Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970204011443.5677d716@pop.pipeline.com> Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 13:20:41 -0500 From: Brendan Murphy <mailto:bmurphy@PIPELINE.COM> Subject: Purpose of this list To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
This is a wonderful example of the kind of posting which should predominate on this list. It has substance and refers list subscribers to other sources -- in this case a free e-mail subscription from an apparently authoritative source.This "praxis vs. theory" debate, by contrast, is just a lot of noise which is driving subscribers away in droves, by all indications.
Bottom line: respect the purpose and spirit of the list!
At 01:38 PM 2/3/97 -0800, you wrote: >WIND POWER MOVES AHEAD
>OF PLANNERS IN INDIA
>
> Wind energy is becoming the primary success story,
>according to government figures, in India's bold effort to promote
>renewables during its Eighth Five-Year Plan, which runs from
>1992-1997.
>
> Currently, the Ministry of Non-Conventional Energy
>Sources (MNES) said in a recent report, installed wind capacity
>totals some 730 MW, nearly 50% higher than India's initial goal
>of 500 MW for the Five-Year Plan.
>
> Wind's success must be welcome, in view of the fact that
>other renewable energy sources with the exception of photovoltaics
>(PV) are lagging. India established an overall goal of 2,000 MW
>of new capacity from renewables during the plan period, or 10% of
>all estimated new generating capacity. The following data, from
>an article by B. S. K. Naidu of the Indian Renewable Energy
>Development Agency (IREDA) in the June issue of Energy Policy
>magazine, shows technology components of the plan and their
>progress through September, 1995:
>
>Technology Goal (through 3/97) Installed (9/95)
>
>Small hydro (<3 MW) 600 122
>
>Wind 500 557
>
>Bioenergy 500 28
>
>Cogeneration 300 10
>
>Solar thermal 30 -
>
>Solar photovoltaic 25 17
>
>Other 45 -
>
>Total 2000 734
>
> According to Naidu, the country is implementing the
>world's largest wind resource assessment program, with over 600
>stations in 25 states recording data. Some 25 wind turbine
>manufacturing companies are building or assembling machines in
>India, Naidu said, and the country's ultimate wind potential is
>estimated at 20,000 MW.
>
> "India is one of the very few developing countries," Naidu
>said, "which has embarked upon an environmentally conscious
>development path and has launched policy initiatives to accelerate
>renewable energy development for sustainability. If 2,000 MW of
>renewable electric capacity can be achieved during 1992-1997,
>India would have special pride of place in the world community,
>having added nearly [a] 10% share of renewables in its [new]
>capacity addition program in a span of five years."
>
> If the plan's goal is completed successfully, Naidu added,
>India would move on toward longer-range goals of 10,000 MW of
>renewable generating capacity by the year 2010 and 50,000 MW by
>2020.
>
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