If the electricity bill is not paid, how and where will they cut the service to stop providing power to our house? Can I check and fix it?
If you not pay electricity bill,then electricity department cut your connection on the pole where your wire come in energy meter and also remove your energy meter situated in your house or outside the house
What is really happening in Narmada Sardar Sarovar Project?
whether the project is useful What is happening for the rehabilitation What is the alternate method to be adopted for this project If the big dams not to be constructed, how hydro power will be gained
How profitable is setting up a solar power plant in India where the annual DNI is 4.5–5.5 and the annual GHI is 5.5–6.0?
I am working in a company involved in setting up solar plants across India. So I think I can answer this question very well.1st let me clarify that here we are talking about utility(for commercial purpose) based solar plants (MW scale plants).It majorly depends on tariff( Rs/ kWh). Tariff is the price at which you will sell your solar electricity to the government. Recent market rate is around Rs 4.43/ kWh. The solar market is very competitive now. Tariff prices in 2010, when solar projects started in Gujarat,India were as high as Rs 12 to 16 /kWh (Note : Construction cost were also very high during that time which has come down drastically in recent times). One plant has guaranteed life of 25 years.A bit approximate breakup cost (of the most recent 20MW plant )will explain it betterPlant size : 20 MW, i.e. 20 x 10^6 Watts.Total Expenditure :Cost of land : 4.36crore. 109 acer(for this project around 4lac/acer)Cost of EPC (Engineering, Procurement and Construction) : 100 crore (around 5 crore/ MW)Other incidental costs : 10 crore (rough assumption)So total investment = 4.36+100+10 = Approx 115 crore.Suppose Tariff decided according to the agreement for this project was Rs 5.00 / kWh.A bit of engineering calculation :Avg no of sunshine hours = 6 hrs /dayNo of units per day = {6(hrs) * 60(mins) * 60(secs) * 20 x 10^6 Joules} / 3600000= 120000 kWhUnits produced in a year = 120000 * 365 =4380000 units per yearIncome from selling the electricity = 4380000 * 5 =Rs 21,60,00,000 or 21.6 cr (i.e. rupees Twenty one crores, Sixty lacs per year)Extra information : So Break Even time for the project stands at ( 115 cr / 21.9 cr) 6.5 years. We have not taken into consideration the interest and time value of money.After 6.5 years all is profit.With recent low tariff rates Break even can even reach as high as 10 years.Hope it helps you people.Do comment if you have any doubts with it.Happy to help you, always. :)