Covai to transform into Solar Powered Hub Friends, when I am in this famous Covai city, I was asking myself what the uniqueness of this great city is. Covai is the city of innovation, city of creativity and above all it had generated creative leaders who had initiated starting small, medium to big scale industries and made Covai the city of entrepreneurs and enterprises. And also, Covai is the birth place of many innovative systems which are world famous in many sectors. Today the question before all of you is: How to save the industries which are affected due to frequent power shortages. How to revive the industries which are facing lot of difficulty for survival such as agriculture and agro food processing industry, textile industry, automobile industry, tools and dyes industry, foundries and all other small scale and Medium Scale industries which are affected due to power cuts and above all, many lost the work and getting migrated. Yes, it the challenging time for Covai. This is the time, the innovative minds of Covai has to blossom and work for creating innovative systems, products and business model to generate power a basic requirement for industrial growth. I would like to share with you one experience with all of you. In my home town Rameshwaram, my 97 old brother is living in a joint family at our ancient house. Due to frequent power shortages, quite often that created lot of inconvenience at this age and also every day around 1000 visitors from all over India to the gallery and library get disappointed because of non-availability of power. Particularly my brother does Namas five times including very early morning namas at 4 o’ clock. In such a situation, I thought there is no other way other than converting our house as a solar powered house. We were estimated the power consumption up to 6 KW for the house including the Gallery and Digital library facility. I have decided to go far fully solar powered house. Yes, it costed me, with Government subsidy it was affordable with long term consumption pattern. When we replaced all the lights and bulbs in to LED, the total consumption has reduced to 2.5 KW instead of 6 KW. Now my home at Rameshwaram is fully solar powered house and the power is available for 24 hours. Today it makes 1000’s of visitors happy mostly young. I could see the smiles on the faces including my family members. May be it may cost me Rs. 10 per unit, but I strongly believe if it done in a micro grid comprising of many homes, it may come down to less than Rs. 6 per unit of consumption due to the innovative business model which you are going to evolve. But cost of sharing according to their need will further reduce and make it more affordable and continuously available. Based on my experiences, I suggest 5 point programme for the people of Covai. 1. Citizen can design Solar Home Grid – which will power all the houses into solar powered houses. This can be formulated as a cooperative model combining many streets together as a block. In the long run, it will be economical. The electric power used by the houses will be spared to industries and cross subsidy will reduce the cost. 2. Small Scale Industries can join together and form – SSI Solar Micro Grid as a cluster through a cooperative management system. 3. Small Medium Enterprises and Big Enterprises can create their own grid independently or in a SME Corporate Solar Power Grid under a cooperative management system. 4. These three Solar Grid with the supportive Solar Policies of Tamilnadu Government, Covai should become a famous Solar Powered HUB. This will make Covai a centre for Solar power industry, particularly in manufacturing nano technology based Solar PV Cells with Carbon Nano Tubes, Solar panel, solar thermal systems, endurable Nano battery systems, various accessories and maintenance for solar industry. 5. Hence, it is an opportunity for the Covai to transform into a Solar Power City and the Centre of Excellence in creating skill development centre for Solar power for the whole nation and abroad. Kalam
Posted on: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 08:52:46 +0000
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