Sri Aurobindo International Centre for Education, Puducherry has become India’s first fully solar powered institute (Educational). The institute generates thrice the electricity it consumes through solar power plants installed on the roofs of the dining room, primary school, library and high school in the campus. The institute has been self-reliant in energy since September 2014.

 Who is Sri Aurobindo? 

• Aurobindo Ghose was an Indian nationalist, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet.
• He joined the Indian movement for independence from British rule, for a while became one of its influential leaders and then became a spiritual reformer, introducing his visions on human progress and spiritual evolution.
• During his stay in Pondicherry, Aurobindo developed a method of spiritual practice he called Integral Yoga. The central theme of his vision was the evolution of human life into a life divine.
• His main literary works are The Life Divine, which deals with theoretical aspects of Integral Yoga; Synthesis of Yoga, which deals with practical guidance to Integral Yoga; and Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol,
• He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1943 and for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1950.