Source: Hueiyen News Service / Lukhoi Wangkhem
Imphal, April 10 2010:
With the objective of relief from power problem facing by the state to certain extend, government is considering for installation a 5 Megawatt Solar Power Generation Station at Chingmeirong Cheiroaching near the State Capitol Project, an official source said today.
Consultation for the installation of the power station has started in a meeting between Chief Minister, O Ibobi and officials of the Manipur Renewable Energy Development Agency (MANIREDA) which would be the implementing agency, the director of the agency, Y Kunjo said.
The project is basically mean for supply of power to the Capitol Project which the construction work is in progress.
Not only this, the project will target to supply power by stretching high tension cable to some areas of the state, the director said.
The project was prepared in a the meeting convened by the Prime Minister, Manmohon Singh in January last at New Delhi which discussed on the exploration of renewable power resources for supplementing.
The meeting, mention may be made, had adopted a resolution to generate 20 million megawatt of power from inexhaustible sources of energy by 2020 .
Chief Minister, who also took part in the meeting, had started initiating the preparation of project for installation of a solar based power generation project at Cheiraoching at Chingmeirong which the power generation target of 5 megawatt.
State government has also submitted a draft project proposal for the project, the director who could not say when the ground work will begin but expressed confident of starting at the earliest added.
The state has been facing shortage of power as the pick hour requirement of 160 megawatt could not be produced by the lone Loktak Hydro Electric Power Project which supplement by power imported from outside the state.
The source believed that with the setting up of more power generation projects based on renewable energy sources like the solar, wind and other will able to relief the state from power shortage problem upto certain extends.
Moreover, solar power generation project is an environment friendly one, the source observed.
The scheme taken up for installation of solar based street lamps across the state is also part of solving the power problems of the state, the director maintained.