Delhi Lt Gov inaugurates solar power plant at govt school
Delhi Lt Governor Najeeb Jung inaugurated a 60 kilowatt rooftop solar power plant at the Nagar Palika Bengali Girls Senior Secondary School in Gole Market. The rooftop solar power plant is a part of the Solar Roof Top Power Project by the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) to promote the use of renewable energy.
NDMC plans to install solar panels in 27 schools run by it.
While inaugurating the power plant, Jung called it called it a historic day for the people of Delhi. He said as the initiative spreads, it will make a big difference towards protecting the environment and saving power, though its significance may not be realized right now.
NDMC plans to develop Delhi as a solar city by encouraging the installation of solar panels on rooftops. The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has also set up guidelines to promote the use of renewable energy across cities.
Speaking at the inauguration, NDMC chairman Jalaj Srivastava said, “The solar power generation at these schools will be 110 KW. The installation and commissioning on 26 schools and other buildings is in progress.
“NDMC has been declared solar city by the Ministry of New and Renewable Sources of Energy (MNRE), Government Of India. We are the first municipal body to commission its own solar energy plants and feed it to the grid.
“We had signed an MoU with Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) for installation of rooftop solar panels on certain buildings in the NDMC area to generate 2MW of electricity,” he added.
The chairman also informed that the contract has been awarded to install 4 MW solar rooftop project on more than 50 schools and govt buildings across NDMC areas and sell power produced at Rs 6.35 per kWh which has been approved by MNRE.
“The power generated will be fed into the NDMC grid. In the first phase in the year 2015-16, it is expected to generate 1.7 MW of power from rooftops solar panels on 27 school buildings.
The installation and commissioning of solar panels in total 50 buildings will be completed by next year,” he said.
Meanwhile, NDMC has also allowed domestic households to install solar panels on their rooftops and sell the electricity generated to the civic body by connecting their panels with NDMC’s power grid.
“The future roadmap of NDMC to promote solar energy is to rope in the rooftop owners to install compact solar energy panels with net metering facilities which means power given to the grid by these rooftops owners will be credited to their bills which will have net saving in their electricity bill,” Srivastava said.
