By Samachar Digital News
Chandigarh 21st
Jan, 2019:- To
popularize ‘Solar Chandigarh Campaign', a ‘Solar Power Awareness Camp’, was
organised byChandigarh Renewable Energy And
Science & Technology Promotion Society, CREST along with CRAWFED
(Chandigarh Residents Association Welfare Federation) and YUVSATTA-NGO, at
Government Museum & Art Gallery, Sector 10-C , Chandigarh. Debendra
Dalai, IFS, CEO, CREST and Director, Department of Science & Technology was
the Chief Guest. Manufacturers of Solar Power System and around 100 residents
of the area participated in the event.
Addressing the gathering Debendra
Dalai said that Chandigarh is designated as a
Model Solar City by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and Central
Govt. and has set the target to install 69MW Rooftop Solar Power Plant to be
installed in Chandigarh by 2022 and Chandigarh Administration is
fully committed to develop Chandigarh as a Model Solar City. He emphasized that
renewable energy is the need of the hour and as CREST is
executing Rooftop Solar SPV programme in U.T Chandigarh and has already installed 26.069 MW
SPV Power Plants on Rooftops of Govt. Institutions/ Buildings and Private
Sector upto 31st Dec,2018. He also said that Chandigarh
Administration has already amended building by laws for installation of Solar
Rooftop Power Plants and making it compulsory on all residential buildings of
specified dimensions. But to motivate people to adopt this Green technology and
‘Go Solar’ on their own, various meetings and awareness campaign has been
organised by CREST time to time to raise environmental benefits along with
financial benefits to the solar consumers.
He further added that the solar power
generated can be used to run home appliances and the surplus power if any can
be sent to the Grid for which Electricity Department pay back to consumers and
solarisation may be a potential mechanism for net earnings from Solar Power
Plants in many a cases.
On the occasion, the officials of CREST
also addressed the queries of residents on easy installation and quick access
to loans from banks can also be facilitated to the solar applicant. On this
occasion Addl. CEO CREST Dr Abdul Qayum and Project Director Ravinder Singh
were also present, who resolved the queries of the participants.
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