HOW TO TURN KUTCHH DESERT GREEN

For  Want  of  Power  ?

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Business Line ( 04 Oct ) carries a news report which reads :

“ NALCO , GMDC drop plan for smelter project in Kutch “

It gives following reason :

“ Later , in 2013 , Nalco raised concerns about the extensive power consumption in Smelter for converting alumina into aluminium . Nalco had asked GMDC to arrange electricity at a rate of up to Rs 2.2 per unit to make the smelter project viable “

Apparently , officers of NALCO / GMDC , had missed reading my following blogs :

Piyush Goyal is a Visionary !  [  19  March  2017  ]

https://myblogepage.blogspot.in/2017/03/piyush-goyal-is-visionary.html

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Blog Extract :

Dear Piyush Goyalji :

Please expedite your approval of the proposal submitted by the Power Grid Corporation of India , to generate 315.7 GW of Solar power in the deserts of Rajasthan / Kutchh / Lahul and Spiti / Ladakh

Make a beginning with 10 GW  

That will enable you to provide power to homes / offices and factories all over India at Rs 1.0 per Kwh !

Then challenge Elon Musk , to set up 100 BATTERY STORAGE SYSTEMS ( of 100 MW each ) all over India , using his POWERPACK batteries , the way he plans to do in Australia

Unlimited Power : and Around the Clock  [  29  July  2016  ]

https://myblogepage.blogspot.in/2016/07/unlimited-power-and-round-clock.html

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Blog Extract :

Fortunately for us in India , Shri Piyush Goyal ( Minister for Power ) is one such politician

His ministry ( MNRE ) is examining a proposal submitted by the Power Grid Corporation of India , to generate Solar and Wind power in the deserts of Rajasthan / Kutchh / Lahul and Spiti / Ladakh

These deserts have , between them , the potential to generate 315.7 GW of Solar plus Wind power !

And when this becomes a reality , sun shining over Ladakh will light up a lamp in Andaman-Nikobar islands !

For the entire project , the investments envisaged are :

#  By   2022............. Rs  2    lakh*crore

#  By   2032..............Rs  16  lakh*crore

#  By   2050...........   Rs  43  lakh*crore

Now consider this :

#  A 1mw Solar project would need Rs 6 Crores and need 2.5 acre of land ( 1 hectare  )

#  For that one million ton alumina project , GMDC-NALCO would have a need for 75 MW power

     

#  That means a 75  MW solar power project would have cost , only Rs 450 cr ( in a total project cost of Rs 15,000 Cr ) and needed a tiny parcel of 180 acres of land  !

    

    Of course , there would be additional investment in GRID SIZE power storage batteries ( the kind TESLA is currently installing in Australia ) , to supply power to a process plant , around the clock

    

   

I hope the new Minister for Renewable Energy , Shri R K Singhji , would give a push to the proposal submitted by the Power Grid Corporation of India   

   

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06  Oct  2017

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