Hi Friends,

Even as I launch this today ( my 80th Birthday ), I realize that there is yet so much to say and do. There is just no time to look back, no time to wonder,"Will anyone read these pages?"

With regards,
Hemen Parekh
27 June 2013

Now as I approach my 90th birthday ( 27 June 2023 ) , I invite you to visit my Digital Avatar ( www.hemenparekh.ai ) – and continue chatting with me , even when I am no more here physically

Thursday 5 October 2017

#SolarPower

For  Want  of  Power  ?



Business Line ( 04 Oct ) carries a news report which reads :


“ NALCO , GMDC drop plan for smelter project in Kutch “



It gives following reason :


“ Later , in 2013 , Nalco raised concerns about the extensive power consumption in Smelter for converting alumina into aluminium . Nalco had asked GMDC to arrange electricity at a rate of up to Rs 2.2 per unit to make the smelter project viable “



Apparently , officers of NALCO / GMDC , had missed reading my following blogs :



Piyush Goyal is a Visionary !  [  19  March  2017  ]


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Blog Extract :

Dear Piyush Goyalji :



Please expedite your approval of the proposal submitted by the Power Grid Corporation of India , to generate 315.7 GW of Solar power in the deserts of Rajasthan / Kutchh / Lahul and Spiti / Ladakh


Make a beginning with 10 GW  


That will enable you to provide power to homes / offices and factories all over India at Rs 1.0 per Kwh !


Then challenge Elon Musk , to set up 100 BATTERY STORAGE SYSTEMS ( of 100 MW each ) all over India , using his POWERPACK batteries , the way he plans to do in Australia


UnlimitedPower : and Around the Clock  [  29  July  2016  ]


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Blog Extract :

Fortunately for us in India , Shri Piyush Goyal ( Minister for Power ) is one such politician


His ministry ( MNRE ) is examining a proposal submitted by the Power Grid Corporation of India , to generate Solar and Wind power in the deserts of Rajasthan / Kutchh / Lahul and Spiti / Ladakh


These deserts have , between them , the potential to generate 315.7 GW of Solar plus Wind power !


And when this becomes a reality , sun shining over Ladakh will light up a lamp in Andaman-Nikobar islands !


For the entire project , the investments envisaged are :

By   2022............. Rs  2    lakh*crore

By   2032..............Rs  16  lakh*crore

By   2050...........   Rs  43  lakh*crore


Now consider this :

#  A 1mw Solar project would need Rs 6 Crores and need 2.5 acre of land ( 1 hectare  )

For that one million ton alumina project , GMDC-NALCO would have a need for 75 MW power

     
That means a 75  MW solar power project would have cost , only Rs 450 cr ( in a total project cost of Rs 15,000 Cr ) and needed a tiny parcel of 180 acres of land  !
    

    Of course , there would be additional investment in GRID SIZE power storage batteries ( the kind TESLA is currently installing in Australia ) , to supply power to a process plant , around the clock
    
   
I hope the new Minister for Renewable Energy , Shri R K Singhji , would give a push to the proposal submitted by the Power Grid Corporation of India   
   
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06  Oct  2017


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