Solar and Wind Power Calls to India
The Indian Mobile Phone company Airvoice Group and the public sector body Satluj Jal Vidyut Nigam have joined in a venture to use Wind Energy and Solar Power to produce 13GW of power in India.
Karnataka district located in the southwest of India is the region for the development. Using multiple sites for the development project aims to produce up to 10 GW of energy by solar power. Using Solar Photovoltaic arrays to capture the suns rays and with just 3 GW being produce by wind power.
The project is estimated to take up to ten years to complete and will cost around $50 billion. The project is being build in multiple phases with the initial constructions due to start shortly. These will have a capacity of 200 MW generated by wind turbines and 100 MW produced by solar arrays.
For comparison 13 GW of energy would be the equivalent of between 20 to 30 coal powered power stations.
Unfortunately there will be no reduction in CO2 emissions as these are not replacing power station. The world is still demanding more energy and the uptake of renewable forms of energy is still slowly building its capacity.
This is still good news for India who badly needs energy and if a large portion of that demand cam be met by projects such as this then the nation will be better of fin the long run. India, like China, is embracing these new forms of energy and forging ahead with large scale projects as well as smaller capacity generation which will bring much needed benefits to the smaller villages in India.
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