theme speech in solar energy conference by Ramesh shivanna on 20.07.2016

Theme speech by Sri. Ramesh Shivanna, Convener, Energy Committee at the Assochem solar energy conference 2016 on 20^th July, 2016 at 9.30 a.m. at Hotel Shangri-La , Bengaluru

Sri. D K Shivakumar, Hon’ble Minister for Energy, GoK

Shri shankarlinge gowda, IAS,® chairman KERC

Sri. P Ravikumar, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Shri Rajendra cholan, IAS, Managing Director, BESCOM.

Shri G V Balaram, MD , KREDL

Shri shivkumar chairman Assochem

Shri S Babu co – chairman Assochem

Shri sudharshan, Director Asochem

Distinguished Invitees

Friends from the Print and Electronic Media

Dear Friends

Ladies and Gentlemen

Good Morning & I join my chairman in welcoming you all for the ASSOCHAM solar conference 2016.  

It is important for all stakeholders to contribute to achieve the RE target set by the National RE mission. There is a need for a robust and integrated policy regime which attracts investors covering various aspects such as:

 Stable and long term policy framework

 Role of Central and State governments

 corridor and Transmission planning for RE Evacuation

 Grid management protocols

The objective of this Seminar is to seek inputs from a large number of stakeholders including industry (developers, system integrators and manufacturers), government (Central and State), regulators, research institutions and think tanks. These discussions in the workshop will be used as inputs for the National Energy Policy (NEP) are being developed by NITI Aayog. It will help frame a robust and long-term policy environment, which will help achieve the 175 GW of RE target.

The event will discuss the issues and solutions concerning

·        The implementation of state government ambitious programme of installing 100GW of Solar Power in the country by 2022.

·        Sharing experiences of successful projects the participants will be able to set the benchmark of their performance and develop system of effective project management of solar installation.

·        To discuss the support needed from concerned State Governments regarding various issues of projects.

·        Know the capability of local manufacturers and suggest improvement.

·        Showcase the investment potential in Solar Sector to rest of the world to achieve the target for installation of solar power.

·        Provide platform for entrepreneurs, financers, mentors and others stakeholders to engage and collaborate across the world, to share ideas, best practices; develop solutions and partnerships that benefit India.

At present renewable sources form about 13% of the total installed capacity of power in India.  The state government is currently targeting to increase renewable energy capacities and this ambitious capacity addition plans call for several modifications in policy actions, regulatory measures, technical advancements and suitable investments supports.

India has the potential to be amongst the top three countries globally in the next five years in terms of installed capacity of renewable energy, thereby creating millions of new jobs, reducing poverty and achieving sustained socio-economic development.

Accordingly, enhancing the share of renewable in the overall energy basket of the country is a priority for the Indian government.  With solar power at the centre stage, Government of India has ambitious programme to install 100 GW of solar electricity by 2022.

Solar has a prime role to play in energy security, helping to achieve a clean energy mix in the country.  Three main factors – macro drivers, energy market drivers and technology-specific drivers – drive the market attractiveness for solar in India.  They determine whether the country has a favorable investment climate. 

·        Macro drivers include the economic and political stability of the country and ease of doing business. 

·        The country’s energy market is driven by the demand - supply scenario of solar energy, electricity consumption growth, reliance on energy imports and energy mix ratios.  The power infrastructure and ability to connect solar energy and availability, cost of finance for solar energy also drive the market. 

·        Technology specific drivers include attractiveness of a solar project.  The parameters are strength and potential of harnessing solar energy, technology maturity, forecasted growth and strength of the local supply chain.  This means the state of local manufacturing of solar technologies in the country.  

Nevertheless, Karnataka has been always fore front among all the states creating innovative policies.

Various initiatives are being taken by the Karnataka state government for creating conducive policy environment for development of Renewable Energy in the state. 

 However, there is a need to undertake innovative and concerted efforts with a view to reducing the cost of finance and cost of technology for speedy deployment of competitive solar power installations in the state.

