SURAT: Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) said that as far as renewable energy is concerned, no other city in the country can match Surat which has set up its own wind power plants and produces 30MW electricity.
The Surat Municipal Corporation produces 86.5 giga watts per hour (GWh) of renewable energy which is 35% of its requirement, its annual requirement is of 245 GWh. This helps it to save Rs52 crore from its annual energy bill of Rs167 crore and greenhouse gas emission reduction by 95720 tonne per year.
After Thiruvananthapuram, Surat would be the second city to install 100KW floating solar panels at Gopi Talav by the end of this year. Besides setting up another wind power plant of 3MW capacity, SMC will also install solar panels on rooftops of BRTS bus stops to produce 200KW of energy.
Under the state government’s solar power scheme, 10MW solar plants have been commissioned in the city on private rooftops which will produce 5MW solar energy.