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The Coimbatore Corporation has commissioned a 154 kW floating star powerfulness works astatine Periyakulam (Ukkadam Big Tank) successful the city.
The installation of the 280 star panels was completed successful October past twelvemonth and the works was connected proceedings run.
The task was implemented nether the Namakku Naame strategy astatine ₹1.45 crore, funded arsenic by the Government of Tamil Nadu and ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, South Asia.
According to officials, the floating star installation occupied 13.7 cents of the lake’s aboveground and was designed to make an mean of 693 units a day.
The installation was equipped with HDPE floating pontoons, automated sheet cleaning systems, upwind monitoring instruments, protective fencing, CCTV surveillance, and occurrence suppression equipment.
The works was inaugurated by Coimbatore MP Ganapathi P. Rajkumar successful the beingness of Mayor K. Ranganayaki and Corporation Commissioner M. Sivaguru Prabakaran.
A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) successful the Madras High Court has sought a absorption to halt commercialized operations and region the floating star panels, claiming they were detrimental to migratory birds and aquatic taxon and mightiness interfere with the ecological functioning of the lake. The Coimbatore Corporation has been asked to taxable a study connected the star works and commercialized activities, and the substance was scheduled for proceeding connected December 5.
