Energy Olympiad at Science City Kapurthala

Kapurthala, February 3, 2014: Pushpa Gujral Science City in collaboration with Punjab Energy Development Agency organised Energy Olympiad with special focus on energy efficiency and conservation. The programme was organised to bring awareness about various energy saving measures among the young generation with the active involvement of school community. On this occasion, various competitions like Project/ Model display, Poster making cum Slogan writing and Science Drama were organised in which more than 300 students from schools all over Punjab participated. The winners of the various competitions were given cash prizes and certificates.
Result of Competitions: Project Model: First Prize has been achieved by BST Sen.Sec. School Sujo Kalia Kapurthla (Geo Thermal Power Plant), Sanskrit KMV School Jalandhar Clinched the second prize (Dust Collector) and third prize goes to GNP Sen.Sec. School Dham Kapurthala.
Debate: First prize has been achieved by Manav Ghai from Kamla Nehru Public School Phagawara, Rajwinder Kaur from Indian Public School Kapurthala won Second Prize and Shivni Thakur from Sanskriti KMV School Jalandhar got third prize.
Poster Making: First prize bagged to Jashandeep Kaur from Shri. Guru Harkishan Public School, Second  prize  is going to Pryanka from Kamla Nehru Public School Phagawar  and Manpreet Singh Dhillon from Govt.High School Bhullana Kapurthal received the third prize
Science Drama :First prize bagged to DAV Model High School Kapurthala, Shri Guru Harkishan Public School RCF Kapurthala clinched  the second prize and third prize has been achieved by Kamla Nehru Public School Phagawara.
On this occasion, Dr. R.S Khandpur, Director General, Science City shared  with the audiences that, Pushpa Gujral Science City has been awarded Second Prize (General Category) in the National Energy Conservation Award – 2013 function held at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on 16 December, 2013. The award was given by President of India, Pranab Mukherjee in the presence of Minister of Power, Jyotiraditya M. Scindia.
The Science City received this award in recognition of its achievement to reduce the energy consumption while enhancing its performance with improved energy efficiency. The annual saving achieved by the Science City by adopting such measures is over Rs.12 Lacs per year.
The energy conservation measures adopted by the Science City include improvements in HVAC system like setting the temperature of the air-conditioning units at 26 degree, use of limited lights at night, improvement in power factor by adding capacitors and electronic chokes, use of CFL and star  rated devices,  auto cut water pumps, auto cut lighting system, solar power generating system of  100 KW & 20 KW have been installed in the Science City, stated Dr. Khandpur.
Dr. Yogender Kumar Yadav, Director SSS-NIRE, Kapurthala in his keynote address said that India is now in the race for becoming one of the economic super powers which is going to result in increasing requirements of energy. Therefore, we have to not only develop new and renewable energy sources but also make efforts to improve energy efficiency by adopting energy conservation measures.
The country has significant potential of generation from renewable energy sources. All efforts are being taken by Government of India to harness this potential. The installed capacity from renewable energy sources as on 31st December, 2013  MW; Small Hydro Plants 3120 MW; Bioenergy 2788 MW; Solar 150 MW etc.  contributing about 12-13 % of the total electricity generation capacity in the country.
 
Although, energy scenario is talked in terms of coal, petroleum, hydro, solar, wind, biomass etc. for electricity generation capacity, it is predicted that about 30% of energy consumption in our country is still accounted from waste material that includes biomass, liquid waste and cattle dung etc. Advanced conversion technology such as improved biomass based cook stove dissemination among rural masses; biogas production from dung and agricultural residue and application for cooking and power generation; rural village electrification through syngas production (biomass gasification), biodiesel production from non-edible oil and application for captive power generation, transportation and agricultural farm applications; bio-ethanol production from lignocelluloses, sugarcane, baggasse and sugar beet ; densification of loose biomass for combustion in power plants for cogeneration etc. are promising option to modernise the energy spectrum. These processes and issues have significant impact on Energy conservation, energy efficiency, pollution control leading to sustainable development in our country, stated Dr. Yadav. // punjab news live, punjab news online, punjab news, punjab news headlines, punjab breaking news, india news, punjab news, kapurthala news, world news,

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