PIMPRI CHINCHWAD: Solar panels will be installed on the rooftop of the Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital (YCMH) and at the
water treatment plant
at Sector 23 in Nigdi as a part of the Pimpri Chinchwad Smart City project.
The solar panels would be installed for 25 years and a total of 459KW would be generated through them.
The smart city mission secretary Sanjay Sharma had recently given his approval for the project.
The chief information technology officer Nilkanth Poman said an agency has been appointed through the Solar Energy Corporation Limited for the
power purchase agreement
at Rs3.62 per unit. The units would be given to the municipal corporation.
The
Pune district
planning committee is planning to install solar panels on rooftops of other buildings as well. There would be a net metering system in place under which the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation would provide its solar panels to the grid which would be measured and adjusted against the electricity used from Maharashtra State Electricity Distribution Company Limited.
Manish Umbrajkar is a special correspondent at The Times of India...
Read MoreManish Umbrajkar is a special correspondent at The Times of India, Pune. He covers traffic and transportation, railways, environment, political and civic issues of Pune as well as that of neighbouring Pimpri Chinchwad. Manish has a PG degree in Communication Journalism from Pune University, and has 15 years’ experience as a journalist. He appreciates the best in whom he considers capable leaders and administrators. His hobbies include travel and music.
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