Tuesday, February 25, 2014: India’s proud Himalayas will soon have solar energy serving the houses and small industries in regions of Ladakh. It is reported that the regions is no way slowing down on the pace, as mules and other domestic animals are used for transport of solar equipments in the farthest of places with almost no easy approachability.
The region is now witnessing a significant spread of a solar energy network. An IPS report says that the residents claim that the solar energy has made their lives easier by providing electricity and to becoming an easy source of cooking, by way of solar cooking system.
Apart from the low workload, cooking in solar dishes improve the quality of food and the solar cooking system can cook up to 150 kilograms of rice, 100 kilograms of vegetables and 30 kilograms of pulses at one time. The system is installed to cater to the food services at government schools and offices, wherein more than 570 students and staff get to have their meals. On an average about three gas cylinders value is saved, daily.
Jigmet Takpa is the project director at the independent Ladakh Renewable Energy Development Agency (LREDA) that installed the solar cooking system with many others in the Ladakh region said that the solar substitution at the school saves $23,000, per year, in the same report.
Ladakh is relatively rich in renewable energy sources and is amongst the world’s most resourcefully-promising areas for the development of solar projects. The $87 million solar project under the New and Renewable Energy Ministry (MNRE) in Ladakh, the livelihood of people has definitely changed. MNRE gives 50 per cent subsidy on solar energy operated devices under the project.
