Source: Hindustan Times
An easy option to escape from hackles of rising power bills is in the offing. The Union government will provide 30% subsidy for installing home solar power generation systems.
The ministry of new and renewable energy (MNRE) will be soon ready with a new national scheme that will allow house or flat owners to install solar panels on rooftops.
This system will help them feed the power directly into the grid and keep bulky batteries at bay.
The new system envisages a metering system where in a household will get the power bill depending on the difference between the power consumed and generated by it.
For instance, if a solar panel generates around 400 units a month and a household consumes the same number of units, the net bill would be zero.
In case, your solar panel generates more units than that you have consumed, money for the extra units will be credited to your account.
Categories: Alternative energy, Asia, India
Thanks. Good posting. Such a Solar power generation system for homes and flat-owners is already working successfully in Australia where my brother-in-law has got this system installed some five years ago. The surplus electricity is purchased by the state authorities. The rulers of Pakistan should also chalk out such Awami type of schemes to give people some relief in their hard-hit daily life and should introduce similar schemes to solve the chronic power shortage problems and thus minimize the miseries caused by 20 hours load shedding,especially during hot/summer season.
Yes, the same applies to Kenya, but, 3rd world countries hardly do anything to ease their citizens (and the environment), lives…
Yet we have so much sun and wind, too, especially along the coast.