Surat to become the first ‘solar city’ in the country
Surat may become the first city in India to make solar water heating mandatory in all buildings – residential and commercial.
Union urban development ministry had made it mandatory that civic bodies of all 58 cities identified to be made “solar cities” change their construction bylaws. The order was out to make solar energy compulsory for water heating systems.
The Surat Municipal Corporation (SMC) is set to make the necessary changes in the bylaws of construction within a month. Following the steps, 10.2 lakh houses and nearly 65,000 commercial buildings in the city is set to switch over to solar water heating.
Moreover, plans are made to install photovoltaic roof top programme, installing solar panels atop all its vital installations and replacing regular street lights with CFLs and tube lights with T5 lights, making it the first city to depend on alternate energy sources.
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