{"id":2070,"date":"2021-03-09T08:04:35","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T08:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jalingatea.com\/?page_id=2070"},"modified":"2021-03-09T08:11:16","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T08:11:16","slug":"solar-energy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.jalingatea.com\/solar-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Solar Energy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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THE ISSUE<\/h1>

A tea manufacturing factory has a lot of heavy machinery which consumes a lot of power. Upon investigating we found that in our area we face a lot of power cuts (Approximately 28%). This requires us to rely on the generator for power which means high diesel cost.<\/p>

More than the monetary cost, the impact on the environment due to the fumes emitted is far worse. Also, within the tea estate it is not easy to run electric lines to be able to provide electricity to power street lights to ensure something as simple as the workers get a safe passage home after dark.<\/p>

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DESIGN OF THE INTERACTION<\/h2>

Our aim was to reduce our use of diesel to begin with & eventually try & find a sustainable solution to the current electricity set up. Not an innovation but the obvious choice was to turn to solar energy as the alternate source of energy<\/p>

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Phase one is seeing the replacement of existing lights running on electricity by initiating the installation of Solar Street Lights to the labour line roads. This is a continuous process with new solar lights being installed in various sections of the Estate & ofcourse the repairing and \/ or replacing of damaged ones.<\/p>

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The next phase would be to provide solar power within the plantation area as well as to the staff residences.<\/p>

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The ultimate goal is to be able to run the entire tea factory on solar energy & eliminate the use of generators completely.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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We endeavor to continuously try and improve and do more in our efforts towards a more sustainable future, and with this in mind we aim to convert the bungalow to exclusively be using solar powered energy by the end of the year.
\nBy 2020, our aim is to ensure that all electricity used in our factory is fully replaced by solar energy.
\nFurthermore, we have a tourism project for which we are building a hotel. We will ensure that the hotel too is run on solar power.
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