Volume 10 • Issue 3 • December 2016 A 119.7 MW Wind Farm in Ellutla, Andhra Pradesh as Vibrant Winds are Blowing Across India In this Issue www.mnre.gov.in DECEMBER 2016 | Volume 10 • Issue 3 | COVER STORY A bi-monthly newsletter of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Government of India 25 (Published in English and Hindi) CHIEF PATRON Shri Piyush Goyal Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Power, Coal and New and Renewable Energy & Mines PATRON Shri Rajeev Kapoor Secretary, MNRE, New Delhi EDITOR 119.7 MW wind farm in Ellutla, Andhra Pradesh Dr Arun K Tripathi MNRE, New Delhi RE NEWS RE INTERVIEW EDITORIAL BOARD 4 National 34 Face to Face with D K Khare 9 International Shri C J Venugopal, IAS B S Negi R K Vimal RE PRODUCT COVER STORY PRODUCTION TEAM 25 Vibrant Winds Blowing Across India 38 Micro Solar Dome Anupama Jauhry, Sangeeta Paul, Abhas Mukherjee, Anushree T Sharma, RE FEATURES RE TRAINING Santosh K Singh, Raman K Jha, Shinjini Sen, R K Joshi, Aman Sachdeva, TERI, New Delhi, Marrakech, Morocco: 44 Suryamitra Skill Development 12 Nimai Ghatak, MNRE The COP of Action Programme in Uttarakhand EDITORIAL OFFICE 16 Conversion of Biomass to Ethanol: RE EVENTS Dr Arun K Tripathi A Prospective Source of Renewable 46 CBIP Awards 2017 for Excellence in Editor, Akshay Urja Energy MNRE, Block No. 14, CGO Complex, Development of Renewable Energy Lodhi Road, New Delhi - 110 003 20 Timeline and Future of Solar 47 US-India Clean Energy Finance Tel. +91 11 2436 3035, 2436 0707 Cells: Year-Wise Innovations and Facility Initiative Announced Fax +91 11 2436 3035 Developments 47 Workshop on Expediting Solar Power E-mail: [email protected] 31 India’s First Bio CNG Plant: Development in West Bengal Web: www.mnre.gov.in Fuelling the Future with PRODUCED BY Renewable Energy 48 CHILDREN’S CORNER TERI Press TERI, Darbari Seth Block, IHC Complex A New Dawn in Renewable Energy 50 WEB/BOOK ALERT 40 Lodhi Road, New Delhi -110 003 Sector in India 52 FORTHCOMING EVENTS Tel. +91 11 2468 2100, 4150 4900 Fax: +91 11 2468 2144, 2468 2145 Email: [email protected] 12 16 20 Web: www.teriin.org PUBLISHER AND PRINTER Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Disclaimer: The views expressed by authors including those of the editor in this newsletter are The 22nd UN Climate Change Dr Madhuri Narra, Solar cells have gone on to not necessarily the views of the MNRE. Conference of Parties (COP22) Er B Velmurugan, and be used in many applications. was convened from November Dr M Shyam present details It has historically been used Published, printed, and edited for and 7–19, 2016 in Marrakech, of the processes and scale- in situations where electrical Morocco. The conference up systems developed at power from the grid was on behalf of the Ministry of New and brought together over SPRERI for conversion of unavailable. Er Kapil K Samar Renewable Energy, Government of India, 22,500 participants, including lignocellulosic biomass to gives a brief history of stepwise from B-14, CGO Complex, Lodhi Road, 15,800 government officials, ethanol. development of solar cell New Delhi, by Dr Arun Kumar Tripathi. 5,400 UN representatives, technology. intergovernmental Printed at Aravali Printers & Publishers organization representatives (P) Ltd. W-30, Okhla Industrial Area, and civil society members. Phase II, New Delhi - 110 020, India. 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The editorial team of Akshay Urja will make every effort to make this magazine highly informative and useful to all our readers. We welcome your suggestions and valuable comments to make further improvements in the content and presentation. Editor, Akshay Urja 2 | Akshay Urja | December 2016 From the Editor’s Desk www.mnre.gov.in lwjt ,d :i vusd From the Editor’s Desk Dear Readers, and cost-wise amongst the lowest in the world being exported to Europe, USA, and other countries. I am happy to share with you that during the COP22 The current issue also presents an article on conversion Summit in Morocco in November 2016 over 20 countries, of biomass to ethanol which is a prospective source of including Brazil and France, became signatories to the renewable energy. Scientists at the Sardar Patel Renewable framework agreement of the International Solar Alliance Energy Research Institute (SPRERI) have recently developed (ISA)—an initiative that is the brainchild of India. The and demonstrated technologies for in-house production framework agreement of ISA was opened for signatures of enzyme, pretreatment of the crop residues at mild on the sidelines of COP22 and with this legal framework conditions, high solid saccharification, and fermentation in place, the ISA will be a major international body of sugars from lignocellulosic materials. Processes and headquartered in India. Recently, the Union Cabinet, scale-up systems have been developed at SPRERI for chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has given conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to ethanol.