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Inside this issue:

Newsletter DateVolume 1, Issue 1

Energy Times Energy Times

This issue

Introduction and Recent Visit P.1

Indian Energy Industry Trends P.2

Global Energy Trends P.3

Emerging Technologies P.4

Volume 7No.-1

Energy Times

building and poly ure-

thane inside walls and

the roofs cuts off directsunlight during summers

while allowing the win-

ter sun to enter. New

green techniques to im-

prove illu-

mination

and for

e f f i c i e n t

cooling ,

saves 2.5

Lacs a

month.

6,50,000

liters of

rainwater are harvested

on-site every year.

The Green Office build-

ing of Institute of Rural

Research and Develop-

ment (IRRAD) has been

awarded the Platinum

Green Build-

ing rating by

the U.S.

Green Build-ing Council's

( U S G B C )

Leadersh ip

in Energy

and Environ-

mental De-

sign (LEED) program.

Key features:-

60 KW of roof top

photovoltaic installa-

tions, serving a total con-

nected daily load of 35

KW enough to cater all

building needs except the

Air conditioning.

The shading devices

installed around the

and clean technologies

40%-50% of energy sav-

ings through an addi-tional investment of 24

solar water-heating pan-

els providing up to 2000

liters of hot water daily.

50-kilowatt Gasifier fed

with bio mass acting as

the source of power for

the building in daytime.

Underground earth air

tunnels circulating cool

s u b t e r r a n e a n a i r

throughout the residen-

tial block replace the

modern Air-conditioners

Special designs light up

the complex in less than

10 kilowatts.

A bed of reed plants

(Phragmytes) clarifies 5

cubic metres of water

from sanitation every

day; the recycled water is

used for irrigation.

The estimated yearly

CO2 saving is 570 tones.

Visit to TERI-Retreat Centre

RETREAT is a part of

TERI's Gual Pahari cam-

pus, about 30 km south-

ern state of northern state

of Delhi, in the Haryana.

It is a model sustainable

habitat based on new

Visit to IRRADsGreen Building

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Waste Water Recycling

PV based Water pump

Shading Devices around building


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Even as it had barely

risen, the Indian solar-

PV manu-

facturing

sector has

b e e n

e c l i p s e d

by Chinese

m i g h t .

Most PV

makers are

manufac-

turing at

10-15% of

their opti-

mum ca-

p a c i t y ,

that too on and off, be-

cause there is no de-

mand. China provided

an external charge to its

solar-equipment indus-

try. Chinese equipment

makers get free power

for manufacturing, free

land, incentives for ex-

ports and cheap capital

which leads to products

which are 25-

30% cheaper.

In order to

stay competi-

tive Indian

players need

to build ca-

pacities of theorder of 300 to

1000 MW.

Moser Baer,

the largest In-

dian player,

has a capacity

of 215 MW; all

others

a r e

1 5 0M W

o r

less.

U n -

a b l e

to scale up in short run,

the Indian manufactur-

ers wants the Indian

government to follow

the US action last week,

when it slapped a 31%

anti-dumping duty on

Chinese solar panels.

While protectionism is

good at inception, it can-not be indefinite. Indian

manufacturers are mi-

grating from producing

PV cells to assembling

panels, using Chinese

PV cells. Its anything

but a long-term solution.

Chinese Eclipse: Indian Solar PV Industry Crisis

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Energy TimesThink outside the Barrel

Power Deficit duringpeak hours stood at 11GW for April as perCEA reports.

Government has directedbanks to disburse thefunds of about INR679.38 required by the20 power projects of18.78 GW capacity tothe private companies.

Reliance Power has com-pleted the synchronisa-tion of two units of 2,400MW gas-based.Samalkot power plant inAndhra Pradesh.

Essar Energy commis-sioned its 1200 MWSalaya-I power project inJamnagar district, withcommencement of com-mercial operations ofsecond 600 MW unit.

The NPCIL will start oper-ating 1000 MW of Ku-dankulam nuclear powerplant in Tamilnadu.

