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Colin Bennett

India's Additional Annual Housing Demand Estimated at 2.1M Units in Next 5 Years - 0 views

  • In its latest report, Cushman & Wakefield (C&W) estimates that the total new demand that could be generated for residential dwellings in the period 2012–16 will be 11.8 million units across India. Of the total additional demand, the top eight cities (NCR [including Delhi, Gurgaon & Noida], Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata) will constitute 18% or 2.1 million units across categories. The annual report “Evolving Paradigm - Future of Indian Real Estate” is in association with Global Real Estate Institute (GRI).
Colin Bennett

Does a Big Economy Need Big Power Plants? - 0 views

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    This evolution made sense at first, because power stations were costlier and less reliable than the grid, so by backing each other up through the grid and melding customers' diverse loads, they could save capacity and achieve reliability. But these assumptions have reversed: central thermal power plants now cost less than the grid, and are so reliable that about 98 percent to 99 percent of all power failures originate in the grid. Thus the original architecture is raising, not lowering, costs and failure rates: cheap and reliable power must now be made at or near customers.
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