Solar in Smart City
The Smart City guidelines insists 10% of the Smart City’s energy requirement to come from solar India imports nearly 80% of its crude oil consumption, 15% of its coal consumption and 35% of its natural gas consumption 75% of Greenhouse gas emissions are produced in Cities & Communities. Potential Answer to above challenge- Dovetail Renewable Energy with Conventional Energy in a big way for all Smart Cities
Renewable energy in smart city
- Solar power generation in City & offsite Solar Water Heaters for hot water.
- Solar PV Rooftop systems for electricity.
- Solar street lightings.
- Solar pumps for water lifting.
- Solar concentrators for steam based cooking.
- Solar traffic signals, solar road studs/blinkers.
- Sewage treatment plants with biogas/power generation.
- Waste to energy technologies for treatment of MSW.
- Hybrid systems (solar-wind, solar DG set).
- Space conditioning with earth tunnel.
- Green buildings with solar passive designs.
- Net zero energy buildings.
A PV system on the rooftop is an easy and cost-effective way to independently fulfill a part of own electricity demand, reduce the electric bill, generate savings, contribute to the exploitation of renewable energy sources, and contribute to the environmental preservation by reducing the greenhouse gas emissions. Such an opportunity is evidently reserved to those users which have ample space for installing a PV system; on the contrary, it is denied to those users which, as an example, live in apartment building. For the latter, the Smart Cities represent a solution.
