Windmills help meet 67% of Campco power requirements
Three windmills have helped the Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative (Campco) Ltd to meet 67.15 per cent of its power requirement for chocolate manufacturing.
Campco opted for green energy sources a decade ago to meet a part of its power requirements at the chocolate factory at Puttur in Dakshina Kannada district.
These three units produced 39.95 lakh units of power in 2018-19 as against 39.90 lakh units in 2017-18.
In 2008-09, the cooperative set up a 1.25 MW windmill in Hoovinahadagali taluk of Ballari district. Campco installed two more units of 0.85 MW each in Chikkodi taluk of Belagavi district during 2011-12.
