CFL's to consumers in haryana

Feb. 25 – In order to ensure the conservation of electricity, energy efficient Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFLs) are being provided to the consumers in all districts of Haryana on subsidized rates. The State has already decided to provide two CFLs free of cost to the people living below poverty line under the Rajiv Gandhi Grameen Vidyutikaran Yojna.

It was stated by Haryana Financial Commissioner & Principal Secretary (Power), Ashok Lavasa while talking to the media persons after launching of the Bachat Lamp Yojna of the Bureau of Energy Efficiency (BEE), Government of India by Union Minister of Power, Mr Sushilkumar Shinde at New Delhi today. The scheme aims to replace incandescent bulbs in households with CFLs, and seeks to use the carbon credit revenues from this replacement to be able to provide CFLs to households at the price of incandescent bulbs.

He said that a tripartite agreement has been entered into between BEE, Uttar Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam and M/s OSRAM GmbH for implementation of a Clean Development Mechanism - CFL distribution project in the State under which 5.40 lac CFLs would be distributed in district Yamuna Nagar and Sonipat and will earn CER credits. Over 12,000 CFLs have already been distributed. It has been targeted to distribute 5.28 lac CFLs during the next six months. The parties are contemplating the development of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) programme activity using an approved methodology pursuant to the CDM of the Kyoto Protocol applied to residential lighting for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, resulting in sustainable energy savings in these districts. The BEE will be the monitoring agency for the project.He further stated that the facility of replacement of GLS bulbs with CFLs will be provided to the registered customers only. Households can substitute upto two incandescent light bulbs in their home by CFLs under the project. Only GLS bulbs with wattages equal to or higher than 60 Watt will be replaced. The 100 Watt GLS bulb will be replaced with 20 Watt CFL and 60 Watt GLS bulbs will be replaced with 15 Watt CFL.

The project will lead to considerable electricity consumption savings in the households that take part in the project. The project will therefore lead to reduced consumption of fossil fuel-based generated electricity and thus reduce GHG emissions. The cost of the CFL @ Rs. 15 per lamp shall be recovered from the households which is mainly the cost of collection and disposal of collected GLS lamps and fused CFLs as per guidelines of the Ministry of Environment & Forest (MOEF). The project has already been cleared by the MOEF and is under validation and approval from United Nations Frame Work Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Referring to the steps initiated in the State to promote energy conservation in domestic sector, he also said that Haryana has been promising measures for conservation of electricity its district Sirsa was the first district in India to replace 100% GLS bulbs with CFLs. Binola in district Gurgaon was first CFL village in the country. First CFL feeder, first CFL Operation Sub Division and first CFL Operation Division are also in Haryana. The State also plans to provide doorstep pickup facility of fused CFLs to the consumers through Bijli Suvidha Kendras, if they offer minimum four bulbs for disposal. The unbroken fused CLFs will be stored in steel drums of adequate size at the sub divisional level. These will be stored at sub divisions, with an upward movement to circle stored and then to disposal centre in the first week of every month. It will be ensured that the fused to CFLs are disposed of in such a way that there is no pollution in the environment, he added.