The mountainous frontier region of Kargil that made headlines during the Indo—Pakistan war in 1999, is now set to become the solar power generation capital of India as the area would generate 33,000 megawatts of Solar Photo-Voltaic (SPV) electricity. The Kargil Renewable Development Agency (KREDA) has prepared a master plan to utilize the enormous solar energy to light the region. It is already producing 2 mws from SPV.
According to Kacho Ahmad Khan, chief coordinator of KREDA, the SPV project report has been sent to the government. The agency has proposed to utilize all barren South faced lands to install solar panel and even the roadsides will be utilized under this plan and will try to make Kargil as one of the main supplier of Electricity in J&K.
But this will become true only when Kargil is connected with the Northern Grid after the execution of the Rs 1800 crores transmission line project connecting Srinagar, Kargil and Leh.
The Northern part of the subcontinent, especially the Ladakh region, is blessed with an abundance of sunlight and high solar radiation. Harnessing solar energy into consumable electricity is highly effective and useful.
In the first phase the KREDA has installed Solar Power Plant of 25 to 65 Kw in 22 villages of Kargil and the whole Lunganak Block of 26 villages in Zanskar sub-division and in other blocks.
Khan said KREDA has established 22 SPV power plants in various villages of the district. In these villages, apart from solar energy, no other viable resource, renewable or otherwise, is available. Before the intervention of KREDA the villagers were receiving electricity from their respective diesel generator sets. As many as 10 SPV plants of 40KW capacity are installed in the villages of Tsazar, Saliskot, Shakar Amzet, Khangral, Lhalung, Barchey, Yurbaltak, Goshan, Pandrass and Gindyal. Among these, Tsazar (Zanskar) was an un-electrified village.
The project was successfully conceived and implemented by KREDA with technical support from TATA BP Solar India Ltd.
Renewable energy is carbon free, inexhaustible and abundant source of energy.
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