There is need to strengthen the local supply chain:  One of the prime issues of local manufacturing in solar components is that the entire manufacturing chain is not in India.  It is mostly dependent on import of components from other countries.  Differential pricing by foreign suppliers has also added to the problem for Indian manufacturers.  Addressing this challenge should be one of the major areas of concern of the Government.  The Government should encourage backward integration to expand the chain of production in India.  The Government should encourage procurement of solar energy by giving the domestic manufacturers preferred status.  With these initiatives in place, Indian manufacturers of solar technologies are expected to play a bigger role.

When we met Mr shankarlingegowda chairman of KERC in his office, he asked us one question?  What is the consumption of power per day in the Karnataka state? We understand from him that the total power consumption is 150 Miilions units a day, where as neighboring states like tamilnadu is more than 300 million units, Andra pradesh/telangana is 275 million units. It means the state is consuming less energy; it speaks about the industrial growth in the state. The industrial growth or economy growth is directly measured by the energy consumption a day. We as representatives of Industry Assochem and the government  should think about this. The large manufacturing should come to the state. It is very much necessary to bring manufacturing units in the renewable energy domain in the state. We request honorable minister to create Industrial park exclusively for the renewable energy equipments manufacturing in the state with few incentives to invite investors in the manufacturing.

There is need for the research and development activities in the state for creating solar energy, and all the clean energy. Addition to this, clean energy storage facilities going to be future. Government should encourage and initiate such research and developmental activities.

Sir,  Industry friends sitting here, seeking many clarifications from the government.

The different projects are at different stages of implementation.

·        Reverse bidding PPA’s and its developers facing a challenges like

o   Delay in the Land procurement  and NA activities

o   Delay in the evacuation approvals , ROW and so on 

o   Most of the developers are seeking for the PPA’s extension without changing the tariff and other terms and conditions. 

·         PPA’s  issued under land owner scheme and its developers has challenges like

o   Delay is due to  funding challenges  without collateral from the banks

o   Most of the Land owners are seeking for the PPA’s extension without changing   the tariff, terms and conditions.

·        Rooftop developers has challenge of

o   The earlier solar rooftop policy and with draw of the policy made investors, developers, bankers uncertain and unviable about the Rooftop solar scheme.

·        Bilateral power purchase has question

o   Many of the private consumers are willing to buy from the private solar power generators. Developers looking for the ease of getting NOC and evacuation approval.

With this once again I wish to mention all of you, ASSOCHAM always work with government and other stake holders to promote the Renewable energy by conducting seminars, conferences and workshops .Discuss the issues and challenges faced by stakeholders in implementation of Green Energy, here we are with you from this one day conference with theme “Solar energy- the new investment power path”

Our panelists from state government, regulators and industry captains will discuss throughout a day 

Have a wonderful day

Thank you.

UMDA work shop on BEE speech by Ramesh shivanna 17.4.2015

UPS manufacturers and dealer association- BIS standards and star rating for the UPS work shop 

Day by day we see the human life dependency of the electricity is increasing. Buildings are increasingly responsible for hosting number of energy consuming electronics and electrical equipment's  and general electronic products such as Refrigerators, washing machines and Air conditioning units, people with middle income groups are also buying high-end equipments. Also the formal and informal market of inefficient electrical products, influences the unprecedented energy consumption at household level. Therefore, Ministry of Power has established the Bureau of Energy Efficiency to monitor, register and verify the Energy Star Labeled equipment's which are more energy efficient and saves money for the consumers.

The consumers’ are in dilemma to know-how and select the best category of appliance according to their needs and requirement. There was a need for standards and labeling program because of wide variation in energy consumption of products, information on energy consumption being often not easily available or easy to understand from the nameplate and leading to continued manufacture and purchase of inefficient equipment's and appliances.

The Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE) has established comparative star labeling system for indoor appliances like tubular fluorescent lamps, refrigerators (frost free and direct cool), and air conditioners. Other appliances include distribution transformer, induction motors, pump sets, ceiling fans, LPG, electric geysers and colour TV.  But we all of us used to speak about bringing standards in the Inverter and UPS which equally used now days and become basic need in any house , commercial and industries. In fact from UMDA we had separate committee formed to build a specification and recommended to Bureau of India standards and also published in our publications to follow by all our members.

