With an aim of depending less on diesel gen sets, an ambitious greening effort in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands has been planned to set up Solar Photovoltaic (SPV) power plants at two sites in Port Blair with battery storage amounting to 25 MW. This is just short of half the islands’ current operational generation capacity that is predominantly diesel-based.
The proposed solar project is aimed at substantially replacing around 47 MW of diesel-run generation capacity that currently lights up the habitable parts of the archipelago of over 572 islands in the Bay of Bengal, alongside about 10 MW of renewable generation that is operational there currently.
In areas like Andaman & Nicobar Islands special care has to be taken to keep it pollution free. With efforts being made to increase tourist inflow, efforts to keep the island green and clean is a must.
Read details of this in a report by Anil Sasi in The Indian Express.....
