Renewable Energy Developments in India

A reader in India writes about my upcoming trip to the Storage Week conference:

Nice to know you are participating in the storage conference in Austin, Texas. I would be happy to hear from you about your experience there in due course. I myself am working on storage solutions for roof top wind/solar which I will share with you sometime in future. 

 You may not remember: I had grumbled about your books being solely US-centric, which you accepted too. In your present letter, there is mention of what is going on in the world elsewhere in the RE field – a welcome sign. India has an ambition plan of generating 20000 mw of energy from renewable by 2020, which is going to be certainly surpassed.  things here are not done in organised and methodical manner as they are done in your country. But the happy thing is we do not have political obstructions, interference from vested business interests, particularly oil etc. to scuttle green efforts. Hope you will, when you have time, try to know about national solar mission of India.

Yes, I remember well, and thanks for raising that excellent point: I do tend to write about the U.S. to the exclusion of the rest of the world, though I’m trying to become less parochial.  Making the shift isn’t easy, as I tend to know more about what’s happening here – not that that’s a wonderful excuse. 

For what it’s worth, I’m extremely impressed with what you folks are doing in India with respect to renewable energy.  Over the past two years, I’ve had literally 100+ Skype sessions with Vijay Rochlani, a key business contact in Mumbai (see 2GreenEnergy “Associates”), who’s attempted to keep me abreast of the developments, and, in fact, connect Indian business interests to our clean energy investment opportunities.