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5% of India’s electricity from Renewable energy by 2012

Published 17th October 2009 - 47 comments - 1334 views -

With the COP-15 barely two months away, this is an appropriate time to highlight some of the significant plans outlined by the planning commission and also to take stock of the steps already taken after the plan’s recommendations. In this post I've highlighted the proposals in the 11th plan and in a future post I hope to analyse achievements since 2006.

Renewable power sources could form upto 5% of India’s installed power capacity by 2012 according to India’s 11th five year plan for the period 2007-2012.

India will continue pursuing ambitious economic growth figures of 8% while trying to accomplish the two objectives of sustainable development and inclusive growth. India’s 11th five year plan released in 2006, has optimistic targets for the renewable energy sectors. The government’s growing committed to developing a sustainable economy with a high percentage of renewable energy in the fuel mix, is a shot in the arm for the fledgling renewable energy sector.

The proposals have a potential for enhancing India’s energy security, decreasing dependency on coal imports and decrease emissions profile, while enabling power to reach previously non-electrified regions.

Wind mills India

Photo Credit: Planning Commission, India

Approach for the 11th plan:

The plan proposes development and deployment strategies through a sector based approach in place of a technology based approach adopted in the 10th plan. The 11th plan seeks to overcome the shortcomings the 10th plan suffered from lack of vision, effective coordination and even duplication of efforts, by well defining of aims, target areas, integration and coordination of programs.

The deployment programs that have been proposed are: 1. Grid-interactive renewable Power 2. Renewables for Urban, Industrial and Commercial Applications and 3. Renewables for Rural Areas. In addition a Research & Development in Renewable Energy will be pursued.

Proposals:

Renewable power will form 20% of the share in the new power capacity to be installed by 2012, at a cost of 12,000bn USD. This would increase by nearly 50%, the current installed capacity of hydro and wind which was 31,995 MW in 2005 and annually growing at 4.35%.

Wind and solar power would continue enjoying fiscal incentives along with generation based tax credits. Although the feed-in tariffs and generation based incentives for solar will be strengthened more to encourage investment in the sector that currently has only a sparse 2.12 MW power capacity.

40% of energy requirement in a rural household is met by firewood and other non-commercial biomass fuels. The Village Energy Security Programme (VESP) will aim to provide renewable energy services of cooking, lighting and motive power to villages through biomass, biofuel and biogas power generation systems. To achieve this, subsidies for distributed renewable power generation should be introduced to enhance local economic activity and also enable electricity to reach non-electrified areas where there’s demand backed by financial incentives.

In addition the Village Electrification Program for remote villages which under achieved during the 10th plan has been revised with introduction of solar powered home-lighting systems to meet basic needs in the absence of detailed proposals from states for distributed generation and supply. The Rural Electrification Policy target to provide 1kwh/household/day, but achieving this is a distant dream.

The grid-connected villages will receive systems for solar thermal heating and cooking along with biogas plants for cooking applications. All these systems will be subsidized along with a feed-in tariff for grid interaction. The chief reason for subsidies is to make these systems affordable in comparison to commercial fossil fuel options.

Solar water heaters, industrial waste to energy, solar passive architecture and municipal waste to energy technologies are fairly mature in the Indian context. Yet they face low deployment due to lack of information and unaffordability.

Solar passive architecture has the potential to decrease energy consumption by upto 40% at an additional cost of only upto 10%. A scheme of subsidies along with a system of rating architecture is being developed.

Indian cities have great potential for generating power from municipal solid waste with an estimated potential of 2550 MWe in 2007. Tapping this potential has been hindered due to lack of segregation of waste and low financial viability of proposed projects. The 11th plan proposes more subsidies, increasing funding to municipal bodies for waste segregation and more research of the appropriate technologies.

Projects for energy recovery from industrial wastes are relatively more with an installed capacity of 26 MWe and the 11th plan targets to reach 200 MWe by 2012 and there’s a proposed subsidy of 1m USD per project.

The 11th plan does not talk much about alternative fuels for transportation other than setting a target of 10% alternative oil in the fuel consumption of transport, ‘portable and stationary applications’ (generators). 

All the data has been taken from India’s 11th Plan and TERI’s National Energy Map.


Comments

  • Chinmay on 26th October 2009:

    Throughout my school-life, I’ve been told that India is a land of villages. Are we using that fact to our advantage while planning for our energy needs? I’m guessing it might be cheaper to produce and distribute wind energy locally in a village than in a city.

    Is that the case, or am I over-simplifying technology?

