DESI Power MVIT, Bangalore
This is an which supplies reliable and standard quality
electricity to a technical institute on the outskirts of Bangalore.
It falls in the category of industrial and institutional power plants
located in a peri-urban area where biomass is available from sustainable
sources. Such plants are designed to run round the clock through
out the year.
This project has been built as a captive facility of Sir M. Vishweswaraya
Institute of Technology, hereinafter referred to as MVIT. It is
one of the leading technical institutes affiliated to the Bangalore
University. The college campus is spread over an area of 135 acres.
Apart from branches of engineering studies the campus also houses
a dental college and a well-equipped hospital. Sri Krishnadevaraya
Educational Trust.
MVIT was forced to run diesel generators because of the unreliable
supply of bad quality electricity by the local utility. DESI Power
has set up this plant as a successful demonstration of how decentralised
generation can be profitable in a peri-urban area where grid supply
is available.
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The institute is located in one of the prime areas in the outskirts
of Bangalore near the proposed international air port site. The
national highway NH-7 from Bangalore to Hyderabad runs by the side
of the institute.
This project has been built with 2 x 100 kWe biomass gasification
based power generation facilities in the BOO category.
Look below for the Performance
of DESI Power Plant at, "Sir MVIT", Bangalore 2002-03.
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