{"id":31003,"date":"2018-10-27T11:46:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31003"},"modified":"2018-10-27T11:46:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T06:16:05","slug":"lithium-ion-batteries-charge-up-rural-houses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lithium-ion-batteries-charge-up-rural-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithium ion batteries charge up rural houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-business\/lithium-ion-batteries-charge-up-rural-houses\/article22853456.ece\"><b>Lithium ion batteries charge up rural houses<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The shift towards lithium ion batteries from the older technology of lead acid batteries has allowed firms like KAHO India Private Limited to help the Centre achieve its rural electrification target even in areas beyond the reach of the grid<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About KAHO India:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KAHO India is a Lithium Ion Battery based Solar Lighting System provider. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Established in 2012, it seeks to provide last-mile energy access through compact solar modules to areas that are so far not connected to the grid.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Change in technology:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The firm had initially developed a unit using lead acid battery but found that the short lifespan of these batteries rendered the entire product all but useless<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subsequently, the firm began looking at other battery options and settled on lithium ion batteries.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government has been buying Kaho India\u2019s units under the REC plan and the Saubhagya scheme. (<\/span><b>Cost<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Rs. 50,000 per unit)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Advantages of lithium ion batteries:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cheaper for the government on a per-energy cost basis<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are much lighter than lead acid batteries. Therefore it became easy to deliver these units to remote locations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Charging time is much less than that of lead acid batteries<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithium ion batteries charge up rural houses Context: The shift towards lithium ion batteries from the older technology of lead acid batteries has allowed firms like KAHO India Private Limited to help the Centre achieve its rural electrification target even in areas beyond the reach of the grid About KAHO India: KAHO India is a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/lithium-ion-batteries-charge-up-rural-houses\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lithium ion batteries charge up rural houses<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704591343},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}