TN colleges evince interest in wind, solar hybrid systems
Chennai, Jan. 23:
The Tamil Nadu government's campaign for getting the 1,000-odd engineering colleges to put up wind-solar hybrid power plants in their campuses seems to have paid off, as a large number of colleges have evinced interest in the scheme.
Last month, the Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA) held seminars in ten cities in the State to sensitise the engineering colleges to avail themselves of a Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) scheme to put up wind-solar hybrid power plants.
Under the scheme, MNRE would reimburse 75 per cent of the costs in the case of government offices, trusts, educational institutions and not for profit institutions, and 50 per cent for for-profit organisations. ‘Wind' will have to account for at least 60 per cent of the generation capacity.
Sources in the government say that as many as 532 colleges in the state attended the conference. So far, some 50 of them have shown interest in formally applied to TEDA. Sources in the know are confident that more applications would come.
The biggest proposal received so far is from the B S Abdur Rahman University, which wants to put up the systems in eight of its colleges.
(This article was published in the Business Line print edition dated January 24, 2012)
Chennai, Jan. 23:
The Tamil Nadu government's campaign for getting the 1,000-odd engineering colleges to put up wind-solar hybrid power plants in their campuses seems to have paid off, as a large number of colleges have evinced interest in the scheme.
Last month, the Tamil Nadu Energy Development Agency (TEDA) held seminars in ten cities in the State to sensitise the engineering colleges to avail themselves of a Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) scheme to put up wind-solar hybrid power plants.
Under the scheme, MNRE would reimburse 75 per cent of the costs in the case of government offices, trusts, educational institutions and not for profit institutions, and 50 per cent for for-profit organisations. ‘Wind' will have to account for at least 60 per cent of the generation capacity.
Sources in the government say that as many as 532 colleges in the state attended the conference. So far, some 50 of them have shown interest in formally applied to TEDA. Sources in the know are confident that more applications would come.
The biggest proposal received so far is from the B S Abdur Rahman University, which wants to put up the systems in eight of its colleges.
(This article was published in the Business Line print edition dated January 24, 2012)
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