The Mission
1. Transform the extended city of Thiruvananthapuram into a Renewable Energy Model City of India by the year 2015 and maintain that status ever after.
2. Publicize its accomplishment to help launch similar action plans throughout Kerala and India, bringing recognition from the community committed to a sustainable future.
This Action Plan here strives to fulfill the national mission in renewable energy published by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission
A sample solar grid connected residential installation of 10KW in California. 2KW to 10 KW residential installations like this is becoming very wide spread in many California cities.
This page shows a number of very large scale recent solar grid connected systems at well known Universities, Hospitals, Companies in California. http://reaptec.blogspot.com/p/recent-solar-grid-connected.html
The original proposal
by Dr. P. Karunakaran Nair presented to the Thiruvananthapuram Nagara Sabha on Nov 2010, updated, PULARI - REAPTEC. This is based on the National Mission from MNRE shown above.
Some email communications from early participants are below.
C. Balagopal, Managing Director, Terumo Penpol Limited:
I am impressed by your vision for a renewable energy future for Trivandrum (and other cities). I read with interest your presentation on the objectives and strategy of PULARI. I believe this is a very important initiative and deserves the support of all thinking and concerned citizens. I would like to get the CII involved in this initiative and am accordingly forwarding your presentation to the CII / Trivandrum Zonal Council for further action.
Prof. V. K. Damodaran:
We at INGCORE (International NGO for RE), EMC and CED along with (may be REC Calicut Alumni too) other tech-savvy organizations will join hands with expertise and willingness to achieve,in this mission and if your weight is also thrown into it, we can get things going.There are many citizens now interested in having Solar PV on their roof top, irrespective of the long or 'no" pay back period with current rates for installation. All apartment complexes can have solar PV for common electrical lights and biogas plants for waste management in an economic way,avoiding recurring expenses. So, scope is immense.
Chacko Neroth:
I would be delighted to help the project with the design, selection of equipment, and installation. I may be able to secure significant discounts for many of the items from vendors in USA and pass along the savings to the project. However I do not know whether this project will be subject to import duties, or the shipping costs to India may affect overall savings.
Chacko Neroth's presentation at INGCORE 2010, Thiruvananthapuram, specifically addressing solar grid connected systems, with some emphasis for Kerala alternative energy projects:
Solar Energy For The People
Reference:Solar Radiation Data For India
Dharesan Unnithan, Director, Energy Management Center:
Thanks for the mail. If we have a target on December 2011, we have to have a discussion at IE office on a convenient date shortly, so that we will get a clear picture on the present consumption with its load break up.
S. S. Kaimal, Senior Engineer, Central Govt. India:
I believe that energy is the prime mover of human civilisation....Some months ago, when India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and U.S. President George W. Bush sat in the White House, discussing the Indo-U.S. Nuclear deal ...neither of them would have given a thought that..a gigantic nuclear fusion reactor, bigger than the biggest any human agency can build, was shedding light and warmth over one half of our planet, free of cost and free of any inherent danger either of radiation or risks of waste disposal....why bother to erect such nuclear power plants when limitless energy is freely available from the gigantic fusion reactor, the sun, as mentioned above? As the verse in the Gita says, "Why dig a well when the whole region is flooded with water?"
Dr Babu Ambat, Executive Director, Centre for Environment and Development,Thiruvananthapuram:
The attached ppt [proposal] seems very interesting. The recently concluded Kerala Environment Environment Congress organised by Centre for Environment and Development has discussed in detail the potential of solar energy especially in the context of Kerala. I would like to know more about the PULARI program and also to discuss whether CED can contribute in anyway in this program.
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1. Transform the extended city of Thiruvananthapuram into a Renewable Energy Model City of India by the year 2015 and maintain that status ever after.
2. Publicize its accomplishment to help launch similar action plans throughout Kerala and India, bringing recognition from the community committed to a sustainable future.
This Action Plan here strives to fulfill the national mission in renewable energy published by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission
This page shows a number of very large scale recent solar grid connected systems at well known Universities, Hospitals, Companies in California. http://reaptec.blogspot.com/p/recent-solar-grid-connected.html
The original proposal
by Dr. P. Karunakaran Nair presented to the Thiruvananthapuram Nagara Sabha on Nov 2010, updated, PULARI - REAPTEC. This is based on the National Mission from MNRE shown above.
Some email communications from early participants are below.
C. Balagopal, Managing Director, Terumo Penpol Limited:
I am impressed by your vision for a renewable energy future for Trivandrum (and other cities). I read with interest your presentation on the objectives and strategy of PULARI. I believe this is a very important initiative and deserves the support of all thinking and concerned citizens. I would like to get the CII involved in this initiative and am accordingly forwarding your presentation to the CII / Trivandrum Zonal Council for further action.
Prof. V. K. Damodaran:
We at INGCORE (International NGO for RE), EMC and CED along with (may be REC Calicut Alumni too) other tech-savvy organizations will join hands with expertise and willingness to achieve,in this mission and if your weight is also thrown into it, we can get things going.There are many citizens now interested in having Solar PV on their roof top, irrespective of the long or 'no" pay back period with current rates for installation. All apartment complexes can have solar PV for common electrical lights and biogas plants for waste management in an economic way,avoiding recurring expenses. So, scope is immense.
Chacko Neroth:
I would be delighted to help the project with the design, selection of equipment, and installation. I may be able to secure significant discounts for many of the items from vendors in USA and pass along the savings to the project. However I do not know whether this project will be subject to import duties, or the shipping costs to India may affect overall savings.
Chacko Neroth's presentation at INGCORE 2010, Thiruvananthapuram, specifically addressing solar grid connected systems, with some emphasis for Kerala alternative energy projects:
Solar Energy For The People
Reference:Solar Radiation Data For India
Dharesan Unnithan, Director, Energy Management Center:
Thanks for the mail. If we have a target on December 2011, we have to have a discussion at IE office on a convenient date shortly, so that we will get a clear picture on the present consumption with its load break up.
S. S. Kaimal, Senior Engineer, Central Govt. India:
I believe that energy is the prime mover of human civilisation....Some months ago, when India’s Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and U.S. President George W. Bush sat in the White House, discussing the Indo-U.S. Nuclear deal ...neither of them would have given a thought that..a gigantic nuclear fusion reactor, bigger than the biggest any human agency can build, was shedding light and warmth over one half of our planet, free of cost and free of any inherent danger either of radiation or risks of waste disposal....why bother to erect such nuclear power plants when limitless energy is freely available from the gigantic fusion reactor, the sun, as mentioned above? As the verse in the Gita says, "Why dig a well when the whole region is flooded with water?"
Dr Babu Ambat, Executive Director, Centre for Environment and Development,Thiruvananthapuram:
The attached ppt [proposal] seems very interesting. The recently concluded Kerala Environment Environment Congress organised by Centre for Environment and Development has discussed in detail the potential of solar energy especially in the context of Kerala. I would like to know more about the PULARI program and also to discuss whether CED can contribute in anyway in this program.
By adding comments below, you can respond to this proposal. Please provide suggestions, and how you may personally be able to help to accomplish this mission. Get email notification about a new comment, complete the submit link on the righ side towards the top.
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