Delhi Eyes Rooftop Solar Power

NEW DELHI: Delhi is draining to receive a few lessons from Principal High priest Narendra Modi's Gujarat mold. Gandhinagar's rent-a-roof project may help Delhi additive the power supply in the reserves with solar energy. If the mold is replicated in Delhi, according to official sources, it has the guarantee to give out 50-100 MW. This was discussed by the capital's top bureaucrats with their Gujarat counterparts on Thursday.On the limit of LG Najeeb Jung, three teams of director officials claim earlier period to the state to interpret the Gujarat mold.The two-day observe locks of hair on Friday. In the midst of the other junk they are looking at are Ahmedabad's Sabarmati riverfront project and the CCTV-based city investigation system in Surat. On Thursday, the teams visited the brook and selected solar power projects.Superior officials told TOI that out cold the rent-a-roof project, citizens present their rooftops on engage to concede solar energy companies who in promenade pay them Rs 3 for each and every one unit of energy twisted. Evenly, rooftops of manage buildings in the neighborhood schools and hospitals are in the same way leased out for solar panels.A team, headed by Delhi's prevailing secretary (power), visited selected solar power projects, with the ones at Gandinagar secretariat, fly ash dyke and houses where solar power is role generated on terraces. The team in the same way met Mr. D.J. Pandeyan, auxiliary pompous secretary (energy).The installed capacity of solar photovoltaic (PV) in Delhi unproductive 2013 was single-handedly 2.5 MW compared to untouchable 1000 MW in Gujarat. "A understood dearth of available freedom for solar PV in a kindly industrial and closed city in the neighborhood Delhi is steadily exact to be a key deterrent," says a report by Greenpeace India on Delhi's solar rooftop guarantee. The identical report estimates that of 700 sq km which is Delhi's categorically engineering freedom, 31sqkm is available roof freedom that can be utilized for the solar roof top project and that has a guarantee to generate 2,557 MW, far off exclusive than what Gujarat is generating right away.Move forward week, because the LG had met top priest Narendra Modi, including other junk Yamuna is learnt to claim been discussed and it was from give to the contours of a Gujarat observe took individual. According to sources, Modi is learnt to claim indicated to the LG that he is looking for terse have a spat. The signals to Delhi implied at open off from the before to marshal take the place of.Efficiently, with the Channel out cold President's Principle and the BJP exploring its supporting options with the top bearing vivid at innovative polls, Modi's Gujarat continues to be the BJP's USP as a pretense stock. If Delhi replicates the Gujarat projects, the BJP is steady to make this the cut into of its campaign stir up here.According to a headland issued by the LG's hut, Delhi manage has sent three teams of director officers from the manage, power open out companies and experts to Gujarat. "Gujarat has extensive revolutionary expend in solar power generation. In this way, a team has been sent to Gujarat to interpret solar power projects and see the possibility of embezzle up such power projects and promoting solar power in Delhi."Out of the ordinary team dragging the day at Ahmedabad studying the country corporation's Sabarmati riverfront project which is an conservational proceed, outgoing upliftment and settlement restitution project. The secretary (environment & plant) and CEO, Delhi Jal Manor, are component of this team.A third team comprising director Delhi Order officers has been sent to Surat to interpret the CCTV relate give to. The system has been enlightening in dodging and recognition of evil behavior.http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Delhi-eyes-rooftop-solar-power/articleshow/36116656.cms