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    • GREEN ENERGY
    Following the disastrous Copenhagen summit, the proponents of green energy have gone to an over kill with ambitious goals. Our country wanted to harness solar energy the solar energy mission unveiled talked about installation of solar power to the tune of 20000 MW by the year 2020. IT was a tall order. No one infact beleived that we could do it even though private sector companies like Tatapower and Moeser Bear have made investments in development of Solar Photovoltaic cells. The government proposed a purchase price of Rs.15/KWM for solar power with a massive dose of subsidy. The present cost of generation of power from coal based stations is about 4/KWM while in projects like Susan Anil Ambani has talked about selling power at Rs. 2.20/KWH.

    Nobel lauerate Dr.Pachouri suggested dividing India in to two time zones whereby peak demand of power could be effectively controlled and supply pitfalls could be addressed. The large scale hydel power plants are another solution to this vexatious issue of green power. We have abundant flow of Brahmaputra in Assam and north eastern states which if harnessed could add up 10000 MW of power. This is an estimate without taking in to account the alleged diversion of the river by the Chinese.

    It is now reliably learnt that the Government has decided to scale down the solar power installation to 4000 MW because the Finance Ministry has thrown up its hands in financing the huge requirement of about 2 lac crores of Rupees. I wonder why the government has not thought of levying green tax or pollution tax on existing power plants which will fetch an additional stream of funds to install solar power plants.

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