Green Energy & a Green Environment

  Wind energy developments and policies in China: A short review (repec.org) Wind energy is the most prominent energy source among all the renewables. However, this technology was not covered in the worldwide before the last three decades. Currently, this energy has been most popularized in the worldwide and some of the countries are started their projections on this sector. The countries like China, USA, Germany, India and Spain have leaded by the installation capacities of wind energy in the global markets. During the last decade, China shared the highest wind energy capacities in the world. Chinese government has been providing the attractive policies for the local wind energy manufacturing companies with the developers. Also, from the last 2–3 years’ scenario, it has been observed that the Chinese government has also emphasised the policies especially for the outside wind energy manufacturing companies. This paper presents a compressive overview on current developments of wind ener

Clean Energy Solutions Center | India: Supporting Wind Power with Tax Incentives and Ensuring Project Sustainability   India’s domestic income tax law provides a 10-year tax holiday for wind generation and  distribution projects, if power generation began before 31 March 2014. Under this policy, wind  operations pay a minimum alternative tax of approximately 20% (based on income). After 10  years of operation, the tax can be offset. This policy design element helps to ensure ongoing  operation of the plant and sustainable deployment outcomes

  New Advances in Wind Energy Technology | Smart Energy | Energy Digital GE has developed a way to monitor voltage in real time. The WindVAR electronics system delivers reactive power to the grid rapidly and only when it is necessary, which regulates system voltage and stabilizes weak grids. Now that this solution can supply reactive power to the grid, weak rural or remote locations can take advantage of new wind power applications. Wind power projects that are equipped with the WindVAR system, will actually bolster grids that tend to be weak. Additionally, the device has the capacity to offer emergency backup support. According to GE, “The turbine's power electronics also reduce the inrush current to about 75 percent of full load current during the wind turbine start-up and provide ride-thru capability.” Other types of VAR equipment can be expensive and difficult to use, minimizing its efficiencies and making it a less viable solution. WindVAR offers a more advanced solution that

Wind Energy Development in India and a Methodology for Evaluating Performance of Wind Farm Clusters (hindawi.com)   With maturity of advanced technologies and urgent requirement for maintaining a healthy environment with reasonable price, India is moving towards a trend of generating electricity from renewable resources. Wind energy production, with its relatively safer and positive environmental characteristics, has evolved from a marginal activity into a multibillion dollar industry today. Wind energy power plants, also known as wind farms, comprise multiple wind turbines. Though there are several wind-mill clusters producing energy in different geographical locations across the world, evaluating their performance is a complex task and is an important focus for stakeholders. In this work an attempt is made to estimate the performance of wind clusters employing a multicriteria approach. Multiple factors that affect wind farm operations are analyzed by taking experts opinions, and a pe