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India Energy Week: 3 Ways to Improve Energy Efficiency, Reliability and Asset Integrity

For fast-growing markets like India, where utilisation rates are high and new capacity is complex to deliver, improving thermal efficiency and asset performance offers a credible way to reduce fuel use, lower emissions and strengthen operational resilience at the same time.

Edward Griffith, Managing Director - APAC, IGS
 

5 Things to Know Before Buying Your First EV Scooter

For first-time buyers, the shift from petrol to electric is not always straightforward. Unlike conventional two-wheelers, EV scooters come with a different set of considerations, battery technology, charging options, digital features, and long-term ownership costs.

Samkit Shah, Co-Founder, Jitendra New EV Tech
 

INDUSTRY JEWEL

Manjunath N. Reddy, the dynamic Founder and Managing Director of DhaSh PV Technologies Limited, is a true visionary in India’s solar PV industry. A true pioneer, his unwavering dedication to sustainable energy solutions has propelled DhaSh to the forefront of the renewable energy sector and made DhaSh India’s largest integrated PV junction box manufacturer, employing over 1,000 dedicated professionals.

Manjunath N. Reddy, Founder & Managing Director, DhaSh PV Technologies Limited
 

Re-NEW-ables Rising: Charging into a New Year

As we bid farewell to 2024, the anticipation for 2025 grows. Next year promises to build upon the strong foundation laid by the transformative investments, budgetary allocations, and policy decisions of 2024. With an unwavering focus on scaling renewable capacity, attracting international investments, and integrating cutting-edge technologies, 2025 is poised to bring India's green aspirations closer to reality. Major renewable energy players shared their plans and growth with Energetica India.

Energetica India Magazine
 

Solar-Powered Cars: Futuristic Dream or Unrealistic Ambition?

The only logical way to go forward to clean transportation is electric vehicles. Adopting EVs and powering them through energy produced by solar panels that is transmitted through the utility grid or a structure nearby.

Ravi Kumar, VP- Sales at Oorjan Cleantech Private Limited
 

Taiwan PV Industry Pursues Transition with the Development of Clean Power Generation Market

On April 12, 2019, the revised Renewable Energy Development Act approved by Taiwan authorities set the goal of over 20GW renewables by 2025. It aims to increase the proportion of renewable energy by 20% from the present 5% by including the policy to free Taiwan from nuclear energy by 2025

Energetica India
 

Individual, Smaller Capacity Solar Power Projects Costlier

While solar projects can be set up anywhere, its scattering leads to higher project costs per MW and higher transmission losses. When projects are individual and of a lower capacity, they incur substantially higher expenses in site development, drawing separate transmission lines to the nearest substation, procuring water and in the creation of other necessary infrastructure

Faruk Patel, Chairman & Managing Director, KPI Global Infrastructure
 

Urban Energy Transition: Scaling Up a Decentralised Electricity Future

Rooftop solar systems are one of the most suited clean technologies for the urban built environment. Moreover, 82 percent of India’s potential for technology in urban areas is in the residential sector. However, uptake of the technology has been largely among industrial and commercial consumers. For residential consumers, installing rooftop solar systems possesses several challenges.

Selna Saji, Research Analyst, Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW)
 

Solar Pumps - Answer to India’s Agricultural Woes?

As the world’s largest producer of cotton and the second-largest producer of wheat and rice, India is undoubtedly an agrarian country. About 800 million people out of the country’s 1.3 billion population depend directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihoods. India’s farmers have constantly faced the brunt of climate change and crop failures since most of the agriculture in the country is monsoon based

Saravanan Panneer Selvam, General Manager, Grundfos India
 

India’s Clean Energy Access

Rural electrification has been a goal that India had been pursuing for long as part of its own development agenda, even before the advent of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and thereafter, SDGs. However, it was in recent years that this really picked up pace after such programs were taken up in mission mode, in a goal-oriented manner accompanied by real-time monitoring mechanisms.

Mr Amit Kumar, Senior Director-Social Transformation, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI
 

The Art of Artificial Intelligence: Three Ways AI is Changing the Business of P&U

With the help of AI and other emerging technologies, utilities can improve long-term business planning around infrastructure investments and maintenance schedules, launch new revenue-generating customer-focused energy services, and proactively optimize operational performance

Dr. Ken Haig, Senior Director Regulatory Affairs, Oracle Utilities, Oracle Corporation
 

Role of Smart Grid in Smartening the Indian Power Sector

The necessity to opt for technological up-gradation and network strengthening in the distribution segment to address the aspects of operational efficiency and financial sustainability of the utilities makes smart grid one of the evolving and high-value markets for Indian market players.

Reena Suri, Executive Director, India Smart Grid Forum
 

E-Mobility & Its Future in India

The government has been prescient of the rising importance of battery storage in spurring the e-mobility movement and has established the National Mission on Transformative Mobility and Battery Storage. It is encouraging the setting up large-scale, export-competitive integrated batteries and cell-manufacturing giga-plants. With this, India has taken the next step towards creating a robust domestic manufacturing infrastructure

Venkatesh Dwivedi, Director (Projects), Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL)
 

The Pieces of India’s EV Jigsaw Are Falling in Place

As more and more countries are adopting EVs, it will shortly start moving on high pace and India being globally connected economy will reap the benefits of global adoption and it will reach to majority stage in a shorter span than other countries as Indian customers will form part of an early majority in terms of the global market.

Awadhesh Jha, Vice-President-Charge & Drive & Sustainability, Fortum India Pvt Ltd
 

Mapping Energy Production with Efficient Design

Switching from a traditional business approach to a guided roadmap, with opportunities to increase profitability aligned with business objectives, is indeed a paradigm shift. However, outsourcing the strategic O&G engineering functions to a trusted, thinking partner can be an effective way to increase viability, profitability, efficiencies and productivity gains at each stage of the development process

Manoharan K, Chief Engineer, QuEST Global
 
 
 
 
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