45 Tripura villages use solar energy

"It was not possible to draw electric lines in those remote areas, so solar energy was used to light up those remote and hill top hamlets and localities," science and technology minister Joygobinda Debroy said in while releasing a book 'Science, Technology and Environment' here.

He said the state generates 700 MW electricity from alternative (renewable) sources of energy, most of which comes from solar energy.

Debroy said solar energy treatment plants would be set up in 100 schools in remote areas this year and 1,000 bio-gas plant would also be set up in remote places.

He said very soon 100 solar lights would illuminate a portion of Agartala town.

North East Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) has planned to set up a five megawatt solar energy plant at Monarchak in Sipahijala district, he said.