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Google to Run Exclusively on Renewable Energy by 2017
India’ s 87 % solar cell imports from China in Apr-Sept: Goyal
Shri Piyush Goyal MNRE Minister INDIA
In a bid to reduce its carbon footprint and address climate change, Google announced that it plans to buy enough solar and wind electricity by 2017 to power the entire company with renewable energy.
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oing so would be a significant achievement for a tech company the size of Google, whose massive data centers power much of the Internet. Google claims that it is already the world’ s largest corporate buyer of renewable power, with commitments reaching 2.6 gigawatts of wind and solar energy.
Those energy sources are“ good for the economy, good for business and good for our shareholders,” Google’ s senior vice president of technical infrastructure, Joe Kava, told the New York Times, in part because their costs have rapidly decreased in recent years.
Solar energy is 80 percent cheaper now than it was six years ago, Google said. Like other companies that have pledged to use only renewable energy, Google will still consume power from the grid. Since electricity generated from solar and wind flows into the grid, Google simply has to invest in enough turbines and solar panels to cover its total energy consumption to make good on its goal. And as the Times points out, it is nearly impossible to compare how much renewable energy Google will use to other industries, since energy consumption data is hard to come by.
Still, the voracious energy consumption of Google’ s data centers makes any attempt to reduce the company’ s reliance on fossil fuels noteworthy. It is also increasing the data centers’ efficiency, and now claims that they are 50 percent more efficient than the industry average.
Facebook is also increasing the efficiency of its data centers. The first one it built, in Prineville, Ore., now boasts a power efficiency ratio of 1.07. That means the cooling equipment, lights, and heaters-anything that’ s not a computing deviceconsume just 7 percent of the facility’ s total energy usage.
Source: pcmag
I ndia imported solar and photovoltaic cells worth about USD 826 million from China in the first six months of the current fiscal, which is over 87 per cent of the country’ s total such imports. Like this story, share it with millions of investors on M3 Indias 87 % solar cell imports from China in Apr-Sept: Goyal India imported solar and photovoltaic cells worth about USD 826 million from China in the first six months of the current fiscal, which is over 87 per cent of the country’ s total such imports. Post Your Comments Share Cancel | 1 Comments India imported solar and photovoltaic cells worth about USD 826 million from China in the first six months of the current fiscal, which is over 87 per cent of the country’ s total such imports.
India’ s total imports of these cells were worth USD 948.88 million, including USD 825.98 million from China, constituting 87.05 per cent, during the April-September period of 2016-17, New & Renewable Energy Minister Piyush Goyal stated in a written reply to Lok Sabha today. India had imported USD 2,344.56 million worth of cells last fiscal, out of which USD 1,960.26 million was from China constituting 83.61 per cent of the total. In 2014-15, the proportion of solar and photovoltaic cells imports from China was 73.49 per cent of the total imports at USD 603.34 million. India imported solar cells and photovoltaic cells worth USD 820.95 million in that fiscal. Goyal informed the house that India does not have enough manufacturing capacity currently for cells and modules to cover its full demand.
He further said that the development of solar power in the country is taking place with indigenous as well as imported solar equipment and components. In order to make National Solar Mission( NSM) a success, he said, the government has launched several schemes and is providing benefits to indigenous manufacturers including concessional excise and custom duties. It is also providing capital subsidy for setting up of manufacturing units for solar cells and modules and the entire value chain under Modified Special Incentive Package Scheme( M-SIPS) programme of Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology.“ The government is supporting domestic solar PV manufacturing by various means and incentives. However, there is no exclusive national policy to develop indigenous solar power manufacturing in the country,” Goyal said.
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