TIRUCHI
Solar power specialists on Friday exhorted industries, institutions, hospitals and commercial organisations intending to switch over to clean energy to apply their minds thoroughly before choosing cheaply available products.
Addressing participants at an awareness programme on Alternate Energy organised jointly by Entrepreneurship Development And Innovation Institute(EDII), Chennai and Tiruchi District Tiny and Small Scale Industries' Association, Arun Rebero, Director, Contura Solar (India) Pvt. Ltd., and Harish Amirthakasi, Director - Commercial Management, Baby Engineering Pvt. Ltd., exhorted them to refrain from viewing solar energy generation through the prism of price-sensitivity, and to opt for quality products for sustained generation without any system failure.
Infusing quality consciousness is vital at this juncture. Robust operation of German solar generation system with remote monitoring installed in a hospital in Pudukottai district was explained to the participants. The participants were encouraged to avail the utility of the concessions offered by Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA) to commercial and non-commercial organisations, Mr. Arun Rebero said.
Mr. Harish Amirthakasi explained the utility of installing solar trees. Solar power tree developed by CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-CMERI), a constituent laboratory of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), was launched during 2016 by Union Minister for Science and Technology and Earth Sciences Harsh Vardhan.
According to the organisers, the awareness programme was launched to explore the opportunity that needs to be tapped in the backdrop of the Central Government fixing solar power target to one lakh MW by 2022.
So far, the country has crossed 22,000 MW production. There are only four years left for realising the rest of the target, Mr. Arun Rebero said.
In future, there will be enormous scope in tapping business opportunities in view of the suitability of solar power for e-vehicles. Solar sheds could be erected in the parking space for decentralised charging, he said.
