
Kick starting India’s ReUse & ReCycle initiative for advanced batteries.
Get idea of how much raw material goes into lithium cell manufacturing, how lithium battery recycling process happen, how flow battery recycling happen & how much of the material can be recovered from the process and how India can start ReUse & Recycling of Advanced Batteries.
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24 Nov 2019
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Interview of Mr Rakesh Malhotra, Founder of SAR group, LivGurad, Mentor & Investor
Mr Rakesh Malhotra shares his journey from his first startup, building Luminous brand, building Livgurad to his current focus on automobile sector & his views about India’s ESS market. Also listen in to know about IESA’s industry market reports…
15mins
30 Nov 2019
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Review of developments from India’s RE, EV & Energy Storage Market during 2019 by Dr Walawalkar
Dr Rahul Walawalkar, Founder & President of India Energy Storage Alliance reviews key developments from India’s RE, EV & Energy Storage Market during 2019. He shares IESA’s plan for 2020, towards the larger vision to make India a Global Hub for R&D & manufacturing of advanced energy storage & EVs in coming decade.
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Getting ready for a new paradigm in grid management in India
India's grid successfully managed the load drop of around ~31 GW on 5th April at 9pm for 9 mins. Mr B B Mehta, Chief Engg, Gujarat SLDC shares the insights about planning & execution of this nationwide integrated operation. He also shares learning from the event. With the growing penetration of renewables, grid operators need new tools to ensure reliability and improved power quality. Important point from the conversation is Balancing is very important element of the grid to maintain the grid discipline. Energy Storage technologies should be considered in support of dispatching the renewable, not in terms of penalties.
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Role & Readiness of utilities during COVID-19
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Dr Kale, Director CMET Interview on Center of Excellence
Dr Kale, Director of Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology (CMET), Pune shares insights about areas of R&D activities at the centre. He shares focus areas of Center of Excellence including Indigenous Cathode & Anode material for lithium batteries, flexible & stretchable batteries, indigenous battery fabrication machine building and solid electrolyte for fast charging. CoE is formed to support Make In India mission. He said that scientists at CMET work on social demand and would like to work with industry & help industry to take the technology to wider section of the society. As a part of Skill Development activity, IESA is conducting India's first hands on workshop for lithium ion cell fabrication in India in association with CMET.
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RIT Battery Prototyping Center -Dr Matthew Ganter Interview
Dr Matthew Ganter, Director of Battery Prototyping Center at Rochester Institute of Technology shares insights about the center. Listen in to understand how start-ups and other technology companies are utilizing the services & training provided by the center. Also stay tuned for IESA's hands on workshop for lithium ion cell fabrication in India.
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Interview of Mr Awadhesh Kumar Jha, Vice President , Charge & Drive business, Fortum
Mr Awadhesh Kumar Jha, Vice President , Charge & Drive business, Fortum gives overview of Fortum business verticals on Global level as well as in India. He shares Fortum's plan in setting up charging infrastructure in India in 2020 and also explains few challenges private players are facing in this sector. He is optimistic that price parity will reach sooner than estimated with ICE vehicles price going up by stringent emission norms and EV car price going down with downward trend of battery prices. According to him 2020 will create foundation for take off of EV adoption in India.
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Rahul Walawalkar shares his experience of Tesla Australia energy storage project
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Neelima Jain on how EESL is enabling large scale adoption of emerging technologies (Rebroadcast)
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Mohua Mukherjee on a new approach for measuring global energy access (Rebroadcast)
In recent weeks, the Indian government’s ambitious electrification programme, Saubhagya has been in news, especially after the budget. The Indian government aims to electrify all households by end of 2018. So what does electrifying a household mean? Does it imply that households have reliable electricity? These are questions that are not unique to India. Energy access for all is now a global campaign especially after the United Nations emphasized it in the Sustainable Development Goals, SDG No 7. However, it seems measuring energy access is not as easy as it seems and the frameworks have been evolving over the years. On this episode, Mohua Mukherjee, an international energy experts joins Girish Shivakumar for a discussion to talk about a new multi-tier framework.
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Manuj Khurana shares his views on the EV roll out plan and the role of Invest India in the space
Make in India is one of the flagship programmes of the current Indian government and there is an increased emphasis to roll out electric vehicles manufactured in India. The government agency which is the implementing arm of the Make in India program is Invest India and on today’s show Manuj Khurana from Invest India shares his views and experience in dealing with different stakeholders who are in the transition towards the roll out of electric mobility on a freewheeling chat with Girish Shivakumar. If you liked the episode make sure to subscribe and write a review.
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Sunil Jain talks about India’s first solar-wind hybrid project, HFE’s future plans and his outlook on the sector
Hero Future Energies (HFE) is one of India’s leading renewable energy project developers with over a GW of solar and wind assets. Girish Shivakumar interviews Sunil Jain, CEO of HFE and discusses the company’s future plans, building India’s first solar-wind hybrid project and his outlook on India’s RE sector and its targets. If you liked the episode, let your friends and colleagues know about it. A new podcast is released every week.
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