[silk] Electricity riots

2013-05-24 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
Ever since much the same happened in Pakistan about five years ago I've been wondering when India would follow. My regret is that they didn't go torch a politician's bungalow, at least that would have yielded results.

Re: [silk] Electricity riots

2013-05-24 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:20:33PM +0530, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote: Ever since much the same happened in Pakistan about five years ago I've been wondering when India would follow. My regret is that they didn't go torch a politician's bungalow, at least that would have yielded results. What's

Re: [silk] Electricity riots

2013-05-24 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: What's the current PV deployment situation in India? Any signs for a ramp-up? 1686.44 MW as of March 31, 2013 [1]. All the right noises seem to be being made in terms of ramp up, although it is anyone's guess what connection

Re: [silk] Electricity riots

2013-05-24 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
On May 24, 2013 2:25 PM, Eugen Leitl eu...@leitl.org wrote: (...) What's the current PV deployment situation in India? Any signs for a ramp-up? The power grid and sub stations need more investment than power generation, we are losing 100 - 800 MW of wind energy daily in Tamil Nadu alone. Power

Re: [silk] Electricity riots

2013-05-24 Thread Udhay Shankar N
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 5:29 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote: The power grid and sub stations need more investment than power generation, we are losing 100 - 800 MW of wind energy daily in Tamil Nadu alone. Transmission loss is more theft than inefficiency, in my understanding.

Re: [silk] Electricity riots

2013-05-24 Thread Srini RamaKrishnan
Not transmission loss, the wind farms aren't able to inject power into the grid at peak output and are dumping the power on generation. They are unhappy because they don't get paid for the dumped power. As it is, most state electricity companies are operating at a loss of hundreds of millions of