The Economic Times reports on Su-Kam winning a first-of-its-kind rural-electrification tender: solar PV power packs for 40,000 UP homes under the state Lohia Awas Yojana.
The Economic Times reports, via PTI, that Su-Kam — India’s leading power back-up solutions provider under Kunwer Sachdev — has won a large-scale rural electrification project to install and commission solar power systems in 40,000 rural households in Uttar Pradesh. The tender came from UPNEDA under the state government’s Lohia Awas Yojana.
A first-of-its-kind rural solar mandate
ET flags the significance in the lead: this is Su-Kam’s first project of this scale and shape — not a component supply order, but end-to-end installation and commissioning for tens of thousands of homes at once. The award came from the Uttar Pradesh New and Renewable Energy Development Agency (UPNEDA), assigned this rural build under the Lohia Awas Project run by the UP government.
What actually goes into each home
The specification, in ET’s telling, is precise. Each of the 40,000 households gets a solar photovoltaic power pack comprising three LED lights, one 25-watt ceiling fan, and a solar charge controller with an on-board mobile charging point. It is a modest but honest baseline: light, air movement and a way to keep a phone alive — the three things that most change what a rural evening looks like.
“A first-of-its-kind solar project… installing and commissioning solar power systems in 40,000 rural households in Uttar Pradesh.”— Su-Kam statement, as reported by The Economic Times / PTI • 3 April 2014
Timeline — and the first seven homes
The rollout is scoped for a one-year window across the 40,000 homes. ET notes Su-Kam had already completed the first set of installations — seven homes in Shahpur Majgaon village, Ambedkar Nagar district — before the announcement itself, effectively using them as a live proof point.
Why the win matters for Su-Kam
For Su-Kam, the tender is a shift in company shape. Winning a government-run rural-electrification project of this size means moving from being a household power-backup brand into being a system integrator for state-level solar programmes — the same muscle that would later carry Kunwer Sachdev’s companies into large off-grid and grid-tied solar projects across the country.
Su-Kam wins solar power project for 40,000 UP rural homes — The Economic Times →