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Advanced Energy Storage – Flow Batteries

Innovative energy storage technology for Power Generation Hybrid Systems can reduce fuel consumption, carbon footprint and total cost of operation up to 50% -key product differentiators for the fast growing remote telecom towers segment. Disruptive Technology - Hybrid power generation systems, for the fast growing remote telecom towers segment, will witness disruptive innovations caused by integration with energy storage and renewables by 2020. We have an opportunity to differentiate our product by adopting a superior energy storage technology – Zinc Bromine Flow Battery (pioneered by the Sandia National Labs). Flow batteries are superior to Li-ion and other next-generation storage technologies for long-duration applications. The falling costs of these batteries is expected to carve out a 360 MWh market in 2020, worth $190 million - Zinc bromine (ZnBr) is predicted to become the most competitive flow battery at $391/kWh. Business case - Secondary market research in

Future of Urban Mobility - Key Challenges

This is the first in a series of blog posts on the future of Urban Mobility . Our ability to ensure clean and convenient mobility in our cities is key to the sustainable growth of our economy.  Volatile fuel prices, rising levels of emissions and traffic congestions are the key challenges that we face in most Indian cities today.  We need the best of our young minds to look at emerging technologies, like smart and connected vehicles, to overcome these challenges.  I expect that urban mobility, both personal and commercial, will be shaped by disruptive technologies such as: the move to on-demand mobility , the impact of autonomous vehicles and the growth of electric vehicles .  There are three big challenges Challenge # 1 - How to achieve Zero Vehicular Emission ? I was in New Delhi during December 2015 for a Conference and the visibility was very poor due to smog even in the middle of the day. Challenge # 2 - How to achieve Zero Accidents ?