Will Borg Energy change the Sorry state of the Indian Power situation

Borg Energy India has come up with a great solution to power Indian homes with solar power solutions using solar panel arrays. The company is giving a complete solution in which a home can be powered with solar energy as well as grid energy. The company has devised a way in which the energy requirements will be drawn from solar energy and afterwards it can switch to grid power. One of the major problems for home owners in using solar energy is the high costs of energy storage on top of the cost of solar panels. You typically require a lot of energy storage for completely powering your house for 24 hours. An easier way to promote the use of solar energy is to use electricity from both solar panels as well as the normal power company.

Read about the Indian state of Power here.

You can use solar electricity till it gets exhausted, then automatically start drawing power from your utility. This is a good innovation which is sorely needed and the prices for the lowest units are also not too high. Note most Indian households spend a huge amount of money in buying and storing power, as the utility power is erratic and absent for a number of hours. Also prices of power have jumped up rapidly in the last few years without much improvement in the quality of the services. Any option that will help in the privatization of power to the households should be a good thing in my view. The government should help such initiatives by subsidizing these systems to households instead of building fancy multi – gigawatt power plants spending billions of dollars. This probably will help the industry more, rather than a bunch of inefficient and corrupt PSUs bonding together. The government’s role should be in making policies and incentivizing them, rather than start building big power plants.

TOI

BORG Energy India unveiled BORG Astra Plus Home Series, a range of micro solar power plants which is designed by itself to capture solar power and convert it to energy for use for households.TOI reported of the solar power plant which is a Smart Grid technology which can be fitted to your electricity meter. It allows the consumer to use the solar energy until the battery dies down. After that, the power is drawn through the power utility, in Bangalore it is BESCOM.The machines are priced from Rs50,000 onwards and these are available in solar power plants from BORG Power Play showrooms in HSR Layout, Banashankari, KR Puram, Hennur Road and Yellahanka. BORG’s Care Centres will cater to installation and after sales services, ensuring that all service enquiries are addressed within 24 hours.