[ ::: ♥Keep_Mailing♥ ::: ]™ Re: Power Policy based on Alternative Fuel can solve many of India's problems

Thanks for the topic on "Power Policy based on Alternative Fuel can solve many of India's problems" . It such a wonderful idea, but if governments do not take the initiative specially in barren "Thar Desert", we the people can wait and hope  for some real ethical politician to come for supporting such useful projects.. Here is an interesting article.
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TONY CHACKO

Desert Sun: Europe's Huge Solar Ambitions in the Sahara

Woody Allen fans will remember the guy in "Annie Hall" who had a notion, and felt with some backing he could turn it into a concept, and maybe someday an idea.

A hard slog

The iconic film maker was writing about 1970s California. It could just as easily apply to modern-day Germany. Today in Munich , the dozen-odd companies in the Desertec Initiative officially kicked off plans to build a $500 billion complex of solar power plants in the Sahara Desert to help bring clean energy to Europe. Sort of.

The memo of understanding signed by industrial heavyweights such as Siemens, ABB, and E.ON amounts to a promise to try to turn a notion into an idea:

Among the [Desertec Industrial Initiative's] main goals are the drafting of concrete business plans and associated financing concepts, and the initiating of industrial preparations for building a large number of networked solar thermal power plants distributed throughout the MENA region […] All of the DII's activities will be aimed at developing viable investment plans within three years of its establishment.

Those investment plans include roping in European governments to help support the project, no easy sell at a time when the financial crisis is still hammering the Continent's commitment to clean energy and climate change.

Still, the consortium gets points for straight talk. In unveiling the proposal, which calls for building huge swaths of solar thermal plants in the Sahara, wind farms on the North African coast, and high-voltage transmission lines to carry all that juice back to Europe, the Desertec companies first stressed all the business opportunities the plan would represent, then paid lip service to the environment.

It's easy to understand why the companies behind Desertec are pumped up. Siemens, for instance, is rubbing its hands at the prospect of wind turbines (it makes them), solar thermal plants (it makes them) and new transmission lines (it makes them.) Ditto, if at a smaller scale, for some of the other companies involved.

But before Europe starts tallying up all the clean energy it could get from North Africa, the consortium's partners should sort out just what the project is for. RWE, the big German utility, thinks Desertec's main goal is to provide power to African countries, with any surplus to be sent back to Europe.

Pictures of the DESERTEC SOLAR POWER PROJECT

There are small state based solar projects like this one at Bharu Khera in Rajasthan.

Actually one state, Gujarat has made some headway in that due to it's massive solar projects, that state is not having power-cuts, an effort by its C.M. Narendra Modi. 

Gujarat Solar Park is the name used for a group of solar parks being constructed in Gujarat, India. Certificates of completion were issued on April 19, 2012, for a total of 605 MW, which included some sections that were already operational, and 856.81 MW had been completed by March 31, 2013. One is the Charanka Solar Park, a group of 17 thin-film photovoltaic (PV) power systems, on a 2,000-hectare (4,900-acre) site in the district of Patan. The solar park is expected to save around 8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere and save around 900,000 tonnes of natural gas per year.A total of 84 developers have registered to build a total of 968.5 MW, from 1 to 40 MW. An increase to 1,000 MW is expected to be completed by 2013.

On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Saurabh Kumar Gupta <speak2saurabh@gmail.com> wrote:

Power has remained a big issue of Independent India. Every Election POWER remains an issue which looks very tough to be solved.

Power subsidies eat away large part of Tax Payer money. And imported Coal, Gas to Crude  etc. are big source of weak INR vs USD & Other Global Currencies.

Nation should adopt aggressive Power policy using alternate energy sources.

Indian Cities are big source of garbage & wastage. Nation should promote small power plants specially in rural areas, using household wastes to animal & human toilets for generating power and also Bio-fertilizer.

Further, Indian has about 33 Lakhs Sq kilometer area. If only 1% i.e. 33000 Sq Kilometer area is used to install SOLAR POWER capacities, nation can become huge Power Surplus and bring down usage of Fossil fuel.

Presently, Indian companies import most of Solar power hardware. But when India starts installing own Solar Power capacity on mass scale, a big Solar Hardware industry can come up in India giving jobs to crores of people and Village level.

India has very good Sunlight for almost 10 months (February to November) in all of Geography (J&K, Himachal, Uttranchal & North-East gets good Sunlight for 6 months). Solar Plates can work well to generate Power.

Either though Tax incentives OR by force Solar Panels should be installed on all roof-tops. Areas like West Rajasthan, North Gujarat that are just deserts can be good Solar Plants sites.

Solar Power should be used in big way in running automobiles to further reduce fossil fuel use.

Its time, nation should be more aware of Solar & Waste based Power supply to solve problems like energy & employment.

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Saurabh Kumar Gupta

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