After
announcing it would provide Rs 15,000 each to beneficiaries of Ram
Manohar Lohia Gramin Awas Yojna for the rural poor to install solar
power panels, the Samajwadi Party government has decided to distribute
solar powered fans to them. A total of 1,13,301 beneficiaries would be
benefited by the scheme by March 31, 2014.
Following
a directive of Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, the Rural Development
Department has asked Non-conventional Energy Development Agency (NEDA)
to select the model of fans, either ceiling or table, that would be
suitable to run on solar power, simultaneously with light bulbs or CFLs
(compact fluorescent lamps) in the villages.
As
the scheme was launched in March this year, almost a year after the
initial announcement, the first and second phase of the scheme will be
implemented simultaneously and completed in March, 2014. For the phase
of 2012-13,High quality leasecleaningsydney and
ventilation systems designed and distributed. the government has
released Rs 783 crore to construct 68,085 Lohia houses. It has made a
provision of Rs 520 crore to construct 45,A full line of Power energymonitor for a wide range of professional uses.216 houses for the second phase of 2013-14.Complete line of commercial crystalbeadswholesale from all of the best manufacturers.
An
official of the Rural Development Department said, "The Chief Minister
has the view that fans should be provided to rural people when they have
solar power facility. He has directed to provide fans in every Lohia
Awas."
Rural
Development Commissioner Khatravath Ravindra Naika said, "It is yet to
be decided whether NEDA will provide fans directly or cash would be
given to beneficiaries to purchase the fans." Naika said that technical
analysis of solar panels and batteries will be done before selecting the
models of fans.
The
government had announced Ram Manohar Lohia Gramin Awas Yojna after
closing Mahamaya Awas Yojna and Mahamaya Sarvajan Awas Yojna of the
previous Mayawati government.
Mahamaya
Awas Yojna was for Dalits and Mahamaya Sarvajan Awas Yojna for
non-Dalits who did not have pucca houses and had not got the financial
assistance of Rs 45,000 for constructing houses under Indira Awas Yojna
because their names were not on the BPL list of 2002.
One
of my favorite things to do at trade shows is to walk around the
exhibit floor to look for the newest technologies and players.
Intersolar, one of the largest solar energy trade shows in the country
that materialized in downtown San Francisco this week, is a good venue
to do just that and this week I was able to peer into the future of
solar technology across the show floor.
At
the same time, the solar industry has been beset by an oversupply of
solar panels in recent years and collapsing prices for over two years
now, and dozens of solar module manufacturers have filed for bankruptcy
or been sold cheaply in recent months. Dozens more have tried to hang on
by cutting back their production significantly.
All
of this has meant that many companies seem to have cut their trade show
budgets, and the event was a decidedly smaller and quieter event than
last year.We makes possible ballasted securityservices in Ontario just better than your imagination. In addition,The industry's leading manufacturer of floorlamps.
I didn't see a few technologies as prominently this year, particularly
concentrating photovoltaic technology, which uses mirrors and lens to
concentrate sun light onto tiny solar cells. Click on their website
www.pvsolver.com for more information.
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Silver Spring Bringing Intelligence to Street Lights
Silver Spring Networks (SSNI), the smart grid networking company that wants to expand its reach to streetlights, traffic signals and other "smart city" devices, will get a chance to try it out in a city famous for its lights. The Redwood City,I have tried several sets of lampshades that have lasted one season only. Calif based company said Thursday it's working with Paris lighting systems provider Evesa, in a small pilot that's part of a broader scheme to reduce the city's lighting energy consumption by nearly one-third by decade's end.
The pilot will focus on a small portion of a central Paris neighborhood along the Seine, Sterling Hughes,The renewable wind energy system and ledparlights, Wind Sphere, the Redwood City, Calif.-based company's senior director of advanced technology, said in a phone interview. Silver Spring will be providing the unified wireless networking platform to link both street lights and traffic signals, primarily to drive better operational efficiency out of the system as a whole, he said.
While the terms and scope of the pilot aren't yet defined, it's part of the initial stages of what could grow to a pretty large citywide smart lighting and traffic project. Paris wants to reduce its overall lighting energy consumption by 30 percent from 2004 levels by 2020, through a combination of more efficient lighting like LEDs and smarter control systems.Find High Quality Brand Name lasermarker and Tungsten Wedding Bands for Men at the Best Prices. Reaching that goal without instituting unpopular lights-out regimes or changing the character of the city's famous nightscapes will take some clever work.
This isn't the only lighting technology project underway for Evesa, a consortium named after participating companies ETDE, Vinci Energies, SATELEC and Aximum that was formed in 2011 to carry out Paris' ambitious lighting-efficiency project. Evesa has already been hard at work on revamping the lighting at famous Paris landmarks like the Place de la Concorde,Marking machines and ledbulbe27 for permanent part marking and product traceability. and initial reports peg total project cost at between 500 million and 700 million ($650 million to $900 million). Silver Spring's new project is a tiny sliver of that amount, of course. (Financial details weren't disclosed.)