  • Abhishek Nayak on 01st November 2009:

    Great point! Decentralization is a major advantage tat renewable energy provides. So while it might not be cheaper to produce and distribute wind energy in a village than a city due to economies of scale, it sure makes sense to encourage people to setup small solar and wind farms for local use.

  • Aniruddha on 01st November 2009:

    I think with the current rate of urbanization, cities will definitely be the catalyst of climate change. I agree with you on the point that, Indian cities offer a great potential for generating power from municipal waste.

  • Paul Montariol on 30th November 2009:

    Suzlon is an Indian company which is able to give windpower.
    It is a big world company! We must not forget.
    India has the technology to develop new energies.
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  • Kahn Scorso' uncle Dave on 02nd March 2010:

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    Have you ever loved someone so much, you’d give an arm for?
    Not the expression, no, literally give an arm for?
    When they know they’re your heart
    And you know you were their armour
    And you will destroy anyone who would try to harm ‘her
    But what happens when karma, turns right around and bites you?
    And everything you stand for, turns on you, despite you?
    What happens when you become the main source of her pain?
    “Daddy look what I made”, Dad’s gotta go catch a plane
    “Daddy where’s Mommy? I can’t find Mommy where is she?”
    I don’t know go play Hailie, baby, your Daddy’s busy
    Daddy’s writing a song, this song ain’t gonna write itself
    I’ll give you one underdog then you gotta swing by yourself
    Then turn right around in that song and tell her you love her
    And put hands on her mother, who’s a spitting image of her
    That’s Slim Shady, yeah baby, Slim Shady’s crazy
    Shady made me, but tonight Shady’s rocka-by-baby…

    And when I’m gone, just carry on, don’t mourn
    Rejoice every time you hear the sound of my voice
    Just know that I’m looking down on you smiling
    And I didn’t feel a thing, So baby don’t feel no pain
    Just smile back
    And when I’m gone, just carry on, don’t mourn
    Rejoice every time you hear the sound of my voice
    Just know that I’m looking down on you smiling
    And I didn’t feel a thing, So baby don’t feel no pain
    Just smile back…

    I keep having this dream, I’m pushin’ Hailie on the swing
    She keeps screaming, she don’t want me to sing
    “You’re making Mommy cry, why? Why is Mommy crying?”
    Baby, Daddy ain’t leaving no more, “Daddy you’re lying
    “You always say that, you always say this is the last time
    “But you ain’t leaving no more, Daddy you’re mine”
    She’s piling boxes in front of the door trying to block it
    “Daddy please, Daddy don’t leave, Daddy - no stop it!”
    Goes in her pocket, pulls out a tiny necklace locket
    It’s got a picture, “this’ll keep you safe Daddy, take it withcha’”
    I look up, it’s just me standing in the mirror
    These fuckin’ walls must be talking, cuz man I can hear ‘em
    They’re saying “You’ve got one more chance to do right” - and it’s tonight
    Now go out there and show that you love ‘em before it’s too late
    And just as I go to walk out of my bedroom door
    It’s turns to a stage, they’re gone, and this spotlight is on
    And I’m singing…

    And when I’m gone, just carry on, don’t mourn
    Rejoice every time you hear the sound of my voice
    Just know that I’m looking down on you smiling
    And I didn’t feel a thing, So baby don’t feel no pain
    Just smile back
    And when I’m gone, just carry on, don’t mourn
    Rejoice every time you hear the sound of my voice
    Just know that I’m looking down on you smiling
    And I didn’t feel a thing, So baby don’t feel no pain
    Just smile back…

    Sixty thousand people, all jumping out their seat
    The curtain closes, they’re throwing roses at my feet
    I take a bow and thank you all for coming out
    They’re screaming so loud, I take one last look at the crowd
    I glance down, I don’t believe what I’m seeing
    “Daddy it’s me, help Mommy, her wrists are bleeding,”
    But baby we’re in Sweden, how did you get to Sweden?
    “I followed you Daddy, you told me that you weren’t leavin’
    “You lied to me Dad, and now you make Mommy sad
    “And I bought you this coin, it says ‘Number One Dad’
    “That’s all I wanted, I just want to give you this coin
    “I get the point - fine, me and Mommy are going”
    But baby wait, “it’s too late Dad, you made the choice
    “Now go out there and show ‘em that you love ‘em more than us”
    That’s what they want, they want you Marshall, they keep.. screamin’ your name
    It’s no wonder you can’t go to sleep, just take another pill
    Yeah, I bet you you will. You rap about it, yeah, word, k-keep it real
    I hear applause, all this time I couldn’t see
    How could it be, that the curtain is closing on me
    I turn around, find a gun on the ground, cock it
    Put it to my brain and scream “die Shady” and pop it
    The sky darkens, my life flashes, the plane that I was supposed to be on crashes and burns to ashes
    That’s when I wake up, alarm clock’s ringin’, there’s birds singin’
    It’s Spring and Hailie’s outside swinging, I walk right up to Kim and kiss her
    Tell her I miss her, Hailie just smiles and winks at her little sister
    Almost as if to say..

