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Answer is blowing in the wind
INDIA - The world has just eight years to go before it reverses its carbon consumption and CO2 emission. This has been agreed upon by 2,500 scientists writing for the Nobel-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The main “culprit” for CO2 emissions is coal-based energy which has 24 per cent share in India’s emissions and 41 per cent worldwide. While coal accounts for 25 per cent of energy, the role of renewables is 13 per cent. Of these, wind, solar and bio masses contribute just 4.1 per cent. A series of articles look at the prospects for the renewable energy in the country.Suzlon Energy, the world’s leading wind turbine supplier, is installing 33 wind mills in Agali panchayat in Palakkad district in Kerala, where a total of 19.8 Mw energy would be generated. Each machine, priced at Rs 4 crore, is up on offer for buyers.
Bhima, a jewellery chain in Kerala, has already bought some of the machines and Popy, a leading brand of umbrella makers in the state, has lapped up the rest.
Each machine generates 400 kw of energy which the buyers can sell to the Kerala State Electricity Board, officials in the Board say.
Agali alone has the potential to generate 100 Mw of wind energy, the board officials point out, indicating at the possibility of more wind mills there, apart from the 33 set up by Suzlon in agreement with the Board.
More and more states are facilitating setting up wind energy projects and 13-odd states have set targets of producing 10 per cent of their power from renewable energy.
The total potential for wind energy in the country is 45,000 Mw of which just 10,500 Mw are to be tapped by the end of the 11th Five-Year Plan.
About 3,000 Mw of wind power capacity is to be added to the existing 7,659 Mw over the next four years to take the total to 10,500 Mw by 2012.
But the Ministry of Renewable Energy points out that the progress has been quick. From a mere 1,600 Mw of wind generation capacity ten years ago, India has emerged as the country with the fourth largest wind-power capacity, after the US, Germany and Spain.
Source: Business Standard
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