt.
more can be read at Ministry web site: www.mnre.gov.in
Under the scheme come all various commercial institutions like Hotels, Nursing Homes, Govt Buildings, Shopping Malls, Hospitals, Industry & Housing Complexes facing power shortage.
Govt will provide financial assistance to install the SPV systems in these institutions. The Financial Asst. will be between 30 - 40 % of project cost for profit making or non-profit making organisation respectively.
This scheme is for plants generating 25-100 kWp power from SPV module. If there is plant with lesser capacity that can be also considered on case by case basis.
If such a plant is institutionalised then it can start saving after 5-6 yrs of installation. The life of such systems is around 25-30 years.
in my view people should go for this without fail, as this is a good opportunity extended from govt.
more can be read at Ministry web site: www.mnre.gov.in
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