Suzlon completes Silver Sage windpower project

Suzlon Wind Energy Corp., the North American subsidiary of Suzlon Energy Limited (SEL), announced the early completion of the Silver Sage Windpower Project, a Duke Energy wind farm in Cheyenne, Wyoming, that is comprised of 20 Suzlon S88-2.1 megawatt wind turbines.


The Silver Sage Wind Farm began operating in early October. At full capacity, the 20 Suzlon wind turbines are capable of producing 42 MW of wind-generated electricity, which is enough energy to power nearly 20,000 average US homes.* Cheyenne Light Fuel & Power, a utility subsidiary of Black Hills Corp., and Colorado-based Platte River Power Authority are buying the renewable energy generated by Duke Energy at its Silver Sage Project.



In addition to supplying and building the turbines, Suzlon is providing operations and maintenance at Silver Sage through a five-year service agreement with Duke Energy. Suzlon also supplied the 14 S88 turbines in use at Duke Energy’s nearby Happy Jack Windpower Project, a 29-MW wind farm that entered commercial operation in September 2008.


Suzlon has more than 1,600 megawatts of wind turbine capacity installed in the U.S. and a total of 130 megawatts through three projects with Duke Energy.

The perks of being a mid level executive

Being a mid level executive in a large multinational comes with lots of responsibilities and hard work. And being in the middle, you face pressure from both sides. On one hand the pressure of managing your juniors and on the other the pressure from your superiors to deliver good results. But it does come with its rewards. Increase in your pay package, responsibilities, profile, designation and eligibility for off sites meetings/ conferences to various sometimes exotic locations. In fact the last i.e events bring a welcome respite from the mundane hum bug of the office and daily grind.

And guess what having spent more than a year in current organization (a diversified conglomerate), I too had my prayers answered for a break partially in form of a attendance for a conference being organized in France. A week away from office, that too in France, was too good to pass up.

The conference was the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy (ICKMKE) being held in Paris from 24^th to 26^th June. I decided to leave on 20th , a Saturday to have 3 days of sightseeing before the conference began.

I had my tickets booked on Air France. And I was actually looking forward to seeing the famed charms of France. The Charles De Gaulle Airport is magnificent, a massive one where you could easily get lost. Also keep in mind that hiring a cab here could be quite expensive so unless the hotel you are staying is offering you a free pick up get the metro instead.

Oh, also if you are on short trip like mine, instead of using your phone on international roaming, it would be better if you pick up a local French SIM card in India. I got mine from Matrix, and can you believe just paid Rs 175 for rental as they charged me only from the time started using the phone in France. In fact the total bill came to Rs 972 only where as if I would have been using my Vodafone as one of my other colleague did, the bill would have come around 10,000 Rs as during the conference we were supposed to provide daily updates to our head office and since my incoming was free, I saved a lot of money from my daily allowance of 50 euros which was supposed to cover my telephone expenses too. One more benefit was since I picked my sim in even before I landed in France, almost everybody knew the number they could contact me on.

So after checking into my hotel in Paris, I took a TGV which I booked online on sncf.com to Marseille. Marseille lies on the south coast of France. Its a beautiful city with lots of peaceful beaches and calanques. June and July is the best time to in the French Riviera. I stayed for a day in Marseille, paid a visit to the famous Notra-Dame-de-la-Gaurde , then set out to see the calanques of Cassis.

The next day I went out to visit the celebrated film festival destination Cannes. It’s a very small town, famous for rich and fashionable ladies, with big money bags and little dogs. Very close to Cannes is the F1 city Manaco, but since I was short on time and there was no race happening I decided to give it a miss.

On my return to Paris I spent a day at the City of Lyon, which is the third largest city of France. Lyon has a very distinctive & strong French culture, with a lot of ancient monuments and castles.

Next day was the Conference and even that was interesting experience which I shall be telling you about in my next blog post.

Fall of Eelam: India should get ready

Fall of Tamil eelam is eminent, so is the surety of following human trajedy. The proud Lankan army may be foolish eough to not rehablitate its own cilvilians in its self proclaimation of victors. Result would be another flood of refugees in India, and anti Lanka sentiment in Tamil Nadu.

There are all the reasons for LTTE to do a phoenix and rise again.
The only way people in Delhi can stop is by ensuring that Tamil population of Eelam smoothly becomes part of Lanka. We need to be ready with supplies, with mobile hospitals, with tents and with lots of medicines.

We should apply balm in newly recovered Lankan territory itself and not on Indian soils werein the benificiaries are already refugees

Why was Mumbai attacked?

I was trying to justify the Mumbai attack in some way ( enacting devil’s advocate), but every time I tried an answer I was stuck by my own logic. Some of the theories and their follies follow

1. The attack was to kill Hindus and seed partition like circumstances – It didn’t happen by a long shot. An operation like should have been in Ayodhya/Kashi to reach do it, not on CST
2. The attack was a inauguration gift to Obama. Then why the hell CST was attacked, and bullets sprayed on roads
3. The attack was on Indian nationhood to avenge Godhra, Kashmir, and many others. Well again, no mention of any of the incidents – even to the hostage guests
4. The attack was to have gains. No ransom demands were ever made, as a matter of fact nowhere we came across to a negotiable hostage situation, poor hostages were just human shields

So what were these guys after?
Have a look at following article:
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/mumbaiterror/2008/November/mumbaiterror_November241.xml&section=mumbaiterror

It talks of border escalations between India & Pakistan. So here is my theory –
1. Waziristan is almost at war with the federal government in Islamabad
2. Newly elected Democratic administration is more than cooperative with US/NATO and deployed over 300,000 troops along Durand line (Pak- Afghan border) to check unrest
3. The troops are hurting ISI (or whoever controls whabies) long term plan to avenge 1971 with India and simultaneously control Kabul
4. The two objectives can be easily achieved ( it becomes easier for general kayani) if India goes on border escalation – the redeployment is then justified to US and a new president will have no understanding of how to solve this complex issue
5. Hence India is attacked to reenact the Indian mobilization seen in the aftermath of parliamentary attack – and redeploy pak forces on Indian border thereby saving Taliban from extinction

This is the only reason that makes sense to support logic of such a planned attack.

What PM Should have done...

I just found this ariticle:
http://postlightdrinks.com/?p=32
At present seem to completly agree with it