WIND-SOLAR HYBRIDS IN INDIA

Luminous installs wind-solar hybrid power plants
June 1, 2010 (India Blooms News Service)

"Luminous Power Technologies, leading power inverter manufacturers, through its renewable energy subsidiary, has designed, manufactured and installed off-grid and grid connected wind-solar hybrid power plants.

"These state-of-the-art power plants generate electricity from wind and sun, and supplement any energy shortfall with short operations of diesel power controlled by a specially designed proprietary master controller…[that] allows for continuous remote monitoring of the performance of these power plants, and storage of real time and historical data through GPRS/ Internet for display anywhere in the world…This enables generation, storage and delivery of electricity at remote locations where grid connected electricity can not be reached…"

Schematic of the concept (click to enlarge)

"Hybrid power plants have found applications in both rural and urban electrification, for street lighting, water pumps, mobile phone and communication towers."

SolarWind Tech’s modular, transportable hybrid system (click thru for more info

"Luminous exports wind turbines, wind turbine controllers, solar controllers and wind-solar-diesel master controllers to countries such as Italy, Uzbekistan, Iran, Fiji, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, amongst others. Luminous is the primary supplier of small battery charging wind turbines to Nokia Siemens Network, Finland for installation at their remote mobile phone towers which replaces their existing diesel generators.

"Luminous manufactures small wind turbines, wind controllers and solar controllers at its plant in Pune, and has CE certification for all the small wind turbines, wind controllers & solar controllers."