Street lights glow on electricity generated from vegetable waste another gift from Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC)
Corporation sets up bio-methanation plant in Pulianthope, Chennai on a trail basis
Soon, thirty sodium vapour lamps on the Basin Bridge–Elephant Gate Road will burn with power generated by the bio-methanation plant in Pulianthope.
The Rs. 45-lakh plant, located on the spacious garbage transfer station within Zone V (Royapuram), is one of the first projects to be undertaken by the civic body to convert vegetable waste into electricity.
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), Mumbai provides technical support for the project.
On an average, for every two tons of vegetable waste, around 40 kilowatt of electricity can be generated.
One kilowatt of electricity can illuminate four street lights.
means around 40 KW of power can get 150-160 street lights to glow in the locality.
The plant would be handed over to the civic body after a joint inspection by the local body engineers and experts from BARC on the total efficiency of the plant.
Source: The Hindu
