With several hiccups, including too less wind speed in the city (3 metres per second), negligible biogas and lesser municipal waste to meet 10% energy needs through non-conventional sources, Chandigarh's projection as a 'Solar City of future' appears to be a serious challenge and an arduous task for the UT administration.
With Chandigarh figuring in the list of 11 prospect solar cities in India that have already received a grant of Rs 47.58 lakh by the Union government, brain-storming on its practical implementation has begun.
Challenges concerning planning and implementation of 'Chandigarh as the future solar city' were deliberated upon by experts at a seminar on Tuesday.
"Switching over to alternative sources needs a lot of public participation and immense support from the local administration. Even meeting 10% of power needs could take a lot of time and could go up to 3 years," said Ankit Narula, a research associate in TERI.
In a survey done to calculate power needs of the city, it was recorded that 42% of the power consumption could be reduced by usage of T5 copper ballast tubelights of 28 watts instead of the T20 ones (40watts). He added that in Chandigarh, there was negligible wind energy, biogas and municipal waste available to generate alternative sources.
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