Business of wind energy
IWE has been appointed consultant for Winrock’s project with the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) for the Indonesia Clean Energy – Integrated Deployment (SERIG) Project. IWE will provide wind resource assessment, grid integration and wind project deployment consulting services.
Pramod Jain is a consultant on ADB's technical assistance on determining tariff for wind energy and rooftop solar. Activities include: Recommend tariff and incentives for wind energy and solar PV rooftop for both utility- and small-scale; conduct consultations with all stakeholders including government, developers, utility and others; advice on scaling up renewable energy; tradeoff of various sources of renewable energy.
At the Asia Clean Energy Forum 2014, Pramod Jain was a panelist on June 18 in the "Promotion of Utility Scale Renewable Energy Applications" session. He spoke about challenges of developing economically viable utility-scale wind projects in new and emerging wind markets. Experiences from Quantum Leap in Wind Power in Asia and the Pacific were presented.
The Asian Development Bank released a publication "Guidelines for Wind Resource Assessment: Best Practices for Countries Initiating Wind Development". Pramod Jain is the lead author. It may be downloaded from:
http://www.adb.org/publications/guidelines-wind-resource-assessment-best...
For the Energy Sector Activities IDIQ Contract of USTDA (US Trade and Development Agency), Innovative Wind Energy, Inc. is pleased to be subcontractor to Tetra Tech. IWE will provide expertise in the area of Wind power generation for select developing and middle-income economies across five regions: East Asia; Latin American and the Caribbean; Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and Eurasia; South and Southeast Asia; and, Sub-Saharan Africa.
On June 16, 2014 at the Asian Development Bank HQ in Manila, IWE is organizing Quantum Leap in Wind 2014 workshop. The workshop is part of pre-ACEF (Asia Clean Energy Forum) day-long sessions.
Pramod Jain will chair "Emerging Technologies and Approaches to Wind Power Integration and Mainstreaming," with presentations from Yao Hongchun of China Electric Power Research Institute (CEPRI), Dr Chen Ning of Chinese Society of Electrical Engineers and Dr Cao Xiao of CEPRI on Sept. 24, 2013. More details ...
Wind Energy Engineering by Pramod Jain, was translated to Chinese by Li Yanfeng & Xie Dongmei, and published by China Machine Press in June 2013.