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The armed forces have taken a major initiative towards adopting energy efficiency and conservation in operations and cantonment complexes. The armed forces now need not carry the heavy batteries, instead the Army is planning to replace dry and wet batteries with solar power packs, said air marshal D Kukreja, deputy chief of Integrated Defense Staff, DCIDS (operations).
Addressing a day-long seminar on ‘Renewable Energy for Defense Services’ here on Thursday, Korea said the three services have completed an energy audit of few major installations. “At least one building in each command would soon meet the Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA) standards and the ball has been set rolling by the engineer-in-chief’s branch,” he added. The GRIHA is an energy efficiency classification scale awarded to environment friendly buildings by The Energy Research Institute (Teri).
Defense forces around the world being amongst the largest consumers of energy, it is imperative of them to optimise consumption of diesel and conventional energy sources, noted the minister of state for defence MM Pallam Raju. Raju, is also the chairman of the task force set up by the headquarters, Integrated Defence Staff (IDS) to monitor the progress of the application of non-conventional and renewable energy in the military environment. “Notwithstanding the recent controversy about the timeline for melting of glaciers, there can be no two thoughts about the need to preserve our environment,” said the minister, adding that “renewable energy may not yet be (best) suited for use on (military) operational platforms or installations.”
Air marshal Mukul, chief of integrated defence staff, said that while the renewable energy generation still costs three to four times that of conventional energy sources, the high fuel transportation costs to high-altitude areas and the comparatively more lifecycle of solar energy, around 20 years, place non-conventional energy utilisation at an advantage. The ministry of new and renewable energy was in the process of setting up small and micro hydel projects across Himalayas and solar and wind power plants in peninsular India and a large share of the power could be committed to the armed forces.
