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<p>Amity University has joined a select league of colleges and educational institutions that have gone solar to meet energy demands and usher in a greener, cleaner tomorrow. Amity’s solar PV projects have been installed in the Jaipur, Manesar and Gwalior campuses with a cumulative capacity of 1.8 MW.</p>
<p>These projects have been developed by <a href="https://cleanmaxsolar.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CleanMax Solar</a> under OPEX model.</p>
<p>The Amity University Jaipur campus will meet almost 50 percent of its electricity requirement from solar.</p>
<p>The solar projects are expected to generate over 2,762,388 kWh units per annum of electricity cumulatively, thereby abating 2,265 tons of carbon dioxide annually for the next 25 years.</p>
<p>The power is being supplied to Amity University at a tariff cheaper than the grid electricity tariff, thereby ensuring cumulative savings of over ₹10 million per annum.</p>
<p>An increasing number of educational institutions are turning to solar as it is a cheaper source of electricity and also helps curb toxic carbon emissions. Of late, a number of educational centers across the country have adopted cost-effective rooftop solar as a way to build a sustainable future.</p>
<p>In <a href="https://mercomindia.com/iit-kharagpur-eoi-solar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">May 2018</a>, IIT Kharagpur had invited expression of interest to develop 5.5 MW of solar projects.</p>
<p><a href="https://mercomindia.com/uttarakhand-gb-pant-university-rooftop-tender/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Recently</a>, Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture and Technology in Uttarakhand’s Pantnagar town tendered a 5 MW grid-connected rooftop solar PV project.</p>
<p>In <a href="https://mercomindia.com/jamia-millia-islamia-tenders-2-25-mw-ac-solar-project/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">June 2017</a>, Jamia Millia Islamia, a reputed government college, tendered a 2.25 MW (AC) solar PV project to be developed under a RESCO model at Jamia Millia Islamia University premises in Delhi.</p>
<p>In the <a href="https://mercomindia.com/reil-tenders-950-kw-grid-connected-rooftop-solar-jaipur/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">same month</a>, Mercom also reported that Rajasthan Electronics and Instruments Limited (REIL), a joint venture of the Government of India and the Government of Rajasthan, tendered 950 kW of grid-connected rooftop solar to be developed on top of buildings owned by Rajasthan University in Jaipur.</p>
<p>In <a href="https://mercomindia.com/seci-tenders-8-mw-dc-rooftop-solar-project-varanasi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">July 2017</a>, Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) tendered an 8 MW (DC) grid-connected rooftop solar PV project on behalf of Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi.</p>
<p>Image credit: By Sidheeq [<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>], from Wikimedia Commons</p>
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