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The Karnataka Power Transmission Corporation Ltd. (KPTCL) has directed each energy proviso companies (Escoms) to instantly supply connectivity to star rooftop systems installed successful authorities hospitals, aft it was recovered that respective facilities had been denied integration owed to long-pending dues.
In a connection to the Managing Directors of Bescom, Hescom, Mescom, Gescom, and Chamundeshwari Electricity Supply Corporation (CESC), the KPTCL noted that hospitals, fixed their indispensable and uninterrupted nationalist work role, cannot beryllium deprived of star powerfulness connected relationship of fiscal arrears. The authorities has taken a superior presumption of the delays, the missive said, and instructed each tract officers to facilitate contiguous transportation and guarantee compliance without further lapse.
Units successful 3,600 places
The directive comes arsenic the Health Department accelerated efforts to bring down energy expenditure done large-scale star adoption. Karnataka has emerged arsenic the archetypal State successful the state to instal star powerfulness units successful 3,600 authorities wellness centres wrong a year, achieving 80% to 85% savings successful energy bills, according to officials.
The installations are supported done CSR funds nether the Saura Swasthya scheme, implemented successful concern with the SELCO Foundation. The inaugural aims to guarantee uninterrupted powerfulness proviso crossed agrarian wellness institutions, benefiting much than 3 crore people.
Since its motorboat successful November 2024, star units person been installed successful astir 3,000 centres, with implicit 1,150 facilities afloat solarised. Work is nether mode successful astir 1,300 sub-centres, and the section expects to scope 3,700 installations by the year-end.
By 2026, Karnataka plans to solarise 5,000 wellness facilities, including 2,877 sub-centres, 1,971 Primary Health Centres (PHCs), 28 Urban PHCs, 12 Community Health Centres and 112 taluk hospitals. The sub-centres are equipped with 0.25 kW to 1 kW rooftop units, PHCs with 4kW to 5 kW systems, and taluk hospitals with capacities of up to 10 kW.
Reduction successful powerfulness bills
The ₹120-crore task has already generated powerfulness savings of much than 3 megawatts and reduced energy bills by up to 70% successful covered facilities. Monthly savings are expected to interaction ₹50 lakh, amounting to implicit ₹100 crore implicit a decade, by reducing reliance connected grid powerfulness and diesel generators.
Minister for Health Dinesh Gundu Rao told The Hindu that the task would assistance fortify healthcare transportation successful agrarian pockets. “Saura Swasthya volition not lone guarantee uninterrupted healthcare services but besides pb to immense savings successful energy bills, which tin beryllium utilised to amended infirmary infrastructure and diligent care,” helium said.
Beyond installation, the SELCO Foundation is moving connected a semipermanent strategy sustainability done strengthened cognition and attraction (O&M). Remote Monitoring Systems alteration real-time tracking, portion a dedicated Saura e-Mitra mobile app allows wellness unit to rise work requests.
Of the 626 complaints logged truthful far, 314 person been resolved, and much than 2,000 unit person been trained successful maintenance.
The State has besides acceptable up India’s archetypal Solar O&M Learning Centre for wellness institutions successful Raichur, aimed astatine gathering section method capacity. “The inaugural is lowering energy costs, reducing CO2 emissions, and strengthening uninterrupted healthcare transportation for last-mile communities,” said SELCO Foundation manager Huda Jaffer.
