{"id":11350,"date":"2013-06-13T13:18:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T07:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=11350"},"modified":"2013-06-15T10:13:30","modified_gmt":"2013-06-15T04:43:30","slug":"kerala-plans-to-use-dc-power-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/kerala-plans-to-use-dc-power-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerala plans to use DC power technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If all goes according to plan, Kerala will become the first state in the country to use<strong> Direct current (DC) technology<\/strong> over the conventional Alternating current (AC) systems in commercial buildings. A high-level meeting has been convened\u00a0by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy with the managing directors of KINFRA, Technopark and Energy Management Centre \u00a0in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>EMerge Alliance an US-based non-profit organization promoting DC power technology has proposed the plan for India and the company selected Kerala as the first place to introduce the technology. According to the company, using DC power technology can <strong>save 30% energy<\/strong> and cut greenhouse gas emissions significantly.<\/p>\n<p>The main advantage of using DC technology is that, the electrical installation in <strong>DC power is touch-safe for humans<\/strong> and can help prevent accidental deaths from electrical shocks. Moreover, when DC power is used, energy conversion could be stopped mostly in solar, LED and semi-conductor devices as our electronics devices run on DC power<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For all information technology devices and LED Lighting fixtures, we waste a lot of energy to convert AC to DC technology. All clean energy sources like wind and solar power generate DC power, which is now converted to AC power for use in buildings, thus resulting in a `conversion loss&#8217; of 15% electricity.&#8221; said Kevin A Schader, executive director of EMerge Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>Kinfra managing director S Ramnath said that DC can prevent conversion loss but it is yet to find out on how far the DC technology would help in transmission of power over long distances from the site of power generation.<\/p>\n<p>With the use DC power, energy requirements at industrial and IT parks can be reduced to one-third. Earlier AC technology was found efficient in long-distance transmission, however recent advances in DC technology are expected to overcome the limitations of DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If all goes according to plan, Kerala will become the first state in the country to use Direct current (DC) technology over the conventional Alternating current (AC) systems in commercial buildings. A high-level meeting has been convened\u00a0by Chief Minister Oommen Chandy with the managing directors of KINFRA, Technopark and Energy Management Centre \u00a0in this regard. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":11351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-11350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-kerala"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}