Non Conventional Sources

 Energy generated by using the natural resources such as wind, tides, solar, geothermal heat, and biomass including farm and animal waste as well as human excreta is known as non-conventional energy. All these sources are renewable or inexhaustible in the long run of time and do not cause environmental pollution. Moreover they also do not require heavy expenditure. After initial investment these resources start delivering energy at negligible maintenance cost.

City beautiful Chandigarh has well defined boundary of 114 sq. km and almost all the area is covered under different land use patterns. Due to shortage of vacant spaces, Chandigarh do not have any option for the installation of wind mills or wind turbines. Also, due to the  absence of yearly river/stream; the hydro power generation can’t be done in the city. Chandigarh also do not have any geothermal energy source or radioactive material site, therefore the only way out left for the city to get non-conventional energy is Solar light. The climate of Chandigarh is subtropical humid, thus high intensity solar light is available during most of the period throughout the year. Therefore, taking account of the benefits of a cleaner energy, Chandigarh has adopted a well structured plan to move forward in the field of generating solar energy using solar water heaters, solar lights, blinkers, solar cookers and electricity  generation by solar panels etc. Chandigarh is leading towards a complete solar city and the administration has  installed solar panels over the roofs of houses, commercial buildings schools, colleges, universities, hospitals and government offices etc. Solar lights has been installed at various places including parks, street lights at road sides and blinkers on the roads interconnecting different sectors of the city connect.