JAIPUR: Conergy AG, an international supplier and producer of renewable energy solutions, has brought clean and energy-efficient power for lighting to the remote Gowada Deori village in Alwar district of Rajasthan. They are in partnership with the Lodge Elysium Masonic Trust of New Delhi. The project has supplied and in-stalled 940 watts of solar power in the village. The unique project has benefited about 500 residents of the small and nondescript village.
Now onwards all the 93 households, two temples, the lone government middle school and the streets in the village now have lighting using the energy harnessed from the sun.
The project forms part of the Conergy Renewable Energy Village Initiative supported by the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
Mr. Rajesh Bhat, Conergy India managing director, said renewable energy was the most economically and technologically viable solution for electrification needs of remote and inaccessible villages situated far away from the Grid.
Conergy India, through its subsidiary Sun Technics, has already installed several hundred renewable energy systems and environmentfriendly solar power projects improving the living standards of over 1 lakh people in 250 villages across the country.
Mr Bhut pointed out that about 13 per cent of the 6 lakh villages in the country were in the remote territories, making it very difficult and expensive for the public Grid to supply power there.
“Off-Grid energy products such as solar powered home and street lighting systems serve as affordable, efficient and eco-friendly alternatives,”
Of the current 1.44 lakh MW electricity produced in the country, only 8.4 per cent
comes from renewable sources.
– from The Hindu. ePaper 17/8/08
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