LED lighting installed by EESL helps urban local bodies save ₹149 crore annually on electricity bills
LED lighting installed by EESL helps urban local bodies save ₹149 crore annually on electricity bills
The Municipal Administration and Urban Development Department has achieved power savings of 3.74 MW, including the peak power demand of 75 MW, saving Rs 149 crore per year for switching from conventional lights to energy-saving LED lights. Is. Till now up to 28.8 lakhs.
This is equivalent to preventing the release of a little over three million tons of carbon dioxide into the air. Hyderabad and Ambience are at the top with around 14.30 lakh lights, and Medak is the last with around 4,800 lights. Adilabad with 2.37 lakhs, Karimnagar with 1.84 lakhs, and Nizamabad with 1.66 lakhs are on top with replacements as well as state power distribution firms with 4.68 lakhs.
These replacements were launched seven years ago with the help of Energy Efficiency Services Limited (EESL) of the Ministry of Power under its ‘Unnat Jyoti’ Affordable LED Lights for All (UJALA) scheme. Under this scheme, energy efficient fans are also being provided to the domestic consumers to replace the conventional and inefficient products, informed senior officials.
Around nine crore consumers across the country are said to have benefited from the scheme with over 36.70 crore LED bulbs, 72.09 lakh LED tube lights and 23.41 lakh energy efficient fans resulting in an estimated energy savings of 47.98 billion kWh per year, 39. Million tonnes of reduction in CO2 per annum and estimated annual monetary savings of ₹19,156 crore in consumer electricity bills.
₹90 crore outstanding
However, the Telangana government has realized that municipal bodies are not releasing the required funds to EESL, 138 out of 141 urban local bodies (ULBs) have dues of over Rs 90 crore, prompting municipal authorities to alert the concerned commissioners. was forced to do. To release the funds without any further delay.
The total billing was around ₹220 crore and so far around ₹130 crore has been paid, of which more than a dozen municipalities owe ₹2 crore or more. Topping the list is Khammam with ₹ 5.15 cr and other high outstanding municipal bodies are Greater Warangal Municipal Corporation ₹ 4.89 cr, Nalgonda – ₹ 4.64 cr, Mahbubnagar – ₹ 4.17 cr, Miryalaguda – ₹ 2.39 cr, Suryapet – ₹ 2.16 cr, Badangpet – ₹2.65 crore, Armur – ₹2.33 crore, Kamareddy – ₹2.57 crore, Karimnagar – ₹2.36 crore, Jalpalli – ₹2.13 crore and Sangareddy – ₹2.05 crore, informed senior officials.