In order to make country
more energy efficient, Shri Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power,
Coal and New & Renewable Energy along with Shri N. Chandrababu Naidu, Chief
Minister Andhra Pradesh will launch two schemes namely National
Energy Efficient Agriculture Pumps Programme and National Energy Efficient Fan
Programme in Vijayawada , Andhra Pradesh tomorrow. These Schemes will
be implemented by Energy Efficiency Services Limited ( EESL) , a JV of PSUs
under Ministry of Power .
National Energy Efficient Agriculture
Pumps Programme will help farmers in replacing energy guzzlers age-old
agricultural pumps across the country with the new-age energy efficient
agricultural pumps, with a 5-Star Rating. These pumps will come enabled with
smart control panel and a SIM card, giving farmers the flexibility to switch-on
and switch-off these pumps from their mobile phones and from the comfort of
their homes.
Through these new-age energy
efficient SIM-enabled agricultural pumps, Union Power Ministry is looking at a
30% savings in energy by 2019. This will then boil down to an annual savings of
approx Rs 20,000 crore on agricultural subsidies or a saving of 50 billion
units of energy every year.
Along with the announcement
of the new-age agricultural pumps, Shri Piyush Goyal through its state
owned entity–EESL will also launch National Energy Efficient Fan
Programme for Indian households and businesses , wherein Energy Efficient
Ceiling Fans of 5-star rating 50 Watts (from leading companies
such as Usha and Bajaj) will be provided at Rs 60 a month on EMI basis and Rs.
1250/- on upfront basis.
With the usage of these
energy efficient fans, consumers will also stand to save on their electricity
bills by Rs 700 a year. This means, a consumer can recover the cost of this
energy-efficient ceiling fan in less than 2 years. While these energy-efficient
ceiling fans will cost Rs 1440/- to a consumer who uses the installment route,
for those who can pay upfront can buy this fan for Rs 1250. A total of two
ceiling fans can be bought on one electricity bill from domestic category
consumers only.
ABOUT
EESL:
Energy
Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) is implementing ‘UJALA’ an acronym
for Unnat Jyoti by Affordable LEDs for All for the LED
based Domestic Efficient Lighting Programme (DELP), which is currently running
successfully in over 120 cities across India. EESL has already distributed
over 9 crore LED bulbs across the country during 2015-16.
The National LED programme was launched by the Hon’ble Prime
Minister on January 2015 to convert all
conventional street lights with LED street lights and Domestic Efficient
Lighting Programme (DELP) to provide LED bulbs to domestic households. DELP renamed as “UJALA” recently , is successfully
running across 22 States & UTs in India .
The
Government of India is committed to achieving its target of replacing all the
77 crore inefficient bulbs in India with LEDs. This will result in
reduction of 20,000 MW load, energy savings of 100 billion kWh and Green House
Gas (GHG) reduction of 80 million tonnes every year. It is estimated that this
is equivalent to establishment of roughly 5 large format thermal generation
plants in the country. The country also stands to save Rs. 40,000 crore in
electricity bills of consumers.
Consumers can visit www.delp.in to
locate the closest distribution kiosk to their place.
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