Rashtrapati Bhavan To Go Green With 1 MW Solar Rooftop project

The Rashtrapati Bhavan, a landmark monument and heritage structure in the capital that houses the President of India along with a large staff, is going greener. While previous President's have made fforts to ensure the complex is as eco-friendly as possible, it is under President  Draupadi Murmu that the complex will shift in a big way to generating its own power as well now, thanks to a 1 MW solar rooftop project. 

The project was offered for bids in September through the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI), with a bid deadline of October 16. Ahmedabad-based GRE Renew Enertech Bagged the award, adding a prestigious project for the firm's solar portfolio. In December this year, GRE Renew also got listed on the BSE's SME exchange. Kamleshkumar Dahyalal Patel, Kirtikumar Kantilal Suthar and Mukeshkumar Prahladbhai Trivedi are the promoters of the company.

The scope of the work included design, erection, testing and installtion of the project, with O&M services for the full 25 year life of the project. 

Commenting on the development, Kamlesh Patel, Managing Director of GRE Renew Enertech Limited, said: “We are pleased to be associated with a project of national importance and to contribute to the adoption of clean energy in public infrastructure.”

Solar EPC firms are usually happy to take on such visible, prestige projects  at very competitive rates, owing to the ohvious benefits in terms of vbisibility and credibility for the firm executing such projects. We have seen many such efforts linked to churches, Gurudwaras, temples and other such buildings, but among government owned buildings,it doesn't get any bigger and better than the Rashtrapati Bhavan. The power from the project will help the sprawling complex cut down dependence on conventional power sources further.