India went for Rural Electrification using traditional Utility model--Not off grid solar+batterybank

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Interesting,

Looks like India is going with 100% Rural Electrification via the Utility model... And did not go with the off grid solar model:

India is all set to achieve 100 per cent household electrification by the month end, with 2.44 crore families having received power connections out of the targeted 2.48 crore under the Rs 16,320 crore Saubhagya scheme, an official said. The Pradhan Mantri Sahaj Bijli Har Ghar Yojana (Saubhagya) was launched in September 2017. 

"The 100 per cent household electrification under Saubhagya will be achieved by month end. The government has energised 2.44 crore households under the scheme til .. 

Connecting 30,000 homes per day to the grid.

A Crore is 10,000,000 (24.8 millions homes in this last/latest electrification project--If I got the the math right).

-Bill

Near San Francisco California: 3.5kWatt Grid Tied Solar power system+small backup genset

Comments

  • softdown
    softdown Solar Expert Posts: 3,812 ✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2019 #2

    Next thing you know, global warming is the real deal. Was recently reading that India went with 50 thorium reactors. Seems like most of what we read and hear - lies?


    If only solar progressed like computers have:


    First Bank:16 180 watt Grape Solar with  FM80 controller and 3648 Inverter....Fullriver 8D AGM solar batteries. Second Bank/MacGyver Special: 10 165(?) watt BP Solar with Renogy MPPT 40A controller/ and Xantrex C-35 PWM controller/ and Morningstar PWM controller...Cotek 24V PSW inverter....forklift and diesel locomotive batteries
  • Estragon
    Estragon Registered Users Posts: 4,496 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks a lot like my first puter. Arguably, we have solar such as we do because computers came as far as they did :-)

    Off-grid.  
    Main daytime system ~4kw panels into 2xMNClassic150 370ah 48v bank 2xOutback 3548 inverter 120v + 240v autotransformer
    Night system ~1kw panels into 1xMNClassic150 700ah 12v bank morningstar 300w inverter
  • softdown
    softdown Solar Expert Posts: 3,812 ✭✭✭✭

    Had a 386 and a 486. Probably owned a couple dozen computers by now. They seem to have "flattened out" past few years. Locked out of my Windows 10 after forgetting the password.

    First Bank:16 180 watt Grape Solar with  FM80 controller and 3648 Inverter....Fullriver 8D AGM solar batteries. Second Bank/MacGyver Special: 10 165(?) watt BP Solar with Renogy MPPT 40A controller/ and Xantrex C-35 PWM controller/ and Morningstar PWM controller...Cotek 24V PSW inverter....forklift and diesel locomotive batteries