Environment

Tata Power, India's largest private sector power company, is considering several low-cost solutions to the severe power shortage experienced across the country. Now the Tata group is planning to repeat the success in the power sector.
The company is set to test a2 kwh (kilowatt per hour) micro wind turbine that is one of the smallest in the world. A 60 watt light bulb for one hour consumes 0.06 kilowatt hours (kwh) of electricity and the wind turbine will have the capacity to power a small home for the entire day. To top it, the turbine can be mounted on rooftops.

Like the 'micro' wind turbine project, the company will also experiment with a 35 kw wind turbine mounted on a blimp that will float 333 metres above the ground. The concept of a high altitude wind turbine is to catch the winds that are more intense and sustained at that height.
Tata Power, which holds 49 per cent stake in the joint venture Tata BP Solar, which is India's largest solar company in India, is setting up a concentrated photo voltaic (C-PV) 13.5kw pilot unit on the Walwhan lake in Maharashtra.In this technology, sun rays are concentrated on PV cells and are cooled to generate power. If successful, this technology can be scaled up across all lakes that provide hydro power to Tata plants in west Maharashtra, generating about 1,000 mega watt (Mw), said company sources.
                                          India has about 50,000 telecom towers which are run on diesel gensets that provide power to their antennaes. So far, Tata BP Solar has successfully implemented solar powered telecom towers in about 25 installations, replacing diesel powered gensets. The company has also electrified about 500 remote rural bank branches across several banks, including Bank of Baroda, Bank of India and at many rural co-operative banks.
Since ,seeing the growing demand for electricity to provide it in rural as well as urban aera is tough jobs since coal reverses  are in shortage not to supply huge demand India is heavily dependent on imports which are mostly entangled with strategic tug-of-wars be it the case of losing oil & gas blocks to China or ditching plans for energy partnership with Iran under pressure from the US. Nuclear energy expansion, too, has many roadblocks – concerns about safety, waste disposal & civil liability and fuel shortages.
                         This great initiate by TATA's will be helping India to reach goal to reduce its carbon intensity by 20 to 25 percent by 2020 from 2005 levels and it will have to agree to mandatory and absolute emission reduction.