The Andhra Pradesh chief minister’s camp office at Begumpet here will partially run on solar power hereafter and save 50 per cent power.
The incumbent, N Kiran Kumar Reddy, inaugurated the Solar Photovoltaic System installed over the roof of the building on Tuesday.
The total power load of the camp office was 60 KW, excluding air-conditioners. The installed capacity of solar system was 40 KW. The system works from 9 am to 5 pm on direct solar and 5 pm to 9 pm on battery charged by solar energy and then grid power. The saving on power bills will be about 50 per cent of the total bill.
The chief minister complimented the New and Renewable Energy Development Corporation of Andhra Pradesh (NREDCAP) for its various new initiatives and directed the AP Transco to speed up the efforts for implementation of the AP State Solar Policy-2012, which has been announced recently.
The cumulative capacity sanctioned in the state including wind, solar, biomass-based, mini-hydro etc from the beginning was 4,357 MW and during 2012-13 and 2013-14 the total 1,444 MW capacity was installed. Out of this, wind energy achievement till 2010 had been 107 MW and in the last three years was 500 MW. Under the State Solar Power Policy, NREDCAP installed about 25 MW power plants on captive use and third party basis.
Labour minister Danam Nagender, marketing minister Mukesh Goud, principal secretary to chief minister Ajeya Kallam, AP Transco in-charge chairman and managing director Munindra, NREDCAP managing dirctor M Kamalakara Babu and other senior officials were present.
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