Today we all should welcome the BEE, which is extended the star rating mandatory to Inverter and UPS. This will help the industry to bring a standard in the product

More the number of stars more are the energy efficiency of the appliance. There are six significant benefits from this program which include providing information on energy use to consumers, enabling consumers to reduce energy bills, reducing capital investment in energy supply infrastructure, strengthening competitive markets, mitigating climate change goals and reducing urban/regional pollution.

Ladies and gentle this is a time to know and create awareness ourselves. The UL being a certifying agency also took initiative to educate us. We take this opportunity to welcome them for supporting us to conduct this workshop today.

We well come all the UL team, also well come all the managing committee and last but not the least all the members you all. Hearty welcome to you all

Thank you

UMDA gettogether 2016 speech by Ramesh shivanna

2.1.2016

 

Dear ladies and gentlemen

“Start looking at the sunshine, you will never see the shadow”   It’s time to see sunshine.  I wish all of you a happy and prosperous new 2016. We are stepping in to a new year with this; UMDA has completed 10 years and stepping in to 11^th years in this month.

I also wish Happy UMDA anniversary to all the members of this association. And welcome all of you for this evening.

This Industry evolved to address   uninterrupted power need for the few critical applications like data storage and data computation. UPS Industry found a growth under an Information technology and telecommunications.

Few opportunities were explored in back up power for electrical application and then now evolving in to address wind and solar Industry.

Going forward the electricity generation from variable generation is growing high rate. The increase is driven by a combination of effects that include falling prices for wind and solar generation. Also the concern about reduce the fossil fuel generation and government policies.  

In this emerging market, one more promising opportunity opening up for all of us is Electrical energy storage systems.

The trend is moving towards product to energy availability. We all of us are struck with product and become a product provider not solution provider.

Electric Energy storage is going to address multiple challenges like  Mitigating a peak demand, Grid demand management, Smoothing out intermittency, Maximizing the value of on-site generation, integrating renewable in to the Grid through voltage and frequency support(like our ONLINE UPS ) and increasing the reliability of use of renewable off the grid. However growing integration of energy storage in to the national  electricity market could present additional economic, regulatory and technical challenges.

The different types of Electrical Energy storage systems

1.     Mechanical energy storage

2.     Electrical and thermal energy storage

3.      Electrochemical energy storage

Mechanical energy –

a.     Pumped hydro,- pumping back the water in the hydro plant

b.     Fly wheel-  mechanical wheel to harness electricity

c.      Compressed air energy storage- compressed air to get potent energy

Electrical and thermal energy

a.     Capacitor and super conducting magnetic coil.

b.     Thermal heat and cold storage's

Electro chemical and chemical energy

a.     Secondary batteries – lead acid, Nicd, Lithium etc

b.     Flow batteries- energy stored in directly electrolyte- fuel cell

c.      Hydrogen or synthetic gases

The preserved energy in different form shall be converted to Electrical energy and export to Grid.

Electrical energy storage is in the verge opening a new vast market for all of us. All the members in this association has to give thought on exploring this market to grow further.

With these opening remarks, I invite all of you once again this evening for the UMDA get together.

 Thank you

UPS & Solar days 2015 speech by Ramesh Shivanna

Dear ladies and Gentle men

Putting days in to the life is aging. Putting life in to the days is growing. This gathering is witness that , the job of putting life in to our days. We were busy in the world of business looked each other as rivals. But SD awards came in to our life  10 year ago, recognized our work, created a culture within us, built a value system in this business community. Created an harmony among us.

I represent Powertrnix systems Ltd., Sadbhavana energy pvt Ltd., UMDA as general secretary, KRESMA as president. I take this opportunity to wish all of you behalf all the organizations which I represent a Happy UPS and solar Day.

