UP PRIMARY SCHOOLS BASK IN SOLAR POWER

In Lucknow district, Solar photovoltaic cells were installed in 10 government primary schools, by the Non conventional energy development agency. ( NEDA)

• The cells have a 240 watt capacity and run on 12 V, 120 AH batteries, used for each computer in the schools. They have a backup time of four hours.
• The cells trap solar energy from the sunlight. This is then converted into electricity and stored in an installed battery bank, for use even at night. These batteries can also be charged by an AC supply when it is available.
• Each unit of the SPV system costs around Rs. 53000/-.

SOLAR ENERGY

• Solar home lighting systems.
• Solar lanterns
• Solar street lighting.
• Solar cookers.
• Solar SPV water pumping systems.

There is is a need for efficient solar collectors , that capture the available solar radiation and transfer it as heat to various useful activities, like heating, cooling, water purification and sundry other industrial processes.

Design of buildings and solar systems which enable solar energy to be used for both heating as well as cooling will bring about a manifold increase in the use of solar energy in India.

GREENEST ENERGY IS ENERGY SAVED

Tere was a very interesting article in the economic times, by Mr Fred Kindle , the CEO of ABB ltd. You can read the article by clicking on the link beow:

://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-06/07/content_6208882.htm

As per this article, the more effective way of reducing Co2 emissions is by using available and proven energy efficient technologies , like CFL and LED for lighting, putting speed regulators in electric motors etc.Speed regulators can reduce energy consumption of motors by 50 % while CFL can cut down energy consumption by 60 %.