Environ Energy Ties Up With Canadian Co For Providing Lithium Ion Batteries For Solar Powered Telecom Towers

Kolkata-based Environ Urge Right (facing Bhaskar Astral) has fixed up with a Canadian company called Electrovaya for administration lithium-ion-based batteries for use in solar-powered telecom towers.Environ Energy's Supervision Upper Jyoti Poddar told "Method Racket" these days that the company has advice for energising 3,000 telecom towers with solar power better the with one engagement, and 15,000 towers better the with three duration. At almost, the company uses the formidable categorization tubular batteries' for storage of power (storage is necessary since telecom towers need to be up all the whereas, even, for commission, to the same extent a breathe passes overhead.)Environ Urge, which has normal secret equity encourage from the SREI style, has so far solar-powered 500 telecom towers and is now in a ramp-up mode. The company operates on the 'resco advocate, (or, renewable energy be of assistance company, which sells energy first than gear.) This method, Environ Urge command give (and own) the gear used for energising telecom towers - the telecom operator command pay the company on the basis of energy informative.Normally these days using a diesel generator compensation the telecom operator Rs 50,000 per tower, although with Environ Urge it would generally lay out Rs 35,000, Poddar meant."We phase at this as a 2-billion opportunity, better the with three-five duration," Poddar meant.Environ Urge is these days a Rs 150-crore company. Poddar is buoyant of reaching Rs 400 crore by Homeless person 2014.Lithium ion batteries are the luxury storage-efficient solutions that are fit indoors these days, expressly, in electric vehicles. Incidentally, Electrovaya has as a consequence tied-up with the Star style for administration these batteries for Hero's electric bikes.Poddar meant the company would first of all buy lithium ion batteries from Electrovaya, but as volumes go for up, would phase at heavy expertise.Electrovaya Inc. designs, develops and manufactures proprietary Lithium Ion batteries, battery systems, and battery-related products for clean electric transportation, neighborliness scale energy storage and brainy lattice power, customer and healthcare markets. The company's predict is to liven up clean transportation as a commercial truth with its avant-garde power system for all path of zero-emission electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. The company's other predict is to narrate neighborliness scale energy storage systems for the extreme velvetiness in electricity storage, whether the electricity is generated from repeated wind and solar power or from other sources. Founded in 1996 and headquartered in Ontario, Canada, Electrovaya has production services in Canada, the US and Europe with clients bumpily the soil.SOLAR-POWERING TELECOM TOWERSAlthough the government of India has been idiom of replacing diesel gensets (which used subsidised diesel) with solar-based solutions for powering telecom towers, the acquire has not been on a scale that is regular with the need. That has been for a symbol of reasons, but one outlook that "Method Racket"has been certain is that it was chiefly since the Resco's had not emerged. For a telecom operator, diesel is indolent cheaper on a per kWhr basis than solar. But it makes deference for a Resco since the company can stash free power to, say, a meet payment.Now, with the Resco system up-and-coming and with luxury reorganized storage solutions and bother, diesel understudy with solar for telecom towers is set to gap on a more rapidly collapse.At the present time, in India, represent are better 300,000 tower sites of which better 30,000 are in off-grid areas, greatest extent of them powered by diesel. The settle annual report worth of diesel fuel by these towers is 2 billion litres, as a upshot of which 5 megatonnes of CO-2 is bent annually. TRAI has lately complete it mechanical for telecom companies to use renewable sources of energy for powering their towers. At token 50 per cent of towers and 20 per cent of the urban towers are to be powered by hybrid energy sources (renewable and lattice) by 2015. In the in addition phase, the telecom companies command be skirt to convert 75 per cent of the bottle green towers and 33 per cent of the urban towers to run on hybrid power.The Ministry of New and Renewable Urge is supporting off-grid solar telecom applications by administration capital charity performance of 30 per cent to a cutoff point charity performance of Rs 90 per watt top. Oddly, low-key loans at 5 per cent bother rate subsidised by the India Renewable Urge Movement Government department (IREDA) are ego existing for such projects.Solar-powering telecom towers command as a consequence be one of the attack areas in the development Point in time II of the Homeland Astral Mission according to Tarun Kapoor Concentrated Secretary MNRE.