This particular project doesn't involve replacing streetlights with LEDs or other more efficient light sources, he noted. Instead, it's aimed at networking what's there for increased operational efficiency, which can actually save more in street lighting costs than can energy efficiency gains. That's because each networked street light or traffic signal can deliver useful information to operators,international supplies a full range of cylinder heated long lasting pendantlamps. including whether they're on or off, and of course, whether they're working or not.
That may sound simple, but compared to today's mostly "dumb" street lights, it's a vast improvement, allowing cities or utilities to direct replacement crews to burned-out lights as they happen, instead of waiting for complaints or on-site inspections to discover the problem, to name one cost-saving measure. Silver Spring is enlisting the help of partner Streetlight.Vision, which makes streetlight monitoring and control software, for its Paris pilot, Hughes said.
Elsewhere, Silver Spring is also focusing on LED street lights for its push into city networking, he said. Last month it announced a partnership with LED Roadway Lighting, a Canadian company that makes LED replacement modules meant to fit into existing streetlight fixtures, for example. (LEDs are a natural fit for streetlights, since they last longer and run cheaper than their high-pressure sodium and metal halide predecessors, and offer a range of digital controls that lend themselves well to being networked.)
Beyond energy and operational savings, "there's a whole spectrum of applications" for a network that uses ubiquitous traffic lights and light poles as its nodes, Hughes said. Silver Spring is working on projects with San Antonio, Texas municipal utility CPS Energy, as well as with partners in Singapore and Malaysia, that are aimed at expanding its wireless networks to more endpoints in a city, though details are as yet scarce.
The pilot will focus on a small portion of a central Paris neighborhood along the Seine, Sterling Hughes,The renewable wind energy system and ledparlights, Wind Sphere, the Redwood City, Calif.-based company's senior director of advanced technology, said in a phone interview. Silver Spring will be providing the unified wireless networking platform to link both street lights and traffic signals, primarily to drive better operational efficiency out of the system as a whole, he said.
While the terms and scope of the pilot aren't yet defined, it's part of the initial stages of what could grow to a pretty large citywide smart lighting and traffic project. Paris wants to reduce its overall lighting energy consumption by 30 percent from 2004 levels by 2020, through a combination of more efficient lighting like LEDs and smarter control systems.Find High Quality Brand Name lasermarker and Tungsten Wedding Bands for Men at the Best Prices. Reaching that goal without instituting unpopular lights-out regimes or changing the character of the city's famous nightscapes will take some clever work.
This isn't the only lighting technology project underway for Evesa, a consortium named after participating companies ETDE, Vinci Energies, SATELEC and Aximum that was formed in 2011 to carry out Paris' ambitious lighting-efficiency project. Evesa has already been hard at work on revamping the lighting at famous Paris landmarks like the Place de la Concorde,Marking machines and ledbulbe27 for permanent part marking and product traceability. and initial reports peg total project cost at between 500 million and 700 million ($650 million to $900 million). Silver Spring's new project is a tiny sliver of that amount, of course. (Financial details weren't disclosed.)
This particular project doesn't involve replacing streetlights with LEDs or other more efficient light sources, he noted. Instead, it's aimed at networking what's there for increased operational efficiency, which can actually save more in street lighting costs than can energy efficiency gains. That's because each networked street light or traffic signal can deliver useful information to operators,international supplies a full range of cylinder heated long lasting pendantlamps. including whether they're on or off, and of course, whether they're working or not.
That may sound simple, but compared to today's mostly "dumb" street lights, it's a vast improvement, allowing cities or utilities to direct replacement crews to burned-out lights as they happen, instead of waiting for complaints or on-site inspections to discover the problem, to name one cost-saving measure. Silver Spring is enlisting the help of partner Streetlight.Vision, which makes streetlight monitoring and control software, for its Paris pilot, Hughes said.
Elsewhere, Silver Spring is also focusing on LED street lights for its push into city networking, he said. Last month it announced a partnership with LED Roadway Lighting, a Canadian company that makes LED replacement modules meant to fit into existing streetlight fixtures, for example. (LEDs are a natural fit for streetlights, since they last longer and run cheaper than their high-pressure sodium and metal halide predecessors, and offer a range of digital controls that lend themselves well to being networked.)
Beyond energy and operational savings, "there's a whole spectrum of applications" for a network that uses ubiquitous traffic lights and light poles as its nodes, Hughes said. Silver Spring is working on projects with San Antonio, Texas municipal utility CPS Energy, as well as with partners in Singapore and Malaysia, that are aimed at expanding its wireless networks to more endpoints in a city, though details are as yet scarce.
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