Delhi Metro station gets its first solar power plant
12 Aug 2014 5:31 AM IST
The plant was inaugurated by urban development minister Venkaiah Naidu at the Metro Bhawan in Delhi in the presence of, among others, union minister of state for power, coal and renewable energy, Piyush Goyal, and DMRC Managing Director Mangu Singh.
Naidu switched on the new, solar-power generated lights on platform No.1 of Dwarka Sector 21 Metro station through remote control from Metro Bhawan on Barakhamba Road.
The power generated by the 500-kWp ‘Roof-Top Solar Power Plant’ will be used to meet the requirements at the station. The roof-top plant is the largest of its kind in Delhi-NCR under the
Renewable Energy Service (RESCO) model and is a result of cooperation between DMRC and Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) through the project ‘ComSolar’, which supports commercialisation of solar energy in India.
‘I feel very happy and proud that DMRC has done it in record time. This initiative... to meet DMRC’s power requirements is an all-out effort to promote renewable energy,’ Naidu said.
Naidu switched on the new, solar-power generated lights on platform No.1 of Dwarka Sector 21 Metro station through remote control from Metro Bhawan on Barakhamba Road.
The power generated by the 500-kWp ‘Roof-Top Solar Power Plant’ will be used to meet the requirements at the station. The roof-top plant is the largest of its kind in Delhi-NCR under the
Renewable Energy Service (RESCO) model and is a result of cooperation between DMRC and Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) through the project ‘ComSolar’, which supports commercialisation of solar energy in India.
‘I feel very happy and proud that DMRC has done it in record time. This initiative... to meet DMRC’s power requirements is an all-out effort to promote renewable energy,’ Naidu said.
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