Excelsior Correspondent
KATRA, June 12: A Solar Radiation Resource Assessment (SRRA) Station by C-WET (Centre for Wing Energy Technology, Chennai) has been set up at School of Energy Management in Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University.
The project is fully sponsored by Ministry of New & Renewable Energy, Government of India and is being implemented by Center for Wind Energy, Technologies, Chennai. The SRRA station is an automatic stand-alone system using high quality, high resolution equipment/instruments to assess and quantify solar radiation availability along with weather parameters to develop a Solar Atlas.
The SRRA station set up on the roof top of academic block D of the university was inaugurated by Prof Sudhir K Jain, Vice Chancellor, SMVD University. He congratulated School of Energy Management for this initiative and suggested that the School of Energy Management should look into the possibilities of other centrally funded schemes in the areas of renewable energy.
Dr Sanjeev Anand, Assistant Professor, School of Energy Management stated that this station will be extremely useful for the professionals working in the area of Renewable Energy as the data required for any Research & Development activities of the University can be accessed from it. He added that these stations are established to estimate reliable ground solar radiation and meteorological data that are crucial for planning and implementation of solar power plants and other devices. Solar radiation assessment is a critical activity for setting up solar projects. The quality of the resource also impacts the type of technology which may be used at a specific place for solar power generation.
Dean faculty of Sciences Prof V K Bhat, Dean of Students Dr Yugal Khajuria and others were also present on the occasion.
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