Change of course

Opportunities are not sought, they are taken advantage of. That is, apparently, the latest proverb that the company Coal India Limited (CIL) the largest coal producer in the world until recently.

The Asian giant has decided to reduce its carbon footprint and switch to photovoltaic energy by building a 250 MW facility in Madhya Pradesh (India), the change is due to the company’s decision to focus its business on solar energy backed by the expected benefits that this type of energy can bring compared to carbon; On the one hand, photovoltaic plants can be built more quickly, in turn, they can complement their work with that of the electrical networks when these are saturated with work and due to their increasingly lower production costs, they can become more competitive. than fossil fuels.

Finally, this type of technology is also beneficial for society beyond a purely environmental sense, since these facilities create more qualified and safer work than coal plants.