Solar master plan
A master plan has been prepared for making Chandigarh a Model Solar City under the ‘Development of Solar Cities’ programme.
Disclosing this on July 28, 2016, Piyush Goyal, Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines said Chandigarh has empaneled 48 Solar Power Aggregators from whom any resident of city can install Rooftop Solar Power Plant with 30% subsidy.
Solar rooftop power plants of aggregate 7.70 MWp capacity have been installed on 145 Government buildings as May, 2016, in this city.
