India to install 10,000 roof-top solar panels across Kerala

Power crisis in Kerala will be eased with the installation of 10,000 solar roof-top panels in houses.

Around Rs 93,000 would be made available to beneficiaries by India's central and state governments for the scheme, which costs Rs 1,90,000.

Solar panels with 1 KW capacity would be installed atop houses. The entire project could create 10 MW of power in the state. Power generated during the day can be reused by house owners with the help of batteries as per their requirements.

A 12 square metre space is required to set up the panels and more than 100 units of power could be generated with this in a month.

With the new facility, bulbs, fans, televisions and computers could be operated without the help of inverters being used in homes at present which consumes a lot of power.

More than 6,000 persons had already registered for the scheme.

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