Centralized solar plants, a death trap for birds?

Centralized solar plants, a death trap for birds?

California’s new solar power plant is actually a death ray that’s incinerating birds mid-flight. I am generally not a great fan of centralized solar plants as compared to off-grid and onsite generation. But, I have never thought of such seemingly simple technology...
Centralized solar plants, a death trap for birds?

Solar Max principle

Solar, like many other renewable energy sources is “infirm”. We cannot install a 1 MWp solar plant and generate 1MW at will any time we want. It purely depends on sunshine, and whenever sun is low – due to shadow or rain or whatever, the generation will be low. So,...
Centralized solar plants, a death trap for birds?

Aspiration Energy is WWF Climate Solver!

  WWF – World Wildlife Conservation fund for nature and Industrial Process Heat.  What a seemingly remote connection! But, as explained by Ravi Singh, Secretary General and CEO of WWF India at the Climate Solver Award function at New Delhi on 1st August 2014, WWF...
Centralized solar plants, a death trap for birds?

Can solar be a backup?

I get lot of enquiries about “solar inverters” and solar as a “backup” for power outages. Solar, wind, tidel, hydro – all these kinds of renewable energy sources are what people call as “infirm power”. Why is it called “infirm power”? Because, we cannot control how...