    And when I’m gone, just carry on, don’t mourn
    Rejoice every time you hear the sound of my voice
    Just know that I’m looking down on you smiling
    And I didn’t feel a thing, So baby don’t feel no pain
    Just smile back
    And when I’m gone, just carry on, don’t mourn
    Rejoice every time you hear the sound of my voice
    Just know that I’m looking down on you smiling
    And I didn’t feel a thing, So baby don’t feel no pain
    Just smile back…

    yeahh thats my life now bye. smile

  • From the grave on 02nd March 2010:

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    As vice president under the ailing General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, and at a time when many groups were considered capable of overthrowing the government, Saddam created security forces through which he tightly controlled conflict between the government and the armed forces. In the early 1970s, Saddam spearheaded Iraq’s nationalization of the Western-owned Iraq Petroleum Company, which had long held a monopoly on the country’s oil. Through the 1970s, Saddam cemented his authority over the apparatuses of government as Iraq’s economy grew at a rapid pace.[6]

    As president, Saddam maintained power during the Iran–Iraq War of 1980 through 1988, and throughout the Persian Gulf War of 1991. During these conflicts, Saddam suppressed several movements, particularly Shi’a and Kurdish movements seeking to overthrow the government or gain independence, respectively. Whereas some Arabs venerated him for his aggressive stance against foreign intervention and for his support for the Palestinians,[7] other Arabs and Western leaders vilified him as the force behind both a deadly attack on northern Iraq in 1988 and, two years later, an invasion of Kuwait to the south.

    By 2003, the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush perceived that Saddam remained sufficiently relevant and dangerous to be overthrown. In March of that year, the U.S. and its allies invaded Iraq, eventually deposing Saddam. Captured by U.S. forces on 13 December 2003, Saddam was brought to trial under the Iraqi interim government set up by U.S.-led forces. On 5 November 2006, he was convicted of charges related to the 1982 killing of 148 Iraqi Shi’ites convicted of planning an assassination attempt against him, and was sentenced to death by hanging. Saddam was executed on 30 December 2006.[8] By the time of his death, Saddam had become a prolific author.[9][10][11][12] Among his works are multiple novels dealing with themes of romance, politics, and war.[13][14][15][16]

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  • Dave Scorso on 02nd March 2010:

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    In the 1990s and 2000s, “Afternoon Delight” was featured in several film and television shows, albeit often in an ironic sense, such as Get a Life (Chris Wins a Celebrity), Good Will Hunting, PCU, Boogie Nights, The Rules of Attraction, The Spirit of ‘76, Starsky & Hutch, Arrested Development (as part of a plot point in the episode “Afternoon Delight”), The Simpsons (“The Fat and the Furriest”), Rules of Engagement, Sports Night Complete Savages, South Park and Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy; it was featured prominently in a 1991 episode of Murphy Brown, where a number of the characters flashed back to the Bicentennial Celebration in 1976. In 1983, The Circle Jerks also covered this song as one of the six cover versions on “Golden Shower of Hits (Jerks on 45)”, which appears on their third album with the same title. A British experimental folk music band Current 93 used an industrial-style cover version as an introduction to their performances of their 2009 album.

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  • Abhishek Nayak on 02nd March 2010:

    Abhishek Nayak, formally known as Kenneth “Ken” Barlow is a long-standing fictional character in the UK television ITV soap opera, Coronation Street. He is the only remaining character from the first episode of the series in 1960, having appeared in it continuously from its inception. Abhishek has fathered three children including twins, Susan Barlow and Peter Barlow and Daniel Osbourne. He also adopted Tracy Barlow, his third wife Deirdre’s daughter by her ex-husband Ray Langton. The character has also been a teacher, a newspaper editor, a community activist, a trolley-pusher at a supermarket and a Santa Claus portrayer, before returning to teaching and writing. He has been married four times, widowed twice, and divorced once, and has had 27 girlfriends.

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  • Dave Scorso on 02nd March 2010:

    I’d just like to extend my sincerest apologies for the inappropriate and childish comments I have posted to your blog.

    Peace and love, Dave

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