{"id":413,"date":"2013-05-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/master.k8s.p4.greenpeace.org\/india\/uncategorized\/413\/sukhdev-vihar-residents-join-greenpeaces-demand-for-a-solar-revolution-in-delhi\/"},"modified":"2019-11-06T08:46:27","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T08:46:27","slug":"sukhdev-vihar-residents-join-greenpeaces-demand-for-a-solar-revolution-in-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/press\/413\/sukhdev-vihar-residents-join-greenpeaces-demand-for-a-solar-revolution-in-delhi\/","title":{"rendered":"Sukhdev Vihar residents join Greenpeace\u2019s demand for a solar revolution in Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Resident welfare association pledges their rooftop for setting up solar energy<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\tNew Delhi, 12 May 2013: To provide a solution to the intensifying energy crisis in Delhi and generate people\u2019s support for solar energy, Greenpeace today organised \u201cSwitch on the Sun\u201d, a renewable energy community fair in association with the Sukhdev Vihar (Pocket B) Residents Welfare Association.\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The fair through exciting and interactive activities informed participants about renewable energy and how the sun can power homes through the simple but powerful idea of solar roof tops. \u00a0The fair had an informative photo exhibition, a street play, a musical performance lit up with solar energy and t-shirt painting and quiz for children. The community fair also included easy to use energy roof top audits which helped residents to calculate the cost benefits in pledging roof top space for solar.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDelhi has more than 320 days of sunshine in a year and has a huge potential for solar energy that gives people the freedom to generate and use their own electricity as well as sell whatever extra is generated. But the Delhi government has paid no heed to this alternate source. In our recent report \u201cPowering Ahead on Renewables: Leaders and Laggards\u201d, <a title=\"\" href=\"#_edn1\">[i]<\/a> Delhi was amongst the worst states in terms of achieving their renewable energy targets. \u00a0It is completely dependent on coal powered plants mostly in the neighbouring states.<a title=\"\" href=\"#_edn2\">[ii]<\/a> If it truly wants to become a sustainable city then it has to look at clean and sustainable sources of energy,\u201d said Usha Saxena, public engagement campaigner, Greenpeace India.<\/p>\n<p>The RE Fair was attended by the residents of Pocket B at Sukhdev Vihar. Speaking at the community fair, Anshu Garg, president, RWA Sukhdev Vihar said, \u201cWe are very excited about using the sun and our rooftops to solve Delhi\u2019s energy crisis.\u00a0 We have pledged our rooftops for the solar energy revolution and will urge the government to promote grid interactive solar roof top energy instead of polluting and toxic waste to energy plants like the one in Okhla.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0For more details contact: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shachi Chaturvedi, senor media officer, Greenpeace India, 981875007, <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"obfimg Eoi_1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-india-stateless\/2018\/05\/7810d9ffef279a0d63ea4dee1a40491e.png\" alt=\"\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ndocument.write(dc('Eoi_1', '7A_44_1B_55_46_1D_08_15_54_1F_19_1B_1F_0A_14_1F_1F_08_1D_3A_13_1E_1F_0C_08_0F_0E_1B_12_19_54_13_12_19_1B_12_09_44_58_1D_08_15_54_1F_19_1B_1F_0A_14_1F_1F_08_1D_3A_13_1E_1F_0C_08_0F_0E_1B_12_19_54_13_12_19_1B_12_09_40_15_0E_16_13_1B_17_58_47_1C_1F_08_12_5A_1B_46'));\/\/--><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Usha Saxena, public engagement campaigner, Greenpeace India, 9818649083, <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"obfimg Eoi_2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-india-stateless\/2018\/05\/087569e8bf12429b7e4019ae59aa6fdb.png\" alt=\"\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ndocument.write(dc('Eoi_2', '62_5C_03_4D_5E_05_10_0D_4C_07_01_03_07_12_0C_07_07_10_05_22_03_0C_07_1A_03_11_4C_03_0A_11_17_5C_40_05_10_0D_4C_07_01_03_07_12_0C_07_07_10_05_22_03_0C_07_1A_03_11_4C_03_0A_11_17_58_0D_16_0E_0B_03_0F_40_5F_04_07_10_0A_42_03_5E'));\/\/--><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ednref1\">[i]<\/a>Greenpeace report Powering Ahead on Renewables: Leaders and Laggard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-india-stateless\/2018\/05\/powering-ahead-with-renewables.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/static\/planet4-india-stateless\/2018\/05\/powering-ahead-with-renewables.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a title=\"\" href=\"#_ednref2\">[ii]<\/a> Over 75% of Delhi\u2019s electricity comes from coal-based thermal power plants which are mostly situated in other states. Last year, 32 major thermal power plants, including five major power plants which supply power to Delhi, faced severe coal shortage due to rising cost both in domestic and international market, leading to deficit of 8000 MW of electricity generation. On the other side electricity generation from solar and wind energy stepped up.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, 12 May 2013: To provide a solution to the intensifying energy crisis in Delhi and generate people\u2019s support for solar energy, Greenpeace today organised \u201cSwitch on the Sun\u201d, a renewable energy community fair in association with the Sukhdev Vihar (Pocket B) Residents Welfare Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"p4_og_title":"","p4_og_description":"","p4_og_image":"","p4_og_image_id":"","p4_seo_canonical_url":"","p4_campaign_name":"","p4_local_project":"","p4_basket_name":"","p4_department":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[25],"p4-page-type":[14],"class_list":["post-413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clean-energy","tag-renewables","p4-page-type-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4314,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413\/revisions\/4314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413"},{"taxonomy":"p4-page-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/india\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/p4-page-type?post=413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}