Cattura il Sole [Catching the Sun]: MIT ADT University

The Sun has been worshiped as a life-giver to our planet since millions of years. The industrial and commercial ages gave us the understanding of sunlight as an energy source. India is endowed with vast solar energy potential. About 5,000 trillion kWh per year solar energy is incident over India's land area with most parts receiving 4-7 kWh per sq. m per day. Solar photovoltaics power can effectively be harnessed providing huge scalability in India. Solar also provides the ability to generate power on a distributed basis and enables rapid capacity addition with short lead times. With this goal towards energy security perspective, MIT ADT University, Pune has installed solar system on rooftop of every building of Art, Design and Technology schools. 

Region

MIT- Art, Design & Technology, Pune

Description

There has been a visible impact of solar energy in the campus of MIT ADT University, Pune during the last few years. Solar energy based decentralized and distributed applications have benefited to all department/hostels by meeting their cooking, lighting, laboratory and other energy needs in an environment friendly manner. The benefits of solar system in the campus include reduction in energy bill, CO2 emission and supplying electric power back to grid.

Key Results:

With this aim and to fulfil the National Solar Mission (NSM) of India, MIT ADT University, Pune has installed 1223.35Kw solar power system in the campus. The demand of electricity in the campus is approximately 2000Kw, so currently MIT ADT University, Pune fulfilling 60% of demand through solar power generation by the end of year 2020. As Government of India, National Solar Mission (NSM) targets installing 100 GW grid-connected solar power plants by the year 2022, Similarly MIT ADT University, Pune also set a target to achieve 100% of its electricity demand through solar power generation by the end of year 2022. As we know that India achieved 5th global position in solar power deployment by surpassing Italy. Solar power capacity has increased tremendously by more than 11 times in the last five years from 2.6 GW in March,2014 to 30 GW in July, 2019