- Prime Minister Narendra Modi along with other world leaders inaugurated the Gandhi Solar Park at the UN headquarters in New York and released a commemorative stamp issued by the UN on the occasion of Gandhi’s 150th birth anniversary.
- The 50 kilowatt hour (kWh) roof-top solar park has 193 solar panels—each representing a member of the United Nations.
- With each panel powered to reach the max of 50 KWn of generation power, which will take the park’s annual output is 86,244 KWh. This equals 61 metric tonnes of carbon dioxide, 30,242 kg of coal burned and carbon sequestered from 1,008 tree seedlings grown for 10 years.
- The $1 million gift to the UN comes at a time when India has emerged as a clean energy champion.
