IT Applications for Enabling Solar Markets

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IT Applications for Enabling Solar Markets

• Solar India 2007

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• There is no substitute for energy. The whole
  edifice of modern society is built upon it It is
  not just another commodity but the precondition
  of all commodities, a basic factor equal with
  air, water and earth.
• - E. F. Schumacher

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India - Power Generation
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Global Exponential Growth of Investments in RE
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Global Investments in RE and EE
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IT and Solar

• Information Society marked the dawn of 21st
  Century
• IT is fashionable
• e-Banking, e-Governance
• Why not enable Solar Markets ?

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IT enabling Solar Markets

• Decision tool to overcome the vexed problem of
  Grid vs Renewables
• National Database of identified village
  electrification projects
• Performance Monitoring of RE projects

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IT enabling Solar Markets

• Decision Support Systems (DSS)
• Geographical Information Systems (GIS)
• Converge of IT Wireless Communications
• Convergence of Maps, Census, Satellite Data for
  RE Resource Assessment
• Build Local Capacity for Decentralized Planning

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Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world.
Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to
themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on
unreasonable people.   - George Bernard
Shaw