The State Level Renewable Energy Park set up at Khandagiri foothills, Bhubaneswar with funding from Union Ministry of New & Renewable Energy was inaugurated by the Chief Minister of Orissa Shri Naveen Patnaik in Bhubaneshwar yesterday.
The park covering an area of about 3 acres demonstrates most of the new working systems such as solar cooking, lighting, drying, water heating, gasifier, wind generator, biodiesel power, solar energy drier and models of small hydro power, wave energy, geothermal energy. An attractive and informative Interactive Media Center and conference hall/auditorium on solar passive architecture concept has been constructed to screen films and organizing meetings/conferences. An expenditue of over Rupees One crore has been incurred on the park.
While inaugurating the park, Hon’ble Chief Minister mentioned the renewable energy policy, biodiesel policy and renewable power purchase obligation by the state government . He mentioned the interest of private industries who were taking interest in renewable power development in the state.
Ministry of New & Renewable Energy has been supporting setting up of district and state level Renewable Energy Parks to create public awareness and education on renewable energy technologies & systems. It also provides funds for the park, remote village electrification and village energy security projects
On the occasion, Dr. N.P. Singh, Adviser, Ministry of New & Renewable Energy briefly mentioned the developments taken place in the area of renewable energy such as Solar Wind, Biomass, Small Hydro, etc and desired the accelerated use of renewable energy sources which were in plenty in the State of Orissa. Dr. Singh mentioned the 14 Renewable Energy Clubs sanctioned to engineering colleges and district level energy parks in the State of Orissa.
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