Solar energy to power Siachen Base Camp, Brigade headquarters

NEW DELHI: Siachen Base Camp, the gateway to the world’s highest battlefield, and the Siachen Brigade headquarters at Partapur in the Nubra valley of Ladakh are set to be powered by solar energy, according to renewable energy minister Raj Kumar Singh.
“SECI (Central renewable energy agency) has awarded contracts for setting up two solar-storage power plants of 1 megawatt each at Siachen (Base Camp) and Partapur. Both will have 2 megawatt of battery storage for round-the-clock supply,” Singh told TOI.
The Siachen project will meet the lighting and heating needs at Base Camp I, II and III. The Partapur project will meet similar needs of the Army’s 102 Brigade tasked with defending the strategically important glacier.