PEDA striving hard for developing and promoting new non-conventional energy sources under various attractive and people friendly schemes.
Ludhiana, June 18, 2013: In a bid to boost non-conventional energy as an alternative source of power generation, the Punjab Government has announced subsidy bonanza under different schemes of the Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA).
Disclosing this here today the Deputy Commissioner Ludhiana, Rahul Tiwari said that it was the need of the hour to motivate general public to opt for non-conventional energy sources as it was very difficult to mitigate the current need of power through conventional sources only because the requirement had increased manifold during recent past.
Appreciating the efforts of PEDA in striving hard for developing and promoting new non-conventional energy sources under various attractive and people friendly schemes, Tiwari said that PEDA had successfully installed 73 Domestic Solar Water Heaters with daily heating capacity from 100 litres to 500 litres and provided subsidy of Rs. 12.32 lac on these, whereas 20 Commercial Solar Water Heaters having capacity from 1000 to 3000 litres were also installed through providing Rs. 5.20 lac as subsidy in the district.
The Deputy Commissioner further said that PEDA was also providing subsidy Rs. 4500 on Tube Collector Solar Heater of 100 litres capacity and Rs. 6600 subsidy on Plate Collector Solar Heater of same capacity. At an average each domestic solar heater system could save more than 100 units of power every month, he added. Likewise 30% subsidy was being given on Solar Cookers.
He further mentioned that the cost of one Parabolic Solar Cooker which could cook food for 100 persons was Rs. 2.88 lac and PADA provides subsidy of Rs. 86,400 on it. Advocating the optimum usage of solar power equipment Tiwari said that the time has come when we must use solar energy to save our conventional overloaded power sources.