Speakers Bio & Abstract

BiographyDr. Ritesh Arya is a renowned geologist from PU Chandigarh and is Guinness World record holder as well. He is member of WG National Institute of Hydrogeology Roorkee. In 2014 International Sustainable Energy Organization affiliated to UN (ISEO)
Geneva appointed him Director, Geothermal Section ISEO. He started his carrier in 1993 as hydrogeologist in Himachal Government to provide sustainable groundwater solutions. He blended modern technology and traditional hydrogeological wisdom to prepare "Conceptual model to explain occurrence and movement of groundwater resources in Himalaya"which were earlier considered to be devoid of it and presented in International Geological Congress China. In 1997 he left his govt job to start his own venture Arya Drillers to provide groundwater solutions on NO WATER..NO MONEY basis. Providing water to the Tibetans who fled Tibet following Chinese aggression in 1959 and settled in Ladakh through a project sponsored by Water Aid UK was his 1st project. He pioneered groundwater solutions for civil and army in Siachen, Kargil, Leh and other remote inaccessible areas in Himalaya. India Today had titled him as "The Incredible Waterman for his exceptional work.
Dr Arya also developed concept of Agneyodgara (Lava Energy) GEOCOGEN - concept to produce GIGA Watts of green, clean, safe, FREE sustainable energy for all. Guardian judged "Agneyodgara among Top 10 innovations in World Future Energy Summit Abu Dhabi. Dr Aryas Geological finding for the 1st time scientifically showed climate change is natural cyclic process but pollution is manmade and needs to be controlled using better technologies. He presented Arya's C cycle -Climate change natural based on paleo climatic signatures discovered by him in International Conference on Climate change and showed HOW global warming can be the best part to be on this PLANET EARTH.
His Mission - Right to free safe sustainable Water & Energy for all in changing CLIMATE conditions. Abstract Energy resource planning and management using geospatial technologies with special emphasis on geothermal resourcesGeospatial digitalization is in its infancy stage in India but good geospatial maps in future holds the key for the policy and decision makers to effectively take immediate decisions for the welfare of the nation right up to village level to make SMART India. Geospatial plotting of various water, power, roads, mines, buildings, sewerage, schools hospitals, banks, cables, cameras etc using geospatial applications to develop user friendly maps can help in fast decision making for sustainable development of the resources and infrastructural development both in times of peace or disaster (manmade during crimes wars or natural due to earthquakes or floods).
Therefore Survey of India SOI, Geological Survey of India GSI, Public Work Department PWD, National Highway, Telecommunications, Housing, Health, School, banks cables cameras Police etc should all individually prepare Geospatial maps and later integrate them to give single map to the user and the policy maker to take welfare decisions for the benefit of the villagers at grass root level.
In terms of renewable energy geospatial applications have been effectively used to prepare geodynamic map for effectively using Solar and Wind to produce cheaper energy then fossil fuel. Hydro power plants generation can be effectively monitored using geospatial applications to give best results in lean periods. Similarly thermal power plant generation and heath related issues associated with its generations can be effectively correlated to give factual impact on human health. Mining of oil and its utilization in space and time can be effectively calculated using geospatial applications. Nuclear power plants plotting can help in visualizing various threats associated with it in terms of natural disaster.
Geospatial digitalization can play effective role in mapping more than 300 hot springs in India and associate them with the characteristic geological, geothermal and geochemical features. All this put together can play a vital role in developing the geothermal resource map with estimated potential of 10000 MW in India of which not a single KW of electric energy has been generated till date. There have been many other reasons which can be attributed for non generation of geothermal energy main being risk involved in the site location and identification but this is same as that for OIL sector. Secondly bureaucratic hurdle slows down the entire process as there is no single window clearance to allot the sites because like oil geothermal sites are located in specific locations where the resource can be developed for power production. Geothermal sites once plotted on geospatial map with the entire characteristic mentioned above will give confidence to the government /investor to invest money in geothermal wells with same confidence and guidelines as they have for oil. Geospatial maps can play significant role in conceiving the geothermal energy and with aggressive draft geothermal policy by MNRE, scope for geothermal energy development is going to be a big hit to produce base load energy especially in inaccessible Himalayan region.
Globally geothermal development at present has been confined to Ring of Fire and volcanic regions but Agneyodgara Vision (Lava Energy) to develop geothermal resources at shallow depths in geologically favorable locations (Convergent and divergent plate boundaries) holds the key to develop this resource which could be the cheapest and most sustainable resource in coming decades.
Geospatial applications in terms of plotting these sites for correlating favorable temperatures can be a great boost to develop these resources as sustainable energy resource in case of eventuality where extreme conditions related to natural disasters render all the other resources dysfunctional (it is important to mention that in Fukushima the geothermal power plant remained ineffective whereas all the other sources of power were dysfunctional. Radiations from Fukushima Nuclear plant will take 30 more years and 20 Billion $ to come to normal) . Kenya has shown that Geothermal power not only saves billions of $s in terms of savings from fossil fuel but also firmly proved that geothermal is more sustainable and cheaper then hydro power. With 200 GW of global geothermal deposits it is impossible to think of developing these vast resources without geospatial applications.