Innovations

The Energy Swaraj Yatra was flagged-off by Shri. Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Honourable Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh on 26th November 2020.

To create the Energy Swaraj across the country, Dr. Chetan Singh Solanki, a professor from IIT Bombay, brand ambassador of Solar Energy for Govt. of MP, and Founder of the Energy Swaraj Foundation, has pledged not to go home until 2030 and live & travel in the solar bus. Prof. Solanki lives on the bus. It is his mobile home. The bus has the facilities to go through all daily activities like working, meeting, sleeping, cooking, washing, and training.

The Solar bus houses solar training and demonstration facilities. The bus is fitted with 3.2 kW solar panels and 6 kWh of battery storage. It has a 3 kVA inverter. Lights, cooler, cookstove, water pump, TV, AC, laptop charging inside the bus are all solar-powered. The engine of the bus runs on diesel. The bus itself demonstrates the possibility of running any building, house or any institute on 100% solar powered energy.