Inaugurating the plant, Delhi Home Minister Satyendar Jain said solar energy is the future solution for our growing energy needs.
Commending Tihar authorities for setting an example for other government institutions, Jain asked them to bring the power bill to zero by using LED Bulbs and other measures.
DG (Prisons) Alok Kumar Verma maintained that the annual consumption of the prison complex would be drastically reduced using the solar plant, and outlined plans for increasing the solar capacity in the coming months.
The installation is a grid connected solar plant whose whole object is to augment the grid using solar radiation, duly converted to electricity using solar panels, said Col Ajay Reddy, Director of Premier Solar, which had installed the plant in the complex.