Source: www.pib.nic.in
INDIA, December 18, 2009: The Government is promoting the use of solar and other renewable energy sources throughout the country. Solar steam cooking system for cooking food for 15,000 people per day at Tirupathi, Andhra Pradesh and for 20,000 people per day at Shri Sai Baba Sansthan have already been installed with support from the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy.
The Ministry has recently introduced a scheme under Special Area Demonstration Programme aimed at demonstrations of various Renewable Energy Systems/devices at places of national and international importance including tourist and religious places such as Vaishnodevi shrine, Tirupati Temple, Ajmer Sharif, Sai Baba temple complex, Shirdi etc.