HYDERABAD: With an objective to transform all the 2.98 lakh power consumers of Cooperative Electric Supply Society (CESS) in Rajanna Sircilla district into 100% solar, former BRS legislator Ramesh Chennamaneni held a series of talks as part of Indo-German Cooperation at Berlin on Friday.
The long term objective of this initiative was to convert the society into producers of solar power. This will enable CESS to become a solar hub and contribute towards its economic stabilization as well as improve the incomes of the consumers (by making them net sellers of power) apart from protecting the environment through clean energy consumption.
A working group headed by. Ramesh Chennamaneni and Dieter Kuenstling, Martin Schneider (German International Cooperation Agency) and Raghu Chaliganti met in Berlin on Friday and finalized the next steps.
The working group has decided to complete a feasibility report in June this year so that the German team visiting Hyderabad in August this year could start its deliberations with CESS, state govt as well as public and private stakeholders. Preliminary talks in this direction have already been held with the concerned minister Tummala Nageshwer Rao last month.
Ramesh Chennamaneni opined that this initiative, supported by the society members, would yet bring a second revolutionary change since the founding of CESS 54 years back to electrify all the villages at a time with the support of Ford Foundation in 1969.
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