Every year , when we  have been called to speak, we always speak about ourselves, our business, our Industry , and future plan… But when I have been invited this tme. I really thought about his passion in bring all of us together every year  since 10 years. Did some home work, google about him Linkdin and his website.

Man worked as System analyst(scientist) at NIC and had Plum posting with CM office directly on deputation. He created all  software, then he felt he can contribute to the common good of the people, resigned and started magazine in IT and computer domain. Being power back ground, he chose UPS industry as the medium to address then followed by Solar. Fought hard to get the status of IT equipment to UPS, he has played great role in this ups industry to grow in media prospective. Even he was chaired UMDA panel discussion on Reverse action. He is a philanthropist, educationist, completed his Doctoral degree on Transient Fault Tolerance computing for Illions, USA. Presented paper at LSE London, Later this paper is published by sage publication London & USA simultaneously.

He transformed Work into Worship & Worship into Wisdom, which he has dissipated to all of us. He is a man behind, to unite all of us, year after year since last 10 year, In spite of rough patches he went through in his family life, financial and health.  He deserves a standing ovation from the industry for his selfless service Dr Sai…. No body else could have been done this job consistently without any commercial benefits..your service is commendable to this industry…

Soft disk, carry the  legacy of  the oldest & largest UPS cum SOLAR magazine from India. With growing popularity, Softdisk has spread to Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Pune, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and other major cities in India. Softdisk firmly believes that the future of IT lies in rural India, with so much power paucity, it is imperative that they give so much emphasis on Power Availability, Power Continuity & Power quality.

Unless we take the services available to the urban masses to the rural India, we cannot realize the true potential of Indian Market. Soft disk fully agree to concept of ‘PURA’ put forth by our then President Late
Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Ji, where PURA stand for providing Urban amenities to the Rural Areas.

No wonders, Softdisk is much sought after in countries like asian countries Taiwan, Singapore, China, Bangladesh Hong Kong and the likes as they try to storm the Indian market ferociously along with the remote villages of Bihar, Uttar-Pradesh, Orissa & Madhya Pradesh.

Softdisk brings to you a wide array of information from latest product news to in-depth articles and software reviews our Network and Internet sections are especially beneficial to net savvy computer professional apart from their regular industry analysis of various segments of Power and IT.

These Surveys in its 23rd year has achieved tremendous response and is widely accepted by industrialists and the masses alike. Softdisk started in 1991 has been conducting annual surveys in various segments of Power & IT Industry since 1992 and has been coming up with what has been very popularly known as SD Awards. This has been referred by many as the fragmented encyclopedia of the Industry segments, these surveys are most eagerly awaited in-depth analysis of a particular segment of the Industry which user and companies refer to, as a decision making tool.  Unlike other magazines and surveying agencies they don't cluster all the segments of IT industry into one but meticulously Sub-segment even within the segment. SD's Top 10 for the various segment of the Industry is easily the most exhaustive and commonly referenced guide of the industry, which has started influencing the corporate decision-making and Govt. buying. No. Wonders, it is referred by many as the Bible of the Industry.

Now they have gone a step further by directly going to the end-user and knowing their satisfaction level for various IT products they own. This issue of theirs has received enormous responses by the corporate, Big business houses and even the Govt. They have been appointed as an active consultant for the IT infrastructure & power backup requirement for IT Technology Park to be set up in Bhopal, in the state of Madhya Pradesh.

Today Softdisk claims to have a circulation of 41000 copies, with faith 100 percent.  It should be one of the top circulated magazine with a reader ship estimated more than 2.4 lakhs.

All the UPS cum SOLAR Surveys are also archived in the web site. http://www.sdawards.in

They have the Hindi (Edition) of Softdisk also. I understand ,There Hindi effort too received enormous response so much and positioned no 1 IT Magazine in Hindi catering to the Hindi belt of India,

Hence they  apt punch Line:

YOU RELY ON US WE RELY ON FACTS.

Congatulations once again all you for getting awarded and thanks once again to  Soft Disk , Dr Sai for inviting me to speak few words.