Su-Kam commissions the first grid-tied solar plant in Chandigarh at Shivalik Public School, Sector 41 — a school turned into a power plant, covered by Hindustan Times, Jagbani, Arth Prakash and Amar Ujala.
Hindustan Times’ Chandigarh edition covers Su-Kam Power Systems’ commissioning of a first-of-its-kind solar power plant at Shivalik Public School, Sector 41 in Chandigarh — the company’s first grid-tied solar project in the city. The story ran across Punjab dailies too, including Jagbani, Arth Prakash and Amar Ujala.
Why a school
Schools are the ideal grid-tied solar customer: predictable daytime load, unused rooftop area, an operator with a long horizon, and a community that watches the pilot up close. Su-Kam picked Shivalik Public School deliberately — the deployment doubled as a working demonstration of what a school-scale rooftop plant could deliver.
First grid-tied in the city
The technical piece the story flags is the grid-tied configuration. Not just solar backup — solar that feeds the local grid when generation exceeds load, turning the school from a power consumer into a power contributor. In 2015-16 Chandigarh, that was still a first.
“A school became a power plant — Su-Kam’s first grid-tied solar project in Chandigarh, at Shivalik Public School, Sector 41.”— Hindustan Times, Chandigarh • multi-outlet Su-Kam coverage
Why the story travelled
Chandigarh punches above its weight on solar policy. A first grid-tied plant in the city was news across all the Punjab dailies — and gave Su-Kam a reference site for the next wave of institutional solar buyers in the region.
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