The government is exploring options of running agricultural pumps and
telecom towers on solar power, Union Minster for New and Renewable
Resources Dr. Farooq Abdullah said here on Monday.
Dr. Abdullah said that the Punjab and Haryana governments alone had
spent Rs. 6,500 crores as diesel subsidy to farmers for running sets to
pump groundwater for irrigation.He said that his Ministry was exploring
the possibility of using solar power to generate energy to operate these
pumps.
Fossil fuel
“Apart from bringing down the spending on diesel subsidy, this would
reduce the use of fossil fuel,” Dr. Abdullah said at a meeting organised
by the Bengal National Chamber of Commerce and Industry on
‘Opportunities and Scope of Renewable Energy in West Bengal'.
Dr. Abdullah also said that his Ministry had invested in a project to run 100 telecom towers on solar power.
“There are 8,000 telecom towers in the country that have generator
sets running on diesel….If the project is effective, it will gradually
be extended to develop others,” he said.
Important mission
Describing the Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission as the “most
important” of the eight missions in the National Action Plan for Climate
Change, Dr. Abdullah said that expertise had to be found to achieve the
mission's goal of producing 20,000 MW by 2022.
Charting the progress of the mission launched in January this year,
Dr. Abdullah said that while allocations for projects of 100 MW had
already been given, projects worth another 750 MW would be allotted by
the end of September.
“The sky is the limit for energy from renewable resources in the
country,” Dr. Abdullah said, adding that an estimated 87,000 MW could be
generated from renewable energy.
Wind energy
He said that the country had done well in developing wind energy that has a potential of 48,000 MW.
“West Bengal will have to play a major role in the tidal wave energy
sector,” he said, adding that a 100 MW demonstration project had already
been set up in the Sunderbans.
Source: http://www.siliconindia.com/shownews/Reports_of_Google_acquiring_Slide_emerge-nid-70410-cid--sid-.html
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