Assam: Indian Army to Renew Narengi Military Station

Guwahati, 3 June: Indian Army intends to make Narengi Military Station in Guwahati a totally renewable-based military station in an effort to slow global warming. In order to serve its soldiers, the Indian army has built a green solar energy facility at the military base with a 1 MW (Mega Watt) capacity.

Army officials claim that they intend to increase the solar energy plant’s capacity to 3 MW. They claimed that the country’s first green solar energy facility used solar panels made in India.

Renewable energy sources come from the sun, wind or water. To improve the living circumstances of its people, the army is searching for a reliable power source in high altitudes.

In order to analyse the power generation each day, they also installed a system of real-time data acquisition and required parameter monitoring that included weather parameter sensors like wind direction and speed sensors, solar radiation sensors, humidity sensors, temperature sensors and barometer pressure sensors.

The current solar energy facility has produced about 0.7 MW of power.

Indian army has begun the process of building a solar power plant with a 1 MW capacity, according to Major General RK Jha, General Officer Commanding (GOC) of 51 Sub Area in Narengi.

“We have taken various steps making solar power plant of 1 MW capacity. In step two, we are going to use our rooftops to put solar panels and we will use them for our own consumption. Our carbon footprint is very minimum. We also undertake lots of plantation drives. The Narengi Military Station has covered around 3300 acres of land and out of which only 300 acres are built up and 3000 acres is a green patch. In collaboration with the Assam Forest department, we do the large scale of tree plantation using our own troops, their families, children,” Jha said.

“If we have to go completely green we need to harness solar and wind and use new technology,” he added.

The GOC of Subarea 51 stated that the goal is to reduce carbon footprint as much as possible.

“Our endeavour is to achieve as much of reduction of carbon footprint. I think that in the next 5 to 10 years we should be definitely achieved 50 per cent more of a reduction of carbon footprint,” the GOC of 51 Sub Area said.

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