To involve more students in effective energy conservation, Energy Management Centre (EMC) will come up with a kids portal for students interested in sharing their experience on reducing energy consumption and providing energy information.
The students were targeted following the success of the energy saving campaigns carried out in various government, aided and CBSE schools. The CBSE School Managements Association claimed that they were able to save 15 lakh units of power in a year through the campaign.
EMC director K M Dharesan Unnithan said that the portal for children would be launched by June this year. The portal will attract students through stories, paintings, cartoons and poems.
“The articles and cartoons of students on energy conservation will be uploaded in it with their picture. EMC will also provide energy saving tips which the students can implement in their home,” Unnithan said.
The success stories of the students will also be uploaded which would inspire other children to join the campaign too. When students share their experience on energy saving, students as well as common man will be more aware about the need to conserve energy and implement it.
Unnithan said that already 10 percent of energy was saved with the initiative taken up in schools. With the launch of the energy saving portal for children, it is expected to save 15 percent of power in the state.
In the present circumstances, awareness among young generation could only bring out positive results in conservation.
They will be taught on the power consumed by bulbs, CFLs and LEDs and will also be taught to compare the bills of residences which use various types of lightings and this will in turn make them understand the most energy saving equipment available.
The portal will upload the articles of the students written in Malayalam and English.
Those students who come out with best practices will have special mention in the portal with their novel idea and photograph.