Wednesday, October 09, 2013: Imagine you could travel with your home! Mind you, not a regular home but a multi-purpose solar-powered portable house! This has been developed into reality by Chemin Controls and Instrumentation Private Limited, which has built these houses that can also act as site offices, kiosks for vending food, beverages, vegetables and groceries or cabins.
The Puducherry-based instrumentation firm will announce the launch during the five-day renewable energy and sustainable living products and services’ exhibition proposed by the Angiras Charitable Trust, a network of Indian alumni from the German University for Sustainable Solutions and the Renewable Energy Agency Puducherry (Reap) at Gandhi Thidal on 9 October, reported TOI.
The 10 feet by 20 feet houses will have five photovoltaic modules fitted on the roof that will generate 1,250 KW power from solar energy. This much power is enough to run three tube lights, two table fans and two computers. This power can be stored for 12 hours. The total cost of this house is Rs 10,00,000.
“The houses are built in portable dimensions using structural steel and modern insulated materials. They can be dismantled, transported and reassembled easily,” Chemin Controls and Instrumentation Private Limited chairman cum managing director P Rangaraj told TOI.
Rangaraj further added, “The unit rate of power from solar energy was almost double the government electricity tariff two years ago. Of late due to technological advancements, the cost has come down drastically. In the next two years, the unit rate of power from solar energy will be less than the government electricity tariff.”
“Puducherry does not have solar grid connection facility that supplies excess power beyond consumption to the utility grid and records the excess power supplied in the meters through reverse reading. Hence we opted for rooftop standard solar power system,” Rangaraj added.
