TERI signs MoU with WAPCOS on power, water, and infra

New Delhi: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) today announced it has signed an agreement with WAPCOS, a consulting firm, under the aegis of Ministry of Water Resources, to pursue opportunities in areas of power, water, and infrastructure development.

According to the memorandum of understanding (MoU), both TERI and WAPCOS will work on hydro-power-energy-climate change nexus; Water Security and Integrated Water Resources Management; water use efficiency in various sectors; water conservation and augmentation; urban and rural water demand and supply management; green infrastructure for smart cities, and climate resilient infrastructure in water sector. [ReadMore]

Power Ministry seeks enforcement of tariff rationalization for Hydropower projects

The Ministry of Power has written to the Central and State Electricity Regulatory Commissions to enforce tariff rationalisation for hydropower projects.

These measures are expected to bring down tariff for power generated from a new hydropower project, a Power Ministry notification said.

Tariff rationalisation measures include providing flexibility to the developers to determine tariff by back loading of tariff after increasing project life to 40 years. Increasing the debt repayment period to 18 years and introducing escalating tariff of 2 per cent are also included in these measures, the notification said.

“The levelised tariff over the useful life of the project may be calculated on the basis of the norms specified in the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission regulations,” the notification added.

The year wise tariff, for a long term power purchase agreement for the procurement of Hydro Power has been left at the discretion of negotiations between the project developer and the power distribution company.

The Power Ministry has also notified the Hydropower Purchase Obligation as a separate entity within the Non-Solar Renewable Purchase Obligation. This obligation will cover all large hydro power projects commissioned after March 8, 2019. The untied capacity (capacity without PPAs) of already commissioned projects will be able to avail this benefit. [ReadMore]

Hydropower projects to boost electricity storage capacity

A series of pumped storage hydropower (PSH) projects planned across five states could triple Australia’s electricity storage capacity, according to a new study by a researcher at The Australian National University (ANU). [Readmore]

The Evolution of the World Wide Web

To begin with, we rely on the internet for almost everything. Right from managing our money, searching for jobs, representing ourselves professionally as well as keeping contact with family and friends across the country or even across the world. It is also used to research, learn, share information, personally as well as professionally

Expansion of WWW: The 3 Phases

Web 1.0 – The World Wide Web (1990 – 2000)

• Remaiin lmited mostly to static websites
• Mostly publishing / Brochure-ware. Limited to reading only for the majority
• Proprietary and closed access
• Corporations mostly, no communities
• HTTP, HTML

Web 2.0 – The Social Web (2000 – 2010)

• Publishing as well as Participation
• Social Media, Blogging, Wikis
• RSS – Syndicate site contents
• Rich User Experience
• Tagging
• Keyword Search
• AJAX, JavaScript Frameworks (jQuery, Dojo, YUI, Ext Js etc), XML, JSON

Web 3.0 – The Semantic Web (2010 – onward)

• Mostly Drag n Drop
• Highly mobile-oriented
• Widgets
• Microblogging
• Cloud and Grid Computing
• Open ID
• Semantic Search
• Semantic Techniques like RDF, SWRL, OWL etc. [ReadMore]