Country's largest powerproducer NTPCmay notbe able to add at least12,500 MW of genera-tion capacity by 2017, ifthe coal supply issues arenot resolved in the nextcouple of months.

According to figures re-leased by the CEA, theHydel power units wereto generate 8368 millionunits of electricity duringApril 2012. However,they managed to gener-ate about 8041 millionunits during the period.

Power Exchange of Indiainks pact with KoreaPower Exchange for stra-tegic initiatives.

PGCIL plans to invest INR10,000 Cr. Capex innext 3 yrs.

Headlines Scan

zations included in the

CNX Energy Index.

(To be contdin vol. 2)

the companies in this sec-

tor. Energy sector Index

will include companies

belonging to Petroleum,

Gas and

Power sub

sectors. The

f o l l o w i n g

chart de-

picts the

market capi-

talization of

the organi-

Energy sector is uni-

versally recognized as

one of the most signifi-

cant inputs for eco-

nomic growth.

As a fast-growing econ-

omy, India has become

one of the largest en-

ergy intensive coun-

tries in the World. IISL

has developed CNX

Energy Index to cap-ture the performance of

Energy Sector in Indian Stock Exchange-Part I

RIL

126650

45.64%

ONGC

47482

17.11%NTPC

20801

7.50%

GAIL

16901

6.09%

Tata

Power

16336

5.89%

POWERGRID

15311

5.52%

Cairn India Ltd.

12202

4.40%

BPCL

9048

3.26%

Reliance Power

6434

2.32%IOCL

6321

2.28%

Mkt. Cap. in Rs Cr.


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The era of U.S. coal-fired

electric power generation

will effectively end as

new federal regulations

limiting carbon dioxide

emissions from fossil

plants take effect. The

new U.S. EPA rule, rolled

out last month will effec-

tively ban the construc-tion of new coal-fired

power plants because the

CO2 emission rates re-

quired of fossil plants are

so strenuous that no con-

ventional coal plant

could meet them.

EPA has proposed thatnew power plants limit

their carbon emissions to

1000 pounds or 454 kg

per MWh. This indeed is

a tall order. Average

CO2 emissions in USA

for coal based power

plants stands at 1768

pounds or 801 Kg per

MWh.

While EPA designed the

rule to accommodate

fossil fuel plantsequipped with carbon

capture and storage

technology, such plants

are unlikely to find fa-

vor with investors due

to higher construction

and operation costs. .

Electricity generated

from CCS-equipped

coal plants costs almost50 percent more to pro-

duce than conventional

coal-fired generation

and is roughly 100 per-

cent more expensive

that electricity pro-

duced from natural gas

-fired boilers.

Indian Scenario

While compared to U.S

data, Indias average

CO2 emissions for coal

based power plants is

1250 KGs per MWh is

much higher. Though

India will continue to

have coal based ther-

mal power plants form-

ing the major chunk of

its energy basket till

2030. So expecting

similar limits in India is

very unlikely in near

future.

stability. The backbone

of all this is of course the

smart grid that can

seamlessly flex up' or

flex down' generation

across multiple stations

and the consumption.

When the generation is

down, the stored energy

is used and any surplus

put back into the grid,

which can make its way

into markets as far as

Spain.

Twilight of coal-fired Power in U.S.

Denmarks Consumers turn Prosumers

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Energy TimesWind, water, Sun: Energy for the long run

store it in various forms

batteries in electric

cars, heat pumps' that

convert electricity into

heat and store it, com-

pressed air and fuel cells

that produce hydrogen

from electricity. Also,

large centrally operated

electric heat pumps that

convert electric energy

into heat energy (for

conversion back into

electric energy when

needed) also aid grid

As Denmark marches

towards its goal of get-

ting half of its electricity

from wind power by

2020, inevitably every

household is an electric-

ity storage unit a

taker and giver of elec-

tricity, a producer and a

consumer of power or, a

prosumer.

