PUNE: The Savitribai Phule Pune University is set to inaugurate what it claims to be the first solar panel walled building in the country, with its glass facade mounted with panels made of cadmium telluride photovoltaic cells instead of the silicon-based cells.
The facility, being pegged as “Experience Centre” by the university’s energy studies department, will be inaugurated by Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar at 9am on Sunday.
The panels would be mounted on the glass facade of the building covering an area of 200 sqft, the department officials said.
