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Solar method to replace electric one at Phadke Natyagruh

By Dinesh Kamath

Above Picture of Phadke Natyagruh at Panvel

NAVI MUMBAI: Solar energy is radiant light and heat from the sun harnessed using a range of ever-evolving technologies.

 It is an important source of renewable energy and its technologies are broadly characterized as either passive solar or active solar depending on the way they capture and distribute solar energy or convert it into solar power.

The development of affordable, inexhaustible and clean solar energy technologies will have huge longer-term benefits. It will increase countries’ energy security through reliance on an indigenous, inexhaustible and mostly import-independent resource, enhance sustainability, reduce pollution, lower the costs of mitigating global warming, and keep fossil fuel prices lower than otherwise. These advantages are global.

Phadke Natyagruh is a famous auditorium in Panvel and it has been announced that it will go solar. The electricity cost at the auditorium being too much, it has been decided that electric system in this auditorium be replaced by solar method. The announcement was made by Panvel Municipal Council which was tired of paying the exorbitant electric bill.

Those who wish to stage social or cultural programs or activities in this auditorium just has to inform PMC which is ever prepared to let the organizer of the event use it on rental basis. The thing is more the events taking place in this auditorium, more is the electric consumption and hence the electric bill to rises considerably. The electric cost has always been so high that PMC had to allot a certain amount just to bay the electric bill of this auditorium during the budget period. But someone came up with the suggestion of replacing electric supply method by solar method in this auditorium and PMC jumped for that idea and immediately called a consultant who has almost completed the project report. The approval of this proposal to install solar method in the auditorium is awaited.

If installment of solar system in the auditorium proves to be a success, PMC will then try the same system elsewhere too like in government offices, schools etc.