Consumers will buy

power when the genera-

tion is surplus, and

therefore, cheap, and

Regulation of CBM final-ised

Coal India Ltd. can now

extract Coal Bed Methane

from its mines, under

administrative control of

the Coal Ministry and

permission from Ministry

of Petroleum and Natural

Gas before starting each

extraction project.

Indias CBM production

was estimated to touch

four-million cubic meters

a day by 2016/17

Denmark was a pioneer

in developing commer-

cial wind power during

t h e 1 9 7 0 s . W i n d

power provided 18.9%of electricity produc-

t i o n a n d 2 4 . 1 %

of generation capac-

ity in Denmark in 2008.

As per the reports of

UNEP (United Nations

Environment Program)

global investment in

renewable power is

increased to $257 bil-

lions.

U S Electricity Generation By Source

(2011)


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that use complicated

fuel-cell technology, the

Delhi autos will be built

around cheaper internal

combustion engines.

Professor LM Das ofIIT-

D, who has perfected the

technology, explains the

rationale for hydrogen

It's the main fuel of

NASA's space shuttle

launchers and will now

power a test fleet of

autos in the city. Hy-

drogen, so far used

terrestrially in some

avant-garde custom-

ized cars and experi-

mental bus fleets, will

run 15 auto rick-

shaws developed as

part of an IIT-Delhi

p r o j e c t .

B u t u n l i k e L o n -

don's hydrogen buses

and California's Hydro-

gen Highway project

power: "Hydrogen is like

a slightly temperamental

child. You need to tame

it. Once controlled, it can

be much more efficient

than even compressed

natural gas (CNG)".

Unlike petroleum-

derived hydrocarbon

fuels, pure hydrogen

does not produce toxic

carbon monoxide or the

heat-trapping carbon

dioxide on combustion.

There are no oxides

of sulphur, nor any par-

ticulates.

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GAIL has decided toinvest INR 11,000 croresin U.P. which includes INR1,500, 200 Kms Jagdish-pur Haldia pipeline.

Indian oil imports billleaped 40% to a record$ 140 billion in 2011-12

India has sought an addi-tional 100,000 barrels

per day from its biggestsupplier, Saudi Arabia,on top of 640,000 bpdwhich it got in 2011-12.

Natural gas reserves inMozambique's oil-richRovuma Basin, whereIndian companies BPCL& Videocon hold stakes,are expected to rise dra-matically with a giantnew discovery, catapult-ing the African nation tothe league of the world's

top gas exporters andboosting India's energysecurity .this reserve is 20times the size of IndiasKG-D6.

Green Ring Project atGurgaon currently await-ing approval of HUDAwill concentrate on theuse of solar power forlighting common areas;adding greenery to the

neighborhood; wastemanagement throughcomposting; retrofittingexisting structures; usinggreen technology in newconstructions and energy-efficient water pumping.

subsidies.

Solar attracted nearly

twice as much invest-

ment as wind, driving

the renewable en-

ergy sector to yet

another record-

breaking year, al-

beit one beset

with challenges

for the industry,

according to two

new reports on renew-

able energy trends is-

sued by the UN Envi-

ronment Programme

and the Renewable En-

Rooftop photovoltaic

(PV) installations, large-

scale concentrating solar

thermal (CSP) power,

a l o n g

with other

s m a l l e r

PV instal-

l a t i o n s

taken to-

g e t h e r

h e l p e d

investment in solar

power jump by over 50

per cent.

Solar PV arrays in China

now attract generous

ergy Policy Network for

the 21st Century.

UNEPs report on Global

Trends in Renewable En-

ergy Investment 2012

shows that despite in-

creasingly tough compe-

tition, total investment in

renewable power and

fuels last year increased

by 17 per cent to a record

$257 billion, a six-fold

increase on the 2004 fig-

ure and 94 per cent

higher than the total in

2007, the year before the

world financial crisis.

Solar Power surpass Wind Power as a choice for global investors in 2011.Headlines Scan

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