Bescom comes up with action plan for installation of rooftop solar panels in government offices
The Hindu
As of June 2024, there are 2,391 rooftop solar installations on government buildings in Karnataka with a capacity of 24.25 megawatts (MW). While the highest number of such installations — 1,354 — are found in Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Company (CESC) limits, there are only 187 installations in Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) jurisdiction.
As on June 2024, there are 2,391 rooftop solar installations on government buildings in Karnataka with a capacity of 24.25 megawatts (MW). While the highest number of such installations — 1,354 — are found in Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Company (CESC) limits, there are only 187 installations in Bangalore Electricity Supply Company (Bescom) jurisdiction.
While rooftop solar panels were installed in 1,200 buildings under the 13th Finance Commission Funds, 1,191 of them were installed under the Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS).
Despite Bengaluru, the State capital, having a greater number of government organisations, there have been only 187 installations with a capacity of 8.71 MW.
Out of these, 132 have been installed with the funds from the 13th Finance Commission. Under that, the power utility commissioned rooftop solar installations in five government buildings in 2020–21, 38 buildings in 2021–22, 68 buildings in 2022–23, and 21 buildings in 2023–24.
However, senior officials said Bescom is now in the process of achieving 100% saturation of government buildings with rooftop solar panels.
“According to the data collected by Operations and Maintenance zones of Bescom, there are 40,380 government offices with a cumulative capacity of 452.73 MW. We submitted an action plan to the Energy Department in February this year. Considering the fact that there may be more than one government office in a building, it is estimated that there is scope for around 25,000 rooftop installations,” Mahantesh Bilagi, Managing Director, Bescom, told The Hindu.
He said that an expression of interest had been called to provide the costing details for carrying out a feasibility study.
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