Punjab Solar Summit

About Punjab Solar Summit

According to Wikipedia, Punjab Solar Summit was a Government of Punjab hosted event in Chandigarh on July 23, 2015 to bring prospective entrepreneurs, investors and other stake holders on a common platform. Making farmers' entrepreneurs The New and Renewable Energy Minister, Bikram Singh Majithia, elected in Punjab had announced when he took over as Minister for New and Renewable Energy that he has a dream to make Punjab a solar state and the state is now in sniffing distance from realising its dream. The dream encompasses a major agenda for investors to invest in Punjab and for farmers to become entrepreneurs because they can sell extra energy so generated at assured rates to Punjab State Power Corporation and supplement their incomes.