The recently-commissioned Hybrid Renewable Energy Project at NIMS Heart Foundation, Neyyattinkara, which makes use of sun, wind, and biogas resources to meet the entire energy requirements of the Catheterisation Lab at the hospital, has earned the attention of United Nations.
A press release issued here on Friday said that M.S. Faisal Khan, Pro Vice Chancellor of Nurul Islam University and Managing Director of NIMS, who has been invited to the global meet of the U.N. on Sustainable Energy for All in New York from May 18 to May 22, will speak on how NIMS had successfully combined solar panels and vertical axis wind turbines to generate electricity continuously at a steady voltage to run the Cath Lab without any hitches. The Cath Lab, which completely relies on green energy, has advanced technology which enables it to convert even the evening sun rays into electricity.
The technology was developed by G. Madhavan Nair, former chairman of ISRO.
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The first phase of 200 MW has been commissioned now, while the proposed project when completed will be of 520 MW. A team from the U.N. had visited NIMS to get first-hand information on the project, it said.