http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/25/indian-state-of-punjab-launches-300mw-solar-power-tender/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Mon, 29 Dec 2014 00:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 http://cleantechnica.com/2013/03/25/indian-state-of-punjab-launches-300mw-solar-power-tender/#comment-156181 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:04:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=49952#comment-156181 Excellent news that Punjab, India’s food basket is at last going solar. But its hydro potential, from five large rivers due to various reasons has not been fully utilized. It is a land of vast wheat, paddy, vegetable fields, with numerous canals with few waste lands. Its villages and towns are also scattered around the fields. Punjab could also try to exploit the high winds that blow over it . I had once tried to take a dip in the Indira Gandhi canal that brings the Sutlej waters to the Rajasthan desert.
It was ice cold in the canal while the desert air was around 45 deg Celsius. So despite all the evaporation, the cold of the Himalayas was little affected.

]]>